Vendors

2020 Tucson Folk Festival
Elise Grecco Marketplace

(To learn more about Elise Grecco, go to bottom of page)

Our 35th Anniversary Festival is going to be FANTASTIC!

VENDOR-EXHIBITOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN: October 1, 2019
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:  March 15, 2020
(Applications Closed – Vendor Spaces Sold Out!)

Thank you for your interest in participating in our celebration of our 35th Annual Tucson Folk Festival to be held on April 3-5, 2020!

We have an exciting Friday Night Festival Kick-Off Party happening at Jacome Plaza on April 3rd from 6-9 p.m.! We invite all vendors to be open for this party.

We are also expanding our festival footprint surrounding Jacome Plaza! We noted comments from our post-festival surveys from last year, so you may see some of your suggestions implemented this festival! Vendors/Exhibitors will be stationed in the newly named Elise Grecco Marketplace along Pennington Street from Stone to Church Avenue and Church Avenue from Pennington Street to Alameda Street, along with some new locations under consideration. Again, we are always looking for new ways to increase vendor/exhibitor business and exposure! We are committed to making your experience at our festival fun AND profitable at the same time!

Please submit a completed Vendor/Exhibitor Application, required documentation, along with your deposit and/or payment to the address on the bottom of the Application or send as an email attachment.

Please visit our website throughout this festival season to learn about all of the festival activities we have planned: www.tucsonfolkfest.org.  Better yet, stay informed all season long by signing up to our mailing list:  MAILING LIST SIGN UP HERE

Feel free to contact me with any questions, and I am looking forward to welcoming back our “regulars” and meeting new faces, too! Your support truly enhances the Tucson Folk Festival experience for all!

QUESTIONS: Greg Aiken, Vendor Coordinator at vendors@tucsonfolkfest.org

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ELISE GRECCO

Elise Grecco, the well-loved, gregarious and velvet-voiced musician, was an enthusiastic advocate for music and hard-working matriarch of the Folk Festival.  She increasingly became an integral part of the jigsaw puzzle that’s called the Tucson Folk Festival; and, as the Festival grew, Elise continued to take on bigger roles during its year-long organization.  Elise served as TKMA Board President 1996 & 1997.

Elise will be remembered handing out her purse-full-of Folk Fest flyers at the 4th Avenue Street Fairs and roaming the lobby of Hotel Congress or the Rialto during intermissions, always spreading the word about the Tucson Folk Festival.  If it was needed, she’d schlep cases of water and soda from Costco, pick-up T-shirts, CDs, or musicians who needed a ride.  She was often the one who would bush-whack through the red tape required to get permits to conduct the Festival each year; it takes a village of bureaucrats to put on the Tucson Folk Festival.  After decades of work, behind-the-scenes organizing, on the ground directing, and tying up loose ends afterward, her legacy is the Tucson Folk Festival.