Tucson Folk Festival

The Annual Tucson Folk Festival ... Free to the Public Since 1986

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35th Tucson Folk Festival – Original Plan

The Tucson Folk Festival is a FREE and accessible, now three-day event, celebrating Americana/Folk Music traditions and all the wonderful variations, including American bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, Celtic, zydeco, and various styles of Latin and Mexican music! This annual family-friendly festival is held in some of the most historic sections of downtown Tucson: Jacome Plaza, La Cocina,  Presidio Museum and surrounding area.

Starting this year, a FESTIVAL KICK-OFF PARTY begins on Friday night, April 3rd, ON JACOME PLAZA (101 N Stone Avenue) featuring the Regional Headliner (new) and Opening Act! Food will be available and the Beer Garden open!

Saturday and Sunday, the festival features six stages of acoustic music in traditional, contemporary, and ethnic genres to entertain and delight a multi-faceted and diverse audience. The festival attracts over 13,000 fans and participants who come from all over Southern Arizona, and across the nation. The festival features a national, regional and local headliner, as well as, family show headliner (Saturday and Sunday).  Over 160 acts perform at the festival. This festival also features the Stefan George Memorial Songwriting Competition, the Roger Mikulas Young Artist Showcase for youth under 18 (now both days), interactive music workshops, the Ballad Tree for future songwriters (open mic), raffles, the Elise Grecco Marketplace for food and craft vendors, festival store and a beer garden.   Over 250 volunteers support the success of this festival.                

Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association

Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association (TKMA) began as a group of friends gathering regularly on Friday nights for potlucks and jammin’ in the kitchen. Over the years, TKMA has grown into an all-volunteer operated 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax Exempt No. 86-0514808).  TKMA was established 1986, to further public awareness and interest in acoustic music and other folk arts by promoting and producing the annual Tucson Folk Festival; one of the oldest FREE folk music festivals in the country!  It is very important to us that we offer an inclusive festival experience promoting community accessibility to all!  TKMA would like you to know that your support as a sponsor, community partner, advertiser, donor and/or giving of your time as a volunteer enables us to produce and promote current and future Tucson Folk Festivals, and we are very grateful for your support!

Use of Resources

Tucson Folk Festival partnerships, sponsorships, advertising and donations enable TKMA to produce and promote current and future Tucson Folk Festivals and fundraisers held throughout the year.  Opportunities to participate with other organizations in the community promotes reciprocity of resources, and nurtures relationships.   And, we value the relationships we’ve built within the Tucson community; strengthened through each year’s Tucson Folk Festival and the various TKMA events held throughout the year.  We look forward to enhancing these relationships, as well as, cultivating new ones throughout the year.

TKMA and the Tucson Folk Festival are volunteer-run endeavors relying on the hard work and generous donations of supporters, volunteers, the community and the TKMA Board of Directors and Staff.  All proceeds and funds acquired by TKMA are allocated to the promotion and production of the Tucson Folk Festival.

FREE to the public since its beginning in 1986, the Festival is held the first weekend of April, and is one of the loveliest events on the Tucson calendar.

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. . . for enjoying our Festival and supporting our organization to keep it going all these years.  Our Festival is the only event we produce annually, and being an all-volunteer operated  501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the funds raised during the festival assist us in meeting some of our expenses in order to produce this meaningful event.  From our generous sponsors and community partners who assist us in their own unique ways throughout each festival season, to our members and donors  - thank you for helping us meet our festival budget to date.  

With the unforeseen global-to-local COVID-19 prevention measurers promoting the cancellation of this year's festival; the rearranging of all our lives comes first.  No question.  But, if you enjoy our festival, our events and/or our newsletter, AND if, and truly only if, you are able to financially help us meet unanticipated financial expenses due to the festival being cancelled, please consider becoming a TKMA Member and/or making a donation, when you can, to TKMA.  Thank you, and be well . . .

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