About the Tucson Folk Festival

JOIN US APRIL 4 – 6, 2025

The Tucson Folk Festival is a FREE and accessible festival celebrating Americana and Folk Music traditions and all the wonderful variations, including 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 Tucson.

Our 40th Annual festival takes place on April 4 – 6, 2025! Friday features our official festival kick-off concert with the Stefan George Memorial Songwriting Competition and an evening headliner. Saturday and Sunday, the festival features six stages with over 150 live performances including National Headliners, Local and Regional Acts, Songwriting Competition winners, Family Show Entertainment, and Young Artist Showcases! Over 250 volunteers support the success of this free, family-friendly festival.

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About

Each year since 1986, the festival features multiple stages of acoustic music in traditional, contemporary, and cultural genres to entertain a diverse audience. The festival has grown to be Arizona’s largest free to the public music festival and annually attracts over 15,000 fans in-person, including performers who come from all over Southern Arizona and across the nation. The festival features national and local headliners as well as a family show. Each year, over 150 acts perform at the festival featuring hundreds of acoustic performers. The festival also features the Stefan George Memorial Songwriting Competition, the Roger Mikulas Young Artist Showcase for youth under 18, interactive music workshops, the Ballad Tree open mic for aspiring songwriters, raffles, the Elise Grecco Community Marketplace for food and craft vendors, festival store and beer gardens. 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, Arizona’s largest free-to-the-public music festival. 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!

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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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