Join us in downtown Tucson April 30th & May 1st for the 31st Annual Tucson Folk Festival. Free to the public since 1986, this year’s event will feature over 120 performers on 5 stages, including headliners John McCutcheon, Nancy McCallion And The Scarlet Lettermen and special guests James Reams & The Barnstormers.
John McCutcheon’s first award-winning song was titled The Ponderosa No-Cream-in-My-Coffee Blues, penned at the greasy spoon of the same name in his Wisconsin hometown. He was all of 15 years old and it won him his high school talent show. “My best friend claims that he still has a cassette of the song,” McCutcheon recently disclosed, “and if we ever have a serious falling out it’s going right up on YouTube.”
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Tucson favorite Nancy McCallion, will top off the weekend on Sunday evening with her, “American roots music with a twist of soul and a dram of blarney,” accompanied by The Scarlet Lettermen; fronted by Nancy McCallion featuring Chris Davis on guitar, Heather Hardy on violin, Karl Hoffmann on bass and Les Merrihew on drums.
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“James Reams & The Barnstormers’ instrumental amalgam of roots, rockabilly and bluegrass embodies the ‘Three Es of Old-School’: edgy, emotional and exciting. These guys live and die by the code to keep audiences from coast to coast erring on the side of wildly entertained. They accomplish their goal so well.” – Flagstaff LIVE!
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