The Tucson Folk Festival is bringing back some familiar names and reintroducing us to musicians we haven’t seen in far too long as it celebrates the 40th event this weekend.
It’s also introducing the audience, which is expected to average 7,000 to 8,000 a day from Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 6, to artists who’ve played shows in Tucson but never on the folk festival stage and a few artists who we’ve never seen here.
“We wanted to put together a lineup that spoke to the history of the festival, the sort of heart of the festival, but also speaks to what the festival has evolved into today and where it is going in the future,” said Matt Rolland, president of the festival’s umbrella nonprofit Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association.
Four hundred local, regional and national acoustic artists whose music dips into folk, country, blues, Celtic, Indigenous and Latin will perform 150 shows on six stages in downtown’s Jácome Plaza, 101 N. Stone Ave., and surrounding El Presidio neighborhood…