Although our organization places its emphasis on old time fiddle playing, our organiztion also has an abundance of talent in singing and instrumental performance with the guitar, mandelin, harmonica, dulcimer, and accordion. In our performances, we strive to provide a mix of those talents to achieve a more diverse and exciting program. With the number and diversity of talent in the organization, we have given performances ranging from 30 minutes to several hours.
Czech/Slovak Folk music.
American Roots Rockabilly
We have all been well versed in, and blessed with a wealth and variety of music from all cultures around the world. We have all played in groups for the last 20 years which have toured the globe.
We have played every venue from, Quinceaneras to weddings, bar gigs, socials, children parties, and even on the street!!!
We continue to bring our music to the schools,by sitting with the kids at St. Vincent De Paul.
We play yearly at the Tucson book fair reaching out further to Tucson's youth, as we feel they, and we benefit from such a collaboration.
The El Camino Royales strive to build our community, and and make happy faces each and every time we play!!!
Pima County Sherrif's Department Meets the Street at Tucson Meet Yourself! Come see the wide variety of vehicles, services and information the Sherrif's deparment offers.
Meet Pima County's many departments and people who work for our great county. Exhibits, information and displays from departments including:
Southwest Soul Circuit is a music production company which seeks to uplift, inspire and entertain through producing live and recorded music and offering music education. Kevin and Tanishia Hamilton have partnered with Tucson Meet Yourself to produce the first "Tucson Meet Your Soul" stage in La Placita Village, home to SWSC's Garden Level studios.
Soul Music combines the elements of gospel music and rhythm & blues to form a melodic mix of testifying-type lyrics that speak to the Soul.
O'odham Artists share traditional arts and crafts including basketry, potting, painting, jewelry, and miniatures. Demonstrations and sales of one-of-a-kind arts & crafts.
Folk Arts Marketplace vendors from Thailand, India, Poland and Denmark share their hand-made arts & crafts in El Presidio Park.
Master Boot makers, leathercrafters, saddle & reatta makers, silversmiths and furriers share their occupational arts in the Traditions of Ranching Pavilion. Curated by Dr. Maribel Alvarez, TMY & U of A Folklorist, this exhibit and arts area explores the traditions of ranching and the people who work, live and play in Southern Arizona and Sonora's ranches.
Wagons on display courtesy of the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum.
Wagons from the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum fill the Jacome Library Plaza surrounding the Traditions of Ranching Exhibit. Learn more about our favorite Parade and meet 2010 Grand Marshall, Big Jim Griffith (Founder of Tucson Meet Yourself). Howdy Big Jim!
Key Ingredients: America by Food tours Arizona from October 2010 through August 2011, and provides an entertaining and informative overview of our country’s diverse cooking and eating traditions. Key Ingredients investigates how landscape, culture, ethnicity, and tradition influence the foods and flavors we enjoy across the nation.
The Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) has selected six rural organizations to host Key Ingredients for six weeks each, and to develop local exhibits, programs, and special events that tell their unique food stories as they relate to the Smithsonian exhibition.
The Arizona tour of Key Ingredients kicks off at this year’s Tucson Meet Yourself, Arizona’s premier folklife festival. Preview the southern Arizona host sites in the Key Ingredients Pavilion, which also features humanities presentations, cooking demonstrations, and an Iron Chef Contest in the Kitchen Stadium.
AHC also brings three speakers from their Road Scholars roster to Tucson Meet Yourself. They will give presentations created especially for the Arizona tour of Key Ingredients. See the Food Program Schedule for details.
Go to www.azhumanities.org for information on Key Ingredients exhibits, programs, and special events happening statewide!
Irish and Scottish traditional music and song. Instrumentals on fiddle, flute, whistle, guitar and bodhran (Irish Drum), plus vocals.
Come Tell Your Tales around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Master Folk Artists share their skills and demonstrate traditional arts. Calligraphy, weaving, carving, ceramics, paper, musical instruments, milinery, tailoring, silversmithing, henna, painting and tatting. Take home a treasure from the Folk Arts Marketplace where artists selling their handmade crafts are featured.
Games not only amuse; they tell a story, help us understand history, improve skills and demonstrate how we live, work and play. Games include board games, hoops, ropes, rhythm, puzzles, cups, balls, string — anything handed down from generation to generation that reinforces tradition while instilling sense of play and community.
Join the author of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food to explore the many food traditions, both native and newcomer, that make up our state.
Playing some favorite songs from the Hawaiian renaissance (1970s - present) which include both English and Hawaiian language and relevant originals telling the stories of Hawaiians as a people.
Once Upon a Time...there was a traveler between worlds. A wandering-wondering minstrel, a maggid of sorts, a high-energy professional storyteller...and his name was Jordan Hill!
Drama games for kids to have fun and share their stories
Irish and Scottish traditional music and song. Instrumentals on fiddle, flute, whistle, guitar and bodhran (Irish Drum), plus vocals.
Best of the Fest Food Booth Décor and Food Contest
(for TMY Food Vendors)
TMY 2010 launches a new contest to promote and reward creative, innovative food preparation and décor of booths in the following categories:
Hottest Dish Contest! Participant Food Vendors will submit their hottest spiciest dish - who will be the hottest? come find out! Samples for the daring only!
Food Booth Contest Catagories:
Cobblestone is a duo performing Irish ballads and folk songs as well as traditional jigs, reels, hornpipes and other dance music from Ireland.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 4pm – 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit Iron Chef Teams from local high schools, colleges and culinary institutes, as well as professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Teams will have 60 minutes to prepare a two course meal of one salad or appetizer and one entrée including a starch or vegetable. Teams will be assigned an ethnic or cultural culinary theme. Menus will be judged on presentation, nutrition value, taste, texture and reflection of cultural heritage theme.
Alassan Foundgounou of the Touareg Tribesmen, Niger, will sing his style of Sahara Blues with guitar.
Púca is Dave Firestine and Claire Jamieson Zucker performing the songs and melodies of Ireland and Appalachia, as well as modern traditional-style tunes and songs. Instrumental sets feature the fine musicianship of Dave’s energetic, precise mandolin/bouzouki against the rich heartbeat of Claire’s bodhran or her spunky flatfoot clogging rhythms. Songs range between chilling a cappella pieces, playful ditties, and powerful ballads and include some classic southern songs complete with sweet harmonies.
Dean Armstrong and the Arizona Dance Hands formed in 1948 as the house band for the Open Door Night Club in Tucson, Arizona.
Dean Armstrong was born and raised in a farming community in Illinois. From a very early age, he dreamed of playing the guitar. When Dean was eight years old, his father traded a calf to a neighbor for an old guitar. He practiced guitar constantly, and during high school, he attended Joliet Conservatory of Music. He later taught guitar at the Conservatory. After graduating from High School, he married his schoolday sweetheart, Ardith. This year, he celebrated his 57th wedding anniversary with her.
Three-a-week radio programs from the bandstand brought them to the attention of Gene Autry, and when he opened KOLD-TV in 1953, the Dance Hands became the staff musicians. In fact, they performed the first ever live TV show in Tucson. The Dance Hands continued to perform live TV until 1976. Today, you can see the band perform at Lil Abner's Steakhouse and on Tucson Community Cable 73.
Soul/Alternative Live Band featuring original music from Iam Jones
BALKAN SPIRIT plays music from the Gypsy, Balkan, Greek, Middle Eastern, Renaissance & early, Mexican - Latin folk traditions and more using Cimbalom
Sonny Salinas shares the joyful dances of Trinidad, Tobago and the Caribbean in this easy to follow dance workshop. A pre-festival Caribbean Dance Workshop series if offere Oct 5 & 7 at 5:30pm at the Dunbar Center.
For over four decades Big Jim has studied folkways and religious expression throughout the United States-Mexico border region. Griffith’s work as an academic and public folklorist has been extraordinary and his legacy includes founding the Southwest Folklore Center at the University of Arizona and the annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folk Arts Festival.
Jim Griffith was born in Santa Barbara, California, and came to Tucson in 1955 to attend the University of Arizona. He has considered himself a permanent Tucson resident since 1963. He loves Southern Arizona and has said, “I guess I’ll stay in Tucson as long as it gets worse slower than other places.”
He received all three of his degrees from the University of Arizona, the Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and art history in 1973. From 1979 until his retirement in 1998 he ran the University’s Southwest Folklore Center. He is currently a Research Associate at the Center.
With his wife, Loma, he started Tucson Meet Yourself in 1974. The celebration of Tucson’s ethnic and cultural diversity now draws over 100,000 participants annually.
Although he retired as director of the festival in 1995, he is once again heavily involved in this project. Starting in 1985, he wrote and hosted “Southern Arizona Traditions,” a weekly 3-minute spot on KUAT-TV’s Arizona Illustrated program. For 2 ½ years in the late 1980s he wrote a monthly column on “Local Custom” for the now-defunct City Magazine. He was curator for eleven exhibitions of regional traditional arts, the most recent being “La Cadena Que No Se Corta/The Unbroken Chain: The Traditional Arts of Tucson’s Mexican American Community,” at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in the winter of 1996-7.
Griffith has written seven books on Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico folk arts, traditions and religious art. He has been honored by several literary societies and includes such awards as the 2005 Henry Glassie Award and the 2009 Pima County Library Lifetime Achievement Award. He is currently researching for a book on the religious art of Sonora, and finishing a guide to regional folklore.
Big Jim is also an accomplished and award-winning banjo player. He recorded Dixie Cowboy, a CD collection of bluegrass and folk tunes, and also collected the songs and wrote the liner notes for the CD Heroes and Horses: Corridos of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands,
Jim Griffith’s professional commitment has always been to try to understand the cultures of this part of the border, and to pass along that understanding, as respectfully and accurately as possible, to the general public.
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 4pm – 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit Iron Chef Teams from local high schools, colleges and culinary institutes, as well as professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Teams will have 60 minutes to prepare a two course meal of one salad or appetizer and one entrée including a starch or vegetable. Teams will be assigned an ethnic or cultural culinary theme. Menus will be judged on presentation, nutrition value, taste, texture and reflection of cultural heritage theme.
Seven Pipers Band parades the TMY Festival with Schottish Bagpipe & Drum
Eastern European vocal music.
We have learned our songs at camps, from native speakers and recordings. We are part of the historic International folk dance movement (in some cases second generation participants) and pass on the tradition at performances and social activities involving both Americans and more recent immigrant communities. Several members of the group recently travelled to Bulgaria where we performed informally. We have been singing as a group in Tucson for about 15 years and have been complimented by native speakers on our renditions of their folklore.
Norwegian Folk Dancing. Leikarring Dancers have performed at almost every Tucson Meet Yourself. The group performs Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish dances.
Introduction to Argentine Tango. This includes a 1 hour introduction to Argentine Tango where we will describe the history and growth of the dance and the music, give demonstration dances of the 3 genres of Argentine Tango and provide a short intro to tango lesson to volunteers from the crowd. Members of the Tucson Tango community will assist in the demonstrations and the lesson to show how community driven Argentine Tango is and that it is a thriving social activity in Tucson and around the US.
Neamen Lyles is among the Arizona Jazz Institute's rising stars of jazz performance and pedagogy, Neamen Lyles burns as bright as any.
Neamen has studied with renowned jazz educator Jeff Haskell at the U of A, as well as with noted instrumentalists Dr. Kelland Thomas (saxophone) and Dr. Jean Louis Kashy (flute), receiving a Bachelor of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance (Jazz Studies) in 2003. Since then, he has built an impressive set of credentials, including regular performances with well-known Tucson R&B artist George Howard, and with the jazz/funk ensemble Chille Willie Grove. Presently collaborating on his first CD with nationally known pop recording artist Jay Soto, Mr. Lyles now stands on the threshold of breaking onto the national recording scene himself.
Planet Djembe is a Tucson based group dedicated to performing and promoting traditional West African Music. Our captivating rhythms from Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Senegal make people want to move their body and dance. Planet Djembe performs solo or with dancers.
Traditional Dances from Colombia
R&B/Hip Hop Music
When The Wyatts first emerged in 2005 as one of Arizona's top musical acts, they knew that music, love and family were things not easy to hold onto and even harder to let go of. Over the last 5 years this quintessential "band of brothers" has traversed the Americana radio dial with their blend of roots rock, pop infectious, alt country tunes all wrapped together in a rock and roll soul. Never afraid to dive into their roots, the Wyatts have always managed to allow their influences to take center stage while maintaining a modern vision with those classic sounds of the past.
Batucaxé is a drum and dance ensemble and school in Tucson, Arizona. Inspired by the music of Brazil, Batucaxé (pronounced bah-too-cah-SHEH) features the music of many traditions, from Brazil and all over the world. Our goal is to inspire creativity, openness, community solidarity and collective joy, through lessons and classes, outreach programs and high-energy performances.
The Colwells & Herb Allen bring bluegrass and old-time music to TMY like never before! Join them for a toe-tappin' good time!
The Colwells Brothers & Herb Allen, musical founders of Tucson's own Up with People, will be making their first appearance at TMY sharing their infectious bluegrass, old-time music and humor. With deep roots in Tucson, brothers Steve, Paul & Ralph and Herb Allen all raised their families here while creating music for the international organization Up with People.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Professional Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 7:30pm– 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Chefs will have 60 minutes to prepare a three course meal.
We are the dance company 'The Human Project' and have been around for 8 years based out of Tucson, founded and directed by Anton Smith. There is also HP New Era, the awesome understudy branch of the company, directed by Addison Johnson and Sons of 7, the high-flying break dancing crew, directed by Charlie Luna. Our style is a wide spectrum of traditional hip-hop dance styles such as, Locking, House, Breakin', Poppin', etc., but can also incorporate African dance, Interpretive Dance and Theatrical movement. We try to cultivate an explosive entertainment experience while also educating people about the positive aspects of hip-hop culture and its energy! We love dance, it is life, it is love, and it is FOREVER!!!One.
Fire Dance American style influenced by Polynesian rooted traditional use of fire.
Batucaxé is a drum and dance ensemble and school in Tucson, Arizona. Inspired by the music of Brazil, Batucaxé (pronounced bah-too-cah-SHEH) features the music of many traditions, from Brazil and all over the world. Our goal is to inspire creativity, openness, community solidarity and collective joy, through lessons and classes, outreach programs and high-energy performances.
Pan African Popular Dance Music/Reggae. Performing originals and covers rooted in Afro-pop, African Folk, Reggae and Caribbean Soca, the Key Ingredients of African Soul delight our audiences with an enchanting mix of Marimbas, Guitars, Drums and Voices. We are blessed to have singers/dancers from Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe and USA, all of whom love to get audiences to sing along. Our music from Africa and beyond is designed to please your ears, stimulate your mind, move your feet and warm your heart.
Waila Band of the Tohono O'odham Nation. We will play waila music in the modern form utilizing saxophones, accordion. The South Image Band is comprised of family and friends. We have been in existance for nearly six years, and have catered to most of Southern Arizona as well as a few places in Northern Mexico.
Health and Wellness are a vital part of our Tucson culture. Get your health Screenings in the Caremore Health bus. Meet practitioners of healing techniques like Bua's Thai Yoga Massage, Cortiva Institute massage, Tucson Sino Tai Chi, Akido at the Center, and learn breathing techniques with Tucson Women's Chorus. Warmup and cool down with Gold's Gym BodyFlow.
Learn about Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Susan G Komen for the Cure. Run, walk, push or stroll your way to health with the TMC Get Moving Tucson 10-mile/5K & 1K and Family Friendly fun-run & walk. Trek the TMY Path - a 1K easy walk around TMY Festival grounds.
Get ready for the TMC Get Moving Race & Run with Gold's Gym BodyFlow. Warmup, stretch and cool down after the race.
Drumming, singing, dancing, are some of the most dynamic and exciting
elements of communities around the world. Za Boom Ba Community Jams!They are rhythm-based experiences that integrate the exhilaration of percussive music-making skill with the power of common unity.
The experiences offer community members of all ages and abilities the
opportunity to come together and make connections through the age-old
practice of a rhythm circle. Guaranteed to bring laughter, joy, and
satisfaction, the drum jams are expertly facilitated to allow the creative
sprit to move, yet keep everyone in the groove. And, we'll have drums and
instruments there for you!
The 6th TMC Get Moving Tucson 10-mile run, 5k run/walk, and new 1k non-competitive family fitness walk takes place in Downtown Tucson on Saturday morning, October 9th, 2010, with all races starting at 8:00am. This is the 31st running of the annual SAR 10-miler.
Tucson Medical Center has joined the Southern Arizona Roadrunners as the title sponsor for Get Moving Tucson. Thanks to TMC, we will continue to have the city’s premier long distance event!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010 —start/finish at 115 North Church Street, Downtown Tucson at Jacome Library Plaza
8:00 AM start for the 10 mile running race
8:00 AM start for the 5k race and family friendly walk
8:05 AM start for the new 1k walk
Wagons from the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum fill the Jacome Library Plaza surrounding the Traditions of Ranching Exhibit. Learn more about our favorite Parade and meet 2010 Grand Marshall, Big Jim Griffith (Founder of Tucson Meet Yourself). Howdy Big Jim!
We will perform 30 minutes of various choreographed pieces in the genres of hip hop, jazz, break dance, Latin dance, and African dance.
Aikido at the Center is a not-for-profit dojo founded in 1993 by Judith Robinson. Robinson Sensei is a 5th degree black belt with over 25 years of experience. Aikido at the Center offers traditional Aikido training for children and adults of all ages. It is a non-threatening martial art. Aikido is practiced in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere. The goal of Aikido is to neutralize aggression rather than increase it.
Quad Rugby is a sport shared by the Tucson Pterodactyls wheelchair quad rugby community team. Be amazed at their quick moves, skills and teamwork display.
Chinese Lion Dancers kick off the festivities at public celebrations. This team of young dancers trains at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center.
Drumming, singing, dancing, are some of the most dynamic and exciting
elements of communities around the world. Za Boom Ba Community Jams!They are rhythm-based experiences that integrate the exhilaration of percussive music-making skill with the power of common unity.
The experiences offer community members of all ages and abilities the
opportunity to come together and make connections through the age-old
practice of a rhythm circle. Guaranteed to bring laughter, joy, and
satisfaction, the drum jams are expertly facilitated to allow the creative
sprit to move, yet keep everyone in the groove. And, we'll have drums and
instruments there for you!
Committed to learning and sharing the art of Japanese drumming, Tucson Taiko Kyokai was formed in 2005 by former performance ensemble members, board members and students of Odaiko Sonora. Each founding member has enjoyed extensive workshop training from Japanese and Japanese-American taiko luminaries such as Seiichi Tanaka Sensei, Kenny Endo, San Jose Taiko, Nosuke Akiyama, Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Kris Bergstrom, Yoshikazu Fujimoto from Kodo, Ringtaro Tateishi from Ondekoza, and Grand Master Seido Kobayashi of Oedo Sukeroku Taiko. As the newest group in the Arizona taiko family, TTK is very fortunate to study under the tutelage of Esther Vandecar Sensei of Fushicho Daiko, Phoenix AZ.
It is very good exercise for all of ages to keep you in good-healthy condition. It is a traditional Chinese exercise and now it is very popular both in China and the world. We are using fan, sword and brand sword to do Taiji format and make it more interesting to watch.
TMC Get Moving Tucson 10-mile, 5K & 1K Family fun run awards
Classical devotional music and mantras originating from northern India and Bengal
The Moonstruck Coyotes formed in 2010 from three former folk festival singers and kitchen musicians (Jim Hogan, Jim Gates and Frank Hartline) to howl at the moon with their original songs of the West: "Another Cerveza Would Be Nice", "Whole Lotta Texas", "Last Silver Dollar" and many more. Fresh from an outstanding Tucson Folk Festival appearance, the Coyotes added talented bassist Phil Anderson and plan to continue delighting Tucson audiences with a mix of original American folk songs and eclectic covers in close harmony.
Our performance is a trip through Colombia. A blend of native Indian, African, and Spanish influences to create the music, rhythm, and dances as a unique culture known as Colombia
Soulful Gospel & praise music
Bob & Trish share juggling traditions and teach you how !
Meet Pima County's many departments and people who work for our great county. Exhibits, information and displays from departments including:
O'odham Artists share traditional arts and crafts including basketry, potting, painting, jewelry, and miniatures. Demonstrations and sales of one-of-a-kind arts & crafts.
Folk Arts Marketplace vendors from Thailand, India, Poland and Denmark share their hand-made arts & crafts in El Presidio Park.
Master Boot makers, leathercrafters, saddle & reatta makers, silversmiths and furriers share their occupational arts in the Traditions of Ranching Pavilion. Curated by Dr. Maribel Alvarez, TMY & U of A Folklorist, this exhibit and arts area explores the traditions of ranching and the people who work, live and play in Southern Arizona and Sonora's ranches.
Wagons on display courtesy of the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum.
We are a professional hula hoop performance group blending exciting tricks and beautiful dance with this all american tradition of 1950's hula hooping. We perform with fire, LED and standard hula hoops in choreographed large group pieces, small groups and solo performance. Shows are family friendly and participatory inviting the audience to be a part of the show.
Folk music from the Carribean and Latin America. Genres like the cuban bolero, Puerto Rican jibaro Music and plena, Cha-Cha, Nueva Cancion from Chile amongst others. The group uses folk instruments like the Puerto Rican cuatro, Andean Flutes (pan pipes and kenas), Peruvain Cajon, Afro-Caribbean percussion bongos and congas and voices to tastefully perform Latin American Folk songs.
The choir has about 20 girls. They are all middle school - High school students with a passion for singing and choral music. We perform a variety of styles raging from Classical to pop and folk.
An enthusiastic group of women intrigued by Middle Eastern dance and Culture
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art created over 400 years ago by Africans enslaved in Brazil. They used this art form to fight for freedom from oppression.
folk music from North Africa.
True Devotion is a Las Vegas style show group; singing and dancing to memorable old school tunes from Motown to the Philly Sounds. The group has been performing mostly in and around Tucson since 2000. True Devotion was the first act to perform on Casino del Sol's Casino mini stage and opened for Harold Melvin's Blue Notes at Desert Diamond Casino. True Devotion has been a featured act for the Tucson Firefighters Chiloi Cook-off for the past four years. The look, the sound the moves are pure "Solid Gold."
Chinese choral music. Formed in 2006, TSC grow from 25 to 56 of today, mainly Chinese. We give 5- 8 concerts/show a year, including Chinese New Year Concert and Chinese Moon Festival Concert at the venues of UA Centennial Hall, Leo Rich TCC or Chandler Arts Center in Phoenix, with partners of UA, TCA and other local performing groups.
Marc B. Severson was a full-time archaeologist before he became a teacher in southern Arizona’s Indian Oasis and Tucson Unified school districts; Marc has been active teaching archaeology and leading exciting archaeological and cultural site tours for more than 20 years, and still works as an archaeologist during summers off from his teaching career.
Master Folk Artists share their skills and demonstrate traditional arts. Calligraphy, weaving, carving, ceramics, paper, musical instrument making, milinery, tailoring, silversmithing, henna tattoos, painting and tatting. Take home a treasure from the Folk Arts Marketplace where artists selling their handmade crafts are featured.
Cruise our Lowrider Car & Bike Show! 50+ cars will show & shine. Trophies awarded in all catagories 1940's through 2000's. Organized by Suavecitos Car Club - Felipe Martin.
Games you can play without sight or sound...games for all! Join the Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired as they share games and fun.
Dabke is an energetic folk dance from the Levant; which includes the countries of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Al-Haneen is primarily Palestinean influenced, but like our members, we try to bring a lot of diversity to our performances!
Persian Dance & Music. Persian club celebrates our culture as we express our heritage
The Saguaro Strutters are a local country line dance team that has about a dozen members who all share a love of dancing.
We have been performing for over 11 years Kahiko(Ancient Hula)and `Awana(Modern Hula). We have participated at AZ Aloha Festival for 10 years and in several Hula Conference in Hawaii. We also teach and perform without Tucson area and events. Our group also teach about the Hawaiian history, language and culture.
Mariachi El Quinto Sol is a relatively new group to the Tucson region. The group will be approaching 2 years together. In such a short time, thanks to the director's extensive knoweldge and experience of mariachi music and arranging our group has been able to be well recognized in a short amount of time. The group has already performed all around our southwest region of Arizona, not to mention our recent trip to perform in the New York area this summer 2010.
Join the author of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food to explore the many food traditions, both native and newcomer, that make up our state.
Learn to play Capoeira with Tucson's Capoeira Mandinga!
Founded in 1980 by Russian born Mia Bulgarin Gay, this folk orchestra draws musicians from all ethnic backgrounds and includes all ages. It was started in the UA Russian Department as a student program. Four new members joined this year-- two with master's degrees in music. The Sons of Orpheus was founded by UA voice professor Grayson Hirst and draws adult membership from the community. Each group numbers between 20-30 performers.
Sons of Orpheus choir was founded in 1991 by the distinguished American tenor, Grayson Hirst. It is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, non-affiliated, community-based choral organization comprised of men from all walks of life. Members include professional and amateur musicians, businessmen, retirees, scientists, scholars, students, engineers, teachers, and others.
Sons of Orpheus provides an opportunity for men to sing selections from the rich repertoire written for men’s voices. It parallels such other Tucson groups as choruses for boys, girls, women, and mixed voices.
With a soulful and anointed voice given to her by God, Myrina is making a joyful noise as one of gospel’s brightest new stars. Her latest recording of 10 original songs is about peace, healing and God’s unchanging love. Her solo effort, “Uncompromising Love” is designed to encourage and uplift the spirits and souls of its listeners with the ultimate goal of bringing them closer to Jesus Christ. For music lovers seeking variety and a kaleidoscope of sounds, “Uncompromising Love” showcases Myrina’s powerful vocal range in traditional and contemporary gospel intertwining Carribean, jazz, soul, pop and rock elements.
Our music is a fusion of Traditional Romanian Gypsy with contemporary modern rhythms. We sing both in Romanian and English.
Marc B. Severson was a full-time archaeologist before he became a teacher in southern Arizona’s Indian Oasis and Tucson Unified school districts; Marc has been active teaching archaeology and leading exciting archaeological and cultural site tours for more than 20 years, and still works as an archaeologist during summers off from his teaching career.
Learn the basics of hula with Hula Mai Ka Pu`uwai! No experience necessary!
Tucson Sino Dance is a non-professional cultural organization founded in December 2003. The group promotes Chinese culture and ethnic diversity awareness in local community through traditional Chinese dances. Currently, there are sixteen members in the group. All members are originally from China. They are now living and working in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the members are professionally employed in the areas of business, engineering, medicine, biotechnology, and basic scientific research. None of the members have ever been professional dancers, but they all love Chinese folk dances. It is the passion for Chinese dancing that brought everyone together.
Vasa Swedish Folk Dance leader Ann-Marie Kinnison leads a workshop on the Schottish - one of the favorite social dances of Sweden.
A very high energy, crowd pleasing full band act with soul/rnb/pop influences of mostly all original material
Join the Chef from Desert Rain Cafe to learn about O'odham traditional and contemporary cuisine.
Kabuki style dancing with full costume to classical Japanese music, JPop, JazzFusion and other genre.
Since its establishment over 50 years ago , Tucson Chinese School (TCS) has served the local community in promoting traditional Chinese culture and Chinese language. In 2005 TCS moved into the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center and became a local Chinese school with the best facility, the best teaching team and offering the most complete grades
Lajkonik Polish Folk Ensemble leads polkas from Poland. Learn to dance the Polish styles of folk and social dance.
Best of the Fest Food Booth Décor and Food Contest
(for TMY Food Vendors)
TMY 2010 launches a new contest to promote and reward creative, innovative food preparation and décor of booths in the following categories:
Hottest Dish Contest! Participant Food Vendors will submit their hottest spiciest dish.
Food Booth Contest Catagories:
The Tir Conaill Academy of Irish Dance has been teaching traditional Irish dancing in Arizona since 2005. The Tir Conaill Academy is a happy school where students work hard and have fun while mastering the art of Irish dancing. The dancers have many opportunities to demonstrate their skills, whether they are performing for various local functions or competing in Irish dance contests, called feiseanna ("fesh e na"), in Arizona, on the west coast, across North America, or at the World Championships.
Xunutz performs traditional dances from Mexico. Students are from the Cecytes high school in Banamichi and the the middle school from Huepac, both on the Rio Sonora, in Sonora, Mexico.
This presentation draws on government photographs, wartime posters, and work by American artists to create a visual chronicle of eating in America during the Depression and World War II.
Odaiko Sonora is Tucson's premiere taiko, or Japanese ensemble drumming group. SOUND, MIND, BODY & SPIRIT are the principles behind our teaching and playing. Our students and members strive to honor the traditions of taiko as they have come to us through our teachers, to honor our audiences through the artistic quality of our presentations.
Odyssey Storytelling Creates connections one story at a time. Six invited storytellers have ten minutes to talk about a specific theme.
Odyssey Storytelling Series schedules a rehearsal for each month's storytellers the week before the event. The rehearsal lasts about two hours and is an opportunity to run through the stories, get feedback, and to meet the other storytellers. We offer lots of support and guidance.
Barbara Schussler leads this open workshop on castanets and palmas rhythms of Spanish Flamenco. Meet in the Leo Rich Lobby - Workshop will be held outside on the Patio areas of Leo Rich Theater.
The corrido (ballad), a musical-poetic folk form, has been part of the Mexican musical tradition for generations and it continues to be as popular today as it was during the period of the Mexican Revolution. Tucson Meet Yourself has sponsored a very popular Corrido Contest for over 20 years and will do so again this year. We encourage both professional and non-professional singers/musicians to participate, and all topics are eligible for entry, although we accept only one entry per participant. Five $150.00 cash prizes will be awarded. Contestant can register onsite starting at 2:30pm Oct 9th
For additional information, contact:Dr. Celestino Fernández: celestino@arizona.edu; (520) 349-6757
Arirang dance group has been performing traditional Korean dance in Tucson for almost 30 years. Our group is lead by Mrs. Chin Lewis, a Korean master dance instructor. Mrs. Lewis teaches Korean culture and language to our youth in Korean language school and teaches dance to interested people of all ages, from the youngest child to senior citizens.
Traditional Rusyn songs, music and dance from the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe. Rusyns are a Slavic ethnic minority that span across the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, Ukraine, Poland, and Romania. Cossacks and invading hordes give intense flavor to these Slavic mountain village dances.
Introduction to Argentine Tango. This includes a 1 hour introduction to Argentine Tango where we will describe the history and growth of the dance and the music, give demonstration dances of the 3 genres of Argentine Tango and provide a short intro to tango lesson to volunteers from the crowd. Members of the Tucson Tango community will assist in the demonstrations and the lesson to show how community driven Argentine Tango is and that it is a thriving social activity in Tucson and around the US.
Odyssey Storytelling Creates connections one story at a time.
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 4pm – 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit Iron Chef Teams from local high schools, colleges and culinary institutes, as well as professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Teams will have 60 minutes to prepare a two course meal of one salad or appetizer and one entrée including a starch or vegetable. Teams will be assigned an ethnic or cultural culinary theme. Menus will be judged on presentation, nutrition value, taste, texture and reflection of cultural heritage theme.
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 4pm – 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit Iron Chef Teams from local high schools, colleges and culinary institutes, as well as professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Teams will have 60 minutes to prepare a two course meal of one salad or appetizer and one entrée including a starch or vegetable. Teams will be assigned an ethnic or cultural culinary theme. Menus will be judged on presentation, nutrition value, taste, texture and reflection of cultural heritage theme.
Mariachi Leal musicians stroll the plazas and open spaces of Tucson Meet Yourself festival, sharing the traditional folk music of Mexico.
Regional folk dances from the Philippines that include indigenuos dance.
The Filipino-American Sampaguita Club of Tucson is the first Filipino club organized in Tucson. It elected its first officers in 1972. It started with getting together and enjoy camaraderie while training dancers to perform for the yearly fiesta or responding to the community invitations like schools, churches and eventually performing for Tucson Meet Yourself. Volunteer physical education major specialized in Philippine folk dancing helped teach and train children and adults learn the traditional dances.
Chile Canta y Baila is part of the Chilean Cultural Center of Arizona. The group started in 1995 as a way to show the folk music and dances from Chile.
We are a flamenco dance troupe directed by Barbara Schuessler, aka, Barbara "La Flamencista". We perform to recorded music and dance traditional, as well as, a bit more contemporary flamenco. We go by the name of Barbara Y Las Flamencistas. The troupe consists of my students and other flamenco dancers.
Korean Traditional Drumming with different types of drums. Traditional Korean percussion instruments as round drum, gong, kwangkwari, hourglass drum, big drum, and other kinds of drums playing "Korean traditional rhythmic patterns of its varies speed and motion within its harmony.
Polish children and youth from Tucson, with the support of their parents, present their heritage through dance, song, colorful costumes and music. Lajkonik group was created 12 years ago and is anchored by St. Cyril of Alexandria Church with generous support from Solidarity of Tucson and Arizona Polish Club of Tucson.
Sambalanco is a dance brazilian band. We perform for each important Brazilian event within our Brazilian Community. We provide the most up to date songs/dances since we are constantly traveling to Brasil in order to maintain ourselves up with the new songs/groups/music.
Created in 2008, Om Shanti is a fresh and exciting dance troupe that incorporates different styles into Hindi Film.
Tarz Punjab Di presents bangra style music and dance from Northern India.
Join the Indian Celebration as the combined groups parade through TMY with an Indian celebration parade.
Acoustic Guitar performance featuring Genres of: Classical, Tango, Contemporary and JazzMenco. Gabriel Ayalla is a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe and incorporates elements of his cultural upbringing in his performance.
For over four decades Big Jim has studied folkways and religious expression throughout the United States-Mexico border region. Griffith’s work as an academic and public folklorist has been extraordinary and his legacy includes founding the Southwest Folklore Center at the University of Arizona and the annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folk Arts Festival. Griffith was honored to serve as the Grand Marshall for the 2010 Tucson Rodeo Parade.
Jim Griffith was born in Santa Barbara, California, and came to Tucson in 1955 to attend the University of Arizona. He has considered himself a permanent Tucson resident since 1963. He loves Southern Arizona and has said, “I guess I’ll stay in Tucson as long as it gets worse slower than other places.”
He received all three of his degrees from the University of Arizona, the Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and art history in 1973. From 1979 until his retirement in 1998 he ran the University’s Southwest Folklore Center. He is currently a Research Associate at the Center.
With his wife, Loma, he started Tucson Meet Yourself in 1974. The celebration of Tucson’s ethnic and cultural diversity now draws over 100,000 participants annually.
Although he retired as director of the festival in 1995, he is once again heavily involved in this project. Starting in 1985, he wrote and hosted “Southern Arizona Traditions,” a weekly 3-minute spot on KUAT-TV’s Arizona Illustrated program. For 2 ½ years in the late 1980s he wrote a monthly column on “Local Custom” for the now-defunct City Magazine. He was curator for eleven exhibitions of regional traditional arts, the most recent being “La Cadena Que No Se Corta/The Unbroken Chain: The Traditional Arts of Tucson’s Mexican American Community,” at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in the winter of 1996-7.
Griffith has written seven books on Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico folk arts, traditions and religious art. He has been honored by several literary societies and includes such awards as the 2005 Henry Glassie Award and the 2009 Pima County Library Lifetime Achievement Award. He is currently researching for a book on the religious art of Sonora, and finishing a guide to regional folklore.
Big Jim is also an accomplished and award-winning banjo player. He recorded Dixie Cowboy, a CD collection of bluegrass and folk tunes, and also collected the songs and wrote the liner notes for the CD Heroes and Horses: Corridos of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands,
Jim Griffith’s professional commitment has always been to try to understand the cultures of this part of the border, and to pass along that understanding, as respectfully and accurately as possible, to the general public.
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 4pm – 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit Iron Chef Teams from local high schools, colleges and culinary institutes, as well as professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Teams will have 60 minutes to prepare a two course meal of one salad or appetizer and one entrée including a starch or vegetable. Teams will be assigned an ethnic or cultural culinary theme. Menus will be judged on presentation, nutrition value, taste, texture and reflection of cultural heritage theme.
Join the Indian Celebration Parade through the TMY Festival grounds! Bhangra folk music and dance from Northern Punjab joins with Bollywood for a festival celebration that will start at the City Hall Stage 6pm, ending at TCC Plaza Stage 6:45pm.
Led by Tarz Punjab Di and Om Shanti dancers.
Performance includes the Bomba and Plena of Puerto Rico and Merengue and Palo of the Dominican Republic.
Traditional Scottish music played on the great highland bagpipes and drums. Scottish Highland dancing to music supplied by the pipes and drums. Traditional scottish singing, dancing by the Scottish country dancers( members of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society)and the Ceilidh Beo section, an ensemble of various Scottish musicians and singers.
The people of our organization come from all walks of life, in age and ethnicity. They range from 15 to 80 years of age. Some are of Scottish decent and others are not. We even have the pleasure of having a native Japanese woman who fell in love with the bagpipes years ago while in a high school exchange program. She now competes and has won many solo bagpipe awards around the United States. We all come together to celebrate the culture and traditions of Scotland.
Join Sticks & Fingers and the Caribbean Carnival dancers as we prepare for a parade - Caribbean style!
No experience necessary! Wear a costume! Come as you are!
This group of four from Cuba have been in USA two years and play in many places in AZ and also in Florida. Cuban music.
Southwest Soul Circuit is a music production company which seeks to uplift, inspire and entertain through producing live and recorded music and offering music education. Kevin and Tanishia Hamilton have partnered with Tucson Meet Yourself to produce the first "Tucson Meet Your Soul" stage in La Placita Village, home to SWSC's Garden Level studios.
Soul Music combines the elements of gospel music and rhythm & blues to form a melodic mix of testifying-type lyrics that speak to the Soul.
Southwest Soul Circuit is a music production company which seeks to uplift, inspire and entertain through producing live and recorded music and offering music education. Kevin and Tanishia Hamilton have partnered with Tucson Meet Yourself to produce the first "Tucson Meet Your Soul" stage in La Placita Village, home to SWSC's Garden Level studios.
Soul Music combines the elements of gospel music and rhythm & blues to form a melodic mix of testifying-type lyrics that speak to the Soul.
Join the Caribbean Carnival Parade! All are welcome to dance, shake and celebrate with dancers and musicians of Sticks & Fingers Caribbean Carnival Review. Sonny Salinas joins Richard Noel, both from Trinidad, in this exciting new addition to Tucson Meet Yourself!
Traditional African American dance and drum ensemble. We play African instruments such as Djembes, Songbas, jun juns, the shakaree and others. Through our dance and music, we are able to tell and show storys.
Calyposo,soca and reggae music from the islands of Trinidad & Tobago.
Sticks and Fingers is a dynamic percussion group that produces a Joyful Afro-Caribbean sound. Their range of music genre is vast from Calypso, soca and reggae an African beat to American standards. Artists integrate the Steel Drum and various percussion instruments into all these diverse compositions together with dance and vocals transporting their audience to a festive and joyful experience in the tropics.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Tucson Meet Yourself presents the TMY Iron Chef Professional Competition featuring healthy ethnic foods on Friday, October 8th and Saturday October 9th from 7:30pm– 9pm. This fun competition is inspired by the love of nutritious foods from diverse ethnicities will follow the format of the famous Japanese “Iron Chef” culinary game show.
Our version will pit professional Tucson Chefs, against one another, judged by chefs, celebrities and dieticians. Chefs will have 60 minutes to prepare a three course meal.
Barbea Williams Performing Company & UA Afrikana Dancers will join the Caribbean Carnival with a special performance of Afro-Caribbean dance. The talented dancers will join Sonny Salinas of Trinidad and Sticks & Fingers in the Caribbean Review, then feature their own dance choregraphed by Barbea Williams
Barbea Williams Performing Company presents ongoing classes that feature Afrikana Dance, Drum & Song, Hip Hop, Dunham Technique, Face painting and Henna Design. All classes are located at the Dunbar Culture Center at 325 W. Second Street. For more information, call 520-628-7785.
"Lykiska" is a Tribal bellydance troupe devoted to the promotion of self-expression through the medium of improvisational dance inspired by ancient traditions of woman's dance. Our philosophy is got a belly? Dance!
Choral Singing - Kundiman Songs ( Folk, Ballad & Love Songs ).
We are a non Profit Organization composed of Volunteers banded together to achieve it's MISSION of PROMOTING and ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING between People of the United States and the Philippines.
Waila Band of the Tohono O'odham Nation. We willl be providing a variety of Wailas, Chotes- 2-step, and Cumbias.
Mexican Folk Dance. Ballet Folklórico Tapatío was established in 1997 under the choreography of master dance instructor Sergio Valle and the direction of owner and founder Eduardo Baca Sr. along with the help and support of Lupe Klein Aviles. Ballet Folklórico Tapatío is based is South Tucson and draws its membership from the local Tucson community.
The Four Winds have the versatility to play music of Traditional Finland, with accordion, flute, violin, guitar and drums. Kathi Huhtaluhta and the Four Winds are an internationally recognized performance group and perform locally as well as internationally at festivals and events throughout the country.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Master Folk Artists share their skills and demonstrate traditional arts. Calligraphy, weaving, carving, ceramics, paper, musical instruments, milinery, tailoring, silversmithing, henna, painting and tatting. Take home a treasure from the Folk Arts Marketplace where artists selling their handmade crafts are featured.
O'odham Artists share traditional arts and crafts including basketry, potting, painting, jewelry, and miniatures. Demonstrations and sales of one-of-a-kind arts & crafts.
Folk Arts Marketplace vendors from Thailand, India, Poland and Denmark share their hand-made arts & crafts in El Presidio Park.
Meet Pima County's many departments and people who work for our great county. Exhibits, information and displays from departments including:
Master Boot makers, leathercrafters, saddle & reatta makers, silversmiths and furriers share their occupational arts in the Traditions of Ranching Pavilion. Curated by Dr. Maribel Alvarez, TMY & U of A Folklorist, this exhibit and arts area explores the traditions of ranching and the people who work, live and play in Southern Arizona and Sonora's ranches.
Wagons on display courtesy of the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum.
Wagons from the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum fill the Jacome Library Plaza surrounding the Traditions of Ranching Exhibit. Learn more about our favorite Parade and meet 2010 Grand Marshall, Big Jim Griffith (Founder of Tucson Meet Yourself). Howdy Big Jim!
The Finnish Club of Tucson leads moelki - a lawn bowling game of Finland.
The Redhouse Dancers have been performing in the City of Tucson and the state of Arizona for over 38 years. The program consists of authentic, Native American intertribal pow wow style dances and songs, handed down by Navajo elder Rex Redhouse, within the Redhouse Family, members of the Dineh (Navajo tribe). The program features a Native American blessing, the Grand Round Dance, Hoop Dance, the Eagle Dance, Crow Hop, War Dance, Native American sign language, the Rope Dance, the Navajo Ribbon Dance, Native flute solo music, Native American inter-tribal songs with drum accompaniment. If time permits, most of these items will be performed, as well as,..inviting some of the audience to participate in a Friendship (Round) Dance at the end.
We are a professional hula hoop performance group blending exciting tricks and beautiful dance with this all american tradition of 1950's hula hooping. We perform with fire, LED and standard hula hoops in choreographed large group pieces, small groups and solo performance. Shows are family friendly and participatory inviting the audience to be a part of the show.
Martin and Friends play a tapestry of organic and rhythmic sounds inspired by traditional and indigenous world music. This heart-felt music uplifts and inspires with original compositions that infuse the listener with waves of shamanic energies. The Adungus—an East African harps—Kalimbas, djembes, bowls, congas and more accompany the listener through journeying, dreaming, and transformation.
With precise 3-part harmonies and instrumentals, this charming female trio offers an updated version of old-school Americana, performing centuries-old folk tunes from the Appalachian, folk-ballad and gospel traditions.
Join Chinese Chefs Danny Leung and Jason Wong as they share the mastery of wok techniques with friends
Inspirational Soul Music, Traditional Gospel, Spirituals
Linda Lou and the Desert Drifters share their love of traditional songs and acoustic music, playing in the styles of bluegrass, jugband, folk and western. The Drifters employ mandolin, dobro, fiddle, bass and guitar.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Cruise our Lowrider Car & Bike Show! 50+ cars will show & shine. Trophies awarded in all catagories 1940's through 2000's. Organized by Suavecitos Car Club - Felipe Martin.
Mexican Folk Music. Our group, Mariachi Herencia de Mexico, consists of University of Arizona and Pima Community College students ranging from 19-21 years old. Most of our members learned to play mariachi music at a young age; either by family members or through Dr. Valenzuela at Davis Elementary School. Many members of our group have continued in the education of mariachi music through teaching students at Davis Elementary.
Learn West African Dance moves with Barbea Williams and company.
Barbea Williams Performing Company presents ongoing classes that feature Afrikana Dance, Drum & Song, Hip Hop, Dunham Technique, Face painting and Henna Design. All classes are located at the Dunbar Culture Center at 325 W. Second Street. For more information, call 520-628-7785.
Traditional Mexican Folklorico Dances.
ulie Gallego is celebrating her 23rd year as the founder director of Ballet Folklorico San Juan (youth group) & Ballet Folklorico Arizona (adult group), which consist of over 100 dancers. The Mayor’s of Tucson have proclaimed Ballet Folklorico San Juan group as “Tucson’s Official Folklorico Dance Group” for the past 20 years. Ballet Folklorico San Juan has performed in Guadalajara, Jalisco for Guadalajara’s 450th anniversary, in Acapulco Guerrero, for the past 20 years as the featured folklorico group for the Las Vegas International Mariachi Festival and the Arizona Christmas Mariachi Festival in Phoenix at the US Airways Center. The group performs in authentic costumes from 15 different regions of Mexico.
We are a Hawaiian Group, our dances are: Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan.
This visual presentation explores how entrepreneur Fred Harvey opened eating houses along the Santa Fe Railway that evolved into America’s first restaurant chain.
This visual presentation explores how entrepreneur Fred Harvey opened eating houses along the Santa Fe Railway that evolved into America’s first restaurant chain.
Spiritual "Christ-Centered" music/gospel
Mariachi musicians stroll the plazas and open spaces of Tucson Meet Yourself festival, sharing the traditional folk music of Mexico.
Alassan Foundgounou of the Touareg Tribesmen, Niger, will sing his style of Sahara Blues with guitar.
Aeti is a traditional Greek folk dancing group that performs at the local St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox church festival every September and competes regionally in the Folk Dance Festival in California every February.
We dance both old traditional Swedish formation dancers and more modern
couple dances like the Hambo and Schottis.
Some of us are wearing authentic hand made folk costumes from different provinces.
We would welcome new dancers!!!
Our group has participated in the TMY for over 18 years!
We dance to live music provided by the Cameratas Aurora Borealis (5)
Jim Griffith joins an all-star Appalachian, Southern Gospel line up with Brother Mark, Dave Firestine, Greg Morton and friends! Delightful, inspired down-home musical magic!
Old Time Southern Appalachian Acoustic Music. Songs in the 'Old Time' Tradition of the Carter Family, Stanley Brothers and Flatt & Scruggs : gospel, ballads, instrumentals and camp meeting songs
We dance so we may live, keeping our traditions, language, mathematical and scientific teachings is how we preserver. We are a community of people dedicated to bringing our cultural tool which is the danza to the social arena, be it demonstrations, schools, festivals, protests, cultural events, etc.
playing banjo guitar and assorted other instruments and singing a cappella songs. The songs from the old country are in Yiddish, songs learned by my parents when growing up in New York learning English are mostly Tin Pan Alley and then there were the songs from the Broadway Musicals and the songs I discovered or created growing out of all those musical roots to become "American."
We sing a number of different styles of music from 40's swing to more contemporary fare. Barbershop music is one of the truly American art forms. We have over a hundred years of barbershop singing experience between the 4 of us. We perform at many community events like Luminaria Nights at the Botanical Gardens, Festival of Lights at Reid Park Zoo, 4th Avenue Street Fair, etc. We are a dynamic performance group who engages the audience and enjoys turning people on to this unique style of music.
The Maguire Academy of Irish Dance is a group of dancers ranging in age from 4 years old to adult. Our studio offers lessons in traditional forms of Irish Step Dancing, both in soft and heavy shoes. Many of our students compete at local, state, regional, national, and even world level Irish Dance competions.
This is a wonderful Church choir who meets weekly for rehearsals and sings every Sunday and for all Special services throughout the calendar year. They are very versatile in that they sing in English, Arabic, Greek, Slavonic, Romanian and Serbian
Worldwide, the Yaquis may be best known for these men highly trained in an ancient religious ceremony in which the dancer wears a headdress depicting a deer's head and whose steps imitate movements of a deer.
The deer dancer is prominent in the Pascua Yaqui logo and Tribal symbol. The successful merger of ancient Yaqui traditions with Catholicism allows the deer dancer to remain a central feature of the spiritual lives of today's Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. Pascua is Spanish for Easter, and it is during the Easter season that the deer dancer is most prominent, participating in ceremonies that depict events of this holy period.
Flowers are important to the Yaquis' daily lives and ceremonies. They combine the ancient belief that the deer dancer is from a flower-filled spiritual world of natural beauty with the belief that Christ's grace is symbolized by flowers that grew from blood that fell from Jesus' wounds during the crucifixion. Flowers are believed to be powerful weapons against evil and are a prevailing symbol seen in elaborately embroidered floral designs on traditional Yaqui clothing.
Hawaiian and Tahitian, Maori and Philippine Dance
We are a group of multicultural men and women who love the Hawaiian and other Polynesian culture.
Gospel music celebration
This presentation draws on government photographs, wartime posters, and work by American artists to create a visual chronicle of eating in America during the Depression and World War II.
We have kept alive the Chicano music created by Lalo Guerrero the father of Chicano Music who is from Tucson.
Come Share your Stories around the Sobremesa Tables. An area for sharing, telling, listening, reflecting and creating!
Tohono O'odham Traditional Dance. We perform O'odham traditional song and dance, In which it's origins are indigenious to this part of southern Arizona.
Traditional Dancers of the Tohono O'odham Nation.
