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The Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association proudly invites all music lovers to enjoy twenty hours of free live music on five stages at the 28th Annual Tucson Folk Festival

Headliners

David Bromberg Quintet

He’s played with everyone, he’s toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with a solo acoustic blues. Bromberg began studying guitar-playing when he was 13 and eventually enrolled in Columbia University as a musicology major. The call of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-’60s drew David to the downtown clubs and coffeehouses, where he could watch and learn from the best performers. (read more ...)

An unexpected and wildly successful solo spot at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in Great Britain led to a solo deal with Columbia Records, for whom David recorded four albums. Bromberg’s range of material, based in the folk and blues idioms, continually expanded with each new album to encompass bluegrass, ragtime, country and ethnic music, and his touring band grew apace. Exhausted by the logistics of the music business, David dissolved his band in 1980, and he and his artist/musician wife, Nancy Josephson, moved from Northern California to Chicago, where David attended the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making. After “too many Chicago winters,” in 2002 David and Nancy were lured to Wilmington, Del., where they became part of the city’s artist-in-residence program. Frequent participation in the city’s weekly jam sessions helped rekindle Bromberg’s desire to make music again, as did the encouragement of fellow musicians Chris Hillman (The Byrds, Desert Rose Band, Flying Burrito Brothers) and bluegrass wizard Herb Pedersen, and David’s manager, Steve Bailey. The jams also led to the formation of Angel Band, fronted by Nancy and two other female vocalists, with David serving as an accompanist. With the release of Try Me One More Time, his 2007 solo return to the studio, David continued his musical revitalization, playing shows on his own, backed by (and supporting) Angel Band, his own David Bromberg Quartet, and reunions of the David Bromberg Big Band, the configuration depending on the circumstance. (show less)

TKMA is delighted to bring the David Bromberg Quintet to the 28th Annual Tucson Folk Festival as our headliner on Saturday, May 4th at 9pm.

Stefan George with
Lavinia White & Friends

One of Tucson's best-loved singer/songwriters, Stefan George has won award after award for his evocative songwriting and luminous guitar playing. Born in Detroit, he studied John Hurt, Reverand Gary Davis and Brownie McGhee while they worked that part of the country, but has called Tucson home for a few decades now, earning Best of Tucson numerous times in songwriter, solo acoustic performer, and acoustic ensemble categories. He has been a Troubadour Finalist at Telluride and a New Folk finalist at Kerrvile where he now hosts the annual Blues Summit. A popular acoustic slide guitarist at festivals in the U.S. and Germany, Stefan was also a featured Showcase artist at South By Southwest in 1991 and 1994, and has shared stages with David Wilcox, Bill Miller, Rory Block, Queen Ida and Bill Morrissey, to name but a few. Sunday night Stefan will be joined by Lavinia White and several musicians who have played with him over the years.