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Saturday’s Summer Rock Revival show at Hotel Congress will feature a trio of bands, photo exhibitions and a painter doing his thing throughout the night.It’s a rock show with an art exhibit; maybe this is how…

Galveston, June 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Galveston Island Wine Festival, one of the premier wine and food events in Texas is making waves with the announcement that celebrity chef Christine Ha will special Guest Chef among an…

Possibly one of the most intriguing performances of Arizona Early Music’s 2023-24 season will come on the second concert in December.That’s when Montreal’s mostly female Ximenez Quartet performs “The Transatlantic…

Fox Tucson Theatre has been working overtime this spring to give Tucsonans plenty of reasons to come downtown this summer.The historic venue anchoring the west end of the bustling Congress Street entertainment…

Here’s an idea: Catch a live show, starting with supporting local music on Friday, June 2, with the Muffulettas on the Hotel Congress Plaza before going old-school 1970s soft rock/pop with Ambrosia and Firefall at…

Hotel Congress isn’t letting a little 100-degree weather slow it down.The historic downtown hotel is launching what it says is its most ambitious summer party series of events aimed at keeping Tucsonans engaged and…

The last time Holy Rolling Empire graced a Tucson marquee was in 2016 at the now long-gone Flycatcher on North Fourth Avenue.On Friday, May 26, the band is back on a hometown marquee, this time Hotel Congress for a Club…

Costa Rican composer/musician Luis Muñoz discovered American jazz in the backseat of his brother’s friend’s Volkswagen.He was 16 years old and it was love at first listen.It was the same year that he met a young American…

The Tucson Musicians Museum started getting calls from local musicians in the days after its founder and beloved Tucson bluesman George Howard died in April.Longtime bands whose names still resonate with Tucson music fans…

For the first time since the pandemic, Tucson’s husband-and-wife folk-Americana duo Sweet Ghosts will play a headlining concert.Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes will play a show at Hotel Congress’ Century Room at 7 p.m.…