The first weekend of May is generally when summer returns and breathes its fiery breath all over Tucson and southern Arizona.
Not this year. If you didn’t bring a sweater and raincoat to this year’s Tucson Folk Festival, you wouldn’t have been very happy. And that would have been a shame, because the 2010 event was heralded as the best ever.
I’m a little biased about that last point because I was the Folk Festival’s official photographer. In two days, I covered three stages and 36 acts. Here are three:
From the Courtyard Stage, the Mas o Menos String Band…
From the Old Town Artisans Stage, Tiffany Jo Allen…
From the Plaza Stage, Saturday evening’s headliner, Chris Hillman, formerly of The Byrds…