The 3rd Annual Rodeo Days Arts Celebration Downtown February 23rd is a Rodeo Days weekend art show with live music, beer, bacanora, food trucks and horse-drawn carriage rides in the historic Steinfeld Warehouse Downtown Tucson. Celebrate rodeo in Tucson while getting a peek at the historic Steinfeld Warehouse.

It’s a free celebration of arts, music, history, and culture.

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Steinfeld Warehouse 101 W. 6th Street, Tucson, AZ 85701

Dress Western or old west style – Free admission

Artists showcase will feature fine art, glass, ceramics, leather, jewelry, wood, garden art in the historic Steinfeld Warehouse

Live music and dancing featuring Ruben Moreno’s Mariachi Herradura, Arizona Dancehands, George Howard’s R & B Band, and Stefan George’s country ensemble The Ditch Riders.

Taste Tucson beer from downtown breweries and sample bacanora from Sonora. A percentage of sales benefit Tucson Musicians Museum Mentorship Program, Warehouse Artists Management Organization’s Friends of Steinfeld Warehouse

Satisfy your appetite with Dinnerware’s Food Truck Round-up. A percentage of sales benefits Dinnerware Gallery.

Horse-drawn carriage rides with Sentinel Carriage Company will be offered.

The Rodeo Days Art Celebration Downtown is organized and produced by Susan French with French Accent Original Art & Design and Tucson Musicians Museum; Former Mayor Bob Walkup; Marvin Shaver with Warehouse Artists Management Organization and the Downtown Tucson Partnership.

CONTACT:

Susan French, Co-founder Tucson Musicians Museum
Owner FRENCH ACCENT Original Art & Design
520-907-7325
frenchaccent@theriver.com

News release about the Ride On, Tucson! event that drew more than 1,000 kids and adults on bikes and on foot to Armory Park today.

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey and top American pro cyclist Tom Danielson led cyclists on a 2.2-mile loop closed to traffic that extended from Jackson Street to 19th Street and included South Fifth and South Meyer avenues.

The event will be featured in Bicycling Magazine’s next issue.

Patrick Dempsey and Tom Danielson, courtesy of Pima County Communications

My previous blog post announcing this bicycling event (click here).

Ride on, Tucson!, courtesy of Pima County Communications

From Downtown Tucson’s website: http://www.downtowntucson.org/

Event:
18th Annual Downtown Parade of Lights
Start:
December 15, 2012 6:30 pm
End:
December 15, 2012 8:00 pm
Where:
Parade starts at Franklin St. (south of E. 6th Street) and proceeds south on Granada (click here for map route), east on Alameda, north on Stone Ave.

The Downtown Tucson Partnership invites you to participate in the 18th Annual Downtown Parade of Lights. Floats, live music and brightly decorated vehicles will fill Downtown Tucson with holiday cheer. Thousands will once again pack the streets to watch the Parade make its way through the vibrant streets of Downtown Tucson.

You can find more information at http://www.downtowntucson.org/visit/parade-of-lights/ including the entry form, staging information, day-of entertainment, parade route and the best place to watch the parade.

The parade route has changed its location from Armory Park to the El Presidio neighborhood. Please download the new route and enjoy all the businesses along the route that evening.

The Tucson Museum of Art and Lohse Family YMCA will be providing pre-parade entertainment that evening. Visit El Charro Cafe and Old Town Artisans before the parade and end the evening with dancing at La Cocina.

Staging will take place along the north and south side of Franklin Street, the east and west side of Meyer Avenue, 9th Avenue and the Franklin Lot. Staging begins at 4:30pm.

Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will light the tree in front of the Joel Valdez Main Library at 5:45 p.m.

Enjoy this 18th year of the Parade of Lights in downtown.