When we say “artist community,” what city comes to mind? Santa Fe, New Mexico? Certainly. Sedona, Arizona? Absolutely. How ’bout Tubac, Arizona? Oh, you’ve never heard of it? Well, here’s to learning something new every day!

Tubac is a quaint southern Arizona artist community that, in addition to an eclectic array of restaurants, galleries, wineries, and boutique shops, boasts many amenities and activities, including mountain biking, horseback riding, hiking, bird-watching, cave exploring, and more. Surrounded by lush grounds and magnificent mountain ranges, the community is bejeweled by the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa, home to a stellar 27-hole championship golf course (where “Tin Cup” was filmed), beautiful hacienda-style spa and salon, and stylish 18th century mission-style wedding chapel.

There’s no time like the present to get to know this charming town because this week, there’s a great cultural and culinary event happening in Tubac.

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Restaurant Daze and Twilight in Tubac will start this Wednesday, May 18 and run until Sunday, May 22. The event features 13 unique restaurants that will serve specially selected meals at discounted prices. Lunch specials will be $9.95 per person, a 3-course dinner special is $16.95 per person, and a couple’s 3-course dinner special is $29.95. Tubac Golf Resort & Spa’s own Stables Ranch Grille will be participating and thus offering the special prices and menu. In addition, over 30 shops and galleries in the area will be celebrating Twilight in Tubac by staying open till sunset and offering specials as well. Restaurant Daze and Twilight in Tubac is the perfect time to explore all of southern Arizona’s hotspots!

Event At-a-Glance:

• Where: Tubac, Arizona – approximately 1 hour south of Tucson on I-19
• When: Wednesday, May 18 through Sunday, May 22
• What: 13 participating restaurants and 30+ shops and galleries offering specials and extended hours for unique dining experiences and strolling the village streets, finding art and collectibles.

Check out these Tubac, Arizona tourism resources and more information about Restaurant Daze and Twilight in Tubac:

• Tubac2Day.com Blog
• TubacOriginals.com
• Tubac Golf Resort and Spa

Google Map of Tubac, Arizona:

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The Professional Bull Riders are bucking into Prescott on Saturday, August 22 at 7:30 PM for an evening filled with rank bulls, high scores and big wrecks at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds!  This is the last scheduled professional rodeo event of the year!

The Copenhagen Challenger Tour is part of the PBR’s Built Ford Tough Series, presented by Wrangler and features current and up-and-coming bull riders within the four-tiered PBR series.  The tour is designed to take the best bull riders throughout the course of the competition and use them to stock the 45-man Built Ford Tough Series roster, the tour that leads to the World Finals of professional bull riding in Las Vegas.

Tickets are $16 & $26 and can be purchased by calling 866-407-6336 or 928-445-4320, or online at www.worldsoldestrodeo.com. After the performance, head on over to the Windsock Lounge on Iron Springs Road for music, dancing and libations, featuring great company and great music.

Find overnight accommodations in Prescott (so you can party late into the night and safely cab it to your hotel.)

Okay, okay… bad puns aside, this is a bit of sad news for Arizona locals and return visitors alike.  Sedona Jazz on the Rocks – after 27 seasons of this annual September event – has decided not to hold a festival in the fall of 2009.

The key drivers of the decision to cancel this year, as reported on their website, were…

“…lower-than-projected revenues from the 2008 Festival, donations and sponsors — and the current economic environment that is challenging all of us.”

“But,” they promise, “we’re not going away.”

Sedona Jazz on the Rocks reports that they have “already taken significant steps to weather the financial storm, including reducing our administrative costs by nearly 80%.”

“We plan to hold a series of smaller events during the year to build our financial base. We will strategically use this time to rethink, regroup and reinvent Sedona Jazz on the Rocks, with plans to bring the Festival back in 2010.”

Source: prescottjazz.com Photo by Jim Haas

Prescott Jazz Summit is Covering the Basses

So what will local and visiting Jazz and music-lovers do in the absence of this legacy event?

Good news! The 2009 Prescott Arizona Jazz Summit is happening August 28 – 30.  In its 9th season, the Prescott Area Jazz Summit is being headlined by Grammy Award-winning Toni Tennille of the 70s sensation Captain & Tennille, performing on Saturday night, with more than a dozen other renowned musicians filling a variety of downtown Prescott venues with music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, including Master of Ceremonies Blaize Lantana, Jazz Director and host of nightly jazz programming on Phoenix’s NPR station, KJZZ 91.5 FM,

Musicians scheduled to perform include Judy Roberts, Reggie Thomas, Carl Saunders, Mike Vax, Scott Whitfield, Gary Hobbs, Greg Fishman, Blaise Lantana, Ginger Berglund, Joel Robin, Tony Vacca, Jack Petersen, Steve Annibale, Ted Sistrunk, Cleve Huff, Denny Garr, Les Czimber, Tom Winker, Larry Kantor and several youth acts, including the Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Youth Band.

Come to Prescott where summer temperatures are mild; afternoon temperatures about 80 degrees and evening temps in the 60s. Perfect for kicking back on Courthouse Square, grabbing dinner and drinks in one of the happenin’ downtown Prescott restaurants and bars along “Whiskey Row” and beyond, and shopping in local boutique retail shops and art galleries that frame the downtown epicenter.

Tickets are affordable, with the best deal being the All Concert Pass for just $70. Individual concerts priced around $25 per person and specialty tickets like Meet the Musicians and a Sunday Jazz Brunch are also available.

Buy tickets online at www.prescottjazz.com or order by phone at 925-218-2336.

Tickets also on sale at the Hassayampa Inn and the Prescott Chamber of Commerce.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
Call 928-771-1268 or 925-872-1942

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