“The 31st Annual Tucson St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival takes place on Saturday, March 17, 2018 in Armory Park. The parade begins promptly at 11am, winds through downtown ending at Armory Park. The festival begins at 10am-6pm with a line up of musicians, food and entertainment for the entire family.” https://www.facebook.com/events/223158564882802/ https://www.tucsonstpatricksday.com/ This annual … Read more
Tucson’s Annual Peace Fair & Music Festival is now in its 34th year. Tentative schedule of performances: And here’s a tentative 2018 Peace Fair Music Line-Up: 11am — One Heartbeat Noon — Tucson Raging Grannies 12:30 — Vimala 1pm — The Enchanters 2pm — Santa Pachita 3pm — Mark Holdaway & Friends “This FREE event … Read more
More info: www.tucsonstpatricksday.com. 2017 Grand Marshal Robin McArdle
New location: Armory Park downtown at 220 S 5th Avenue. “Join us for Arizona’s largest gathering of Peace, Justice and Environmental groups. Live music, tabling, food, entertainment, children’s activities and more! Free and open to the community! The Tucson Peace Center extends the invitation to peace, justice and environmental organizations to table at the annual … Read more
The estimate of the huge Women’s March in Tucson crowd that gathered this morning at Armory Park on S. 6th Avenue and marched to Jacome Plaza (in front of the Joel D. Valdez library) was about 15,000. Lots of very creative signs went by, carried by people of all ages, children, elderly, even people with crutches and walkers…gay, straight, multi-racial, many with dogs, wagons, etc. Every few blocks people were chanting “This is what Democracy looks like”. Here’s some photos of today’s crowd.
