Music of Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is home to both home-grown and imported musical styles and influences, including:

• Desert Funk / Desert Groove / Roots Music — influenced by Sly and the Family Stone, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson and Billie Holiday
• Desert Noir
• Desert Rock
• Mariachi — an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural impacts of the historical development of Western Mexico
• Native American Jazz — blends Native American and non-Native musical traditions
• Sonoran Dirty Rock
• Tohono O'odham waila[1]
• Western Cowboy[2]

• Arizona Friends of Chamber Music — brings chamber music artists to Tucson
• Tucson Chamber Artists — vocal and instrumental musicians performing masterworks and modern classical music.
• Arizona Opera — baroque, bel canto and verismo works, turn-of-the-century masterpieces, operettas and American operas
• Desert Bluegrass Association — promotes traditional bluegrass music in Tucson and Southern Arizona
• Mexican Institute of Sound[3] — electronic music project created by Mexico City-based DJ and producer Camilo Lara
• Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra (SASO)
• Tucson Jazz Society — helps develop local jazz and brings jazz musicians to perform in Tucson,
• Tucson Junior Strings
• Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association — acoustic music and other folk arts
• Tucson Masterworks Chorale — 100-voice community choir performing masterworks with orchestra. (oldest community choir in Tucson)
• Tucson Symphony Orchestra — the oldest symphony orchestra in the American Southwest
• UA Presents — The University of Arizona's performing arts presenter, featuring jazz, classical, opera and world music.
• Classical Revolution Tucson — a local nonprofit organization dedicated to making classical music more accessible by bringing it to nontraditional venues.

The annual public-choice music awards — nicknamed the TAMMIES[4] — seeks to recognize local talent by highlighting Tucson's best musical performers.[5] The awards are held in the fall and are sponsored by Tucson Weekly magazine.

• Tucson Film & Music Festival celebrates the past, present and future of the Tucson, Arizona music and filmmaking scene

The following Tucson-based artists have been featured in a variety of local and national media.

• Giand Sand (Howe Gelb)
• Alter Der Ruine — power noise / electronic music / industrial music[6]
• Black Sun Ensemble — psychedelic rock[7][8]
• Blynd — Hard Rock, Hardcore 1998–2008
• Cadillac Steakhouse[9]
• Calexico[10][11] — musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi and Tejano music; blends "jazzy-rock with traditional Mexican music"[12]
• Friends of Dean Martinez — instrumental rock/post-rock band, americana tunes with influences from electronica, ambient, lounge.
• Los Gallegos[13]
• Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta — psychedelic, indie, mambo, cumbia and jazz[14][15][16][17]

• Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus
• Tucson Girls Chorus
• Tucson Masterworks Chorale
• University Community Chorus, University of Arizona
• Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus
• Tucson Desert Harmony Chorus
• Southern Arizona Women's Chorus
• Sons of Orpheus - Male Choir of Tucson
• Tucson Women's Chorus
• Arizona Repertory Singers
• Reveille Men's Chorus
• Desert Voices

• Temple of Music and Art — live Theatre venue
• Tucson Music Hall
• Centennial Hall
• Fox Tucson Theatre
• The Rialto Theatre
• Club Congress
• The Rock

• ReverbNation Charts: Pop: Tucson, Arizona, eMinor Inc. Retrieved: September 5, 2011.
• Tucson Rock Alliance