BorderLore spoke with Tucson Audubon Society Executive Director Paul Green, Volunteer & Development Coordinator Kara Kaczmarzyk, Development Manager Erin Olmstead and Important Bird Area (IBA) Manager Jennie MacFarland about the folklife of birding here in our region, the bird cultures that inhabit our wild lands, and how birds impact our sense …
Archives for August 2013
Padre Kino’s Legacy Lives in Wild Lands, Mission Garden
A four-acre agricultural and cultural showcase is now flourishing as Mission Garden, built on the original site of the San Agustin mission, in the floodplains of the Santa Cruz alongside A Mountain. Community Outreach manager Dena Cowan gives us this update about the trees and plantings that are part of our now thriving Mission Garden: 121 …
Cultural Song & Dance in a Musical Town
Wander into any neighborhood in Tucson and, chances are, you’ll run into accordionists, fiddlers or guitarists, just making their music. This exciting diversity of local song finds its natural pitch deeply rooted in our lands. So it will be at October’s Tucson Meet Yourself, where even more so this year, attendees will find everyday people with …
Music Transcending Borders
The unique flow of musical sounds takes its charge from a mix of sources, most especially our borderland traditions. Yet these joyful sounds can be mixed with the rhythm of sadness, often shaped by the tension created by border and immigration issues. Border Songs, a two-CD set, is a compilation featuring 31 performances in both English and Spanish …
Meet CyraCom – a TMY Sponsor that Lets you Speak 200 Languages in Seconds
Editor’s Note: This is the first of several stories we hope to share over the next several editions of BorderLore, highlighting the companies and local businesses which, through their financial and in-kind support, make TMY possible and allow us to offer the festival free to the public. In Pima County, over 28% of the population speaks a …
TMY Headlines
It’s almost time to raise the curtain to trek, eat, dance, craft and meet yourself at the 40th Annual TMY folklife celebration, October 11-13, 2013. This most beloved and largest celebration of the multi-national Arizona-Sonora Region’s folk and ethnic communities will again welcome hundreds of performers, food vendors, folk artists, marketplace …