Eric Schaffer & Friends
2024-11-30 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Arizona Folklore Preserve, 56 E. Folklore Trail, Hereford, AZ, 85615, United States
Eric Schaffer has been recognized as one of Southern Arizona’s favorite singer/songwriters, having been a finalist in the Great American Song Contest, the Passport To Nashville songwriting contest, a 3-time Tucson Folk Festival songwriting competition finalist and the winner of the 2022 Tumbleweed Music Festival songwriting contest. With a writing style heavily influenced by the great singer/songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s and a voice that has been compared to Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle, his songs are sometimes sweet, sometimes melancholy, sometimes funny, and always well crafted. Eric has performed throughout the US and has opened shows for Clint Black, Blackberry Smoke, Marc Cohn, Lonestar and Darden Smith.

Liz & Pete's Sparrows
2024-12-07 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-08 14:00 - 16:00
She’s Liz, he’s Pete, they are Liz & Pete. Liz Cerepanya and Peter Dalton Ronstadt join musical forces to explore material old and new. Liz’s heartfelt voice with Pete’s haunting harmonies and rich guitar arrangements captivate the mind and tug at the heart. After a few passing introductions in their shared music scene, Liz Cerepanya joined Peter Dalton Ronstadt on stage at Monterey Court in Tucson in the fall of 2019. They had had a brief opportunity to work up a couple of songs, including Rodney Crowell’s “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight”, and an instant musical match was realized. The decision to make a record together was easy, and quickly Liz and Pete began exploring material including the timeless songs of Alan Garr, songs of their favorite songwriters and singers, new and old compositions by Pete as well as classic songs from his father Michael Joseph Ronstadt’s repertoire. Liz and Pete’s natural element is just the two of them on stage accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the Pennsylvania Stompbox.

Mule Boys
2024-12-14 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
Scott Muhleman, namesake of this duo, blows a mean harp. He’s been bending notes and playing the blues since the sixties, from LA, Waikiki in ’68, Alaska, San Francisco, to Bisbee, Arizona. He came to Bisbee for the first time while touring with DC Miner and Blues on the Move.
Jon Messenger’s story is a musical journey through the west, the Everglades, and Cornwall-on-Hudson. Now he’s had some 30 years of performing at home in Cochise County, Arizona, and points north, west, and east. Scott met Jon at a campout at Parker Canyon Lake in 1992. Assembled with like minds in fine surroundings, music was made.

Out of the Blue
2024-12-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-22 14:00 - 16:00
Out of the Blue started creating their “Bordergrass” style in the early 1990s. You already know three of the members if you’ve heard Way Out West or Dharmapoke at the AFP through the years – Tom Poley on guitar and banjo, Emmy Creigh on guitar and Slim Rost on bass. Donny Russell rounds out the Out of the Blue quartet on mandolin. The band has a reputation for their unique, signature vocal harmonies. Based in Tucson, they have traveled throughout the Southwest playing their distinctive original songs as well as traditional bluegrass and Americana covers. They have toured Europe 3 times and won 2nd place in the Telluride Band competition in 1998. The band members have received honors from the Western Music Association and Tom Poley has won 5 songwriting awards from The John Hartford Festival Songwriting Challenge. You can expect an energetic and fun performance in the acoustically pristine AFP that will feature some of their signature songs as well as some new gems added for these shows.

Allan Chapman and Rodeo Kate
2024-12-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-29 14:00 - 16:00
Western music fans are sure to enjoy this weekend’s performances by Allan Chapman and Rodeo Kate. Both have deep roots in the western music scene. Kate was instrumentalist of the Year in 2006 for the International Western Music Association (IWMA) and is a past member of The Texas Trailhands, Daughters of the Purple Sage, and KG & the Ranger. Allan is a three-time Grammy nominee, with songwriting credits for performers like Kenny Rodgers, The Oak Ridge Boys, George Jones, and Diana Ross. He has been a multi-time finalist for IWMA and Association of Western Music Song of the Year, IWMA Western Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year …and the list goes on! Allan and Kate have been working hard to finish their new mini-album CD “Thistles & Thorns” that includes their new single to be released in mid-May “West Texas Blues”.

Together Allan and Kate live in rural Wise County, Texas, where they continue to practice their ranching tradition.
Doors open at 1 p.m., performances begin at 2:00 p.m. Reservations are preferred; however, walk-ins will be seated if space permits. The Arizona Folklore Preserve is located at 56 E. Folklore Trail in Hereford. Make reservations at www.arizonafolklore.com.

Old Pueblo Bluegrass Band
2025-01-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-05 14:00 - 16:00
The Old Pueblo Bluegrass Band has been delighting audiences with high-energy bluegrass music for five years. Bandleader Reid Griffin, on guitar and vocals, is a Tucson native. He has performed throughout the Southwest since the 1980s and toured Europe with his band “Griffin Brothers”. Steve Reed, on electric and upright bass and vocals, majored in music at Pima College, then made a long musical journey from classical to jazz and onward to bluegrass. Bob Frankot, on fiddle, has been steeped in bluegrass all his life and has played with the popular California bluegrass band “Hot Off the Press” through the 1980s before coming to the Old Pueblo.

Michael Grande
2025-01-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-12 14:00 - 16:00
Michael Grande, one of the world’s beloved entertainers is returning this weekend.
Grande, who tours the world, only performs in Cochise County twice per year. A singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, Grande brings laughter and tears to audience members as he moves from exciting instrumentals featuring his famous five-fingered picking technique and breathtaking guitar flourishes to his gentle, almost caressing of the strings, as his sexy, smooth voice, tells tales of soldiers, families and the great depression.
But if the song is a sad one, the mood is uplifted immediately by Grande inserting songs and stories of friends, family and animals: a little girl’s first horse, the loss of a stray dog that became a hero to a family it saved, and the romantic love story of an Arabian stallion and mare.
In between songs, Grande is known for his tales. Growing up in an Italian family, he tells of being a child in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he used to tie the tail of his coonskin cap to his bicycle and pretend it was a horse as he raced through the mean streets of Bensonhurst. In his mind and his dreams, he was always a cowboy, and he was always in Arizona.

Belinda Gail
2025-01-18 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Belinda Gail, “America’s Western Sweetheart,” was raised on ranches in Nevada’s Carson Valley and in the California Sierra Nevada foothills near Sequoia National Park. Her rich ranching heritage and love of the West runs deep in her music and evoke the character of the people, as well as the beauty, majesty, and deep connection to the land that only those who have lived the ranch life can truly capture. Ranching and the ‘cowboy life’ are very much part of the essence of this dynamic Western Performer.

Belinda is honored and humbled to not only be counted among the top female Western Music performers of this era, but she was recently listed as one of the top 50 Country and Western Entertainers of all time by American Cowboy Magazine in their collector edition entitled “Legends”. She has committed her full-time effort to this music for nearly two decades and crisscrosses this country taking her special brand of Western Music to the masses.

Doors open at 1 p.m., performances begin at 2:00 p.m. Reservations are preferred; however, walk-ins will be seated if space permits.

Kerry Grombacher
2025-01-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
Kerry Grombacher writes contemporary western songs and plays guitar and mandolin. His song, Range of the Buffalo, was named 2021 Song of the Year by the International Western Music Association.
In the spirit of the troubadours of old, Kerry Grombacher’s songs paint vivid portraits and tell the fascinating stories of working cowboys and old camp cooks, roadside motels and prisons, wildland firefighters, cattle rustlers and wolf trappers – the landmarks and denizens of the west. You’ll find Kerry at Cowboy Poetry Gatherings and Folk Festivals, singing his songs, playing mandolin as a sideman, and picking in the jam sessions and around the campfires until the last song is sung.
Kerry was born in Kansas and has lived and worked in Texas, New Mexico, and Oregon. That’s taught him to admire the men and women who still work cattle and to respect the traditions of the West. His songs have found great acceptance among the poets, musicians, and fans who have heard him play, and they’ve been recorded by other western artists, including Jim Jones, Belinda Gail, The Texas Trailhands, Duke Davis, Trails & Rails, Earl Gleason, Ed Stabler, and Gary Prescott. One of his songs appears on the 2012 children’s compilation, Cowboy Playground, released by Putumayo World Music.
Kerry has sung his songs at events as varied as the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the Newport Folk Festival, Cowboy Songs & Range Ballads (Cody, WY) and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. As a sideman, he’s played mandolin with a list of western performers that includes Chuck Pyle, Belinda Gail, Joni Harms, Wylie Gustafson, Eli Barsi, Ken Overcast, and Jean Prescott. Kerry sang at the dedication of the last memorial marker on the Chisholm Trail in Oklahoma, and he was featured on The Big Roundup website, www.cowboypoetry.com.
Grombacher regularly plays at performing arts centers, coffeehouses, house concerts and other music venues, and he’s performed on the syndicated television show, Louisiana Jukebox, and on River City Folk, a music program that’s heard nationally on public radio stations and on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. In 2001, he gave a concert beneath the neon signs on the parking lot of the Sands Motel on Historic Route 66 in Grants, New Mexico and the owner named a room for him! His 2012 “Highway 281 Troubadour Tour” followed that US Highway from the Canadian border to Mexico, with stops along the way for concerts.
Kerry’s recordings include Range of the Buffalo, It Sings in the Hi-Line, Sands Motel, Riding for the Brand, Dreams of New Orleans, and Home to the West. He’s a member of the International Western Music Association and Folk Alliance International, and he endorses Elixir Guitar and Mandolin Strings.
Kerry Grombacher kgrombacher@yahoo.com
512-296-7833 (cell) www.kgrombacher.com

Mark Mulligan
2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Mark Mulligan deported himself to Mexico 28 years ago, ditching his gold Century 21 Real Estate jacket for flip flops and a guitar. Four kids and many songs later, he calls the Sea of Cortez home, living south of the border in beautiful San Carlos, Sonora. His songs paint pictures of sunshine, sailboats, and sandy beaches. And his book, “The Three Miracles” (available at the AFP bookstore) is a true story of love and faith. All proceeds from the sales of his book go to charity. Mark performs throughout the U.S, Mexico, and even Canada, Belize, and Costa Rica. And now you can see him perform in beautiful Ramsey Canyon!
Doors open at 1 p.m., performances begin at 2:00 p.m. Reservations are preferred; however, walk-ins will be seated if space permits. The Arizona Folklore Preserve is located at 56 E. Folklore Trail in Hereford. Make reservations at www.arizonafolklore.com.

Joni Harms
2025-02-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00
Joni Harms has a warm sincerity and ease to her voice… a voice that shines through on stories and melodies of a country/western way of life, making you feel you are part of the entire experience she sings about, as if she is singing only to you. In many ways, Joni is a pioneer and torch-bearer, knowing the country lifestyle is made up of a blend of musical sounds, giving her a unique style drawing crowds, literally, around the world.
“Growing up, I learned to sing and write songs by listening to Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard and George Strait,” says Harms. “I remember seeing Emmylou Harris, and, after playing a while with the famous Hot Band, she returned to the stage with just her black Gibson guitar and proved if you can truly sing, write a song and play your guitar, then you can entertain your audience all by yourself.”
Although it is always special to perform with a great band, Joni held onto that challenging lesson and enjoys performing for radio stations and at various events with just her guitar, showing off that pure country voice she has been praised for since she signed her first record deal with the famed music producer Jimmy Bowen of Capitol Records in the early 1990s. Any singer will tell you not everyone can entertain that way, but Joni is a master.
Joni Harms’ musical journey continues around with globe with the release of her 13th studio album, Lucky 13, which is receiving amazing reviews. Country Music People Magazine says…”these are some of the very best country songs of recent years and prove that Joni Harms is one of country music’s most underrated writers.”
There is no mistaking the fact that Joni was a Merle Haggard fan as she even wrote a tribute to him on her latest album, Lucky 13, simply titled Merle. Joni Harms has built a career on two-stepping, toe-tapping shuffles and swing songs on her CDs. Joni loves to write about rodeo, cowboys and the ranch way of living, but says her favorite kind of songs to write are ballads or story songs. That’s why Merle is one of her favorites. “I absolutely love it when someone tells me that a song of mine has touched them or helped them through a tough situation. It makes me all the more certain that I am doing what I was put on this earth to do,” shares Harms.
Joni’s signature cowboy hat and boots are indeed more than a fashion statement. Harms lives on a century farm in Oregon that was homesteaded by her great, great grandfather Harms in 1872. Joni says, “This place has inspired many of my songs and I think they truly represent who I am and what is important to me.”
And there is no question who Joni Harms is. She is a tough, hard-working rancher who is also a mom with strong values with a gift for writing and performing music. She admits sometimes it is hard juggling all of these things, but they are important to her and she wouldn’t change a thing.
Joni Harms has earned multiple honors from such notable organizations as the Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists. She has also performed on some of the most famous stages, including the Grand Ole Opry and New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
Joni Harms continues to tour and do what she loves, saying her journey so far has been absolutely wonderful. God willing she’s not going anywhere for a long time and has a lot more songs to write and sing!

Nancy Elliot
2025-02-15 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00
Mom and Dad bought a Kimball Organ when I was about seven years old, and I guess that started it all. At
thirteen, a friend of the family taught me a few guitar chords, and I got my first 12 string the next year. With the
music of John Denver, Batdorf and Rodney and America inspiration, I began writing simple songs and playing folk
music at campfires, weddings and local festivals. The years after High School found me in California working for the
park service and playing evenings in campgrounds and restaurants. Abilene, Texas was the next stop. With its wild
and woolly mix of a low drinking age (that being 18), public dance halls and private clubs, I found my self singing
Linda Ronstadt and Willie Nelson covers behind chicken wire. I had the honor of playing one night a week for
several months at Mel Tillis’s “The Old Sawmill”, The Town Crier Steakhouse, a pool bar, whose name I can’t
remember (might be a good thing) near the back gate of the base, and a fund raiser for the Veterans Hospital with
Rex Allen, Rex Allen Jr and Johnny Gimble. I got out of Abilene with my guitar, my ‘70 Chevy Impala 350, some
real good stories and 10 stitches around my eye from one of those nights there was not enough chicken wire in the
state Texas to protect the band.
Back in Ohio, and once again on the local Dayton folk scene, I played Sam’s on 5th, The Trolley Stop in the
Oregon District and was a performer on opening night at Mick Montgomery’s Canal Street Tavern, where I also later
tended bar. Brisco’s Lounge, Winds Café, Tuty’s Inn, my goodness, it was time of stage hopping with friends and
solid, paying gigs, many of them sit downs where a player could make a living.
Coming to Arizona in 1990 I discovered the Western & Cowboy music. Katy Creek Band resulted in 2001,
lasting a good 13years and four albums. This lovely but tiny genre provided inspiration to grow in my song writing
and performance abilities. Now, seeking wider and broader opportunities, including for “The Heart of It All” story
and song concerts, I once again perform in the Folk genre, particularly my self coined “South~Western Americana”.
After a ten year recording hiatus, the “Tall Tree” album released in January of 2019. Recorded for Mi Casa
Records and produced by Maestro Ismael Barajas, Tall Tree is the first in my self coined South~Western Americana.
The drum styles, arrangements and rhythms, the wide open shelving of instruments against vocals, and the
instruments themselves, are a direct reflection of my life in the Desert Southwest.
My second album of South~Western Americana, “Bluebirds Singing On The Buffalo Road,” is bare bones,
just me and my guitars with harmony vocals on a few songs. It includes “Lightning Woman Danced,” “ By Moon or
No Moon,” refreshed recordings of “Autumn’s On Its Way and “Wild Rose,” and “The Ruby Handled Knife,” a poem inspired while writing the book, “Autumn’s On Its Way,” which released January of 2024.
I am a proud member of the Western Writers of America.
Contact information and booking
Nancy Elliott 520~705~5901
www.NancyElliottMusic.com

Dave Munsick
2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:00
Dave writes and sings of a west that many miss; a west of endless emotional landscapes unbroken by borders between people, times and places. These are stories and songs that go down smooth and stay with you awhile.
Besides songs, Dave writes and tells stories that resonate the adventures that his music has taken him on. He has produced 7 CDs of original music, and written and recorded themes for historical documentaries as well as compositions for government, commercial and private sectors. He also develops educational learning modules that immerse students in the pivotal themes of western history.
Dave is a performer, playing solo as well as with his bands. He has opened for or played fiddle, piano, and guitar for artists including Chris LeDoux, Lyle Lovett and Ian Tyson.
“Dave Munsick is a damned fine fiddle player!” – Ian Tyson
He gives educational workshops, arranges songs for his concerts and dances, and has had his music played on television as well as U.S. and European radio stations. His music has been reviewed in Western Horseman, Rope Burns, Eclectic Horseman, and Cowboy magazines.

P.D. and Bobby Ronstadt
2025-03-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-02 14:00 - 16:00
Peter Dalton Ronstadt is a writer and interpreter of song, a recording engineer and producer, a poet and lyricist. An all-around post-modern American songster from the great American southwest.
Along with his band, The Company, Peter paints a musical picture of the American Southwest by presenting music from the region, music from Mexico, collected favorites, songs of his father, and new songs that draw inspiration from all the elements of his upbringing. With a lush tapestry of instruments along with unique arrangements, enjoy a moment in time while P.D. Ronstadt & The Co. Take you on a musical journey.

Ted Ramirez
2025-03-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-09 14:00 - 16:00
Teodoro “Ted” Ramirez is a Southwest troubadour with a captivating sound and distinctive music style. His performances are a celebration in Southwest culture. The name “Teodoro” is the Spanish version of English “Theodore”, and is a old family name – one that dates back to before the 1700’s in his family. Ted often with a smile says: “my name is Teodoro, but all my friends call me Teo or Ted.
Ted’s repertoire is a mixture of original music, classic American and Mexican folk songs, and stories. Ted is an established and seasoned live concert performing artist having toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and northern Europe.
Ted was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1953 with family roots that pre-date the Spanish and Mexican eras of the region.
Ted presents songs with intriguing introductions drawn from personal experience, and the oral and written histories of Mexico and the American Southwest.
Ted has received numerous awards including: “Arizona Culture Keeper Award” and named “Tucson’s Official Troubadour” by the Tucson’s Mayor and City Council in 2001.
Ted is the founder of the celebrated Tucson-based folk group; “The Santa Cruz River Band”.
Ted’s live performance presentations are well-suited for: concerts, festivals, educational programs, residencies, workshops, and special presentations and ceremonies for all ages.
