The Lineup was announced June 8th, see it here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 1, 2018
TUCSON, AZ---On Friday, June 8 between 5:15 and 6:15 p.m., the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival and the Tucson Desert Song Festival will hold a press conference to unveil the lineup for their respective festivals. Both will be held in January 2019, with an overlap of nearly a week. The announcements will take place at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. The theatre is presenting the Ramsey Lewis Trio at 7:30 p.m. that evening. Following the concert, the jazz festival is sponsoring Late Night Jazz at Maynards (400 N. Toole) with the band Mesquite until 11:30 p.m.
In addition to revealing its lineup, the festival will announce its reorganization and welcome Todd Steadman as the new Executive Director andJoseph Tasker III in the newly created position of Operations Director. Yvonne Ervin, the founding Executive Director, will become Artistic Director.
“We’re very excited about our new team,” says Elliot Glicksman, president of Jazz in January, Inc., the non-profit organization behind the Tucson Jazz Festival. “Yvonne has done a great job the past four years in making this festival a huge success financially and artistically; the board decided that it’s time she had more help.”
A Los Angeles native, Todd graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Geo
