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Music of the United States
Institutions
Venues
Festivals
  • Tempe Music Festival
  • Red Rocks Music Festival
  • Northwest Region Music Festival
  • McDowell Mountain Music Festival
State song

The

corridos, mariachi and conjunto. Other major influences come from styles popular throughout the rest of the United States
.

Flagstaff

Orpheum Theater is the largest performing venue in northern Arizona.[citation needed] The city hosts two music festivals
, the Flagstaff Folk Festival and the Flagstaff Music Festival.

Navajo/Ute
origin, was born in Flagstaff.

Navajo punk band Blackfire formed in Flagstaff.

Phoenix

Phoenix has been called a "rock mecca" by Jim Adkins of the Phoenix rock band Jimmy Eat World.[1] Tempe (home of Arizona State University) and Mesa also coexist with Phoenix as part of the Arizona musical scene. Other Phoenix bands include the Meat Puppets, American Standards, Gin Blossoms (lead guitarist Doug Hopkins died in '93 in Tempe), Phunk Junkeez, Chronic Future, Dead Hot Workshop, The Jetzons, and Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

In the 1960s, rock and R&B bands inspired by British Invasion groups like The Beatles appeared in Phoenix. Musicians to emerge from this era include Alice Cooper, and Bill Spooner of The Tubes. The group Pages was formed by Phoenix residents Richard Page and Steve George, who later formed the nucleus of the Phoenix pop-rock group Mr. Mister (who had 2 #1 Hot 100 hits, including "Broken Wings" in 1985).

Dolan Ellis has lived in Phoenix most of his adult life. He moved to LA in the early 1960s, where he was an original member of the Grammy-winning folk group The New Christy Minstrels. Dolan returned to Phoenix while the group was still at its peak. In February 1966, Governor Sam Goddard appointed Dolan as Arizona's Official State Balladeer, which was renewed under ten consecutive governors. He was selected as the first Arizona Culture Keeper, and Senator John McCain read his accomplishments into the U.S. Congressional Record. Dolan spent a few years away from Phoenix from about 1993 through 2003, to found the Arizona Folklore Preserve in Ramsey Canyon. He still commutes to the AFP, where he continues to serve as Artist in Residence, about twice a month.

In the early 1980s, Phoenix hardcore punk bands included The Feederz, JFA (Jodie Foster's Army) and Meat Puppets, the latter of which had country influences and became a major influence on grunge. Other rock bands of the time included Flotsam and Jetsam, Sun City Girls, Sacred Reich, Caterwaul, and Mighty Sphincter.

During the 1990s,

At The Drive In, Buckwild, The Weakerthans, Link 80, Yellowcard, and more![2][3]

The late 1990s and early 2000s saw an emerging rock scene in Phoenix and the surrounding areas.

Andrew Jackson Jihad. Psychostick, a comedy style rock band, was formed in Tempe. In 1998 a band from Phoenix toured the midwest called Thee illuminatix
, catching the attention of Jello Biafra.

There was also a

American Standards.[4] The middle years of the decade was marked by the transition from hardcore punk into death metal with bands such as The Irish Front, Knights of the Abyss and Job for a Cowboy
.

Singer CeCe Peniston grew up in Phoenix and began her career in 1991.

Pop Rock band The Summer Set is based out of Scottsdale.

Country music star Dierks Bentley is from Phoenix and Michelle Branch is from Sedona. Country star Marty Robbins had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit with "El Paso" in 1959.

Arizona residents who have had varying success on the

Jobing.com Arena in Glendale on July 25, 2008. Several contestants made it to the "Hollywood phase" but only one made it into the final twelve: Scott MacIntyre, who came in eighth place. Despite this, Phoenix was called one of the "year's standout cities."[5]

Phoenix is home to the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra.

Hispanic/Latino music has a large following here, and numerous import stores exist throughout the city for it. There are also several Spanish-language music radio stations. The annual Fiestas Patrias celebration brings Mexican groups including Los Tigres del Norte.

Folk musician Joe Bethancourt was a long-time resident.[6]

Venues

Phoenix music venues have included

dance clubs in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe. Phoenix is still a common place for "raves
", dance parties hosted in typically in warehouses, legal venues, or isolated desert locations.

Tucson

The city of

O’odham; he is also an Arizona Culture Keeper. The Ronstadt family, which includes Linda Ronstadt, are from Tucson. Linda Ronstadt had a #1 Hot 100 hit with "You're No Good
" in 1975.

Tucson's music festivals include the Norteño Music Festival & Street Fair, which celebrates the Mexican-American style of norteño. Tucson also hosts the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

The first weekend in May each year, the Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association hosts the Tucson Folk Festival, a two-day event on four stages, with about 100 acoustic music acts. The first festival was held in 1986.

Lalo Guerrero, known as the "Father of Chicano Music" and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, was born in Tucson, where he lived until his early 20s. He died on March 17, 2005, at the age of 89, and was one of the first inductees to the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.

Travis Edmonson was named Tucson's "Singing Ambassador of Goodwill" in 1975, a mayoral appointment that still stands today. Edmonson grew up in Nogales and spent time in Mexico developing a talent for singing and playing the native music of Mexico. Edmonson and his friend actor Roger Smith were active musicians at the University of Arizona. Edmonson went on to become a member of the Gateway Singers and was half of the folk and Mexican music duo Bud & Travis that recorded intermittently from about 1958 to 1965, producing 10 albums. Edmonson was inducted as an Arizona Culture Keeper in September 2005, where his citation includes these words: "Edmonson has been at the vanguard of the movement to bring Latin music north of the border."

Other notable Tucson musicians include

Tucson High
graduate and wrote "Cool Water" while still in school.

cowboy music
and recorded a double LP (with Travis Edmonson) by the same name, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle.

Rex Allen was a singing cowboy who performed after Roy Rogers. A native of Willcox, he lived in Tucson in his later years.

At the age of 11, John Denver received his first guitar from his grandmother while living in Tucson.

In the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Tucson was the site of an underground music scene centered on

Sand Rubies
).

See also

References

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  1. ^ "Jimmy Eat World Interview". IGN. 2004-11-29. Archived from the original on December 7, 2004. Retrieved November 11, 2009.
  2. ^ "Bad Stain Records". www.badstainrecords.com.
  3. ^ "Bad Stain Records 10 Year Anniversary". 16 June 2005.
  4. ^ You, Riff (14 April 2014). "Getting to Know Arizona Hardcore Act American Standards". Riffyou.com. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  5. ^ Vary, Adam B. (January 2, 2009). "American Idol Season 8: A Preview". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 11, 2009.
  6. ^ Masley, Ed. "Local musician Joe Bethancourt dies at 68". Azcentral.com. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
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