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 HIGHLY REGIMENTED: The national birthday rolls on with a rousing performance by the Fourth U.S. Calvary Regimental Band. The 16-member troupe will get your patriotic blood flowing with what's billed as "a slice of Victorian America." That historical glimpse includes a wide-ranging repertoire of 19th-century music and Army uniforms from the mid-1880s. The patriotic fervor is also set in a symbolic outpost of America's manifest destiny juggernaut, lovely Fort Lowell on the city's east side. And while you're at the park, be sure to participate in that time-honored pastime of feeding the very friendly ducks populating the little lake, and make a visit to the Fort Lowell Museum, where further testimonials to the outpost's rugged history are on display.
The free concert is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5, at the Fort Lowell Museum, 2900 N. Craycroft Road. Bring chairs and blankets. Call 885-3832 for details. BIG TIME DOWNTOWN: The city's soul springs to life once more with another Downtown Saturday Night. Linda Lou and the Drifters--known as a "versatile and talented gang"--will perform bluegrass, jug-band, folk, and country-western musical styles, all with a patriotic bent, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Ronstadt Transit Center. Folksinger Norman Kibble-Shane exudes an even mellower manner, accompanied by finger-style guitar, from 8 to 10 p.m. in Arizona Alley; and the Tucson Musician's Showcase features Dixieland funksters Crawdaddy-O from 7 to 10 p.m. on the Winsett Park stage, 316 N. Fourth Ave. And, like always, downtown's many art galleries and restaurants will be wide open for your viewing and chowing pleasure. For information, call 624-9977.
ARTISTS PAINT THYSELVES: So sayeth those creative types lodged in the visionary downtown outpost called the Shane House. Continuing this week is Live Nude Girls: Stripped to the Bone, A Look at Ourselves, an adventurous showing by Radi Horton and Leslie Paul. The collaborative series of figurative oil painting aims its sights on the relationship between women artists. Naked women artists. By painting portraits of each other, the pair expose and explore one another's vulnerabilities and strengths, both on the artistic and subjective end of the creative endeavor.
Live Nude Girls is on display through July 13 at the Shane
House, 218 S. Fourth Ave. Gallery hours are during Downtown Saturday
Night and by appointment. For information, call 623-2577.
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Currently exhibited are We Served at Fort Lowell, a 70-photo
exhibit and narrative documenting the lives of 19th-century soldiers
and their families in gritty, sometimes charming, sometimes stark
detail; and A View From the Barracks, further describing
the rugged military existence on the Southwestern frontier.
