Tucson Weekly: Listings: Music (July 9

MUSIC
Events This Week
Listings COURTYARD CONCERT SERIES. Plaza Palomino. Fort Lowell and Swan roads. The Courtyard Concert Series features traditional, world-folk, Cajun and blues artists performing selected Saturdays though September. Afro-Cuban jazz band Yavaz performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 the day of the show, available in Plaza Palomino Suite 219, Hear's Music and Piney Hollow. Call 297-9133 for information.
GOSPEL CONCERT. Grace Temple Missionary Baptist Church. 1019 E. 31st St. The Tucson Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America holds their annual year end musical at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 11. This year's performance is titled Season of Praise Musical, and features choirs from Phoenix, Casa Grande and Tucson. Contact Brother Howard Walton 624-1160 or Sister Rochelle Magee 623-5303 for ticket information.
TWILIGHT CONCERT. Old Tucson Studios. Rio Lobo Concert Stage. 201 S. Kinney Road. Raven performs southern rock standards as part of the Budweiser Summer Concert Series at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Admission is $6. Call 883-0100 for information.
Announcements
BAND CLASSES. Desert Cove Christian Church. 6163 S. Midvale Road. Desert Cove School of Music offers band, orchestra, keyboard, guitar, voice and preschool music and movement classes for all ages. Cost ranges from $25 to $40 per month, in addition to enrollment and materials. Private instruction on piano, strings, guitar and band instruments is available. Call 888-3352 or 887-4266 for information.
WEST AFRICAN DRUM. Learn the rhythms of Guinea and Mali in a relaxed atmosphere. Beginning and intermediate classes are now forming. Hour-and-a-half classes meet once each week. Cost is $40 per four-week session, or $12 per class. Registration is ongoing. Contact Martin Klabunde (206-9250) or email clockwork@psn.net for information.
FOOTHILLS WOMEN'S CHORUS. A group of women who love to sing, no auditions required, meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays in the Dove of Peace Lutheran Church, 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. Spring programs include Broadway tunes, pop music and old favorites, performed in front of various organizations and retirement communities. For more information, call 888-1737 or 299-1449.
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