Hard to believe, but Oro Valley was actually just a nice little town prior to becoming a sprawling, master-planned community. And that means it also had authentic city fathers other than New World Homes and their ilk. In celebration of that rapidly vaporizing legacy, residents are hosting the third-annual Oro Valley Founders' Day Art and Music Festival. In appropriate tribute, music from both the past and present will be on hand for the festivities, including Ballet Folklorico San Juan, Mariachi Tierra del Sol, the Tucson Boys Chorus , The Rudy Sudigala Big Band Era and the Rob Wright Dixieland Band. Artists will also be hawking their wares, and there will be plenty of suburban chow and lots of action for the tikes.
Admission is free.
Tucson's favorite tubers return, as Small Potatoes bring its eclectic brand of music to the Tucson foothills. Known for a very cool menu of blues, jazz, country and Celtic styles, the Chicago-based Potatoes delivered a hot performance at last years' folk festival and more recent St. Paddy's Day romp at Gentle Ben's. For information, call 887-5413. In celebration, the Greater Arizona Bicycle Association is hosting a Bicycle Festival and Swap Meet at Pima Community College. A couple of shops will also be out there with those new, full-suspension mountain bikes, and people will have a chance to give them demo rides.