New Tucson festival borrows border cultures from food and cocktails to music | Subscriber

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Country singer Brook Sample from Tucson is on the mainstage line-up of the first Over the Border Festival.

Tucson country singer and violinist Billy Shaw Jr. is on the line-up for the first Over the Border Festival on the Rillito Racetrack.

Tucson kicks off the music festival season on Saturday, September 25th with a newcomer, Over the Border Festival.

The event, which offers a stage for DJs and a main stage for rock and country acts, has been in the planning for four years, said Ramiro Bojorquez, whose Allure Event Company from Tucson is presenting the festival.

Bojorquez said the event is a work in progress after getting into trouble mainly due to scheduling or venue conflicts and then the pandemic, and plans to launch in 2019 and 2020 have been postponed.

Over the border, five DJs will play in the so-called “Disco Barn” not far from the Tequila Expo and pour samples of more than 100 tequilas from Jalisco.

Guests can get margaritas flights to tacos from Taco Row at Margarita Village, another feature of the festival that also includes lucha libre wrestling, a mechanical bull, and games and fun for kids.

Bojorquez said the goal of the multicultural festival is “to bring the best food (together) – we have Mexican, American and Venezuelan food – and basically everything you can find on this side of the border and across the border”.

Over the Border is one of two festivals Bojorquez ‘Company will host in Tucson this fall. The company, which hosts events nationwide and hosts festivals for others, including 10 of the 19 Martha Stewart Food and Wine Festivals in 2019, will be bringing back its popular West Coast Music Festival for the fifth time. The hip hop festival on October 23 at the Rillito Racetrack features national hip hop artists and local acts.

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