Monday, April 22, 2019

Tucson, AZ: Tohono Chul: Steel Beats


University of Arizona Steel Band, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019.



It has become my habit to spend Sunday afternoons at the Church of Jazz, ministered by the Tucson Jazz Society, where congregants gather at Brother John's.

But yesterday was Easter and I sought something more .... Spiritual? Sedate? Solemn?


Well, hey, the University of Arizona Steel Band was the feature at Tohono Chul Botanical Garden's Sundays in the Garden on Easter afternoon.

Holy beats.


University of Arizona Steel Band, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019.


The laying on of hands.

University of Arizona Steel Band, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019.


We congregants sat beneath a living, yellow canopy of falling blossoms. There was a breeze.


University of Arizona Steel Band, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019.


This piece, in the band's second set, lifted us into the fresh green leaves above:



Amen.



A slide show of my visits to Tohono Chul below:

Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens

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