Tucson Folk Fest Presents: Songwriter Roundtable

($10-$15 | 6pm doors \ 7pm show) Tucson Folk Fest presents a monthly Songwriter Roundtable with rotating special guests. This month we welcome Mitzi Cowell, Bobby Ronstadt, and Eric Schaffer!

**Mitzi Cowell**

“I’m mostly concentrating on my original music and recording/producing other people’s projects in my home studio. I started out as an electric guitarist in blues, R&B, rock, and variety bands, and started producing my own work in the ’90s. I’ve been deeply influenced by the New Orleans groove, Delta Blues, ’60s and ’70s rock, and all the great players I get to work with in my beloved Tucson music community.”

**Bobby Ronstadt**

Bobby Ronstadt, born and raised in Tucson, spent some years in Los Angeles until one too many earthquakes brought him back home in 1995. He has since been hosting Monthly Music nights, been featured on numerous recordings and is currently a member of PD Ronstadt and the Company. Bobby brings his own musical reflections of life from juvenile to retrospective and maybe some instrumentals in between.

**Eric Schaffer**

Raised in the swamps of New Jersey, Eric Schaffer has been recognized as one of Southern Arizona’s favorite singer/songwriters. He has been a finalist in the Great American Song Contest, the Passport To Nashville songwriting contest, a three-time Tucson Folk Festival songwriting competition finalist, and the winner of the 2022 Tumbleweed Music Festival songwriting contest.

With a writing style heavily influenced by the great singer/songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s and a voice that has been compared to Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle, his songs are sometimes sweet, sometimes melancholy, sometimes funny and always well crafted. Eric has performed throughout the US and has opened shows for Clint Black, Blackberry Smoke, Marc Cohn, Lonestar and Darden Smith.

Eric performs regularly in Southern Arizona with his band The Other Troublemakers.

This is a 21+ event