Mark Zubia Explains How A Scene Grows | Desert Vibe · Season 2 · Ep 8

What's vibin' in the desert? We're Emma and James, and it's that time of the show where we scan from north to south all the way across Arizona to highlight unique opportunities that musicians like you can participate in.

I'm going to hand it over to James.

He's going to start with something over there in northern Arizona.

What do you got vibin' over in northern Arizona, James?

We've got up in Sedona, they call the Base Camp Beer Garden at the Sedona Beer Company.

that's at 70 dry creek road in sedona arizona you've got an open mic on the first and third wednesday of every month now the sign up window is four to five pm and the performance is actually only five to seven pm so you're allowed two songs and it's limited to the first eight performers only which is a little shorter compared to most open mics.

But after the open mic, they have a group jam session following the open mic that's hosted by Dan Rice.

So if you're up in Sedona, I want to check that out.

First and third Wednesdays, Sedona Beer Company is the place to go.

So that's what's vibing up north.

Let's take it over to the West Valley to Glenn Gardner.

What's vibing in the desert?

One of the things that's happening in the West is the renovation at Murphy Park in downtown Glendale is finished.

They've been working on this for two years.

There's a beautiful amphitheater that sits right behind City Hall in Glendale.

And the first concert out there is going to be Saturday evening at 5 o'clock.

And it's going to feature three different local bands.

I know Eric Douglas' band, who's involved in the Glendale Folk Festival, is going to be there, along with Down with the Shine and I believe one or two other acts.

But this is going to be a regular thing where there's music in that amphitheater.

uh in glendale and it's really nice that that's done the parking is all done there the park has been redone so uh that should be a really nice asset for the community and for musicians uh for another great stage to uh to play on above and beyond that there is still uh just a lot of great open mics that are starting to really cook now that the weather is starting to uncook uh so that uh we can be outside at places like enchiladas on mondays um and there are plenty of other great patio and ramada open mics really across arizona that are really going to get cooking snowbirds will be back if not starting to dribble in now so it's upwards and onwards from here that's what's vibing over here uh in the west

All right.

Thank you so much, Glenn, for sharing those opportunities.

We're going to migrate over to Central and East Valley, Arizona, with Walt Richardson.

He's going to share what's vibing in the desert, where Walt's at.

Walt, don't forget to unmute yourself.