Saguaro City Rising: Drew Humphrey Imagines an Inclusive, Innovative Music Theatre for Tucson

• ✅ A Theatre Company with Tucson in Its DNA

  Drew Humphrey shares the inspiration behind the name Saguaro City and how the company reflects Tucson’s unique culture, geography, and community values through innovative music theatre productions.

  ✅ Mobile and Nimble, Yet Deeply Local

  Learn how Saguaro City Music Theatre operates without a permanent venue, choosing instead to collaborate with performance spaces and institutions throughout the city to maximize impact and accessibility.

  ✅ The Birthplace of New Works

  Hear about Voyagers, an original space rock opera in development right here in Tucson, and how Saguaro City nurtures local artists and new theatrical stories for a broader stage.

  ✅ Tuition-Free Performing Arts Education

  Discover how the Studio Arts program removes financial and physical barriers to arts education, offering free musical theatre training to children of all abilities and backgrounds.

  ✅ Radical Inclusion at the Center

  Understand the organization’s commitment to a 50 to 50 model of inclusion, pairing neurotypical youth with those experiencing cognitive or physical challenges to create a more empathetic and accessible arts environment.

  ✅ Internships and Career Pathways

  See how partnerships with Pima Community College and others are helping teens and young adults explore real careers in lighting, costume design, sound, and stage management.

  ✅ Why Live Theatre Still Matters

  Drew reflects on the irreplaceable magic of live theatre in a post-pandemic world and the power of sharing stories in real time with real people.

When most people think of musical theatre, they imagine bright lights and Broadway stages. But here in Tucson, a new kind of spotlight is shining, one that centers creativity, community, and bold innovation. In this episode of Life Along the Streetcar, we sit down with Drew Humphrey, the CEO and Producing Artistic Director of Saguaro City Music Theatre, to explore how this groundbreaking organization is reimagining what performing arts can mean for Tucson.

From full-scale musicals to tuition-free education and local artist support, Saguaro City is more than a theatre company, it is a movement. Join us as we explore the heart of their mission, their local impact, and how they are changing the stage for good.

🎭 Tucson Performing Arts Innovation with Local Roots

Saguaro City Music Theatre is proudly Tucson-born and Tucson-rooted. Instead of building a traditional centralized theater space, Drew Humphrey and his team chose a flexible community-embedded model that mirrors the diversity and energy of Tucson itself. Their productions are mobile, their talent is local and national, and their commitment to storytelling reflects the soul of the Sonoran Desert.

By focusing on original works like the locally developed rock opera Voyagers and partnering with Arizona artists, Saguaro City is shaping a new chapter in Tucson’s performing arts scene. Their mobile format allows them to collaborate with venues across the city while remaining nimble and accessible. The result is a musical theatre experience uniquely tailored to Tucson audiences.

Their name says it all, Saguaro City evokes a sense of place, community, and artistic growth, and it is doing just that, one performance at a time.

🎓 Free Arts Education That Opens Doors

In a time when arts programs are disappearing from public schools, Saguaro City is stepping up. Through their Studio Arts education program, they offer tuition-free performing arts education to kids of all backgrounds and abilities. Their mission is to remove every possible barrier, whether financial, physical, or cognitive, that might keep a child from discovering their voice on stage.

The summer camp program blends professional mentorship with real-stage experience, giving students the chance to work alongside hired adult performers in age-appropriate roles. Behind the scenes, students learn from lighting designers, costumers, and stage managers, exploring the full range of creative careers in theatre.

Even more powerful is their commitment to inclusion. Saguaro City actively strives to maintain a 50/50 participation ratio between neurotypical students and those with diagnosed challenges. It is not just about putting kids on stage, it is about giving all children the tools to shine.

This bold model has inspired donors, families, and educators, turning Studio Arts into one of the most inclusive theatre education programs in Arizona.

🧩 Creative Collaboration with Tucson Institutions

At the core of Saguaro City’s success is their emphasis on partnerships with local institutions. Instead of going it alone, they team up with organizations like Pima Community College, the University of Arizona School of Theatre Film and Television, and local venues like the Berger Performing Arts Center.

These collaborations go far beyond sharing space. With Pima, they have launched a hands-on internship program for high school and college students to learn sound design, lighting, costuming, and stage management. These experiences help build a homegrown arts workforce and expose students to real career paths in the creative industry.

In addition, their support of works like Voyagers allows local composers, musicians, and writers to develop projects that could eventually reach national stages, all nurtured right here in the desert.

By weaving together education, community engagement, and professional artistry, Saguaro City is redefining what it means to create and collaborate in Tucson’s performing arts community.

🌟 The Future of Theatre in the Desert Starts Here

This episode is more than a behind-the-scenes look at a Tucson theatre company, it is an invitation. Whether you are a parent, a performer, an educator, or someone who loves the arts, there is a role for you in Saguaro City’s unfolding story.

🎧 Listen to the full interview with Drew Humphrey to hear how innovation, inclusion, and imagination are driving change in the desert
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Tom Heath
Good morning. It’s a bit of sun in the old pueblo. And you’re listening to Katy Tucson. Thank you for spending a part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson community. Sponsored, all volunteer powered rock and roll radio station. This week, we’re joined by Drew Humphrey from Suara City Music Theater. Drew’s going to share how Sorrow City is working to build a truly Tucson in a cultural hub.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
And if you head over to our website, life along the streetcar.org, we’ve got most of our episodes posted there with the audio and video, plus information about past shows, information on our book, and just an easy way to reach out over there with the The Contact button. But we’ve got another great guest today with Drew Humphrey talking about the things that, affect the urban core.

Tom Heath
Now he has his theater group is technically housed just outside of the urban core, so this is considered a road trip. However, they do a lot of things, with the University of Arizona. And others that are within the urban core. So it’s not not too far astray. But as we’ve talked about in the past, although our footprint has been primarily the University of Arizona two way mountain, we, we’re into like our eighth year, this is we’re approaching 350 episodes.

Tom Heath
We deserve a little bit of a road trip every now and then. So we get out into the world. I sat down with drew, not too long ago. He and I have connected a little bit over the years in different projects, and, I was at the University of Arizona as they were debuting or debuting, but they were working to working out a, what they call a workshop for Cameron Hood and his production of Voyagers, a space, really like a space rock opera that he is creating that will be on Broadway at some point.

Tom Heath
And they’re creating it here in Tucson. That’s just one piece of of, what we talked about today, so much more. That’s what our city does. And we sat down at the shows for our studios about a week and a half ago and chatted with drew. So we’re welcome into the studio here. Drew Humphrey, who I just found out is the CEO.

Tom Heath
That’s right. And producing artistic director.

James Portis
It’s a.

Tom Heath
Mouthful. That’s a big business card. That’s. Yeah it.

James Portis
Is.

Tom Heath
I was like, I was not nervous because I was like, oh, it’s just the artistic director. But now I feel like he’s the CEO and the producer. I was like, oh my gosh, I get to step up. I should of research this.

James Portis
Yeah. So yeah, it’s, it’s a long title that just kind of means that you can blame me.

Tom Heath
Okay. And it’s it’s a real city studio.

James Portis
Sort of city music theater. Okay. That we essentially, like, focus on three different things. We produce full scale musicals. We do about three a year right now. We also have an educational arm to our organization that offers tuition free, inclusive arts education. And we call that studio arts, just to kind of keep it as a separate okay brand, just so people understand that that’s an educational arm of our organization.

James Portis
And then we, the third part of what we do is we help local artists foster new works, like a new musical or a new play.

Tom Heath
Okay. And and this is mainly housed out of the year at the the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind.

James Portis
We produce our musicals at the Berger Performing Arts Center. That’s where we’ve pretty much exclusively done that. Most recently we did a presentation of Voyagers, a new musical by Cameron Hood. Who who, you know, is amazing composer. We’ve been working with him for the last essentially three years, helping him foster his his musical, which is this amazing piece about the Voyager space mission, 1977.

James Portis
And it’s, a really fascinating metaphorical new musical rock opera, that parallels the 1977 NASA space mission of two unmanned Voyager spacecraft, reaching out to the farthest limits of the universe, against two musicians that make a record and take it on the road and kind of their, their life and and times. But we presented that most recently at the Moroney Theater, in partnership with the University of Arizona School of Theater Film itself.

Tom Heath
That was going to be my one of my questions, because I have I’ve seen you in other places. So I was wondering that you definitely do you move around and.

James Portis
Yeah, we’re kind of all over. One of the things that keeps our operating budget, slim and trim, is renting space as opposed to having our own brick and mortar location. Whether it’s for educational classes or for productions.

Tom Heath
And when you’re doing your. You said you producing musicals, are you working? If I thought you were working with a younger, student body, like, with mean like a children’s focused or is that misunderstanding?

James Portis
Yeah, a little misunderstanding. We do.

Tom Heath
This is the level of research. If I’d known you were a CEO, I would have looked all this stuff up better.

James Portis
Okay. No harm, no foul. So we present three mainstage musicals a year. Right now in our current footprint, our summer show is in, in concert with a summer camp that we we offer, for this year, 61 kids, are a part of this summer camp, and it’s a three week camp that we partner with Pima Community College and Pima Arts to.

James Portis
They host us for two weeks to, to do the rehearsals and get the production going. And then we move to the Berger. What’s really unique about that production is it’s 61 kids that are invited to camp. And then we support them with this year, 11 hired, professional adults to perform with them. And what we’re able to do is something like that, as we’re able to pick a very family friendly property that really appeals to families that stay in town over the heat of the summer.

James Portis
And we also by adding adults into it, we are able to kind of have age appropriate people play a lot of the roles. So the kids are, are able to play, age appropriate roles for themselves. And then they also have the modeling aspect of working with, aspiring professionals and have.

Tom Heath
Like a 12 year old being the parent of a, an 11 year.

James Portis
Old. Right?

Tom Heath
You might have an adult, actually.

James Portis
You have a daughter. Play it. And we didn’t really Wonka last year. So Willy Wonka was of age. But then the kids that go on the tour were actually kids and and things like that. So.

Tom Heath
So where does Saguaro City come from? How long’s it been in Tucson? Like what’s the foundation?

James Portis
Yeah, it’s a brainchild of, myself and two other founders, Charlie Ingram and Dina Jacinto. Dina and I were moving back to Tucson and and really felt like there was some space, for, a company dedicated to musical theater and and opening up more avenues for professionals in town, professionals from out of town to come and enjoy everything that Tucson has to offer.

James Portis
In that brainchild, we really wanted to have an educational offering and, another aspect to develop new work. So we had this, these lofty goals, and when we were trying to figure out what we should call an organization like this, we, I’m originally from Tucson, so I was like, wow, the stories are so special and so unique to Tucson.

James Portis
And, you know, kicked around a lot of different names and just felt like, you know, instead of calling it Tucson Theater Company or something very specific that we could identify with, something that is so iconic and visual to the area.

Tom Heath
But it certainly it says Tucson without saying Tucson. Right.

James Portis
That’s kind of what we thought, you know, and especially since we are, renting space all over town that we’re not, we don’t no one has ownership to where we are. So our city is Tucson. So our city is southern Arizona.

Tom Heath
And how long has it been an organization?

James Portis
So we founded our papers in late 2021, and started our first programing, right around June of 22. Yeah.

Tom Heath
And then I guess the question, the question always comes to mind with something like this. Where does the funding come from?

James Portis
A lot of generous supporters and grants and, you know, individual donors and foundational support. Running a tuition free educational program, which is so important to us as the model of what we created with the the educational arm, study or arts, is that we wanted to take away any and all barrier that we could that would keep any child from participating in arts education, you know, as arts funding continues to dwindle and, how we as a society prioritize arts funding, it’s always rocky.

James Portis
But if we could create a model where, a family that has three kids that wouldn’t be able to afford, you know, the expensive programing that it that it comes that, you know, maybe their kids wouldn’t get an opportunity to learn about musical theater, learn about self-confidence and the empathy that you get from telling each other stories and learning about other people.

James Portis
When you’re trying to tell, you know, a story. Yeah. Of any sort. So there’s that. And then, because it’s a very inclusive model. And what I mean by that is our aim from the beginning was to always have about a 5050 ratio of children with, diagnosed challenges, you know, whether it be, you know, a disability, you know, something cognitive behavioral that, we were very passionate about that from some work that, that we did in Saint Louis with, a children’s charity called variety, Variety Theater.

James Portis
It was attached to variety of children’s charity of Saint Louis. And they had a very ambitious CEO that loved musical theater and wanted to give, their population an opportunity to participate in professional musical theater that they otherwise wouldn’t have access to. And we we were brought in as performers to that a number of years ago. And in that relationship, we’re asked to, you know, create some curriculum for the program.

James Portis
And it just resonated with us so much that we really wanted that to be kind of a centerpiece to what so our city was doing, which is opening our doors, providing a support system so that, maybe a child in a wheelchair could find, you know, their place in the spotlight, just the same as any other child.

Tom Heath
And that this just resonates with so many different funding groups and communities here in Tucson. Is that primarily then where it comes from is private donations?

James Portis
A lot of private donations. We’ve got a few foundations that really believe in this mission of of opening our doors to, to any child, you know, whether whether the barrier be financial or something physical or something cognitive that, it’s so unique that it’s, it’s a different thing that we get to tell people, like, if you can support this, you’re going to give so many kids and families an opportunity to have access to the arts that they otherwise wouldn’t.

Tom Heath
That is true. Humphrey, the CEO and producing artistic director of sorrow, a city music theater. We’re taking a little bit of a road trip today to talk about this really amazing organization, and we’ll be back to finish up that, that interview here in just a moment. But I do want to remind you that you’re listening to life Along the Streetcar on Downtown Radio 99.1 FM and streaming at Downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
If you’re just joining us today, we have Andrew Humphrey. He’s with the Soros City Music Theater. They do all kinds of productions. And, they work with local businesses to, to help keep the funding going for this, really important all, access, all levels of abilities and talents to, to participate, have an opportunity at least to participate in the work they’re doing there at Suara City.

Tom Heath
We’re going to jump back into that conversation and learn a little bit about more, a little bit more about what they’re doing. And, kind of how, how their days are structured as they, work with, adults and kids and some of these productions. So we’re in the midst now is recordings from the midst of your summer.

James Portis
We are in the throes of it. Yeah.

Tom Heath
We are 61 kids. Really, a half dozen or so adults.

James Portis
Yeah. We’ve got a cast of, like, 72.

Tom Heath
You working? Like, all day long, like. Oh, my son. So sunrise to sunset, are you?

James Portis
We wish. Yeah. So we. It’s a three week camp. We start on a Saturday. It’s kind of like a bonus day just to get some work out of the way, get them acclimated to a theatrical environment. Teach them some music and just kind of start slow, get their feet wet. And then, the first two weeks of camp are Monday through Friday, from 9 to 3 p.m..

James Portis
And so we get there a little early to, to make a game plan for the day after day. It’s a pretty hefty day, for sure. And it’s not just theatrical activities all day. There’s some arts and crafts that we we filter. And, you know, a lot of the some of the seven year olds to nine year olds, to a dance can’t do theatrical activities all day.

James Portis
So we do kind of split it up and, and we have special guests that come and talk about their area of expertise. You know, we’ll bring in our scenic designer and have them talk about storytelling through the eyes of how they read a script and how they create architecture for the stage. We bring in our lighting designer to talk about color palettes and our costume designer to show kind of how they organize the look of the show, all the all the resources that go into, building costumes for everything that they’re doing.

James Portis
We have stage management come in and just talk about all of the paperwork that is involved in making sure a show continues to run. So, yeah, we we break up the day with, with a lot of different fun activities.

Tom Heath
That are the students that are there. Are they primarily performing or are they involved with these other areas?

James Portis
The students that are at camp, are are primarily performing. Yeah, they’re primarily on stage, but it’s been really fun the last two years. Last year and this year with our partnership with Pima Community College is that we’ve created an internship program, that they’ve, they’ve been instrumental in organizing. So aspiring high schoolers and Pima College students, apply to work with our higher designers to learn their trade, alongside whether it be sound design, costume design, lighting, things like that.

Tom Heath
And that’s one of those things that you’ll, you’ll look back on in ten years with, with as we’re looking at Arizona, with the film credits that are coming in and all these studios now potentially wanting to move to this area for financial reasons. But a lot of the challenges that I’ve heard other markets is, is having the labor ready for us.

Tom Heath
And you’re you’re actually ahead of the curve on that by getting these, these internships up and running.

James Portis
Yeah. It’s it’s it’s such a win win scenario. You know, Pima was looking for a way to invite people onto their campus. They’ve got a wonderful, performing arts center, and a wonderful.

Tom Heath
Performing arts.

James Portis
In the West campus.

Tom Heath
As we saw this beautiful.

James Portis
It’s a really incredible, facility and just, you know, bringing people into the campus, bringing, aspiring artisans in, in theatrical trade, you know, they get, you know, indoctrinated, so to speak, into you know, what a career path could look like. Maybe before they, they pursue an education in it. So it’s kind of a free and easy way to find out if you like something, which is kind of what our campus are doing on the performing side.

James Portis
You know, it’s, it’s a no cost opportunity to find out how much you love theater, how much you are willing to do theatrical activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day. You know, some kids take to it like water and others are like, this is really fun. I don’t know if I want to make a career out of it.

Tom Heath
I’ve heard a lot of Broadway stars talking about the their involvement with the. They really enjoy their time on Broadway because they have a lot of arts and crafts time built into that.

James Portis
So yeah, that’s right, that’s right. They they really, really build it in when you’re you’re in the national touring company of cats, you know, let’s do.

Tom Heath
Finger.

James Portis
Puppets. That’s that’s right. Yeah. So, the internship program has been great. And there’s such, you know, lucrative, you know, career paths for, for those that are great at building scenery, for those that are passionate about lighting design or becoming master electricians, all of that, there is there’s such a bright future.

Tom Heath
And I know, I know, this just might be me in my awareness, but it seems like stage is making a larger push into regions than it. That used to be. Like everything was moving towards the movie screens, and now it seems like I’m I’m seeing more opportunities for stage productions locally and regionally that, and again, I just might be me paying more attention.

James Portis
Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, I would, I would agree. I mean, anecdotally, I would say as no, as expert myself that that’s what the film.

Tom Heath
That’s we promise here.

James Portis
No, that’s right, I promise I don’t know anything. Don’t let the CEO title fool you. You know, you know, culturally we’ve shifted from from film to smaller screens to, to investment in television to, our investment in, like, enjoying and consuming social media through TikTok and small short reels and things like that. And it’s all virtual and we’re all separated from each other, from the pandemic moving forward by screens and zoom meetings and all this stuff.

James Portis
That theater is that one place that’s left that you can’t package it another way. You’ve got to all, you know, sit with strangers and all face one direction and, you know, agree to be quiet for two hours next to each other, which is, we don’t do that very much. And so I think that that communal aspect of, how we interact as humans with each other, it’s irreplaceable.

James Portis
And I think that in, in this post-pandemic push. But it’s been five years that we’re all looking for a way to reconnect with one another and learn about each other stories. And maybe that’s why maybe that’s why we’re seeing a resurgence of theater. I don’t know, I hope there’s a resurgence of theater.

Tom Heath
I think there is a lot of the things you said are there, and there is an element of this artificial intelligence and the CGI that is extraordinary in one way. But there’s also and I’m going to go back to the very beginning, when you talked about Voyagers, I happened to be at the most recent, workshop that they did.

Tom Heath
And the music is beautiful. The story is is really well created and the symbolism is fabulous. But I was so amazed. I was with a friend of mine, and afterwards I was just saying, I’m so amazed at how they can take empty boxes on a stage and convert them into this entire set. That gives me all these different visuals of being in a, in a, in a, a restaurant, or being on stage or being in an award ceremony.

Tom Heath
And they just did it with empty boxes and moving them and acting out that scene. And I was just I it sounds probably sounds silly, but I was just so impressed with the ability to take that physical object and change reality for me without a screen or yes, or any effects.

James Portis
I mean, that’s why I’m passionate about the art form, because what collectively we are sharing, suspension of disbelief. Right? If if an actor goes out on stage and they believe something to absolutely be true and to absolutely be real, then collectively, a roomful of, you know, 350 strangers is going to sit there and all of a sudden they’re all going to believe it to.

James Portis
And in that collective belief, magic is created. And, we don’t get to we collectively use our imagination together, strangers sitting in the dark. And, that’s it’s so unique.

Tom Heath
I thought we’re gonna have a little more time to talk about Voyager. So maybe I’ll ask Cameron to come on in, because I think. Yeah, yeah, that project is is really interesting. And I know that you are the the. I think the nest is what you call it. Your nesting. That. That’s right. And as we’re wrapping up here, how do people find out you’ve got some things coming up in the fall, like how do people how do people track you?

Tom Heath
So do.

James Portis
What’s right. So our city morgue is a great place to just kind of see what’s going on with what we’re what we’re in the midst of. We offer educational programing kind of throughout the year being tuition free. It’s the right price for a lot of people. So it’s a first come, first serve basis. And that usually goes away pretty quickly.

James Portis
So if you if you have a, child that’s interested in the arts, definitely sign up on the newsletter on that page so that we will notify you. We don’t notify all of our subscribers about every educational program. So if you’re interested in that, for your your family, that’s a good place to look. Later in the fall, we’re going to be presenting My Fair Lady in October.

James Portis
And then, and that doesn’t really involve any kids. It’s just, you know, it’s one of our shows that we’re producing. And then in December, we usually do a family oriented show, Christmas adjacent, because we run over December and January. So we’ll be doing any so.

Tom Heath
Oh, yeah. I’ve heard of those.

James Portis
They’re popular titles. That’s right. I got a lot of advice from other CEOs that said, if you starting a new theater company, fix some titles that people recognize to start off before you get into the deep cuts.

Tom Heath
And so our city.org.

James Portis
So our city.org.

Tom Heath
All right. Well shrew Humphries CEO and producing.

James Portis
Artistic director.

Tom Heath
Fantastic. Not just the artistic director.

James Portis
I know, I.

Tom Heath
Know it was it was absolute pleasure having you in here and going to keep tabs and, and, you know, keep us posted on things and maybe we’ll get some updates on, on some of your alums as they, get into the world after being with you for a few years and we see them.

James Portis
We’ll keep a who’s who’s page, updated for you.

Tom Heath
Thanks for your time.

James Portis
Thanks. Time.

Tom Heath
That was Andrew Humphrey, the CEO and producing artistic director from the City Music Theater. And you can check them out at Source city.org to learn more about the things that they’re doing. Also, you can head over to our website, lifelong Streetcar Dawg. Tomorrow, July 14th, we’ll have the video of our, conversation up for you as well.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
We don’t go anywhere just yet. Stay tuned for words and work in just a few minutes. Ted Brazil Ski Show will be on as he interviews writers and others from the labor movement. And then at the top of the hour, Heavy Mental with Ty Logan, another fantastic individual volunteering his time and doing the show. I’m longer than mine, you know.

Tom Heath
I know how many episodes he’s going to be on at this point. We’re approaching 350, so good heavens no. He’s been doing this for a while and his show is an hour or so. Twice as, you know, twice as much work and many more episodes. He’s he’s a hard worker. His name’s Ty Logan. His show is heavy, man.

Tom Heath
So you can catch it at noon here on Downtown Radio. Well, the summer is here. And sometimes that means, there’s nothing to do. Well, I found myself just incredibly busy as of late. There’s all kinds of things happening. There’s some, some exciting news that, you know, I hate to do those teasers and, like, oh, coming soon, but we do have some exciting news that involves the Tucson gallery.

Tom Heath
Not quite ready to announce, but hopefully next week we can, share some great news with you. We also have, upcoming here just later this week at Watershed Management. They’re a little bit outside of the urban core, but, Todd Hanley, over there has been a guest on our show in the past. They’re they’re hosting something called hustle our as part of local first Arizona.

Tom Heath
And I get to be on the panel talking about storytelling and marketing and podcasting and all these things that I’ve been doing here for 7 or 8 years. And it’s going to be fun to share that, last week’s episode, we talked about the celebration on the 25th of July downtown at High Wire. More information on that is at Celebrate tucson.com, I believe.

Tom Heath
Or maybe.org, but if you look up the 250 plus celebrations in Tucson, we have the mural unveiling of the four murals created for the event. Jenny Cox spoke about those last week. You can check out that interview on our on our site there if you’d like. So that’s coming up and then August, we have, the birthday celebration at the Presidio.

Tom Heath
So good heavens, all kinds of things happening. And just to kind of keep you updated with the show source Studios, where we do a lot of the recordings now for our, lifelong Street Car podcast. And we’ve built that out to help others, if they want to do storytelling, we, we have launched a program which I think will have our inaugural, inaugural, inaugural first episode, at the Presidio, birthday on the 23rd with Tucson’s birthday at the Presidio on the 23rd.

Tom Heath
It’s called. Tell me about it, where we ask Tucson ins to share, answers to questions about, their life and about Tucson. And they have two minutes to do it. And, the the questions are randomly selected. So more details coming up on that. Well, if, you want to connect with us, you can do so through life along the streetcar.org.

Tom Heath
There’s a contact button there if you want to call us. I don’t call us because I’m going to get all of us. There’s email us and then you can connect on Facebook and Instagram. James Portis is our executive producer. Amanda Mulattos is our associate producer. My name is Tom Heath. Your host. Our opening music is by Ryan Hood, and we close today with a member of Ryan Hood, Cameron Hood.

Tom Heath
It’s, from his rock opera Voyagers, which you talked a lot about today. And this is the, 21, 2021 demo he created of his song for the opera called The Grand Tour. Have a great week and tune in next Sunday for more life along the streetcar.