Coco Montoya

Name: Coco Montoya
Start: 2025-11-06T19:15:00-07:00
Location: 800 N Country Club Road Tucson AZ 85716

Schedule

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 07:15 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

800 N Country Club Road Tucson AZ 85716 | Tucson, AZ

La Rosa, Rialto Theatre, and SABHF present
Coco Montoya
Thursday, November 6th
16+
This is a seated show
Veranda Bar opens at 5:45pm (21+)for drinks and local food vendors
Venue doors open at 6:30pm
Show starts at 7:15pm

Presented in partnership with Rialto Theatre, Rhythm & Roots, and Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation
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“’Just play what you feel, be real about it, and enjoy yourself.’ That’s what Albert Collins taught me,” says the award-winning guitar virtuoso and soul-deep singer Coco Montoya. The self-taught, left-handed Montoya mastered his craft under Collins’ tutelage.
Incorporating lessons learned from his mentors, the iconic Collins (for whom he originally drummed), and UK legend John Mayall, Montoya puts his own stamp onto every song he performs. Since his first solo album in 1995 (which won him the Blues Music Award for Best New Artist), Montoya’s endlessly inventive guitar work and passionate, hard-hitting vocals have kept him at the top of the blues world. With his new Alligator Records album, Writing On The Wall (his sixth for the label), Montoya delivers what he is already calling one of the best records he’s ever made. For the very first time on Alligator, he decided to bring his road-tested band—noted keyboardist and songwriter Jeff Paris (Keb’ Mo’, Bill Withers), bassist Nathan Brown, and drummer Rena Beavers—into the studio with him. Between the camaraderie of the long-time bandmates and the sheer talent of all involved, the results have left Coco, in his words, “over the moon.”