Jacob Acosta at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Schedule

Sat Jul 18 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | Tucson, AZ

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A celebration of the Southwest pairing music, ecology, and culture
About this Event

The mission of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is to inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert.

The Desert Museum is ranked on TripAdvisor.com as one of the Top 10 Museums in the country and the #1 Tucson attraction. Unlike most museums, about 85% of the experience is outdoors!

The 98 acre Desert Museum is a fusion experience: zoo, botanical garden, art gallery, natural history museum, and aquarium.

  • 21 interpreted acres with two miles of walking paths through various desert habitats
  • 242 animal species
  • Plants from 1,200 taxa — 56,000 individual specimens
  • One of the world's most comprehensive regional mineral collection


Join us for a day filled with Music at the Museum! Experience live performances and hands-on activities at the beautiful Desert Museum. Don't miss this harmonious celebration of culture, creativity, and community!
Saturday, July 18
at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
This event is included with Museum admissionSchedule of Live Music!
630pm-830pm
Arizona music and stories with Jacob Acosta


JACOB ACOSTA

Jacob Acosta is an international recording and performing artist based in Tucson, Arizona with a music degree in classical guitar and education. He has been featured on National Public Radio, was a jingle writer for FOX, FORD, ESPN, and Codeschool, has played dozens of festivals and tours across the U.S., and has released sixteen records in the genres of blues rock, indie-shoegaze, pop, deep house, progressive house, organic house, americana and folk since 2008 by his own namesake along with the groups Mason, Burning West, HYTS, Roll Acosta, and Race You There. He has also collaborated and released music with both Where The Heart Is Records and MIR Records, along with David Hohme, Sasheen, Jody Wisternoff, Max and Nim, Dustin Nantais, and Desert Raven. His most popular local release is ‘Desert Sounds’, about Arizonan culture and the Southwest. Jacob Acosta has been a national performing artist in Arizona for almost two decades. He performs Southwest folk music as either a looping soloist, or with his trio. His recent release ‘Desert Sounds’ is a cinematic ode to the Southwest desert with a collection of musical stories that pay tribute to Arizona and the greater Sonoran region. Jacob is all about connecting with people of all ages and has been called the human jukebox, singing in any genre, in up to four different languages, and uniting crowds with a deep love for music, and the culture and community of the Southwest. His newest release is Saint Corazón this 2024.


https://jacobacostamusic.com/


Listen now on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2F94rqxWC0lzODH67S0oA6?si=CZGPyezJTvaIuk6qgiBUcA


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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 North Kinney Road, Tucson, United States

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