Lena Ortiz & The Night Owls Tucson, Arizona Tour dates

Live shows · Session work · Workshops

An evening with
Lena Ortiz &
The Night Owls.

Tucson songs, desert nights and a chair saved for you — live shows, session work, songwriting and workshops from a band that plays close to the room.

The gate’s open. The songs are warming up.

Join the guestbook Step into the courtyard

Playing around Tucson and wherever the road leans — patios, listening rooms and festival stages.

An adobe courtyard at dusk strung with lights, the band silhouetted on a low stage

The mailing list

Hear about the next evening first.

New dates and new songs, sent from Tucson.

Sign the guestbook

Under the string lights

What the lights hang over.

Shows where the audience sits close enough to hear the strings breathe, sessions where the song comes first, and workshops that turn a courtyard table into a room full of players.

The band playing a small adobe courtyard at night, seen from the side of the audience
Nights in the courtyard
Hands on the neck of a guitar in warm stage light with string lights blurred behind
Strings, warm and close
A songwriting workshop around a long wooden table with notebooks, pencils and a resting guitar
Workshops at the long table

Upcoming evenings

Where the lights get strung next.

Four kinds of night, one set of songs. Dates, door times and workshop tables go out to the guestbook before the posters go up.

Sign the guestbook once and the whole run arrives in your inbox — dates and doors before the posters go up.

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What we do

Rooms around the courtyard.

A stage on the patio, a long table for writing, a quiet corner for sessions, a bench for teaching. Every part of the work happens somewhere in the same courtyard — usually with the lights on.

Room 01

Live shows

The full band in a room that fits the songs — patios, listening rooms, festival stages, and the occasional front porch. Lena sings, the Owls answer, and nobody stands too far back.

Room 02

Session work

Harmonies, instruments and arrangements added to somebody else’s record — in the studio, in a back room, or down the wire from Tucson.

Room 03

Songwriting

Co-writes and commissions. Bring a title, a scrap of a story, or nothing at all — the long table has room for whatever you carry in.

Room 04

Workshops

Small groups on song craft, harmony singing and playing together. Beginners are welcome, and the well-practised mostly just get homework.

A merchandise table at an evening courtyard show with folded shirts and records under string lights

Merch

The stall by the gate.

Shirts and small things, laid out on a table under the lights. The stall goes up with the lights and stays until the last song — come by, say hello, and take a piece of the evening home.

  • Merchandise
  • Shirts
  • Small things
Find the next show

The mailing list

Sign the guestbook.

Leave your name and we’ll write when the next evening is set — new dates, workshop tables, and the odd song sent out before it’s finished.

Guestbook

No noise. We write when there’s something worth saying.

Tour dates, workshop news and the occasional new song — sent from the courtyard, never too often.