Teodoro Ramirez

Southwestern Folk Troubadour Teodoro "Ted" Ramirez

Teodoro "Ted" Ramirez is the premier Southwestern folk singer-songwriter, committed to telling the powerful story of his Arizona homeland with original and traditional music and stories. Ramirez is the "Official Troubadour" of his hometown of Tucson, a recipient of the prestigious Arizona Culture Keeper Award, an artist-in-residence at the Tubac Presidio Park & Museum in Tubac, Arizona, and the founder of celebrated folk group The Santa Cruz River Band. His repertoire has popularized Southwest folk music, which describes his unique concert presentations of storytelling mixed with music that is rooted in the classic Mexican styles of huapango and corrido but fused with American cowboy-era ballads and poetry. Using traditional Mexican folk instruments like guitar, accordion, vihuela, requinto, harmonica and harp, Ramirez presents a cultural celebration of the Southwest unlike any other.