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The Show for July 4, 2025: Revisit some of our favorite Tiny Desert Concerts

Haymarket Squares
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The Haymarket Squares performing.

These days a lot of different kinds of protests are taking place on a weekly basis. But it wasn’t like that when the Haymarket Squares started making political music. We’re revisiting some of our favorite Tiny Desert Concerts from over the years. Plus, a band that doesn’t shy away from silliness.

  • Arizona has its fair share of folk and bluegrass bands, but none can hold a candle to the spicy flare of The Haymarket Squares.
  • Raquel Denis
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    Some of us are lucky to be professionally talented at one thing, whether it’s a sport or dance or photography, but few of us are lucky enough to be that talented at multiple things.
  • Playboy Manbaby Tiny Desert Concert
    Tim Agne/KJZZ
    Phoenix band Playboy Manbaby saw their popularity explode during the pandemic. Now, they're set to headline their first Los Angeles show.
  • Morphia Slow performs a Tiny Desert Concert at American Legion Post 138 in Tempe.
    Amber Victoria Singer/KJZZ
    Self-dubbed "murder-folk-pop" band Morphia Slow joins The Show for the latest installment of our Tiny Desert Concerts. Founder Allene Dugan talks more about the band's start and unique sound.
  • Moonlight Magic
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    Moonlight Magic is a lounge exotica band that sounds like they stepped off the stage of a 1960s tropical bar, and they look the part too.