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Taco Fest (Photo courtesy of Activated Events)

Taco Fest: Food, Tequila & Live Music by Lil Jon, Fat Joe & More

Events

April 22, 2025
By Matt Sterner

There’s a “big taco party” coming to Tucson. On Saturday, April 26, Rillito Park will become a taco, tequila, and music lover’s paradise during Taco Fest.

Activated Events — the creators of the traveling Boots In The Park experience — are trading in their cowboy boots for hip-hop, tacos, nachos, margaritas, ice-cold beers, micheladas, and more than 100 tequilas.

Taco Fest (Photo courtesy of Activated Events)

A big stage will be set up at Rillito Park for a hip-hop throwback party featuring T.I., Lil Jon, Fat Joe, Chingy, and Trick Daddy. 

Additionally, lucha libre wrestling will hit a smaller stage near the middle of the grounds, and several of the “sleekest lowriders” in Arizona will be on display.

General Admission tickets are $79 per person, VIP is $159, and tequila tasting tickets are $29.

Meet the Food Vendors

  • Sonoran Grillz
  • Flaco’s Tacos
  • Young’s Smoke-N Barbeque LLC
  • The Baja Shrimp
  • Docs’ Sweet Tea and Lemonade
  • Ni De Aqui Ni De Alla LLC
  • Zorin ventures
  • Feeding Freedom Foundation
  • La Cocina Food Truck
  • Dante’s Kitchen + Cocktails
  • Al Tacone
  • Senor Michi
  • Reagan Levant
  • Warm N’ Fluffy
  • Churrolicious

Tucson is the first stop on the tour — Taco Fest arrives in Norco, California in May and Albuquerque, New Mexico in June.

For more than 15 years, Activated Events has been putting on large-scale music festivals throughout the Southwest — with a heavy focus on Country music. Past Taco Fest performers included Ice Cube and Flo Rida.

Taco Fest is happening at Rillito Park, 4570 N. First Ave. For more information and to buy tickets, visit mytacoparty.com.

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At a very young age, Matt Sterner was gifted with the artistic ability to masterfully roll a burrito to the highest of standards, but the wrapped medley of delicious innards wasn’t his first love. Matt’s first true love was a combination of reading, writing, and creating. He grew up reading comics, the ingredients list of his shampoo and conditioner bottles, choose-your-own-adventure books, and the Scrabble dictionary — something he found useful when challenging his grandmother to a game.

He attended college at New Mexico State University and graduated with a degree in Digital Filmmaking. One of his favorite classes was screenwriting because he became responsible for the story’s birth before it came to life on-screen. After school, Matt took on numerous positions at a local television station in Tucson. From dealing out stories about heartbreak to producing “fluffier” content for a lifestyle broadcast, he learned what it takes to adapt to the many emotions the world of media can stir. Since 2017, Matt has dabbled in the culinary world of Tucson as well as San Diego, California from time to time.

If you’re in the mood for strange stories, head over to his pride and joy, wonkytimes.com. And in case you’re curious — yes, after all of this time, he still manages to roll a killer burrito.

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