Tag: music

Happening around town in Bartlesville, the OKM Musical Festival runs June 9-13. For the past 38 years, the festival has bought celebrated concert artists and music education programs to northeast Oklahoma. Highlights of this year’s event include performances from Balourdet Quartet, Catherine Russell, Josh Turner and Verona Quartet. Learn more at okmmusic.org.  Celebrate Juneteenth at the Tulsa Juneteenth Festival June...

More than 30 years after it first began rising out of the Oklahoma clay, in and around a funky, old two-story farmhouse outside of Stillwater, the music that came to be known as Red Dirt continues to win fans and influence performers worldwide. Here are a couple of recent developments involving the genre:  First came the news that Cody Canada...

Eric Himan, an award-winning recording artist based in Oklahoma City, serves at the director of events for Myriad Botanical Garden as well as the music director for the Scissortail Park Foundation. He has toured nationally with Leon Russell and Ani DiFranco, and has produced 10 original albums. We caught up with Eric and got his thoughts on ... ... being...

Those of you who regularly visit this space know that I’ve written a great deal about that elusive musical genre known as the classic Tulsa Sound. It’s something I first started researching in earnest almost four decades ago, when I went to work for the Tulsa World newspaper as an entertainment writer, and it’s been a continuous source of...

We’ve all seen them, in books or museums or maybe in someone’s collection: snapshots from bygone times, capturing forever via an amateur’s lens something of great historical importance. It might be a political figure at a microphone, barely recognizable above the heads of the listening crowd. It could be a little black-and-white candid of a kid at play, taken...

It took more than half a decade to restore and renovate Tulsa’s Church Studio. And while that may sound like a long time, five years is really just a fleeting moment in the life of that historic building, which is now once again open to the public.    Consider that the Church Studio was constructed at its 304 S. Trenton...

For years now, I’ve been hearing that the CD is an obsolete way of delivering music, that its time has come and gone, that new cars don’t even have disc players any more, etc. At the same time, I continue to hear great new releases in that very format.  Two of the latest come from Tulsa-area musicians. And I suppose...

Fans of live music have it made this month. In Tulsa, see famous rapper Nelly on Feb. 4 at the BOK Center. Stick around Tulsa’s largest music venue for the Winter Jam on Feb. 12, which brings major names in Christian rock music including Skillet, Tauren Wells and KB. At River Spirit Casino Resort, The Beach Boys drop in on...

On May 10, Tulsa will have yet another reason to be dubbed a cultural mecca. That is the date the Bob Dylan Center will open – with over 100,000 pieces collected over several decades by the esteemed musician and his management team. “We hope visitors will be inspired by unprecedented access to the creative process of one of America’s foremost...

Although some professional musicians are just naturally gifted, most spend years perfecting their crafts. Music education plays a vital role in developing those abilities, and Oklahoma is home to over 25 collegiate music programs. Every semester, hundreds of prospective students seek admission to one of them. Virtually all collegiate music programs require students to go through a two-part admissions process....