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Sheryl Crow

Friday, June 21, 8 p.m.

Nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow will rock the Hard Rock this Friday night. Crow hit it big in the ‘90s with “All I Wanna Do”, which earned her Grammy wins for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year in 1995. Two years later, she got a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the song “If it Makes You Happy,” demonstrating that she was not tied to one genre. In fact, her music spans rock, pop, country, folk, and hip hop. If all you want to do is have some fun, then head down to the Hard Rock Tulsa Hotel & Casino on Friday, June 21, at 8 p.m. The show will take place at the casino’s music venue The Joint, 777 W. Cherokee St., Catoosa. You must be 21 and over to enter. Tickets are $60-$75, available at www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com.

Tarzan

Tuesday, June 25-Saturday, June 29

High-flying tricks and nostalgia triggered by Phil Collins songs are sure to make this show an exciting one for young and old alike. Tarzan, a stage musical based on the 1999 animated Disney film – which is based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs – tells of the shipwrecked boy raised by gorillas and who encounters an attractive woman teaching him about love and civility. Plus, Tarzan features the Oscar-winning song “You’ll Be in My Heart” by former Genesis front man Collins. The show runs at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., June 25-29. Tickets are $35-$68, available online at www.myticketoffice.com. For more about Lyric Theatre and all its big summer musical productions, visit www.lyrictheatreokc.com.

Juneteenth Tulsa

Friday, June 21-Saturday, June 22

Juneteenth Tulsa, the annual celebration of freedom and heritage kicks off again Friday, June 21, at 5 p.m. with a special appearance from DJ “Just Dizie Le Champion” hailing all the way from Paris, France. Festivities continue on Saturday, June 22, with a recital of the Emancipation Proclamation – the 1862 document declaring an end to slavery in the U.S. – by the students at the nonprofit A Pocket Full of Hope, an organization offering youth opportunities to learn and help their communities through the performing arts. Other guests at Juneteenth Tulsa include jazz artists Tom Braxton and Eldridge Jackson plus the One Tulsa All Star Band. Workshops in hip hop dance and zumba are also planned for the weekend at the Fly Loft, 117 Boston Ave. There will also be a fashion show on Saturday, June 22, at 8 p.m. on the Guthrie Green stage, 111 E. Brady St. All the performances and workshops are free. For more information visit www.guthriegreen.com and www.facebook.com/JuneteenthTulsa.

Jazz in June

Thursday, June 20-Saturday, June 22

The Oklahoma music scene awakens once more for Jazz in June in Norman. This 30th annual festival brings a lively combination of music, food and diversity to the Brookhaven Village, 300 W. Main St., and Andrews Park, 201 W. Daws St. Fill your ears with the wonderful sounds of jazz, blues and roots musicians such as Fareed Haque & Math Games, the Duke Robillard Band, A Taste of Herb, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Oklahoma favorite Parker Millsap. The festival is a three-night event starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, at the Brookhaven Village. Friday’s festivities will continue at Brookhaven, but activities on Sunday, June 22, move to Andrews Park in downtown. See a complete band schedule for this free festival at www.jazzinjune.org

Paws & Pictures Drive-In Movie Night

Thursday, June 20, 7 p.m.

Nothing can be better than enjoying a relaxing Thursday night watching a movie on the couch with your favorite furry pets and loved ones, except being able to do all of that at the Admiral Twin Drive-In at 7355 E. Easton St. The Tulsa SPCA celebrates, yes, its 100th Anniversary, and you and your pets are invited. Paws & Pictures Drive-In Movie Night has a fun evening planned starting with live music and games at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 20. Once the sun goes down, get comfortable in your lawn chair and experience two feature films. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids. All pets are required to be on a leash. To purchase advance tickets or learn more about this event and Tulsa SPCA, visit www.tulsaspca.org.

Philbrook Downtown 

When people run out of room to put stuff, they clean and purge. But when you’re a world-class home to art treasures, you grow. Philbrook Museum of Art is making the leap with Philbrook Downtown, a contemporary art gallery that puts the institution housed in a gorgeous Italian villa-style mansion near Brookside into the heart of the Brady Arts District near a host of cool new galleries, exhibition spaces and institutions such as the Woody Guthrie Center, Living Arts of Tulsa, Hardesty Arts Center and Zarrow Center for Art and Education. The branch gallery will exhibit work from Philbrook’s large American Indian art collection and its ever-growing accumulation of contemporary and modern works, which makes its first show, Opening Abstraction, the perfect plunge into a vibrant new art scene. Philbrook Downtown, located in the old Mathews Warehouse on Brady Street opposite the Guthrie Green, opens to the public from noon-9 p.m. Friday, June 14. The abstract exhibit runs through Jan. 5.

Opening weekend hours also include noon-7 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Opening weekend events are free. Admission ($7-$9) begins June 19. For more, see www.philbrook.org.

LOOK Musical Theatre 

It’s a landmark year for LOOK Musical Theatre, and theatergoers are the ones who benefit. LOOK opens its 30th season with that meddlesome matchmaker Dolly Levi from Yonkers in Hello, Dolly!, the 1964 Broadway hit and comedy that has become a favorite for many generations. The show opens LOOK’s annual summer season with a June 14-30 run, which also marks the beginning of the SummerStage Festival, produced June-July by the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust. The LOOK lineup fills out with The Drowsy Chaperone, a contemporary musical with a sharp nod to those great comedies of the 1920s complete with romance, a little adventure and plenty of madcap. It runs June 21-30. Finally, there’s Side by Side by Sondheim, a show running June 16, 23 and 28 and filled with the most memorable and clever numbers lyricist Stephen Sondheim has turned out to date. All three shows will be at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 111 E. Second St. Tickets are $32 per show. Go to www.looktheatre.org for the show schedule and to learn more about the company’s history.

Battle of the Big Cats

Friday, June 14-Saturday, June 15

Want to test out your cat fishing skills? No, you won’t need your computer and a fake screen name like the disgraced Manti Te’o. For Claremore’s “Battle of the Big Cats, Route 66’s Richest Noodlin’ Showdown,” all you need is your hands! Noodling is the popular sport of catching a catfish with bare hands. This tournament is for all ages. A big prize of $5,000 goes to the contestant with the largest fish. Deadline for registration is noon on Wednesday, June 12. Fish must be weighed by 6 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at the Claremore Expo Center, 400 S. Veterans Parkway. Also, check out the trade show from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Come for the entertainment as well as lunch with Claremore’s firefighters. Catfish and great side dishes will be served for $5-$8. For more information or to register for the tournament, visit www.visitclaremore.org or call 918.343.8688.

Bricktown Blues & BBQ Festival

Friday, June 14-Saturday, June 15

Music and great food are the hallmarks of the sizzling Bricktown Blues & BBQ Festival, Friday, June 14, and Saturday, June 15, on the corner of Sheridan and Oklahoma avenues in Oklahoma City's lively Bricktown District. Decked with outdoor stages and plenty of vendors with spicy, sweet vittles, the festival only needs that final ingredient – festivalgoers – to make it a success. Blues & BBQ has yet to fail. Look for Steve Pryor, Shane Henry, Otis Watkins and others. Hours are 5 p.m.-midnight on Friday and noon to midnight Saturday. Admission is free. For more, go to www.bricktownokc.com.

Mountain Sprout in Tulsa

Saturday, June 15, 8 p.m.

Mountain Sprout looks exactly like the way its music sounds – rowdy bluegrass with “redneck hippie” word play. The popular regional band from Eureka Springs, Ark., is back in Tulsa for another round of lyrical moonshine from the backwoods hive. Look for Mountain Sprout at the Shrine, 112 E. 18th St., Tulsa. Show is at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 15, with doors opening an hour before. Tickets are $6-$10, available at www.tulsashrine.com.