For years, the place to be on New Years’s Eve in Tulsa was the corner of Easton & Main, there you can find the historic Cain’s Ballroom, where the Turnpike Troubadours regularly perform on New Year’s Eve to sold out crowds. New Year’s Eve at Cain’s Ballroom is something that should be experienced by every […]
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This year has been an incredible year of live music for me. I’ve seen over 60 artists this year and attended shows in a variety of venues, from the historic Cain’s Ballroom to the small dive bar known as The Mercury Lounge. Every show has had it’s high points, but there are five shows/artists in […]
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November winds blew and a cold chill was in the air, as people scurried inside restaurants and concert venues last Wednesday night in the Tulsa Arts District. Behind non-descript black doors with a simple white V on them, lies the venue known as the Vanguard. On the bill this evening were artists Gill Landry and […]
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Thursday night was a night full of great music all across Tulsa. The Woody Guthrie Center had the good fortune of hosting rising Americana artist, Caleb Caudle, fresh off a 10 hour drive from Nashville. The theater inside the Woody Guthrie Center is an intimate one. It holds only 59 seats and is modeled to […]
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The Black Lillies may be on their Stranger To Me tour, but they’re no strangers to the Mercury Lounge in Tulsa, where they could be found last Friday night. Having released their new album, Stranger To Me, in late September, their first new album in 3 years, the band has been touring nonstop the last […]
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Thursday’s show at The Shrine in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was like getting two sides of the same coin. Both Ryan Culwell and Will Hoge can be found in the Americana genre and both are talented songwriters. Both artists also recently released albums in the last few months and both albums are insight into these artists and […]
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Fake skulls adorned the wall, rubber spiders sat on the bar and a witch hat perched on the head of a stuffed coyote high above the stage inside the Mercury Lounge on the Saturday before Halloween. Amid all these tricks, there was a quite a treat, and her name happens to be Jamie Lin Wilson. […]
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There are times when the stars align and an iconic musician plays at an iconic venue. That was the case last Friday night when musical legend, Ray Wylie Hubbard played the equally iconic Cain’s Ballroom. A diverse crowd attended the show, with twenty-somethings perching on bleachers and couples in their twilight years crowding around tables […]
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Walking into Friday night’s show at The Venue Shrine in Tulsa, I confess, I didn’t know how the night would go. Although The Damn Quails and The Band of Heathens are both bands I’ve heard of and even follow on social media, I’ve never had the opportunity to see them live and didn’t know what […]
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The Tulsa Arts District was bustling last Friday night. The streets were packed with cars and people were out and about for the First Friday Art Crawl. Unfortunately the crowd didn’t find their way into Cain’s Ballroom. Upon arriving, tables and chairs covered half the famous dance floor and attendance was spotty at best. A […]
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