the bluehemians
wed/jan 30th
elephant run
41st & I44
9 to 12 am
fri/feb 1st
scotty's lounge
3116 west 61st
9 to 1 am
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the bluehemians
wed/jan 30th
elephant run
41st & I44
9 to 12 am
fri/feb 1st
scotty's lounge
3116 west 61st
9 to 1 am
January 11, 2008
Bill Erickson & The New Migrant Workers slide into
Legendary Red Dirt singer/songwriter Bill Erickson will bring his band, The New Migrant Workers, to Joseppi’s Italian Kitchen in
Erickson’s shows are full of honest and historical songcraft derived from his two albums released on Binky Records, Blood Mixed with the Dust and Kosoma, as well as choice cuts from some of his heroes like Woody Guthrie and Walt Wilkins.
It doesn’t take long to point out his obvious influences, like Guy Clark and Steve Earle, nor does this Oklahoman-by-way-of-California beat around the bush with his musical messages. Song titles like “Pray for Rain” and “If I was a Fish” aren’t necessarily clouded in mystery, while absorbing the lucid lyrics of “Room 22” accuse every listener that, “It could have been me, could have been you, on Valentine’s Day, up in Room 22…”
In his songwriting career, which on spans across two decades, the 56-year old Erickson has co-written numerous songs with the likes of Greg Jacobs, Tom Skinner, Benny Craig, Jeff & Vida and
The New Migrant Workers, who outfit Erickson’s acoustic numbers with New Age and
The Saturday, Feb. 2 show will be held at Joseppi’s Italian Kitchen, located at 223 E. Hall of Fame, in
More information is available online by logging on to www.myspace.com/billericksonandthenewmigrantworkers, www.joseppis.com or by phone at (405) 624-8037.
Technically speaking.
And you thought a $100 face value ticket to watch Oklahoma State host Oklahoma two years ago was expensive.
OSU officials announced season ticket prices on Tuesday. The interesting twist is they will not sell individual tickets for the OU game.
Fans wanting to watch the Cowboys and Sooners play Nov. 29 at Boone Pickens Stadium must purchase a $419 season ticket or one of OSU's other season ticket options. OU will still be given an allotment of tickets, but no individual game tickets will be sold.
OSU athletic director Mike Holder said the decision was based on Iowa State implementing an identical plan last season for its rival game against Iowa. Iowa State's season ticket sales increased 30 percent, jumping from 30,000 to 36,000.
“Our decision to eliminate single game tickets for Bedlam is based upon our desire to grow our season ticket sales,” Holder said in a press statement. “Our ability to compete for championships, in all sports, is dependent upon our fans' commitment to buying season tickets in football and basketball on an annual basis.
“Frankly, this decision is all about the long-term success of OSU athletics. Based on solid results at Iowa State, we believe this decision can produce a positive result at OSU.”
Sometime this fall single game tickets will be sold for OSU's other six home games. Single game tickets will cost $60 for non-conference opponents (Houston, Missouri State and Tory), $85 for non-OU conference games (Texas A&M, Baylor and Iowa State).
The irony is the Bedlam game is all but assured of being OSU's lowest attendance of the season. Two years ago, OSU sold three-game packages for $160 that included tickets for Missouri State, Baylor and OU. This year there will be no packages.
The unique marketing strategy should give OSU a legitimate shot at selling 40,000 or more season tickets for the first time.
OSU's record for season tickets is 38,674 set in 2004, which included a record 11,500 student tickets. OSU sold 9,000 student tickets last year.
As expected, OSU did not raise season ticket or donor prices for the first time in three years. The $419 season ticket is higher than last year ($359) but the Cowboys have seven home games instead of six.
“The addition of 16,000 new seats in the west end zone, we believe the decision to hold prices for 2008 is the right one,” Holder said. “The new seats give us opportunities to expand our fan base though new promotions and generate new revenue to support the entire athletic program.”
With the return of the renovated west end zone, OSU gains 16,000 additional seats. Boone Pickens Stadium capacity increases to 60,000, the sixth largest venue in the Big 12.
More Family Fun Zone tickets will be available. For a price of $980 a family can purchase four season tickets (two adult, two youth), $245 a person.
Other season ticket prices include: a Discount Zone and O-Club options ($294) and new graduate rate of $245 for anyone within five years of their graduation date. Faculty and staff season tickets will be $336.
“We strive for balance between affordability, value and revenue considerations when it comes to setting ticket and donor seating prices,” said Craig Clemons, associate athletic director for external affairs and development.
To attract more students, All Sports Ticket prices are expected to be reduced but AST prices won't be announced until a later date. Last year an AST cost $150 which gets students into every OSU sporting event other than men's basketball.
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Date | City, ST | Venue | ||||
Fri | 02/01/08 | | Bryan, TX | Texas Hall Of Fame | ||
Sat | 02/02/08 | | Beaumont, TX | TBA | ||
Wed | 02/20/08 | | Manhattan, KS | Longhorn Bar & Grill | ||
Thu | 02/21/08 | | Fayetteville, AR | George's Majestic Lounge | ||
Fri | 02/22/08 | | Little Rock, AR | Revolution | ||
Sat | 02/23/08 | | Lawrence, KS | Granada Theatre | ||
Sat | 03/15/08 | | Shamrock, TX | St. Patrick's Day Festival | ||
Sat | 03/22/08 | | New Braunfels, TX | Gruene Hall |
This Saturday Feb. 2nd, Camille, Ryan and Foreman will be rockin' Duncan @ Wallstreet. Music starts at 9.
FAT Tuesday is Feb. 5th and we'll be playing at Riverwind Casino @ Autograph's Sports bar.
$3.00 corona light, modelo especial , negra modelo. and pacifico $3.50 jager shots $3.50 malibu banana hurricanes $6.00 Pitchers
1/2 price desserts
$150 Costume Contest!!
Beads, Beads and more Beads!!
Also, if you haven't heard, my Myspace account was hacked and deleted. So if once upon a time we were friends, will you kindly send me a friend request? I'd appreciate anyone who could post a bulletin to help me get some friends back!
Go To..
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=322347005
Thanks!
Camille
Important Concert Update...
Foo Fighters
Tuesday, January 29th - POSTPONED
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Date | City, ST | Venue | ||||
Fri | 02/01/08 | | Frisco, TX | Coach Joe's | ||
Fri | 02/08/08 | | Duncan, OK | Wall Street | ||
Sat | 02/09/08 | | Stillwater, OK | Roosters | ||
Fri | 02/15/08 | | Stephenville, TX | Bostock's | ||
Sat | 02/16/08 | | Helotes, TX | Floores Country Store | ||
Fri | 02/22/08 | | Lubbock, TX | Blue Light Lubbock | ||
Sat | 02/23/08 | | Amarillo, TX | Hoot's Pub | ||
Sat | 03/01/08 | | Tyler, TX | Bootlegger's | ||
Tue | 03/04/08 | | Austin, TX | Travis County Expo Center | ||
Fri | 05/30/08 | | Davis, OK | Washita Hideaway | ||
Sat | 07/12/08 | | Ardmore, OK | Private Function | ||
Sat | 07/19/08 | | Prairieville, LA | Mariner's On The River |
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After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will
give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free
and legal songs.
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music
industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that
threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises
a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep,
free and with no limit on the number of tracks.
The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies - including
EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music – that have chased file-sharers
through the courts in a doomed attempt to prevent piracy. The gamble is that
fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising around the Qtrax
website’s jukebox in return for authorised use of almost every song
available.
The service will use the “peer-to-peer” network, which contains not just hit
songs but rarities and live tracks from the world’s leading artists.
Nor is a lack of compatibility with the iPod player expected to put fans off.
Apple is unlikely to allow tracks downloaded from its rival to be compatible
with iPods, but, while the iPod is the most popular music player, it has not
succeeded in dominating the market: sales of the iPod account for 50 million
out of 130 million total digital player sales. Qtrax has also spoken of an
“iPod solution”, to be announced in April.
Qtrax files contain Digital Rights Management software, allowing the company
to see how many times a song has been downloaded and played. Artists, record
companies and publishers will be paid in proportion to the popularity of
their music, while also taking a cut of advertising revenues.
The Qtrax team, which spent five years working on the system, promised a
“game-changing” intervention in the declining recorded music market when the
service was presented at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes.
The singer James Blunt gave Qtrax a cautious welcome. “I’m amazed that we now
accept that people steal music,” he said. “I was taught not to steal sweets
from a sweet shop. But I want to learn how this service works, given the
condition the music industry is in.”
Qtrax, a subsidiary of Brilliant Technologies Corporation, has raised $30
million (£15 million) to set up the service, which is available in the US
and Europe from today. Allan Klepfisz, president of Qtrax, said: “Customers
now expect music to be free but they do not want to use illegal sites. We
believe this . . . has the support of the music industry and allows artists
to get paid.”
Ford, McDonald’s and Microsoft are among the advertisers signed up to support
what is thought to be the world’s largest legal music store. The service
says that adverts will be nonintrusive and will not appear each time a song
is played. As with iTunes, customers will have to download Qtrax software.
They will own the songs permanently but will be encouraged to “dock” their
player with the store every 30 days so it can gather information on which
songs have been played.
Jean-Bernard Levy, chief executive of Vivendi Universal, said the crisis in
the music industry had been overstated despite EMI’s radical cost-cutting.
He said: “Look at Universal – we have double-digit profit margins. But we
would like strong competition from the other major record companies to help
the industry grow.” Universal has poached the Rolling Stones from EMI and Mr
Levy said that others could follow as thousands of staff and artists are
made redundant.
On the appearance of Qtrax, Mr Levy gave warning that the lack of
compatibility between competing digital music players was as big a problem
as file-sharing. And Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, said that the sound
quality of MP3 downloads was becoming an issue for bands and fans. “There is
a growing consumer revolt against online audio quality,” he said.
Dfest Accepting Artists Submission for 2008!
2008 7th Annual DFEST MUSIC CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL
DISCOVER THE NATION'S BEST ALL INDEPENDENT MUSIC CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL
July 25-26, 2008 Tulsa, Oklahoma
150 Artists
13 Stages
50 Music Industry Panels
Musician Clinics (Past Clinicians Billy Sheehan & Will Calhoun)
Industry Mentoring Session
A&R Demo Listening
What Industry Attends?
Warner Bros Records :: Interscope/Universal Records :: Rhino :: Playtone/Epic Records :: TVT Records :: Elementree/Geffen Records :: WEA/Elektra :: Birdman Records :: spinART Records :: World's Fair :: Doghouse Records :: Rust/Universal :: Redemption Records :: SonicBids :: Cherry Lane Publishing :: IODA (Independent Online Distribution Alliance) :: Denver Post :: Bell Labs :: Favored Nations Records :: Tinderbox Music :: The Militia Group :: Indie-Music.com :: Indie Band Manager :: GroupieTunes :: Sound Exchange :: BMI :: On Target Media :: Summerfest :: Variety Artists :: Billboard Songwriting Contest :: Urban Network :: Wayne Coyne (singer/songwriter the Flaming Lips) :: Michael Whittig (Pillar) :: Grammy's Foundation :: The Halsey Institute (Jim Halsey) :: M-Audio :: Dreamscapers International :: Apple :: Bose :: Elixir :: San Dimas Guitars :: Mapex Drums :: Billy Sheehan (bass clinician) :: Will Calhoun (drum clinician) :: Ravi (guitar clinician) :: Stephen Egerton (guit arist Decendents) :: Zac Maloy (the Nixons) :: Jeff Scheel (singer Gravity Kills):: GoGirlsMusic :: Hyperactive Magazine you get the point!
Past Dfest Artists:
The Flaming Lips Leon Russell Amos Lee Shiny Toy Guns The Format Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Limbeck Black Stone Cherry Green Lemon MC Chris Steel Train Stars of Track and Field AM Bang Bang Bang The Vanished* People Noise* The Starlight Mints Admiral Twin Damone Sherwood The Honorary Title Kevin Welch Adam Hood Ludo Absent Star Dios (malos) Lovedrug * Daphney Loves Derby
A Must Read for Artist Submitting to Music Conference and Festival.
A Must Read for Artists Submitting to Any Music Conference and Festival
Dfest Co-Founder, Angie DeVore-Green and Mark Willis founder of Atlantis Music Conference speak about why and what to expect at music conference and festivals.
http://www.dfest.com/EM_DeVore_interview.pdf
Click below to submit your music now!
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Perform + Music Industry Tradeshow + Music Clinics + Music Industry Panels + A&R Demo Listening + Every Member Gets All Access Badges & Hip Tradeshow Bags Chock Full of Great Stuff + FREE Guitar Strings for each member!
100+ (ALL GENRE) Unsigned & Emerging Artists will be selected for 2008!
Testimonial from Music Industry 2006 Attendees:
Ryan Kuper of Redemption Records
It was my first time attending Dfest and I was thoroughly impressed with the professionalism of the entire event (staff, speakers, the hotel, exhibitors, etc.). The panels at Dfest featured some of the best industry discussions I have ever been a part of, and the bands that played the fest were a fitting compliment. I look forward to attending in the coming years!
Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post
Dfest is such a solid music festival and conference. I'll be there again next year, without question.
Good times! (I) enjoyed the panels, especially the diversity of the panelists, which I thought was key.
Loved: colourmusic, kunek, evangelicals, stevedore, student film, radioradio, down for five (!!!!!). But it was organized amazingly. Tight, on-time, efficient, excellent volunteers. Holy Christ I was impressed.
http://www.dfest.com
Submit TODAY!
Deadline April 3, 2008
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