Downtown Tulsa's two-day summer festival

Dfest adds more bands to lineup

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
4/28/2007

Downtown Tulsa's two-day summer festival, Dfest, has added more bands; and tickets sales have been swift, said Tom Green, the festival's chief executive officer.

Organizers have added the groups Shiny Toy Guns, the Format, Young Love, MC Chris from the cable television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Dios, AM and Bang Bang Bang.

"Ticket sales are doing great. Our badge sales are doing great. The exciting part is the momentum and excitement building," Green said.

Also, Dfest is holding a design contest for this year's posters, programs and compilation CDs featuring the performing artists, Green said. Submissions, which should have the theme "The Music Center of the Universe: Dfest 2007" will be accepted until May 15.

The festival is scheduled for July 27-28 in the city's Blue Dome District near First Street and Elgin Avenue. Tickets are $20, plus a service charge, available by calling (866) 465-5483 or online at www.okctickets.com.

Oklahoma City's the Flaming Lips are headlining the festival. The band plays July 27. Former Tulsan Leon Russell will perform July 28.

Also performing the first day are Kevin Welch, Shiny Toy Guns, AM and Dios. The second day's additional performers are the Format, Young Love, Tulsa's Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, MC Chris, Limbeck, Bang Bang Bang, Sam the Sham and Adam Hood.

Organizers expect Dfest's 11 stages of about 130 bands to bring about 30,000 fans to downtown.

More headliners will be announced May 15, Green said.

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Matt Elliott 581-8366
matt.elliott@tulsaworld.com

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer

THE RANDY GENET BENEFIT

THE RANDY GENET BENEFIT
(Owner of Music Sound World - Supporting Tulsa Musicians since 1974,)
April 29th (Sunday) -

VFW Presents:
6th & Madison Tulsa, OK
2:00 p.m./11:00 p.m. - $10 cover

Donations $:
Randy Genet Fund Raising Account
% Security Bank
P.O. Box 47136
Tulsa, OK 74147

Bands Performing:
2:00-David Dover w/Rocky Frisco - www.daviddover.com or www.myspace.com/daviddover
3:00-Tulsa Boyz - www.myspace.com/DavidThayer
4:00-The Wanda Watson Band - www.wandawatsonband.com or www.myspace.com/wandaandfriends
5:00-Steve Pryor - www.stevepryor.com or www.myspace.com/stevepryor
6:00-The Zigs - www.thezigsband.com
7:00-Glenn R. Townsend w/Billy Snow
8:00-The Jumpshots
9:00-Infinity
10:00-The Plumbers

There's a rumor that the great rockin' fiddlemeister Randy Crouch, will be showing up to play with us! Fingers crossed!

Randy Genet had life threatening medical ordeals in recent months and he's not out of the woods yet.
His friends and family want to pull together to help pay his HUGE bills. If we can put a dent in just one hospital bill people, it will help him so much. So, please come and support this friend of ours! Randy is a great person and desrves all the help we can send his way.
Larry Boggs w/Infinity came up with the idea of a benefit for Randy. Terry Dikeman (an original employee of MUSIC SOUND WORLD) has been burnin' up the phone lines getting 'silent auction' items. So far he's accumulated approximately $10,000 worth of all kinds of musical items. There will also be small raffled off items in-between acts and a 50/50 raffle at the end of the evening. Also up for bidding is a recording package: 10 hours of studio time from Joe Hancock with CD Mastering by David Teegarden.

The VFW has a new "state of the art" L.E.D. stage lighting system.
If you haven't been there in a while, the place is really looking great! There's been a huge change made over the last 2-1/2 years since the veterans have graciously helped so many in allowing us all to use their venue for these types of shows. They have a brand new parking lot all around the building lit and landscaped. They're stripping the old paint off the building down to it's original brick. The interior is completely remodeled from new ceiling tiles & lighting, down to the refinished woodwork and hardwood floors. Centennial Park is right across the street.

Reckless Kelly

Hey Kids, We're here to make sure everyone knows that Reckless Kelly will be joining Joe Ely for four rare performances in May. The “Riders in The Rain” Tour will be coming to Austin, Dallas, Helotes, and Conroe. After RK begins the night with an acoustic performance, the stage will be reset for an explosive electric Joe Ely set with Reckless Kelly as his backing band. "Joe Ely is one of our greatest heroes, and we are honored and excited to perform the songs that were such an influence to our band." -RK "Reckless Kelly is my kind of band; hell-raising, hard playing, kick-ass songwriting, feet firmly in the present but with an amazing knowledge of where it has all come from. What else is there?" -Joe Ely Please see below for all concert information and a copy of the official press release. We hope to see all of you there so be sure to buy your tickets soon, before shows begin to sell out. -RK
RECKLESS KELLY JOINS JOE ELY FOR ‘RIDERS IN THE RAIN’ TOUR Their Recording of Newman Hit Prompts 4 Texas Shows AUSTIN, Texas — For four shows in four days in May, raucous roots rockers Reckless Kelly join veteran rocker of the road Joe Ely for a “Riders in the Rain” Tour, named for the Randy Newman-penned ballad the pair recorded on last year’s SAIL AWAY: THE SONGS OF RANDY NEWMAN tribute album (Sugar Hill Records). Reckless Kelly kicks off the show and then plays with and backs Ely — the young artists sharing the stage with one of their heroes — on May 9 at The Granada Theater in Dallas, May 10 at The Glenn in Austin, May 11 at Floores Country Store in Helotes and May 12 at the historical Crighton Theater in Conroe. Together, Reckless Kelly and Ely make fine work of Newman’s “Rider in the Rain,” the forlorn country-western song (complete with sweet harmonies and whining guitar), and the recording process spurred the upcoming tour dates. Other tunes planned for the set include their take on Dylan’s “You Ain’t Going Nowhere.” Ely has said, “Reckless Kelly is my kind of band; hell-raising, hard playing, kick-ass songwriting, feet firmly in the present but with an amazing knowledge of where it has all come from. What else is there?” Reckless Kelly played 16 sold-out or SRO shows with rockers Big Head Todd in February and March behind its 2006 CD-plus-DVD, RECKLESS KELLY WAS HERE. During breaks from almost constant touring, with shows planned from Texas to San Francisco to Idaho through the summer, the band has been in the studio writing and recording for its next project. Ely recently completed a sold out, 30-city tour with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt and Guy Clark. He will soon head to Europe, where he will play shows in Scotland, England and Norway. After the May shows with Reckless Kelly, he’ll resume touring with The Flatlanders. He is marking the releases of his road journal, “Bonfire of Roadmaps” (UT Press); the companion album, HAPPY SONGS FROM RATTLESNAKE GULCH (on his own Rack ’Em label); and SILVER CITY, a collection of songs he wrote long ago but just recorded.	CONCERT INFORMATION 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 The Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave., Dallas Tickets: $20 & $30; Information: 214.824.9933 tickets.granadatheater.com 8 p.m. Thursday, May 10 The Glenn at The Backyard, 13101 Hwy. 71, Austin Tickets: $20 advance, $23 day of show; Information: 512.263.4146 www.gettix.net 9 p.m. Friday, May 11 Floores Country Store, 14464 Old Bandera Road., Helotes Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of show; Information: 210.695.8827 www.liveatfloores.com 8 p.m. Saturday, May 12 Crighton Theatre, 234 N. Main St., Conroe Tickets: $47; Information: 936.441.7468 x 201 www.crightontheatre.org

Camille Harp

hey folks! Wednesday nights at the deli are the coolest!

come see me and Ryan rockin' the joint.

10:30pm.

Saturday I'll be at pearl's lakeside. beautiful patio view. awesome food! 7pm.

see you soon!
camille

Tumbleweed Calf Fry

Even if the calf fries don't call to you, the music will

Courtesy Country star Pat Green will perform at the three-day Calf Fry festival.

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
4/25/2007 7:11 AM

If you go to the Tumbleweed Calf Fry in Stillwater this week, you won't catch country star Pat Green munching a pair of the festival's pendulous namesakes.

There's not enough ketchup in the world for Green, who will perform Thursday at the festival, to choke those back.

"I think I might have (tried them) in college at the calf fry at Texas Tech, but no, I'd like to say no," Green said.

The festival is held each year on land behind the Tumbleweed, a now-closed honky-tonk. Despite the calf fries, the Fort Worth resident is stoked about playing and was a regular at Tumbleweed before it closed New Year's Day.

This year's Calf Fry starts Thursday at 5 p.m. with Reckless Kelly and Green performing later. Friday boasts former Tulsan Brandon Jenkins and Cross Canadian Ragweed, while acts including singer Johnny Cooper, No Justice and Jason Boland will perform Saturday.

Green was a regular at Tumbleweed and at the Calf Fry. The man whose album "Cannonball" has sold about 130,000 copies remembers opening for Dwight Yoakam at the bar a few years ago for an outdoor concert.

Stillwater's classically chaotic weather intervened though. A storm came through and forced the outdoor concert inside. Yoakam's three-tractor-trailer's worth of stuff was crammed onto Tumbleweed's small stage along with Green's.

"I don't think I was able to turn around with a guitar on without whacking either a mike stand or a drum cymbal or something," he said. "That was a fun night to watch that go off. It was the loudest thing I ever heard in my life."

Green, whose mother was born and raised in Tulsa, was working on his sixth album by the time he got a record deal. He's been on a major label since 2001. Now on BNA Records, the man who was once wary of what Nashville might do to him has embraced its radio sound while keeping his eclectic style.

He used to fear that Nashville would make him into something he wasn't.

"I couldn't have been more wrong, being completely frank with you. The truth is, if you wanna get your songs played on the radio, then you have to be playing songs that they're trying to get to play. It's a simple deal."

Now he has several years of hits, from 2003's "Wave on Wave" to "Feels Just Like It Should" off Cannonball.

He spent part of last year touring with Kenny Chesney and will rejoin him this summer, which is a chance for him to play for almost 20,000 people a night.

Performers often say that before a concert they're more excited about this one show than others. But Green says it about the Calf Fry with conviction.

"I can't even begin to tell you how fired up I am. And this isn't one of those things where I say that about every show. I guarantee there's a lot of shows where I'd just as soon not come out of the bus. This is one of those shows where you know what you're going to get and it's a great venue."

And if calf fries aren't your cup of tea, don't worry. Vendors at the festival also serve onion burgers and hot dogs.

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Matt Elliott 581-8366
matt.elliott@tulsaworld.com

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Tumbleweed Calf Fry

Thursday
Gates: 5 p.m.
Reckless Kelly, 8 p.m.
Pat Green, 9:30 p.m.
Admission: $30 day of show.

Friday
Gates: 5 p.m.
Bo Phillips Band, 6 p.m.
Brandon Jenkins, time pending
Cross Canadian Ragweed, 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35 day of show

Saturday
Gates: 5 p.m.
Johnny Cooper, 5:15 p.m.
No Justice, 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Fowler, 8:15 p.m.
Jason Boland, 10 p.m.
Tickets: $30 day of show

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer

Local bands to perform at annual RSU concert

Local bands to perform at annual RSU concert

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
4/25/2007

Bands including Crooked X, Rook, the Effects, Stevedore and Motive for Movement will perform in Claremore on Thursday at Rogers State University's annual Jam Band concert.

The show will start at 7 p.m. in the Will Rogers Auditorium and admission is $5 at the door, according to event organizers. Hosting the concert will be Misti Grannemann, co-host of 91.3 FM KRSC's "Josh and Misti in the Morning," as well as fellow KRSC DJ Davit Souders.

The Student Broadcasting Association will donate proceeds from the concert to a nonprofit agency in Rogers County. Some of the money also will go to purchasing an electronic message board for the campus' new Student Services Center.

For more information, call the station at 343-7913.

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer

Twisted Sister joins lineup of Rocklahoma

Twisted Sister joins lineup of Rocklahoma

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer
4/24/2007

The lineup for this summer's Rocklahoma has expanded to include shock-rock-and-makeup-faves Twisted Sister in what is so far the band's only North American show announced this year.

The band's blond frontman, Dee Snider, announced the development recently during his weekly radio show. Twisted Sister's 1980s-era lineup will consist of Snider, Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, AJ Pero, Mark "the Animal" Mendoza and Jay Jay French.

The band will be in full costume, including Snider's pink-and-black getup that Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach once described as looking like "Mae West on acid."

The band's definitive album, 1984's "Stay Hungry," has sold a few million copies and was propelled by its hits "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock."

Rocklahoma runs from July 13-15 at the Catch the Fever Festival Grounds, four miles north of Pryor along U.S. 69.

The band will perform on the final day of the festival along with W.A.S.P., Jackyl, Great White, L.A. Guns and Britny Fox. Performing on July 13 will be Poison, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Slaughter, Y&T and White Lion. July 14's lineup includes Vince Neil, Dokken, Winger, Skid Row, Warrant, Firehouse, Enuff Z'Nuff, Faster Pussycat, BulletBoys and Bang Tango.

Tickets range from $40 to $275. To buy tickets or get more information, call (866) 310-2288 or go to www.rockfeverfest.com.

Matt Elliott 581-8366
matt.elliott@tulsaworld.com

By MATT ELLIOTT World Scene Writer

The Bluehemians

get your motor runnin'......

"BIKE NIGHT"

with The Bluehemians

Wednesday: Joe's Crab Shack

61st & Memorial

7 to 10 pm

Thursday: Lone Star Steakhouse

Broken Arrow,Ok

( Next to Bass Pro Shop )

7 to 10 pm

Ramona Street Dance

Ramona Street

Dance!

April 28^th, 2007

Downtown on Main Street

We’re coming into town to raise funds for the local Firefighters!

Family event, Music under the STARS!

Three bands

West Haven kicks off the Show at 6:30 pm

DEEPER

TUFF PROFIT

And the music continues to 11:00pm!

Bring lawn chairs and a BIG smile!

Pancake breakfast at 7:30 am at the Fire Station!

13 Stars

Don't miss a steady flow of rock for the whole night as
13 Stars opens for Flickerstick this Friday (April 27) at the
Conservatory, 8911 N Western in OKC!

The doors open at 8:00 pm and we lead off the show at 9:00
pm sharp, so get there early! The Monroes and Calhoun
follow after us, and then Flickerstick rocks the show
to a close.

Tickets are $8 in advance and I hear they're going fast!
If there are any left they'll be $10 at the door so
get yours now by clicking here:
http://www.okctickets.com/e/39/flickerstick/

ROCK! For more info:

http://www.13stars.net
http://www.conservatoryokc.com

Fat Dixie Fans!

Fat Dixie Fans!

TONIGHT we are playing in Tulsa, OK at the Wild Horse Saloon, so come out and start the weekend early. On Thursday and Friday we will be at the Roadhouse in Durant, OK. I hear the rodeo is in town so it should be a crazy good time. Here is all the info…

THIS WEEK: 04/24/2007 @ 10:00 PM - Wild Horse Saloon 8186 S. Memorial Drive (81st & Memorial), Tulsa, Oklahoma - $5 For info call (918) 286-3125 or go to www.myspace.com/wildhorsesaloon or www.electriccowboy.com/tulsa.

04/26/2007 @ 10:00 PM - Roadhouse 3015 S. Hwy 69 (S. 9th Street), Durant, Oklahoma 74701 - $5 / $7 For info call 580-924-9690. 04/27/2007 @ 10:00 PM - Roadhouse 3015 S. Hwy 69 (S. 9th Street), Durant, Oklahoma 74701 - $5 / $7 For info call 580-924-9690. UPCOMING SHOWS: 1 May 2007 10:00 P Legends - Acoustic Ada, Oklahoma 3 May 2007 8:00 P Firewater Bar & Grill Dallas, Texas 4 May 2007 10:00 P T-Bones Bar & Grill Denison, Texas 5 May 2007 9:00 P Wall Street Bar Duncan, Oklahoma 17 May 2007 8:30 P Rockin Rodeo w/ Django Walker Denton, Texas 19 May 2007 9:30 P Shooters Sports Bar & Grill w/ Gary P Nunn Gainesville, Texas 25 May 2007 9:30 P Kitchen Pass Parsons, Kansas 26 May 2007 10:00 P Snorty Horse Saloon Springfield, Missouri 29 May 2007 10:00 P Legends - Acoustic Ada, Oklahoma 31 May 2007 9:00 P Neumeier's Rib Room & Beer Garden Fort Smith, Arkansas 1 Jun 2007 9:30 P Max's Garage Muskogee, Oklahoma 2 Jun 2007 10:00 P Crazy Horse Saloon Wichita Falls, Texas 3 Jun 2007 8:00 P Cancer Benefit @ the Crosswire Paris, Texas 8 Jun 2007 10:00 P C4 Ada, Oklahoma 9 Jun 2007 10:00 P Big Whiskey Saloon Tahlequah, Oklahoma 16 Jun 2007 7:00 P Private Engagement Ardmore, Oklahoma 22 Jun 2007 10:00 P Kitchen Pass Joplin, Missouri 23 Jun 2007 10:00 P Crosswire w/ Spur 503 Paris, Texas 30 Jun 2007 10:00 P Hot Rods Shawnee, Oklahoma 4 Jul 2007 1:00 P Seminole 4th of July Celebration Seminole, Oklahoma 7 Jul 2007 9:30 P Arbuckle Ballroom Davis, Oklahoma 13 Jul 2007 10:00 P Longhorns Saloon w/ Jarrod Birmingham Manhattan, Kansas 27 Jul 2007 3:00 P 2nd Annual Rock the River Beaver Music Festival Eagletown, Oklahoma 28 Jul 2007 9:00 A 2nd Annual Rock the River Beaver Music Festival Eagletown, Oklahoma

For up to date Fat Dixie news and shows, go to www.myspace.com/fatdixie.

See You At The Shows,

Fat Dixie

Email: fatdixieband@yahoo.com

MySpace: www.myspace.com/fatdixie