Weekend Warmup for May 28-31
ZZ Top
Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, has arrived. Here is a list of entertainment options happening around the state over the four-day holiday weekend (May 28-31). For more events, go to www.wimgo.com:
- PRYOR – Hear ZZ Top, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Saliva, Sevendust, Fuel, Buckcherry, Theory of a Deadman, Saving Abel, Cinderella, Tesla and more at the revamped Rocklahoma today-Sunday at the Catch the Fever Festival Grounds, 1421 W 450 Road. Gates will open at 2:30 p.m. today and 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. To read The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett’s interview with ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, click here. Information: www.rocklahoma.com.
- TULSA — Catch soon-to-split country music duo Brooks & Dunn, which includes former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn, when their “Last Rodeo Tour” stops at 7:30 tonight at the BOK Center, 200 S Denver. Doors open at 6 p.m., and Jason Aldean will open the show. Information: (866) 726-5287 or www.bokcenter.com.
- EDMOND — Listen to AJ Johnson and Why Not, The Chris Hicks Band, Edgar Cruz and more during the Edmond Jazz and Blues Festival at Stephenson Park, Boulevard and Fifth. Festival hours are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Information: 341-3321 or www.edmondjazzandblues.org.
<code><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></code> The song that has been on my brain the most this week: - <strong>"Honky Tonk Stomp," Brooks & Dunn featuring Billy Gibbons,</strong> from the duo's 2009 compilation album "#1's...And Then Some." We're wrapping up Brooks & Dunn Week here on BAM's Blog as the soon-to-split duo of former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Louisiana native Kix Brooks are bringing their “Last Rodeo Tour” to Tulsa's BOK Center at 7:30 tonight with special guest Jason Aldean. Between Sunday night's great TV special "ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn - The Last Rodeo" to the anticipation about tonight's show, it's been hard not to have Brooks & Dunn on the brain this week. But all red dirt roads on this busy Oklahoma weekend seem to point to the musical partners, who are going their separate ways after their farewell tour this summer. For instance, former-pop-star-turned-country-singer Darius Rucker is playing a show Sunday night at Norman's Riverwind Casino. In the taped ACM TV special, Rucker shared how Brooks & Dunn were the first country stars who let him open for them when he made the transition to country. His first big country show took place - that's right - in Oklahoma at Miami's Buffalo Run Casino. <a href="http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/2010/05/28/darius-rucker-remembers-first-big-country-show-before-playing-sunday-in-norman/">In an interview this week,</a> Rucker shared with me that Kix and Ronnie will always have a special place in his heart for giving him that first show. In another strange coincidence, ZZ Top also is playing an Oklahoma show this jam-packed weekend: The Texas trio is headlining Pryor's Rocklahoma on Saturday. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons played on Brooks & Dunn's 50th and final single as a duo: "Honky Tonk Stomp." In honor of country concurrences and Brooks & Dunn's final ride through Oklahoma, do the "Honky Tonk Stomp." -BAM
Wanda Jackson (Photo by Jaconna Aguirre/The Oklahoman Archives)
- Hear Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma student bands play for free at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. today and 3 p.m. Saturday during the Big 12 Baseball Tournament street party on Mickey Mantle Drive in Bricktown. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Oklahoma legend Wanda Jackson will close the party with a free show at 6 p.m. Saturday. Information: www.acm-uco.com.
- Taste outdoor cooking, participate in children’s activities and take in Western entertainment at the annual Chuck Wagon Gathering and Children’s Cowboy Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63. Information: 478-2250 or www.nationalcowboymuseum.org.
- NORMAN — Sample tasty desserts, explore the galleries, including the new “Chocolate: The Exhibition,” and hear live music from 7 to 10 tonight at a free chocolate-covered celebration of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s 10th anniversary in its current facility, 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Information: 325-4712 or www.snomnh.ou.edu.
<code><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></code> The song that has been on my brain the most this week: - <strong>"Honky Tonk Stomp," Brooks & Dunn featuring Billy Gibbons,</strong> from the duo's 2009 compilation album "#1's...And Then Some." We're wrapping up Brooks & Dunn Week here on BAM's Blog as the soon-to-split duo of former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Louisiana native Kix Brooks are bringing their “Last Rodeo Tour” to Tulsa's BOK Center at 7:30 tonight with special guest Jason Aldean. Between Sunday night's great TV special "ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn - The Last Rodeo" to the anticipation about tonight's show, it's been hard not to have Brooks & Dunn on the brain this week. But all red dirt roads on this busy Oklahoma weekend seem to point to the musical partners, who are going their separate ways after their farewell tour this summer. For instance, former-pop-star-turned-country-singer Darius Rucker is playing a show Sunday night at Norman's Riverwind Casino. In the taped ACM TV special, Rucker shared how Brooks & Dunn were the first country stars who let him open for them when he made the transition to country. His first big country show took place - that's right - in Oklahoma at Miami's Buffalo Run Casino. <a href="http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/2010/05/28/darius-rucker-remembers-first-big-country-show-before-playing-sunday-in-norman/">In an interview this week,</a> Rucker shared with me that Kix and Ronnie will always have a special place in his heart for giving him that first show. In another strange coincidence, ZZ Top also is playing an Oklahoma show this jam-packed weekend: The Texas trio is headlining Pryor's Rocklahoma on Saturday. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons played on Brooks & Dunn's 50th and final single as a duo: "Honky Tonk Stomp." In honor of country concurrences and Brooks & Dunn's final ride through Oklahoma, do the "Honky Tonk Stomp." -BAM
Randy Rogers Band
- EUFAULA – Relish the red dirt sound at Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Fourth Annual Music and Mayhem Concert, featuring Ragweed, Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen and Mike McClure Band, at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Eufaula Cove Amphitheater, 399 Lakeshore Drive. Information: (866) 977-6849 or www.protixonline.com.
- TULSA & NORMAN – Celebrate the release of Shawnee singer-songwriter Samantha Crain’s new CD “You (Understood)” at 8 tonight at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main, Tulsa. The show also will feature Turnpike Troubadours, Ali Harter and Zeb Dewar & the Fed. Information: (918) 584-2306 or www.cainsballroom.com. Or, hear Crain, Zeb Dewar & the Fed, Student Film and Brine Webb at a CD release concert at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Opolis, 113 N Crawford, Norman. Information: www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html.
- SHAWNEE – Catch Collective Soul in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Doors open at 6 p.m. Information: 964-7263 or www.firelakegrand.com.
<code><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wavpsGTJAyo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></code> The song that has been on my brain the most this week: - <strong>"Honky Tonk Stomp," Brooks & Dunn featuring Billy Gibbons,</strong> from the duo's 2009 compilation album "#1's...And Then Some." We're wrapping up Brooks & Dunn Week here on BAM's Blog as the soon-to-split duo of former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Louisiana native Kix Brooks are bringing their “Last Rodeo Tour” to Tulsa's BOK Center at 7:30 tonight with special guest Jason Aldean. Between Sunday night's great TV special "ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn - The Last Rodeo" to the anticipation about tonight's show, it's been hard not to have Brooks & Dunn on the brain this week. But all red dirt roads on this busy Oklahoma weekend seem to point to the musical partners, who are going their separate ways after their farewell tour this summer. For instance, former-pop-star-turned-country-singer Darius Rucker is playing a show Sunday night at Norman's Riverwind Casino. In the taped ACM TV special, Rucker shared how Brooks & Dunn were the first country stars who let him open for them when he made the transition to country. His first big country show took place - that's right - in Oklahoma at Miami's Buffalo Run Casino. <a href="http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/2010/05/28/darius-rucker-remembers-first-big-country-show-before-playing-sunday-in-norman/">In an interview this week,</a> Rucker shared with me that Kix and Ronnie will always have a special place in his heart for giving him that first show. In another strange coincidence, ZZ Top also is playing an Oklahoma show this jam-packed weekend: The Texas trio is headlining Pryor's Rocklahoma on Saturday. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons played on Brooks & Dunn's 50th and final single as a duo: "Honky Tonk Stomp." In honor of country concurrences and Brooks & Dunn's final ride through Oklahoma, do the "Honky Tonk Stomp." -BAM
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