Articles tagged with: music
New VOK blog: The Apache House
The Apache House is our latest addition to the Voices of Oklahoma Blogs. Tate James has been running the site at his own place since April, in collaboration with Seth Clark and Jared Flaming.
As Tate describes it:
The Apache House was born out of the wonderful Oklahoma creative community, and that community continues to be our focus.
Tuesday Links
- Norman Music Festival will become 2 day event
- Further declines in state revenue expected
- OKC school district appeals order to reinstate teacher
- Oklahoma company planning to build electric cars
- State awarded $1.5 million to boost foster care adoptions
- Home designs meant to open neighborhood ‘dialogue’
This week in Okie blogs / Art & Culture
- Oklahoma Rock Newsblog: Remembering 9/11
- OKC Central: Banjos now playing in Bricktown
- Cameron Buchholtz Podcast: Leah Kayajanian & Derek Smith
- Doug Dawgz Blog: The Tower Theatre
- The Apache House: Interview with Reese Truesdell
- Oolagah Lake Leader: [Video] Hummingbird rescue
This week in Okie blogs / Art & Culture
- The Archivist: ‘I hope they plant enough redbud to hang every Judas in the state’
- Doug Dawgz Blog: Story of the old Tower Theatre
- Found in Collections: Historic maps of Oklahoma
- Irritated Tulsan: Great Tulsa architecture
- Massahoma, Oklachusetts: August in Oklahoma
- OCU Law News Podcast: Interview with author of ‘Indian Tribes of Oklahoma’
- The Apache House: Interview with Sherree Chamberlain
- Oklahoma Rock Newsblog: [Video] Mike Hosty’s ‘Oklahoma Breakdown’
- OKC Central: [VIDEO] Oklahoma City Ballet performs in front of the capitol
This week in Okie blogs / Art & Culture
- Blog Oklahoma: Oklahoma, Go Blog Something Day!
- Cameron Buchholtz: OKC’s Funniest Person – Leah Kayajanian
- The Apache House: Interview with artist Zachary Carlisle Davidson
- Oklahoma Rock Newsblog: Interview with El Paso Hot Button
- Fresh Greens: Money for trash and the perks aren’t free
- The Archivist: The 9-foot bed sheet
Bricktown looks to become musical mecca
From The Journal Record:
Jim Cowan, executive director of the Bricktown Association, thinks the founding fathers of Bricktown would have approved of the entertainment district’s push to become a musical hub. The founding fathers of Bricktown, the late Neal Horton and the late Jim Brewer, might not have envisioned the University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music or the American Banjo Museum, but Cowan said he thinks both men would be proud of the two establishments bringing music to Bricktown.
Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame asks for money to expand
From NewsOK:
A music trail featuring interpretive markers across Oklahoma with information about artists, composers and performers who have ties to the state would bring in thousands of visitors each year, a proponent of the plan said Monday.
The trail is an effort to showcase Oklahoma’s musicians and is part of a multimillion-dollar expansion plan by the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum that would provide more than 10 times the space for the Muskogee facility.
UCO School of Rock seeks to make Bricktown a music hub
From NewsOK:
While rock bands rang in the grand opening of the University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music from Bricktown’s United Way Square on Wednesday, civic and education officials sang the school’s praises in its newly renovated high-tech home on the fourth floor of the Oklahoma Hardware building.
UCO’s ‘School of Rock’ grand opening today
From The Associated Press:
Grand-opening festivities are set for the University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music, also known as the “School of Rock.”
The first ACM in the U.S. will celebrate Wednesday with a free public concert at the United Way Plaza in the Bricktown district in Oklahoma City.
A Woody Guthrie diary
by Gene Perry
The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival can make you believe in ghosts. He may have died more than 40 years ago, but last week Woody Guthrie haunted Okemah, OK, the town where he was born.
Guthrie lives on in many ways at this festival, which is held very year during the humid peak of summer.… Continue reading
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