Merle Haggard released from hospital, returns home to California
Country music legend Merle Haggard has returned home to northern California to recuperate from multiple illnesses, according to the Associated Press.
Haggard had been hospitalized in Macon, Ga., for about a week with double pneumonia. While there, doctors discovered three stomach ulcers and eight polyps in his colon.
The “Okie from Muskogee” singer, 74, earlier tried to checked himself out of the hospital to return to Redding, Calif., by tour bus. But he returned a few hours later after deciding the trip would be too taxing.
The singer affectionately known as “the Hag” was diagnosed with lung cancer a few years ago, but recovered after part of his lung was removed.
It’s unclear how Haggard’s touring schedule will be affected by his health issues. His website shows him playing his next show Feb. 28 in Tucson, Ariz.
He was originally set to play a Jan. show at Tulsa’s River Spirit Event Center. According to the venue’s website, the show was rescheduled for to Sunday, April 29 after Haggard was initially hospitalized and his January tour dates delayed. Refunds on Tulsa tickets purchased are made for a canceled or postponed event only. River Spirit Casino will honor all tickets purchased, according to the site.
For more information, go to www.creeknationcasino.com/entertainment/eventcenter.
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Poteau High School choir preparing for May performance at Carnegie Hall; 2 benefit shows planned this weekend
Hillbilly Vegas has organized a benefit concert for Saturday night at the Coffee Cup in Poteau. The show will raise money for the Poteau High School choir's upcoming trip to Carnegie Hall.
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
Poteau High School choir preparing for May performance at Carnegie Hall
Two benefit concerts are planning this weekend to raise money for the New York trek.
Every four years, Poteau High School choir director Bill King relishes giving his students the once-in-a-lifetime experience of performing in one of the world’s most famous concert venues.
In May, King’s students will travel to New York to perform a Memorial Day concert at Carnegie Hall.
“They get to see another part of the world. You know, a lot of them have grown up here in southeastern Oklahoma and haven’t traveled very much. Just the opportunity to sing on the stage of Carnegie Hall, which is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, there’s just a cultural aspect of it all. And being able to see New York City and things they see on TV and movies, they get to actually experience it themselves,” said King, who has been the school’s choir director for 32 years.
“I enjoy watching the kids as we pull into New York. Their eyes get real big, and it’s fun for me. You know, it’s a lot of work, but it’s fun … for the kids to see something different than Poteau, Oklahoma.”
On May 28, the students will sing John Rutter’s “Requiem,” with the prolific British composer conducting. The New England Symphonic Ensemble will accompany the choir during the Carnegie Hall concert.
The choir has been making the trek to New York City every four years since accepting an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall in 1996. Each trip involves two or three years of fundraising, since the costs of travel, accommodations, paying the conductor and ensemble and other expenses total about $70,000.
“The community has been very generous. They’ve always been very supportive of the arts and the choir program here,” King said. “We’re very active and very visible … and we have a fine tradition here of the Poteau High School choir.”
The choir has raised about $61,000 through spaghetti dinners, pancake breakfasts, Christmas caroling and other efforts. The final fundraising push is on, King said, since the goal is to have all the funds together by March 15.
Two benefit concerts are planned this weekend to help pay for the trip. At 2 p.m. Sunday, the choir will perform at Poteau’s First United Methodist Church, 109 S Harper.
Also, Poteau country-rockers Hillbilly Vegas are organizing a show at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Coffee Cup, 401 N Broadway. The high school jazz choir will headline the show, while Christian rock band Chaotic Resemblance will share the bill. Acoustic group Dusty, Brence & Dunn, which includes Poteau Middle School Assistant Principal Marshall Brence, also will perform.
It is the second year for Hillbilly Vegas to plan a fundraising concert for the choir. The show raised about $1,000 last year, a total the band hopes to top this weekend.
“Bill just does a really great job; he puts in a lot of hard work above and beyond. … His greatness goes unnoticed sometimes,” said Hillbilly Vegas frontman Steve Harris, who is an alternative education teacher for the district. “We love him and just want to do all we can to help.”
The band has close ties with the program: Hillbilly Vegas guitarist John Reed was among the first group from Poteau to make the trek to Carnegie Hall back in 1996, while Harris’ 15-year-old son Cameron will take the trip this spring.
“They get to stay at the Grand Hyatt there by Grand Central Station, they go to a Broadway show, they go on a dinner cruise after the show at Carnegie Hall. I mean, it’s just really something special,” Harris said. “A lot of kids in this area, they’ll never to go anywhere like that. And so this is something that’s really amazing that someone from Poteau, Oklahoma, has been arranging all these years.”
For more information or to donate, call King at (918) 649-4872 or email kingb@phs.poteau.k12.ok.us.
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Trail Dance Film Festival draws independent filmmakers and fans to Duncan this weekend
Edmond actor Mark Adam Goff appears in a scene from the independent film "Substance."
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
Trail Dance festival draws indie filmmakers and fans to Duncan
The award-winning event will feature several Oklahoma-made movies, including two featuring local celebrity John Ferguson, aka Count Gregore.
DUNCAN — Oklahoma’s independent film scene has its own big dance happening this weekend.
While A-list stars, big-name Hollywood directors and snap-happy paparazzi flock to Utah for the final weekend of the sprawling Sundance Film Festival, Duncan is hosting a similarly named celebration of indie film: the Trail Dance Film Festival.
In its sixth year, Trail Dance boasts 90 films screening Friday and Saturday at the Simmons Center, 800 Chisholm Parkway, and Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, 1000 Chisholm Trail Parkway.
Established in 2007, the festival introduces up-and-coming filmmakers from around the globe to Oklahoma’s emergent film industry and provides a welcoming forum to showcase films. The mission of the award-winning event is to encourage originality and creativity as well as promote the film industry in Oklahoma.
An open-genre contest for indie moviemakers, Trail Dance this year features a wide array of truly independent films, from the harrowing alcoholic’s saga “Substance,” the first professional feature from Lindsay resident William Tyler, to the superheroic action-comedy short “Charlie Christmas: Corndogs and Justice,” a precursor to Shawnee-area denizen Adam Hampton’s upcoming full-length costumed vigilante tale “The Unusual Calling of Charlie Christmas.”
James Murray appears in a scene from "Control Alt Destroy."
After its standing-room-only Oklahoma City premiere back in December, the action-comedy “Control Alt Destroy” will make its debut on the festival circuit at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Simmons Center during Trail Dance.
“It should be fun. It was an amazing experience eating Bunch-A-Crunch and watching yourself onscreen. I can’t really describe it. … I’m excited to see it again,” said Norman entertainer James Murray, who made his cinematic debut in the action-comedy.
“Control Alt Destroy” centers on the dysfunctional offices of Frederickson and Frederickson. Three of the workers — browbeaten Carl (Murray), perpetually angry Al (Eric Kuritz) and nerdy Dennis (David Courtright) — escape for a long lunch, but when they return, they discover that armed robbers have broken into the office and taken their co-workers hostage. Over Carl’s objections, the other two plot to rescue their colleagues, and they just might have enough unexpected skills to pull it off.
Local celebrity John Ferguson, aka Count Gregore, plays a small role in “Control Alt Destroy.” as the company’s evil boss, Mr. Frederickson. Co-writer/director Nick Sanford, a Moore resident studying film at Oklahoma City Community College, was happy to reunite with Ferguson, who previously appeared for free in his “really bad, I-can’t-say-enough-horrible-things-about-it” horror film “Them.”
“We always stayed in contact, and I actually got him to be in this one, too,” Sanford said. “John’s really great. He’s always really, really open and a lot of fun to work with and has a million stories.”
Ferguson’s most-requested story — how he became the beloved Dracula-esque character
John Ferguson appears as Count Gregore. (Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman Archives)
Count Gregore — will be the subject of another Trail Dance film, “Count Gregore: A Spook-Tacular Career.” A short adaptation of Oklahoma City filmmaker Scott Doyle’s feature-length documentary, it will screen right before “Control Alt Destroy” at 7:45 p.m. Friday at the Simmons Center, offering festival-goers a Ferguson double-feature.
“It’s a great experience to be part of something like that,” Ferguson said. “It’s extraordinary.”
The Moore resident made his on-air debut in 1956 on WKY-TV when he developed the villainous Duke of Mukeden as the foil for local children’s programming hero Danny Williams and his character 3-D Danny. The station’s operations manager eventually asked Ferguson to invent another character to host the late-night horror movie showcase “Shock Theater,” and on May 10, 1958, Ferguson introduced Oklahoma to the spooky but convivial Count Gregore,
“It was originally only supposed to be two years … who would have thought,” Ferguson said with a laugh. “The continuing one line or sentence that I hear constantly is ‘I grew up with you.’ Or ‘you scared me to death.’”
Ferguson, who will turn 84 on Feb. 17, appeared regularly on TV as the campy count into the 1980s, hosting for various local TV stations horror and old movie shows such as “Nightmare Theater,” “Sleepwalkers Matinee” and “Creature Features.”
“Never was there anything that said ‘John Ferguson portraying Count Gregore’ … so it became an entity unto its own,” he said. “It was something that I could just never really imagine until later on — even right now — the association for those people who grew up with him, (the chance for me) to be part of so many lives and not really even be aware of it at the time.”
Ferguson is still playing the count on Rosebud Radio, an Internet station featuring classic radio programs, along with taking roles in local film and theater productions. He is starring this weekend in Jewel Box Theatre’s “Black Comedy” and won’t be attending Trail Dance, but others from the “Control Alt Destroy” cast and crew will be there to represent.
“It’s a really cool festival … and it just gets bigger and bigger every year,” Sanford said.
GOING ON
Trail Dance Film Festival
When: Friday and Saturday.
Where: Simmons Center, 800 Chisholm Parkway, and Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, 1000 Chisholm Trail Parkway, in Duncan.
Information: www.traildancefilmfestival.com.
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John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie to headline Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration in March
Woody Guthrie (AP file)
The L.A.-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, announced today details about their plans to commemorate the life and career of Oklahoma folk music legend Woody Guthrie in Tulsa.
Designed to celebrate Guthrie’s extraordinary body of work and impact on American music, Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration will take place March 5-11 and will include an exhibition, educational programming, a conference at The University of Tulsa and a tribute concert headlined by John Mellencamp and Guthrie’s son Arlo Guthrie.
Arlo Guthrie (Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Archives)
Tickets to the concert, which also will feature The Flaming Lips, Hanson, Rosanne Cash, Del McCoury Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Tim O’Brien and Jimmy LaFave, will go on sale Saturday, Feb. 4.
Special exhibition
Kicking off the Tulsa celebration is the launch of the new exhibition “Woody at One Hundred: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration 1912-2012,” sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Curated by The Grammy Museum and the Woody Guthrie Archives, the exhibit will open at Gilcrease Museum on Feb. 5 and remain on view through April 29. The exhibition will consist of a broad array of Guthrie’s lyrics, journals, original artwork and ephemera from the Okemah native’s life, according to the announcement.
As part of the special exhibit, Guthrie’s original draft of the alternative American anthem “This Land is Your Land” will be on display for the first time in Oklahoma. Additionally, a week-long series of educational programming, produced by The Grammy Museum, will support the exhibition.
As a special addition to the programming, the cast of the musical “Woody Sez” will perform at Tulsa elementary schools throughout the week.
“We are delighted that Gilcrease Museum has been selected as the venue for the debut of the exhibition celebrating the life and body of work of Woody Guthrie. The exhibition will offer the public its first glimpse into the Guthrie Archives recently acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation,” said Duane H. King, Ph.D., Executive Director of Gilcrease Museum, in the announcement.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation, a Tulsa-based charitable organization, purchased the Woody Guthrie Archives in 2011 from Woody Guthrie Publications in New York and plans to create a permanent home for the archives and make Guthrie’s collection available for research and education in downtown Tulsa.
Educational Conference
“Different Shades of Red,” the March 10 University of Tulsa conference, will explore Woody Guthrie’s Oklahoma roots. It will feature three panels, each with three speakers. The panels include “A Culture of Protest,” which examines the political and cultural environment that shaped Guthrie’s views; “Red Dirt Roots,” which considers Guthrie’s musical influences; and “Echoes of Woody,” which addresses Guthrie’s legacy as it pertains to the Dust Bowl and Depression-era Oklahoma.
“For far too long, Woody Guthrie’s contributions have not been fully appreciated in his home state of Oklahoma. Now, 100 years after his birth, we are able to honor his musical legacy, explore his societal contributions and truly appreciate this iconic piece of state – and national – history right here in the Heartland. The University of Tulsa is thrilled to kick off this yearlong celebration of Guthrie’s multifaceted life,” said Brian Hosmer, H.G. Barnard Associate Professor of Western American History at TU, in the announcement.
For more information and to register for the conference, go to www.utulsa.edu/guthrie. Registration is $40 and includes lunch. National radio commentator and bestselling author Jim Hightower will deliver the keynote address. Students may register for $15 and must show a valid ID at check-in.
Tribute concert
The apex of the Tulsa celebration will take place on Saturday evening, March 10, with
John Mellencamp (AP file)
the first installment of “This Land Is Your Land ~ The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at the historic Brady Theater. John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Rosanne Cash, Del McCoury Band, The Flaming Lips, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hanson, Tim O’Brien and Jimmy LaFave will perform classic Woody Guthrie songs at the star-studded event.
Ticket prices range from $45 to $250 and will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at www.protixonline.com.
People who register for the March 10 TU educational conference by Friday, Feb. 3, will have a special opportunity to purchase advance tickets to the benefit concert.
“The goal of The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration is not just to pay tribute to Guthrie’s obvious contributions to American music, but to also broaden the national understanding of his cultural impact,” said Grammy Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli in the announcement. “The lineup scheduled for the Brady Theater show in Tulsa speaks volumes about Guthrie’s influence. It’s truly an honor to be producing this all-star event.”
Woody Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okemah. The prolific songwriter, folk musician and crusader for social justice died Oct. 3, 1967, from complications of Huntington’s disease but not before having a vast impact on American music and culture.
The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration is one of the largest and most comprehensive centennial celebrations ever staged for an American music icon. For the most up-to-date information and a complete schedule of events for the nationwide Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration, go to www.woody100.com.
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Interview: Thompson Square enjoying hard-earned breakout success, playing 3 Oklahoma dates
A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.
Thompson Square celebrates hard-earned breakout success
The country duo of Miami, OK, native Keifer Thompson and wife Shawna are opening for Lady Antebellum on the trio’s 2012 tour, launching Friday at Tulsa’s BOK Center and returning in April to Norman’s Lloyd Noble Center.
After more than a decade of struggling to make their music heard, Keifer and Shawna Thompson are now competing for best new artist awards.
And the husband-and-wife duo known as Thompson Square has been in the country music business long enough that they don’t even find it all that unusual.
“Obviously, we’re not new artists; this isn’t our first rodeo. We’ve been around for — well, I hate to say how long we’ve been around — a long time. We’ve been in Nashville for … over 10 years,” Keifer Thompson said in a phone interview last week.
“We’ve been in the game long enough to where (we know) there’s artists that have been around for 10 years that just get a new artist. It’s just a weird way that it all works out sometimes with the math and timing and everything else.”
A native of Miami, OK, Keifer Thompson could hardly ask for a better time to make a triumphant return to his home state. After a breakout 2011 fueled by their smash “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” the duo will open for superstar trio Lady Antebellum Friday at Tulsa’s BOK Center and again April 7 at Norman’s Lloyd Noble Center. In between, Thompson Square will return to Keifer’s hometown for a Feb. 17 concert at Buffalo Run Casino, where they played their last Oklahoma show about a year ago.
“You’re always worried that you go back to your hometown and no one cares … and actually it was overcapacity by a few hundred people. So that meant the world to me,” said the former paper boy for The Oklahoman. “There’s no better state to be from, and I miss being there desperately. I’m really looking forward to getting back as many times as we’re going to this year and spending some time on my home turf.”
Breakout year
Thompson Square spent much of past year on the road, playing more than 200 shows and opening for Jason Aldean’s “My Kinda Party Tour.” The duo was named Billboard’s top new country artist of 2011 based on record sales, while Mediabase gave them similar honors on the strength of radio airplay.
They were nominated for the Country Music Association’s best new artist award in November, and they are among eight semi-finalists vying for the similar fan-voted honor at April’s Academy of Country Music Awards.
“Even though we have been in Nashville for so long, we’re still learning the ropes and just trying to get used to this wild ride,” Shawna said with a laugh. “We’re still the new kids on the block.”
The couple, who have been married 12 years, first met by chance when they were both newcomers to Music City. In 1996, Keifer graduated from Missouri Southern State University in Joplin and headed for Nashville, while Shawna moved there from her native Alabama shortly after graduating high school.
“We actually moved to Nashville the same week … and we met that first week. So it was serendipity,” Keifer said by phone from Alabama, where they were visiting her family and spending their downtime playing “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.”
Careerwise, serendipity was in short supply for the couple for awhile. They initially pursued separate solo careers, but about seven years ago decided to form a duo. Still, they didn’t sign with independent Stoney Creek Records until 2010.
Lucky “Kiss”
Serendipity was back on their side when they received a demo of a new song called “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not.”
“The first listen, we knew there was something special about it. We just looked at it other and were like, ‘Oh gosh …’” said Shawna.
“‘That’s a hit!’” Keifer added.
“‘We gotta get in the studio and record this,’ Shawna finished. “We’re just very grateful to (songwriters) David Lee Murphy and Jim Collins every day for allowing us to record it because it’s not every day that new artists get a (top)-drawer song. They’re hard to come by.”
The spirited ballad was the most played song of the year at country radio, the iTunes country song of the year and a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
The couple received a Grammy nod for best country duo/group performance for the breakthrough hit, which earned its songwriters a best country song nomination, too. The song and video also garnered Thompson Square three American Country Awards, and they followed it with another top 10 single, “I Got You.”
“We were both ready to give up. After 13 years of heartaches, you can’t (help but) say ‘how much more are we gonna do this to ourselves?’ With the success of ‘Kiss Me’ and ‘I Got You’ … it’s just been a rocket ship the last year, and it feels great,” Keifer said.
“I don’t know if we deserve all of it, but we certainly worked our butt off for it. You know, we paid our dues and then some, so it’s nice to reap some benefits from all the hard work.”
IN CONCERT
Lady Antebellum
With: Darius Rucker and Thompson Square.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Where: BOK Center, 200 S Denver, Tulsa.
Information: (866) 726-5287 or www.bokcenter.com.
When: 7 p.m. April 7.
Where: Lloyd Noble Center, 2900 Jenkins Ave., Norman.
Information: 325-4666 or www.lloydnoblecenter.com.
Thompson Square
When: 9 p.m. Feb. 17
Where: Buffalo Run Casino, 1000 Buffalo Run Blvd., Miami, OK.
Information: (918) 542-7140 or www.buffaloruncasino.com.
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Merle Haggard back in the hospital
After checking himself out on Friday, country music legend Merle Haggard has returned to a Macon, Ga., hospital to continue treatment for double pneumonia, according to the Associated Press.
He spent most of last week in the hospital, and doctors found the “Okie from Muskogee” singer, 74, had several other ailments. Spokeswoman Tresa Redburn told the AP they diagnosed him with three stomach ulcers, eight polyps in his colon and diverticulitis of the esophagus.
“Thanks to all the wonderful people all over the world that prayed their special prayers. I’m a new man,” Haggard said in a statement issued through Redburn. “Another special thanks to the folks of Macon, Ga., for their kindness, intelligence and probably saving my life.”
Haggard checked into a hospital and postponed his January tour dates last Tuesday after contracting pneumonia.
He checked himself out Friday and tried to make the ride home to Redding, Calif., on his tour bus. Haggard quickly realized he wasn’t up to the trip and returned to Macon, the AP reports.
Haggard is now undergoing a more aggressive antibiotic treatment for pneumonia. The singer affectionately known as “the Hag” had part of a lung removed a few years ago while fighting cancer.
It’s unclear at this point how Haggard’s tour schedule to support his latest album, “Walking in Tennessee,” will be affected.
He was originally set to play a Jan. show at Tulsa’s River Spirit Event Center. According to the venue’s website, the show last week was rescheduled for to Sunday, April 29. Refunds on tickets purchased are made for a canceled or postponed event only. River Spirit Casino will honor all tickets purchased, according to the site.
For more information, go to www.creeknationcasino.com/entertainment/eventcenter.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Jan. 21, 2012: Hear Pat Green at Shawnee’s Firelake Grand Casino
Today’s featured event:
SHAWNEE — Hear Texas country star Pat Green at 7 p.m. Saturday at Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Information: 964-7263 or www.firelakegrand.com.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Video: Avett Brothers cover Bob Dylan, plan Tulsa show
The Avett Brothers performed Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” Thursday on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.”
The folk-rock band recorded the 1964 track for “Chimes of Freedom,” a four-disc set of Dylan covers due out Tuesday. Proceeds from the release will benefit Amnesty International.
The Avett Brothers will perform in concert April 13 at the Brady Theater in Tulsa, the venue announced today. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. next Friday, Jan. 27. Prices are $30 and $35.
For tickets and information, go to www.protix.com or www.bradytheater.com.
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St. Vincent to play May 15 show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa
Acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent is returning to the city of her birth to play a May 15 show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27. They are $19-$20 in advance or $21-$22 the day of the show, which is an all-ages event.
St. Vincent – born Annie Clark Sept. 28, 1982, in Tulsa – released in 2011 her third album, “Strange Mercy,” to widespread acclaim. The album was No. 10 on my all-Oklahomans list of top 10 albums of 2011.
The Tulsa concert is part of the spring run of U.S. dates St. Vincent announced today. Her U.S. trek will follow St. Vincent’s tour of Europe and Australia as well as her dates at the prestigious Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
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Best Bets for Jan. 20-22, 2012: Pat Green, “The Addams Family,” Bona Fide Villains & OKC Improv
Bona Fide Villains
Here are my picks for the Best Bets for entertainment happening in Oklahoma City this weekend, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
1. SHAWNEE — Hear Texas country star Pat Green at 7 p.m. Saturday at Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Information: 964-7263 or www.firelakegrand.com.
2. Make a call on “The Addams Family” during the first national tour of the Broadway musical at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker. Information: (800) 869-1451 or www.celebrityattractions.com.
3. Listen to Oklahoma indie bands Bona Fide Villains and Ghandi Hospital at 10 p.m. Friday at VZD’s, 4200 N Western. Information: 524-4203 or www.vzds.com.
4. Laugh at the premiere performances of One State Two State Red State Blue State and Off-Book: Musical Morsels at 10 p.m. Saturday during the latest OKC Improv showcase at Ghostlight Theatre Club, 3110 N Walker. Information: 343-1570 or www.okcimprov.com.
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