22nd Annual Tumbleweed Calf Fry begins today in Stillwater
Josh Abbott Band
STILLWATER – The 22nd Annual Calf Fry, a celebration of red dirt and Texas country music as well as the deep-fried Rocky Mountain oysters, begins today and continues through Saturday at the Tumbleweed Dance Hall.
The lineup for this year’s “Testicle Festival,” as it is affectionately known, includes Josh Abbott Band, Randy Rogers Band, Casey Donahew Band, The Departed, Wade Bowen, Whiskey Myers and more.
Look for my interview with the frontman of the Randy Rogers Band Friday. To read my interview with Texas “bandito country” band Crooks, which will make its Calf Fry debut playing Saturday night’s after-party, click here.
GOING ON
22nd Annual Calf Fry
When: Thursday-Saturday. Shows start at 5:30 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Where: Tumbleweed Dance Hall, Lakeview and Country Club roads, Stillwater.
Information: www.calffry.com.
2013 Calf Fry lineup:
Thursday
Josh Abbott Band
Whiskey Myers
The Cadillac III
Bri Bagwell
After-party with Taylor Atkinson Band
Friday
Randy Rogers Band
Wade Bowen
The Departed
Jake Moffat Band
After-party with The Quaker City Nighthawks
Saturday
Casey Donahew Band
JT Hodges
Kyle Park
Chad Sullins
After party with Crooks
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Interview: Texas ‘bandito country’ band Crooks joins lineup for Tumbleweed Calf Fry, kicking off Thursday in Stillwater
A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.
Texas ‘bandito country’ band Crooks joins Calf Fry lineup
The emerging Austin six-piece outfit will perform for its first time at the long-running Stillwater festival, which plays Thursday through Saturday at the Tumbleweed Dance Hall.
Crooks happens to be a pretty apt name for a Texas band playing what they’ve dubbed “bandito country.”
“It’s like outlaw country but you’ve got the Mexican flair in there,” explained multi-instrumentalist Sam Alberts in a recent phone interview his home in Austin. “It’s definitely not polished. It’s kind of a little bit more raw.”
The roguish name also suits the attitude of the six-piece group, who might not steal something just to live up to it — but again, they just might.
“It doesn’t mean we’re not going to,” Alberts said cagily.
The emerging Texas country band wouldn’t mind stealing the show when it plays one of the legendary after-parties at Stillwater’s 22nd Annual Calf Fry at the Tumbleweed Dance Hall.
Crooks has developed a reputation in the past few years for putting on rowdy late-night shows that should help them fit in nicely with Josh Abbott, Randy Rogers, Casey Donahew and the other bands at this year’s Calf Fry, which kicks off Thursday and continues through Saturday.
The “bandito country” band — Alberts, 28, who plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and trumpet in their live shows; Josh Mazour, 31, singer/songwriter/guitarist; Rob Bacak, 29, drummer; Joey McGill, 24, stand-up bass player; Doug Day, 32, trumpet player/guitarist/percussionist; and Anthony Ortiz Jr., 20, accordion player — crossed the Red River for the first time earlier this year. They’ve played just two Sooner State shows — at Grady’s 66 Pub in Yukon and the Mercury Lounge in Tulsa — but considered both successful.
“None of us are very familiar with Oklahoma in general, but we all really liked Tulsa. We liked the downtown where we were staying. We took kind of a scenic route out of town and went by a little flea market in Shawnee. Saw a classic car show there and bought about 30 VHS movies for our van at the flea market. So it was pretty cool. We’ve had a good time there,” Alberts said.
“We’ll play a little Merle Haggard there to get the Oklahoma crowd on our side and then launch into the set. We’ve been pretty well received. We’ve got a lot of followers from both of the shows that we played there,” Alberts said.
The band’s sound has been steadily evolving since Mazour founded it as a stripped-down duo back in 2007, but Haggard has always been among their influences.
“Josh he’ll write most of the lyrics, and … his heroes are like Townes Van Zandt and Billy Joe Shaver and Hank Williams Sr. You know, he tries to convey a certain level of just honesty through his lyrics, and when we’re writing music around that it kind of tends to fall in those same veins,” Alberts said.
“We’ve not really done a whole lot of planning of our sound. When Josh and I got together, it just kind of came out that way: He was writing some country songs; I was coming at it with a trumpet and a desire to kind of paint these large cinematic pictures. And our sound kind of came together for that.”
The multi-instrumentalist became one of the first additions to the growing band when Mazour posted a Craigslist ad looking for a trumpet player to perform on his dark story-song “My First Gun.”
“We both grew up in San Antonio, so there’s a lot of Hispanic culture that we’ve kind of grown up around. That’s part of the reason we wanted to … have this southwestern-y feel rather than just straight-up outlaw country,” Alberts said.
“You definitely don’t think trumpet in traditional country. But everyone thinks trumpet in spaghetti westerns, and you know, it used to be country-western (music). So there is kind of a natural progression there.” when you think of old western movies and the trumpet flourishes. People kind of seem to realize that and connect to it.”
The band has let its sound develop organically. While recording the 2012 album “The Rain Will Come,” they wrote two songs — “Pull up Your Boots” and “Heart Achin’ Town” — that cried out for an accordion. So they recruited accordion legend Flaco Jimenez of the Texas Tornados to play on the album and then added “accordion wunderkind” Ortiz to the live lineup.
“We to kind of do everything we can to bring our recordings to life live, but when we’re in the studio, we just kind of see it as a canvas. And we just try and paint the picture we’re imagining,” Alberts said.
Along with regional acclaim, “The Rain Will Come” garnered Crooks national attention from American Songwriter, CMT.com and MTV Hive, which has made it possible for the band to expand its reach outside Texas and join the Calf Fry festivities for the first time.
“We’re pretty excited to do it,” Alberts said. “We’ve heard that it’s gonna be pretty crazy there at the after-party, a lot people are gonna be a little bit tipsy, gonna be in there shoulder to shoulder, having a good time. That’s kind of where we thrive. We like our crowds drunk and rowdy.”
He doesn’t yet know if he likes the event’s signature delicacy, but he’s willing to find out if someone slides a basket of calf fries his way.
“That’s my philosophy: You’re crazy if you don’t try something once.”
GOING ON
22nd Annual Calf Fry
When: Thursday-Saturday. Shows start at 5:30 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Where: Tumbleweed Dance Hall, Lakeview and Country Club roads, Stillwater.
Information: www.calffry.com.
2013 Calf Fry lineup:
Thursday
Josh Abbott Band
Whiskey Myers
The Cadillac III
Bri Bagwell
After-party with Taylor Atkinson Band
Friday
Randy Rogers Band
Wade Bowen
The Departed
Jake Moffat Band
After-party with The Quaker City Nighthawks
Saturday
Casey Donahew Band
JT Hodges
Kyle Park
Chad Sullins
After party with Crooks
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Interview: Red Dirt Rangers celebrate 25th anniversary with Kickstarter campaign, new album, radio show & “Oklahoma World Tour”
The Red Dirt Rangers are celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band this year.
A version of this column appears in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. To read more about the band’s Kickstarter campaign, click here.
Red Dirt Rangers celebrate 25 years
Column: The ever-busy Payne County band recently launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund the final touches on its new album, “Lone Chimney.”
Celebrating 25 years as a band, the Red Dirt Rangers keep digging new ways to “keep spreadin’ the dirt.”
The venerable Payne County band — singer/guitarist Brad Piccolo, singer/mandolin player John Cooper and singer/lead guitarist Ben Han — has revived its “Red Dirt Radio Hour” on KOSU, embarked on its “Oklahoma World Tour” and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the final touches on its new album, “Lone Chimney.”
“We do have a lot of irons in the fire. We just always seem to have something going on and I like it that way,” Cooper said in a phone interview from his home in rural Payne County community for which the new album is named. “It keeps it interesting for us to have all those other things to do. It’s all intertwined with the music, but it’s all different facets.”
The Red Dirt Rangers are, from left, singer/mandolin player John Cooper, singer/lead guitarist Ben Han and singer/guitarist Brad Piccolo.
Long history
As expected, the long-running band’s history is a long story with its roots in the fertile Stillwater music scene.
“It seems like a whole series of happy accidents,” Piccolo said. “I really believe in pre-destiny or destiny or whatever, and“I think these things happen for a reason. You come across people that you’re supposed to come across, and that’s what happened with us.”
He and original Rangers bassist Bob Wiles became friends at Oklahoma State University, started playing music together and began making pilgrimages to The Farm, the homestead considered the birthplace of red dirt music. They met Cooper, who at the time didn’t play but was a great music fan, at the now-legendary farmhouse.
“I had an old cheap mandolin that I’d gotten for a Christmas present or something, and I said, ‘Man, you love music so much, Coop, here’s a mandolin.’ I showed him three chords and I said ‘Well, now you know 10,000 songs,’” Piccolo recalled.
He and Wiles first invited Cooper to perform with them at an on-campus open mike called Aunt Molly’s Rent Free Music House. They played living room and front porch shows for several years, until Jimmy LaFave gave the budding band a slot at his musician’s reunion at Willie’s Saloon.
“The rest is history,” Piccolo said with a laugh. “Our first gig as the Red Dirt Rangers was in ’88 … but a lot of the same people that ended up starting in the band were the same guys we were playing with back in ’81.”
The lineup has shifted over the years — “at one time, the Rangers had a rhythm and a lead accordion,” Piccolo recalled with a laugh — but Piccolo, Cooper and Han have formed the core since original bassist/guitarist David Clark invited Han to one of the band’s early jam sessions.
“He said, ‘I work with this guy who’s from Borneo, and he plays a mean guitar,’ so Ben brought his guitar over and we just clicked immediately. It was a beautiful thing,” Piccolo said.
“We were friends first and then secondary to that we started playing music together. … We had a good footing for a good building to begin with, before we started adding on to it.”
Almost from the beginning, the Rangers played original songs along with old country covers. In 1988, they saved enough money to record their debut album, “Cimarron Soul,” in a single night at Stillwater’s Lamb Studios. Since, they have released four more albums and been featured on five compilations.
From left, Ben Han, Brad Piccolo and John Cooper of the Red Dirt Rangers have been working with Pawnee-based producer Steve Ripley on their new album, “Lone Chimney.”
Anniversary album
For the past few years, the Rangers have been working with Grammy-nominated Pawnee-based producer/musician Steve Ripley. They recorded the 13 tracks, which includes several of the band’s co-writes with the late, great Childers, on old-school analog tape for maximum warmth and “aliveness.”
“Steve is the greatest recording engineer/producer that we’ve ever worked with. He’s so knowledgeable,” Piccolo said. “He’s such an Oklahoma treasure and really a national treasure.”
Along with Ripley, the Rangers played with Grammy nominees John Fullbright, Lloyd Maines and Fats Kaplin on “Lone Chimney.” Although the album is finished, the band recently launched its first Kickstarter campaign to fund a promotional push and other unfinished details.
The Rangers have raised nearly $12,000 toward their $15,000 goal, and they have until April 27 to reach the mark or they won’t get the funding.
“It’s really has been a great experience,” Piccolo said. “There are so many people that just love the music so much that they just want to help out.”
Along with a May 31 album release show at the Blue Door, the band is performing at various festivals, honky tonks and tribute concerts around the state as part of its “Oklahoma World Tour.”
Plus, the Rangers are playing albums they love on their resurrected “Red Dirt Radio Hour,” which aired for several years on KVOO in Tulsa. In January, they started broadcasting across central and northeast Oklahoma on KOSU and worldwide on KOSU.org. The popular weekly show lets them keep “spreadin’ the dirt” as they spin songs from Childers, LaFave, Fullbright, Tom Skinner, Greg Jacobs, The Damn Quails and many more.
“I honestly think it’s more fun now that it’s ever been,” Cooper said. “If you hang on for 25 years, it’ll either drive you crazy or you’ll really love it. Sometimes a little bit of both, but mostly, it’s love.”
IN CONCERT
Red Dirt Rangers
When: 10 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Mercury Lounge, 1747 S Boston Ave., Tulsa.
When: 3 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Biergarten Boogie at Stonewall Tavern, 115 S Knoblock, Stillwater.
When: 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Where: Bob Childers Tribute Concert at Eskimo Joe’s, 501 W Elm, Stillwater.
Information: www.reddirtrangers.com/shows.
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Best Bets for April 19-21, 2013: Record Store Day, “Photorealism Revisited,” Guthrie’s 89er Day Celebration, Tom Skinner and more
Skating Polly will play Saturday at Record Store Day 2013 at Guestroom Records in Norman.
Here are my picks for the Best Bets in Oklahoma entertainment this weekend; a version appears in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
1. Watch Oklahoma City Ballet’s production of the classic “Swan Lake” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker. Information: 848-8637 or www.okcballet.com.
2. Hear Grammy-nominated guitarist Bill Kirchen at 8 p.m. Friday, Oklahoma red dirt music pioneer Tom Skinner at 8 p.m. Saturday and acclaimed singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley. Information: 524-0738 or www.bluedoorokc.com.
3. Celebrate Record Store Day 2013 with live music from Jabee, Skating Polly and Depth & Current beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday at Guestroom Records, 125 E Main in Norman. The Oklahoma City store, 3701 N Western, will host Kyle Reid and John Calvin starting at 2 p.m. Saturday. Information: 701-5974 or http://guestroom-records.com.
4. GUTHRIE — Commemorate the 1889 Land Run that with a carnival, parade, classic car show and more at the annual 89er Day Celebration, which continues Friday-Sunday around town. Information: www.89erdays.com.
5. See the special exhibit “Photorealism Revisited” before it closes Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive. Information: 236-3100 or www.okcmoa.com.
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No Justice back on the road after lead singer’s health crisis, headlining El Reno Burger Day on May 4
Stillwater-based red dirt band No Justice is back on the road as lead vocalist Steve Rice has recovered sufficiently from a recent life-threatening medical crisis.
The band resumed touring a week ago with three straight nights of shows in Texas.
“This weeks shows went great. voice held up and felt good. i guess were officially back in business. now heading to church to give thanks. thank you all for coming out this week and showing your support -Steve,” Rice wrote Sunday on the band’s Facebook page.
No Justice will play this Friday at Office Grill and Sports Bar in Lubbock, Texas, and Saturday at Crude Fest in Midland, Texas.
The red dirt rockers’ next Oklahoma show will be May 4 when they headline the 25th Annual El Reno Fried Onion Burger Day Festival in downtown. The lineup for the El Reno fest also will include Brison Bursey, Kyle Bennett and Six Market Blvd. For more information, go to www.elrenoburgerday.com.
As previously reported, No Justice was forced to cancel some shows after Rice underwent three emergency surgeries in March.
The singer/songwriter/acoustic guitarist arrived at the emergency room in Stillwater on March 18 complaining of chest and stomach pains. Doctors determined he was suffering from an enlarged gallbladder that was described by the doctors as one of the worst cases they had seen, according to a news release.
Rice’s gallbladder was successfully removed the following day, but his chest pains continued. A slew of tests and X-rays revealed a significant amount of fluid around the singer’s heart resulting from a viral infection, according to the release. Rice was rushed by ambulance to an Oklahoma City hospital, where doctors withdrew more than a liter of fluid from the sack around his heart.
That evening, Rice took a turn for the worse, coming down with a serious fever. Fluid was building around his heart again and also in his lungs, as he was additionally suffering from pneumonia. Rice underwent yet another surgery where doctors successfully removed the fluid for the second time.
Several Oklahoma musicians played a benefit show for Rice and the band March 26 at Eskimo Joe’s.
No Justice has long been a staple in the Oklahoma/Texas music scene. The decade-old band has released five acclaimed records and has generated two No. 1 hits and eight Top 10 singles on the Texas Music Chart. In December, No Justice released its fifth album, “America’s Son,” on Smith Music Group. The album debuted on the Billboard chart the first week of its release.
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What to do in Oklahoma on April 10, 2013: Pay tribute to Bob Wills at the Oklahoma History Center
Today’s featured event:
Pay tribute to the late, great King of Western Swing at 6:30 tonight at “Bob Wills @ the OKPOP” at the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive.
Hosted by the planned Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, the event will feature Carolyn Wills, Dr. Charles Townshend, and Byron Berline joining the Red Dirt Rangers in a special tribute to the legacy of Bob Wills.
Local group Idabel will kick off the evening at 6:45 p.m., and the program begins at 7 p.m.
Doors and the exhibit “OK @ the Movies” will open at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is free but seating is limited and must be reserved. To RSVP, call 522-5202.
For more information, go to www.okhistory.org.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Video: Red Dirt Rangers running Kickstarter campaign to help release new album “Lone Chimney”
Venerable Payne County band the Red Dirt Rangers are conducting a Kickstarter campaign to help release their new album “Lone Chimney.”
The trio has been working for a couple of years with renowned Pawnee-based producer Steve Ripley on its sixth album, named for the rural northeast Payne County community they call home. The album also features Grammy-nominated special guests John Fullbright, Lloyd Maines and Fats Kaplin.
Although the recording process to old-school analog tape is done, a few key steps remain, including mastering, artwork, CD replication and promotion.
It’s the band’s 25th anniversary, so the album release is a big deal. Plus, I’ve been hearing the band talk about this album for awhile now and I really want to hear the finished product.
The Kickstarter campaign has raised $9,156 toward the $15,000 goal with 17 days remaining.
Click here to donate or learn more.
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Full Norman Music Festival 6 schedule revealed
The Joy Formidable
The organizers of the Norman Music Festival have revealed a full festival schedule, and it is vast and impressive.
The schedule is listed in reverse chronological order, with Saturday’s final performer first and Thursday’s festival-opening act last. However, organizers noted on Facebook that the schedule is subject to change.
Norman Music Festival 6 is set for April 25-27 in the Arts District, extending from the 300 block of E Main Street to the railroad tracks.
Retro rock singer-songwriter JD McPherson, who hails from Broken Arrow, and alt-pop/rock band The Joy Formidable, which started in North Wales and is now based in London, will headline the sixth annual Norman Music Festival.
On April 27, downtown Norman will transform into one of the nation’s largest music festivals. To accommodate the festival’s growing audience, the Main Stage will be at Main Street and Porter.
Among the Main Stage performers will be Big Sam’s Funky Nation, King Khan & BBQ Show, Defining Times, Mike Dillon, Josh Sallee, The Grown-Ups and Feathered Rabbit.
The Norman Music Festival’s Jack Daniels Stage will feature McPherson as well as Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, Elephant Revival, The O’s, Samantha Crain, Beau Jennings & the Tigers and Kyle Reid. (Featured performers are marked in bold on the schedule.)
For more information, go to www.normanmusicfestival.com, www.Facebook.com/NormanMusicFestival or Twitter.com/NormanMusicFest.
See the full NMF6 schedule after the break.
John Fullbright, Monte Montgomery, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Jason Isbell, Will Hoge and Uncle Lucius to play Tulsa International Mayfest
John Fullbright
Oklahoma’s own Grammy-nominated Americana singer-songwriter John Fullbright, Monte Montgomery, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Will Hoge and Uncle Lucius will be among the headliners and supporting acts at next month’s Tulsa International Mayfest, organizers announced this week.
Tulsa International Mayfest is set for May 16-19. Downtown Tulsa takes its celebration of arts and music outside with an array of fine arts and crafts, four stages of performing artists and a KidZone. Plus, five indoor galleries will be showcasing a variety of artwork.
Here are the musical headliners and supporting acts:
Thursday, May 16: MONTE MONTGOMERY (award winning guitar wizard/singer songwriter) with John Fullbright (Oklahoma 2013 Grammy Award nominated singer songwriter)
Austin-based Monte Montgomery is a longtime Tulsa favorite. Named one of the “Top 50 Guitar Players” of all time by Guitar Magazine, Montgomery is often called a “triple threat” for his outstanding vocal, songwriting and guitar skills. He is currently touring behind his critically acclaimed release, Tethered.
From Bearden, Oklahoma, young John Fullbright has seen the national spotlight shine his way the last few years. A tremendous talent, Fullbright was chosen to perform at this year’s Grammy Award Ceremony. His album, From the Ground Up, was nominated for “Best Americana Album”. His songwriting invokes musical heroes like Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman and Townes Van Zandt.
Friday, May 17: ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD featuring Devon Allman, Cyril Neville & Mike Zito (rocking blues, soul, funk supergroup) with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (progressive alt-country)
Royal Southern Brotherhood‘s debut release was recently nominated “Best Blues Rock Album” by the Blues Music Foundation. The members of this musical supergroup have impressive pedigrees – Cyril Neville (The Meters & The Nevill Brothers), Devon Allman (Honey Tribe, son of Greg Allman), Mike Zito (award winning blues guitarist), Charlie Wooten (award winning bassist) & Yonrico Scott (Derek Trucks band). In the US South, where music is religion, two rock ‘n’ roll bloodlines tower above all others and mere mention of the Allman and Neville Brothers casts a magic spell. With a lineup comprising both the iconic Cyril Neville and Devon Allman, Royal Southern Brotherhood come pre-loaded with expectations. Don’t worry: they can match them. The family tree might be auspicious, but this new band trades on talent, not genealogy. It’s not about rock history: it’s about the here-and-now.
Jason Isbell was born in Greenhill Alabama. Isbell joined the Drive-by Truckers in 2001 where he recorded and wrote for the band over their next three albums, authoring some of their more popular songs. He left the Truckers in 2007 and quickly released his first solo album “Sirens of the Ditch”. Since then he and his group the 400 unit have released three more albums and have performed at music venues everywhere, appearing on many music-related television programs. He continues to write and perform to critical acclaim and just recently won an Americana Music Award for song of the year “Alabama Pines”, about his North Alabama home.
Saturday May 18: WILL HOGE (Americana & Southern rock) with Uncle Lucius (young Texas rockers)
Will Hoge is a Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and musician who has toured with artists like Shinedown and Needtobreathe. He has performed on three occasions at the Grand Ole Opry. Hoge penned the 2013 Grammy nominated Eli Young song “Even if it Breaks Your Heart”, and Country hit band Lady Antebellum recently covered Hoge’s song, “Better off Now”.
Uncle Lucius are a group of talented young Texans whose songs are reminiscent of everything from The Doors to early Black Crowes. The band’s music comes from the deep roots of rock and roll, combining it with elements of blues and r&b.Expect an energetic upbeat show from this Indie rock band.
For more information, call (918) 582-6435 or go to www.tulsamayfest.org.
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Best Bets for April 5-7, 2013: Sugar Free Allstars with Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Lyric Theatre’s “Glass Menagerie,” “Okie Folkies & Freaks,” Leon Russell’s Birthday Bash
Sugar Free Allstars
Here are my picks for the Best Bets in entertainment happening around Oklahoma this weekend, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
1. Catch Oklahoma kindie rock duo Sugar Free Allstars in concert with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic at 2 p.m. Sunday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker. Preconcert activities start at 1 p.m. in the Civic Center lobby. Information: 842-5387 or www.okcphilharmonic.org.
2. See Lyric Theatre’s staging of Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical masterpiece “The Glass Menagerie” at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at Lyric at the Plaza, 1725 NW 16 in the Plaza District. Performances continue through April 13. Information: 524-9312 or www.lyrictheatreokc.com.
3. Listen to Scott Keeton, Susan Herndon, Empty Bottles and more at “Okie Folkies & Freaks: Songs Of Oklahoma,” a benefit show for the Music Moves Mountains Foundation, at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley. Doors open at 6 p.m. Information: 524-0738 or www.bluedoorokc.com.
4. TULSA — Hear Oklahoma native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell play his 27th Annual Birthday Bash featuring Rachele Lynae at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Brady Theater, 105 W Brady. Doors open at 7 p.m. Information: (918) 582-7239 or www.bradytheater.com.
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