Video: Previewing the Season 2 finals of “The Voice,” which begin tonight
The two-night finale for the second season of the hit reality TV show “The Voice” begins tonight on NBC.
The show’s social media correspondent Christina Milian sat down with each of the four celebrity coaches – Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green and Oklahoma country music superstar Blake Shelton – to chat with them about the finals. I love what she has to say about going over to a party at Blake’s house in Los Angeles and finding several of his now-eliminated team members hanging out there. He admitted he cares about his team members “to a fault sometimes.”
“I like to be around good people,” Blake says.
Blake even admits he has been a bit intimidated by his finalist, seasoned backup singer Jermaine Paul, who has toured a lot of with Alicia Keys.
The other “The Voice” Season 2 finalists are Tony Lucca for Team Adam, Chris Mann for Team Xtina and Juliet Simms for Team CeeLo.
The final live performance episode of “The Voice’s” second season will air at 7 tonight, with the two-hour season finale showing at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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What to do in Oklahoma on March 7, 2012: Hear Flowers of Edinburgh, Joe Stansberry and Jarod Grice at Acoustic Oklahoma
Today’s featured event:
Hear Jarod Grice, Flowers of Edinburgh and Joe Stansberry create “live, local, handmade acoustic music” from 7 to 10 tonight at the weekly Acoustic Oklahoma showcase at Picasso Cafe, 3009 Paseo.
For more information, go to www.acousticoklahoma.com or www.facebook.com/AcousticOklahoma.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Video: Red Earth Festival preview at the Oklahoma Capitol
The 26th Annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival is about a month away!
The festival will be June 8-10 at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.
Visitors to the state Capitol got a bit of a preview of the American Indian dancing and artwork showcased at Red Earth earlier this week during Arts Day at the Capitol. Red Earth was among about 40 different organizations who turned out at the Capitol to support the Oklahoma Arts Council and arts activities and education in the state.
Look for my coverage of the Red Earth Festival as the event draws closer. For more information, go to www.redearth.org.
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Video: Happy Star Wars Day!
May the Fourth, or Force, be with you! Happy Star Wars Day!
Celebrate by taking a cello lesson, or maybe by dancing like a wookie, or perhaps by giving Darth Vader the accordion player a thumbs up!
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Video: Newest trailers for “Avengers,” “Amazing Spider-Man,” “Brave” and more summer movies
The busy blockbuster season kicked off at midnight today with the opening of the hotly anticipated superhero mashup movie “Marvel’s The Avengers.” Also on the agenda for the summer, which is forecast to be a record-breaker at the box office, are the Batman three-quel “The Dark Knight Rises,” the web-slinging reboot “The Amazing Spider-Man,” Ridley Scott’s “Alien” spin-off “Prometheus,” the time-traveling sequel “Men in Black 3,” the TV remake “Dark Shadows,” Jeremy Renner’s foray into the ongoing spy saga “The Bourne Legacy,” the Pixar girl-power fairytale “Brave” and many more.
To read The Oklahoman’s summer movie preview, click here, then check out the newest trailers from some of the season’s anticipated blockbusters:
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Video: St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs chat in Noisey.com’s first “Back & Forth”
Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist Annie Clark of St. Vincent and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs are the first artists chosen to participate in Noisey.com’s new series “Back & Forth.” Here’s the notion:
We had a simple idea: get two rad musicians we love to sit down and just talk, like two humans. We’re calling the result “Back & Forth,” and our first episode features St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs.
The result is a fun, casual and occasionally crazy chat.
St. Vincent will play a May 15 show in the city of her birth: at the historic Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. For more information, go to www.cainsballroom.
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Video: Broncho “I Don’t Really Want to Be Social”
Tulsa/Norman punk/garage rockers Broncho released this week their music video “I Don’t Really Want to Be Social” via Spinner.com.
The song is from the band’s 2011 debut album “Can’t Get Past the Lips,” which was on my top 10 album list for the year.
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Video: Thompson Square’s “Glass” Version T2
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Academy of Country Music Vocal Duo of the Year Thompson Square – which consists of Miami, OK, native Keifer Thompson and his wife Shawna – recently released a new version of the music video for their unabashedly romantic ballad.
Compare and contrast to the original music video:
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Wednesday Video Spotlight: Oklahoma City University graduates Kelli O’Hara, Ron Raines earn Tony nominations
Two Oklahoma City University graduates have earned Tony Award nominations for their work during the 2011-12 Broadway season, reports The Oklahoman Fine Arts Editor Rick Rogers.
Kelli O’Hara, an Elk City native who was raised in Edmond, earned a Best Actress nod for her starring role as bootlegger Billie Bendix in the new Gershwin musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” The 1998 OCU grad was previously nominated for her work in “The Light in the Piazza,” “The Pajama Game” and “South Pacific.”
“It’s another wonderful surprise … never expected but always hoped for,” O’Hara said after learning about her fourth Tony nomination. “Feels like the cherry on top of an already indulgent dessert. It feels great!”
Ron Raines, a Texas native who earned a music degree from OCU in 1974, was honored with a Best Actor nomination for his role as Benjamin Stone in the 2011 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” The production had a limited four-month Broadway run, but it will reopen Thursday and run through June 9 in Los Angeles.
Check out O’Hara and Raines in their Tony-nominated roles in this Wednesday Video Spotlight.
According to the Associated Press, 30 of 37 shows this season got at least one Tony Award nomination. The folks at “Once” had the most reasons to celebrate, as the musical based on the low-budget 2006 film about an unlikely romance between a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician in Dublin earned a leading 11 nominations, including nods for best musical, for both its lead actors, its book, lighting, sound, choreography and its set, which offers the audience real drinks before the show in a replica pub.
Two musicals using George and Ira Gershwin songs — “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and O’Hara’s “Nice Work If You Can Get It” — each got 10 nominations.
And “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a play about the origins of Peter Pan co-produced by Disney Theatrical Productions earned nine nominations, while Disney’s energetic song-and-dance musical “Newsies” got eight nods.
The fall revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies,” starring Raines, got eight nominations.
The nominations, picked by 22 theatre professionals, were announced Tuesday by Tony-winning Oklahoma native Kristin Chenoweth and “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons. The actual awards will be broadcast on CBS from the Beacon Theatre on June 10. Neil Patrick Harris, the star of “How I Met Your Mother,” will be the host.
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Wednesday Video Spotlight: Vince Gill and Chris Botti perform “Losing You”
Oklahoma-born and bred Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill and trumpet legend Chris Botti recently appeared on “Good Morning America” to perform “Losing You,” their collaboration on Botti’s new album “Impressions.”
The album also features guest stars Andrea Bocelli, Herbie Hancock, Caroline Campbell, David Foster and Mark Knopfler.
To watch the Gill and Botti’s brief interview with GMA host Robin Roberts, click here.
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