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Longest Running
Blues Fest in the State ready to roll
with more music than ever!
RENTIESVILLE 2009 LINEUP
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RENTIESVILLE 2009 LINEUP
(35 bands from 10 states, 65 hours of
music)
FRIDAY September 4 th
WATERMELON SLIM & Workers
CEDRIC BURNSIDE &
LIGHTNIN' MALCOM
2 Man Wrecking Crew
Tony Mathews
Pure Silk LADYDEE
Berry Harris Leon Blue
Harry and Debbie Blackwell
Tru Blu Selby Minner
Debbie & Trish Henning
Clarence King HAROLD ALDRIDGE
Andrew 'To-low 16' Miller
Invitational Jam with Richard Web
BECKY REYES, Harmonica Scott
Battle of the Bands & JAMS
THE KID’S VILLAGE
(all three nites ) :
faces & crafts
Joann & puppets Patrick Duffy pottery
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SATURDAY September 5th
ZAC HARMON DETONATORS
RANDY MCALLISTER
MISS BLUES
LEON BLUE
WES REYNOLDS BROADWAY JIMMY
HOPPY NILES One Armed Bandit
HARLEY HAMM, BILL WILLIS
Roland Bowling
Blue Fire Foley
SELBY MINNER BLUES ON THE MOVE
Andrew 'To-low 16' Miller Band
Eric Alan
Checotah HS JAZZ BAND
Invitational Jam with Frank Ray
Sunshine Hahn
THE KID’S VILLAGE adds , at 7
and 9 pm,
David Berntson &
HARPS 4 KIDZ
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SUNDAY September 6th
JOE LOUIS WALKER
VERNON GARRETT
LEON BLUE
JAMES WALKER
SELBY MINNER Bl on the Move
JIMMY the Preacher ELLIS
FRANK RAY BAND
TONY MATHEWS
BECKY REYES
Harmonica Scott
Andrew 'To-low 16'
Miller
JESSE CAHN
Perry Thomas
Invitational Jam with Karen Woody
Gospel Show Sun:
Rev Tony Wise and Chior, OKC
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Fri Sept 4, Sat Sept 5, Sun Sept 6, 5 pm
- 5 am
contact: Selby Minner 918-473-2411 855-0978
the focus event of the OK Blues Hall of Fame
701 DC Minner Street,
Rentiesville OK 74459; 5 miles N of I-40 off US
69…15 miles S of Muskogee OK
www.dcminnerblues.com -
dcminner@windstream.net
www.jukezoo.com
Number 18! Thirty five
bands from 10 states – 50 sets – 65 hours of
music in all - will be presented in Rentiesville
at the OK Blues Hall of Fame, Down Home Blues
Club and Minner home place...What a way to wrap
up the summer! Dance under the stars or sit in
air conditioned comfort. Check out the Current or log on
to the website
www.dcminnerblues.com
for complete details and a printable poster for
the three day blues extravaganza.
through playing the music itself. The
Blues is party music - people who work hard need
to have fun once in a while, and the blues is
custom designed for this purpose, (among
others, - like expressing yourself,
dancing...)
The Blues presented at Rentiesville
run the gamut from
young guns who rely on ‘fire’ to get over
straight through to the old timers of the genre
who roar or finesse their way through the
blues… and every stripe in between. True blues,
and a few derivations.
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Sept 4, 5, 6
5 pm - 5 am
WHAT: |
Three days and nights, Three stages, indoors and
out... 35 bands, over 200 musicians,
workshops,
kid's arts and
music activities,
bar-b-que. A fun time that attracts some 4,000 people to
the historic rural Black Township Rentiesville,
the birthplace and home of OK Blues Legend and
founder D.C. Minner. |
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WHEN: |
2009- Labor Day
Wknd, Fri Sat Sun
Sept 4, 5, 6 -- 5 pm
'til 5 am nightly |
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WHO: |
a showcase of 24
regional groups and 5 nationally acclaimed
headliners. We are a family event with two outdoor
stages and lots for kids to do throughout the three
day Festival. Plus the Juke Joint which goes after
hours indoors! |
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What's Cool, What' Not: |
Bring chairs or blankets unless you come early. No
coolers or pets. |
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HOW
MUCH: |
Tickets are $15/day (about $1.50 a band!)
KIDS under 12 FREE! Volunteers FREE! |
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Volunteer Option: |
It takes a lot of people to do this - we have a
great deal for volunteers Volunteer Option: help us
out for 3 hours, get your $15 for that day BACK and
½ off on a T-shirt!
Click here for
details. |
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WHERE WE ARE: |
DC Minner's Down Home Blues Club in Rentiesville, OK
(pop. 66) is in the rural township of
RENTIESVILLLE OK. Just off of US 69, follow the
signs into Rentiesville to DC Minner Street and you
are here....Rentiesville is 15 minutes South of
Muskogee, 70 miles SE of Tulsa, 1hour West of Fort
Smith, 2 hours East of Oklahoma City -- 2 exits
north on US 69 from I-40;
Click for maps. |
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MOTELS: |
We recommend any major chain in Muskogee, 15 minutes
up US 69. Travel Lodge, Bacone Inn, Motel 6, Super
8, Ramada Inn. There are new motels in Eufaula, 15
minutes south near the lake.... In Checotah the
motel we recommend is America's Best across from the
truck stop, near Wal-Mart. |
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CAMPING: |
Parking is free across the road. Also primitive
camping. Or Lake Eufaula State Park, first come
first served, as it is a holiday weekend. There is a
KOA East of Checotah on I-40 |
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SPONSORED BY: |
SPONSORS help make this happen...OK
Arts Council, VSA Arts, The Current, James
Hodge Ford in Muskogee, the Muscogee Creek Nation
Casino, People's National Bank in Checotah,
Budweiser, Coke, The Blues Festival Guide,
KMOD, Jammin' John Peters, KGOU, Preview,
Tulsa World, Entertainment Fort Smith, SW
Blues, BareBones Independant Filmmakers, Blues
Society of Tulsa, OK Blues Society (www.okblues.org),
lots of friends who come early and help...! |
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HOSTED BY: |
OKLAHOMA BLUES HALL OF FAME, FRIENDS OF RENTIESVILLE
BLUES INC.
(a 501 c 3 not-for-profit corporation) together
Selby Minner.
Click here for more
about F.O.R. Blues Inc. |
So who
will be playing??
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The MUSICIANS . . .
Headliners here
from across the US and abroad (!):
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Vernon Garrett
author: www.bluescritic.com
It's ludicrous that such a
talented singer like Vernon
Garrett hasn't gotten more
attention. This is well-produced
soul/blues/R & B- full of gutsy
singing and catchy hooks. Vernon
tackles the famous title track
with confidence, as he does with
"If You Don't Know Me By Now".
Both these songs are duets with
Brenda Lee Eager. She sounded so
good I searched the Net for a cd
of hers and couldn't find one! A
Shame I tell ya! There's an
update of "Crossroads 2002",
which would sound great on the
radio and would be a hit in a
better world. Same goes for the
fabulous opener "My Trial Of
Love". Soul/Blues fans of Little
Milton, Z.Z. Hill, Artie "Blues
Boy" White and Johnnie Taylor
will dig this album.
Joe Louis WalKer
Watermelon Slim
The Detonators
Wes Reynolds
Two man WrecKing Crew with Cedric Burnside and
Lightnin' Malcom...Cedric is RL
Burnside's grandson and the band was chosen
up-and-coming band of the year at the IBC in
Memphis.
Zac Harmon
Randy McAllister
Tony Mathews
Hollywood - Selby says "Tony is a life long
friend of D.C.'s and the most serious student of
the guitar I have ever known personally." Tony
toured the world with Ray Charles for 18 years
and worked sessions for Capitol records and also
toured with Little Richard.
LEON BLUE
Las Vegas - plays in Europe several times a year
and hails from Las Vegas. he will be all over
the Festival sitting in with his cheery blues
piano
Regionals
from 4 states:
Berry Harris is
a trouper who has personally kept the Blues
alive in Wichita for many years.. Inducted into
our OK Blues Hall of Fame, he says " the longer
I play the better I feel.. I just do not want to
stop!".
BACKUP BLUES BAND
Comes in
from Dallas - a seasoned group of musicians with
a tight funky fun band.
JIMMY the Preacher
ELLIS has
lived in Seattle and Arkansas and Texas and
Tulsa. One of this year's inductees into the OK
Blues Hall of Fame here in Rentiesville. throaty
vocals, harmonica and guitar - lots of fun and
real blues.
Harry and Debbie Blackwell - the best in
Hipppy Blues from Mt. Shasta
Clarence King jazz
sax will be at the High School in Checotah with
a workshop and then play with the Jazz Band on
the first Set outdoors Saturday nite.
The area's
best:
Pure Silk
a really high quality outfit from Tulsa.
Together since 1975 or before...a family R&B
Blues sound......Walter Watson is one of the
areas best drummers and they have opened for
Lowell Fulsom, Little Milton, Albert King and
Bobby Blues Bland.
Pat Moss
hails from Tahlequah with his Native blues -
slide, harmonica. His hit song is Bar room
preacher and he sure rocks on Wang Dang
Doodle...
Roland Bowling
loves to perform for veterans and bikers. He is
a big man with a great guitar style, lots of
originals and a sweet and capable - and cute -
wife on the bass. OKC metro is his stomping
grounds. He also hosts KXRO's Sunday Night Blues
Cruise.
Sunshine
is sweet and
serious about the guitar. A lovely smile and
she has a way with a song.
Jahruba
will run drum circles
throughout the event for the kids...He can make
any kid sound great in 20 minutes!!
Linda Dixon of
Shawnee will paint faces in the kid's Village
Joann McMillan
brings the costumes and
puppets which the kids love.
Dues
Miss Blues here every year and not to be
missed. Tours the midwest circuit and is a hit
every where she sings. Texas shout style...true
traditional blues with bite!
Selby and Friends host the event as D.C.
brought Selby to live in Rentiesville in 1970.
Debbie Henning
has been streaming video concerts from the OKC
area
Young players
in their teens - good, too - Sat Nite:
Blue Fire Foley slide guitar from a
thirteen year old and he can really wail on the
deep blues. great stage presence.
Perry Thomas 23 and from Muskogee, this
young man who is blind is maturing into an
effective bandleader.
Andrew 'To-low 16' Miller - New this year
D.C. found this young man doing a residency in
OKC when Andrew was in the second grade - and
could play blues guitar. D.C. hired him and paid
him his first $50 to play the Moore Fireworks
show.. Andrew is now 16 and tears the guitar
up....lyrical and versatile. His band of
Brothers includes Mathew, 18, on bass and Kevin
Miller, 14 on traps. Check them ou, a must-see.
Gospel Show
Sun:
Rev
Tony Wise,
(Dallas and OKC) and his father John Wise
are D.C.'s cousins and have been singing gospel
their entire lives.
“The nicest group of people you would ever want
to meet” is the quote from the survey Selby
likes the best – “that says it all”, she says.
“My favorite thing about this music is the
people who play it and the people who love it…it
makes for a great party…everybody is here, and
smiles all around.”
it is at DC’s birthplace on the family farm
turned festival site… low key, time worn… cool
in the evenings…fun!
“Everything about Dusk Til Dawn is a ‘family’
affair. The Minners are still very dedicated
and integral to the show, taking the lead role
in organizing and presenting the event. They
perform as well. Their extended ‘family’
includes 12 Board Members, over 100 volunteers,
and thousands of dedicated fans. Many of these
folks have been returning each year since the
very beginning (1991).
Vendors sell t-shirts, jewelry, barbeque, fried
fish, candy, ice cream, and even ‘fried pies.’
The Kid’s Village sprouts up around an old
school bus. Kids stay busy with Face painting,
costumes, ‘dragons’ (a la Chinese New Year’s
parades), clay pottery, and puppet shows, made
lovingly available by a group of exceptional
volunteers. These are all hands-on activities,
keeping young minds occupied while the hypnotic
sounds of blues slowly soak into the young minds
that will be the future of the blues. This
Kid’s Village is unlike anything we’ve seen
before!!!” But - indoors after-hours in the
juke joint is adults
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DC
STARS 2009!
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