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Keeping DC's dreams alive
THIS YEAR,
September 3, 4, 5 • 5pm - 5am
Nightly •
in Rentiesville OK
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Thirty bands from 9
states – 50 sets – 65 hours of music in all will be presented in
“the Blues Lover’s Paradise, right here in Rentiesville” three
stages each of three days/nights
What a way to wrap up the summer. Dance under the stars or sit
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THE 2010 LINEUP
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BUD
Phoenix OK
Arts Council
FRIDAY,
September 3rd — Main Outdoor Stage
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BATTLE
OF THE BLUES BANDS |
bands just show up at 5 - and all play
between 6
- 7 pm ...winner qualified to go to IBC in Memphis, hired on
next year's show and wins $100. Must have never been hired
on the Fest to be qualified to compete. |
Soul Album of the Year Winner
"Mr. Romance!!"
JOHNNY
RAWLS
Fri - Sat - Sun
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 Johnny
Rawls was born in Columbia, Mississippi in
1951 and raised in Purvis and Gulfport,
Mississippi. He acquired an early interest
in music when hearing his grandfather play
the blues guitar one Christmas morning. He
began playing professionally while still in
high school with such stars as ZZ Hill,
Little Johnny Taylor, Joe Tex and the Sweet
Inspirations. In the mid-70's, Johnny went
to work for OV Wright as Wright's band
director. After Wright's death in 1980,
Johnny led Little Johnny Taylor's band until
1985, when he began touring as a solo artist
and made his first solo recording under the
Rainbow label.
Recording under Touch Records, Rooster Blues,
Rock House, Reach and JSP Records, Johnny
has done it all from producing, songwriting,
horn arranging, Rhythm, Lead and Bass
guitar, keyboard, vocals and background
vocals. Johnny started his own record
company, Deep South Soul, in 2002 and has
released his CD's Lucky Man,
Live in Montana, and The Best of
Johnny Rawls. His newest CD entitled
Heart and Soul was released in
October 2006 and has been nominated for
"Best Soul Blues Album of the Year (2007)"
by the Blues Foundation . No Boundaries
was released under the TopCat, Catfood and
Deep South Soul labels in 2005.
Johnny has appeared on the cover of the
April 2002 Living Blues Magazine and has
been nominated four times for the W.C. Handy
Award. His most recent was in Memphis
winning the Handy Blues Award Soul Album of
the Year for Ace of Spades.
Johnny has performed at the Chicago Blues
Festival twice, The Russian River Blues
Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival,
The Portland Waterfront Blues Festival,
Poconos, as well as festivals in Sweden and
Poland. He tours constantly, playing well
over 200 dates a year. He can also be heard
on XM radio's Bluesville. Whether he is
playing in a small club or a large blues
festival, Johnny gives it his all and the
crowds love him!
Additional biographies can be read at: All
Music Guide, Catfood Records, Russian River
Blues Festival, and the Liner Notes to
My Turn to Win
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Click on
Listen! to upload music to your
computer
Listen to a
sampling of Johnny Rawls'
original music!
Ace
of Spades Deep
South Soul
Released October
2009
Ace
of Spades
Listen!Going
Back Home
Listen!
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SELBY MINNER
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Selby worked as D.C.'s bassist for 30 years across the US
and overseas. She has perfomed with Hubert Sumlin, Drink
Small, Albert Collins, Lowell Fulsom and garnered the KBA
(together with D.C.) Keeping the Blues Allive Award from the
Memphis based Blues Folundation for her work with kids doing
Blues in the Schools. Also an OK Blues Hall of Fame
Inductee. Like D.C. she switched back to guitar as it became
time for her to front the band. --all 3 nites |
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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 various bands--all 3 nites |
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LITTLE
JOE
MCLERRAN
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FRIDAY,
September 3rd — Indoor Club Stage |
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LOCUS
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PAT MOSS
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PAT
MOSS of Tahlequah – a leader in his Cherokee tribe who
has
worked as a domestic violence prevention
advocate, an advisor to prisons on Native
American spiritualism, and is gifted in the use of herbal
medicine. Accomplished on harp and guitar, Moss approaches
the music with
humility then soars into powerful, moving
expressions of deeply felt appreciation for its
transcendent qualities.
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CD RELEASE PARTY AT THE FESTIVAL for PAT MOSS!
BAR ROOM PREACHER created in the best studio in
Memphis with the best musicians and PAT!!!
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... here he plays with Yogi on harp
on our main stage.
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MOJO SONATA |
MOJO SONATA
BIOGRAPHY
A few years
back, Deb Bynum and Steve Hahn turned off their TV, and
filled the air with the sound of their guitars instead; and
the music they made was good. By and by, Deb met Tina
Southworth, who soulfully sang an a cappella “Milk Cow
Blues.” Deb said, “you're hired,” and the music of the three
was fun. Plastering WANTED posters all over Northeast
Oklahoma lured former Seattle bassist, Karen Woody,
providing “Mo' Bottom” attitude; and the music was magic.
David Small was brought in to lay down a funky drumbeat, and
now the music was smokin'. Conjuring up a brew of Tina & Deb
originals, and covers of both well-known classics, and more
obscure gems, got the mojo workin'. Mojo Sonata is unique
Oklahoma blues: powerful vocals, haunting harmonies, fun
arrangements and inspired instrumentals.
Earlier this year, representing the Friends of Rentiesville,
Oklahoma, Blues Society, Mojo Sonata competed with over 100
bands from throughout the world in the 26th
Annual International Blues Challenge on Beale Street in
Memphis, Tennessee. After hearing the band in the
semi-finals at Ground Zero Blues Club, Ricky Stevens,
Chairman of the Blues Foundation, organizer of the
challenge, stated, “If you've never heard Mojo Sonata, this
group had the tightest vocal harmonies I've ever heard at
the International Blues Challenge.”
Mojo Sonata has also pleased audiences
throughout Northeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.
It has been a
long-time dream of Mojo Sonata to play on the bill at the
Dusk ‘til Dawn Blues Festival in Rentiesville – now,
finally, that dream will be a reality! Come on out and help
us celebrate this milestone, groove to the music, and shake
your tail feather! |
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SUNSET |
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INVITATIONAL JAMS
10 – Midnight, CLUB STAGE
--all 3 nites |
A NOTE ON
THE JAMS (Jam Sessions) – as it wouldn’t be fair to schedule
a band indoors while the headliners are onstage outside, the
10 pm til midnight INVITATIONAL JAM in the club is a chance
for any musician ever hired on the Festival to ‘musically
get to know’ any other…great surprises every night. THE ALL
STAR JAM from about 3 am on is the headliners who feel the
spirit working out together. In the past this has included
Kenny Neal jamming with Magic Slim…many magic moments.
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3 nites |
Also – each nite
the headliners come into the club and perform a short set
after midnight. Then, if we are lucky, they jam out til 5 am! |
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FRIDAY
& all 3 nights..., Sept 3, 4, 5 —
Back Porch Stage
includes workshops
and is part of KID’s VILLAGE at this family-friendly
Festival.
F.O.R. Blues let's kids in free and buys some of the
best talent from OK Arts Council. |
PATRICK DUFFY POTTERY
JOANN McMILLAN |
face painting beading, home
made shakers to create rhythms…
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NOTE ON THE KID’S VILLAGE
– ongoing through entire fest, and free—
LINDA DIXON of Shawnee will
do facepainting all three nights
JOANN
McMILLAN, OK Arts Council Artist in Residence, is a mainstay
of the Kid’s Village, bringing in loads of costumes, puppets
and fun for the kids
PATRICK DUFFY runs The Ceramics Encounter – a chance
to get dirty and mom cannot complain – a pottery wheel!
HANDS on
DRUMMING, Drummer to be announced
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JOANN McMILLAN
 dancing to the
blues
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pottery
Blues Fest
Guide's Tom and Cheryl Yearnshaw wrote:
"In keeping with DC’s and Selby’s active participation in
the Oklahoma school system through their innovative ‘Blues
in the Schools’ programs, the Kid’s Village has also
been a big part of the event. Face painting, costumes,
‘dragons’ (a la Chinese New Years parades), clay pottery,
and puppet shows are 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!!! " |
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TONY MATHEWS
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Inducted into our
own OK BLUES HALL OF FAME land about to receive the DC
Minner Lifetime Achievement Award as well.. Tony worked with Ray
Charles and Little Richard for years...has done too much
session work for him to remember :-) on other's records...
and keeps his own band together in Hollywood...grew up in
Checotah--all 3 nites
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SPONSORS |
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SATURDAY,
September 4th — Main Outdoor Stage
Mr. ROMANCE (JOHNNY RAWLS) AND DIVA
NIGHT
with MISS BLUES, ZORA YOUNG, SELBY, AND EG KIGHT!!!
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MISS BLUES |
from OKC, originally Paris (near Direct) TX. Her mom died when she
was 8 and Miss Blues went from being very loved to the odd
step child… she educated herself, traveled the nation and
has published Hoe Cakes and Collard Greens with Patti
Cogshell – a beautiful offering of cultural tidbits and
wisdom complete with a CD www.hoecakesandcollardgreens.com
She
tours the festival circuit annually. |
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ZORA
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SELBY MINNER
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This party
is in DC's back yard, he was born and grew up here, founded
the Fest and the OK Blues Hall of Fame together with his
wife/bassist/vocalist/guitarist Selby. The Blues Club is
still open the First Saturday of each month...As D.C.
recently passed after a long bout with illness, this year's
Festival is a tribute to him and his music. Several bands will
perform his originals... and since his fervent desire was to
keep the Fest going, we hope you will be here - Selby
Selby and YaYas at the Cimmarron
D.C. Minner |
JOHNNY
RAWLS
Fri - Sat - Sun
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SATURDAY, Sept. 4th —
Indoor Club Stage
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the Down Home
Blues Club...an intimate setting, a true juke joint! |
CECIL
GRAY
RED DAWN
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The Native
American blues band formally known as Cecil Gray and the Red
Dawn Blues Band has migrated to the Cecil Gray and the Red
Road Blues Band. The southwest Oklahoma bluesmen are
currently working on a cd, which will feature ten original
songs by Cecil Gray. The band members are Cecil Gray (lead
singer, lead guitar, harmonica), Troy Simmons (drummer), and
Sonny Klinekole (bass player). The talented musicians blend
their musical abilities to contribute to the continuation of
the Blues music.
In 2004 an
exuberate Cecil Gray and the Red Dawn Blues Band took the
stage and proudly accepted the prestigious NAMMY Award at
the 7th Annual Native American Music Award. The
“Best Blues / Jazz Recording” award was for the cd “Indian
Harmony”. The music was unique as all twelve songs on the
cd were originals. The blues songs were composed and sung
by Cecil Gray, who plays lead guitar and harmonica. This
achievement was the pinnacle of his musical talents. The
four times NAMMY nominee has been heavily influenced by
Jimmy Reed, Robin Trower, and the great Jimi Hendrix.
Cecil Gray is
an enrolled member of the Kiowa Nation. He is from the
Saddle Mountain area near Carnegie, Oklahoma. An
accomplished singer, songwriter, and guitarist, he has been
playing guitar and harmonica for forty-one years. At the
age of fifteen, he was playing gospel music for his aunt
Stella Rivera. In the 11th grade he formed his
own band called the Shades of Gray. In 1973 he joined the
Native American dance troupe and toured the southwestern
United States. In 1980 he formed the band called the Flying
Eagle Band. In 1986 Cecil obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in
Business Administration with a 3.2 GPA. For the next twelve
years he sang and played lead guitar and harmonica with the
Blackhawk Blues Band. The band recorded two cds titled
“Gypsy Blue” and “Rainy”. In 2002 at the 5th
Annual Native American Music Award, the second cd “Rainy”
was nominated in two categories: Best Blues / Jazz
Recording and the Debut Artist / Group of the Year. Eight
of the twelve songs on the cd were original songs written
and sung by Cecil. In 2003 he formed his own blues band
called “Cecil Gray and the Red Dawn Blues Band”. The band’s
first cd “Indian Boy / Indian Girl” was nominated in 2003
for the 6th Annual Native American Music Awards
in the Best Blues / Jazz Recording category. However, it
was in the following year at the 7th Annual
Native American Music Awards that Cecil and his band were
publically announced as the winners for the “Best Blues/Jazz
Recording” award for the cd “Indian Harmony”. In 2005 he
sang and recorded the gospel cd “Prayer Warriors”, whose
singers featured his mother Dorothy Gray and his aunt Vivian
Komardly. In 2006 at the 8th Annual Native
American Music Awards the gospel cd was nominated in the
“Best Gospel/Christian/Inspirational Recording”. In the
testament to Cecil’s faith, all of the proceeds from the
recording go directly to the family church “Cedar Creek
Indian Methodist Church”. The church was ministered by his
grandfather Cecil HuntingHorse, who was a preacher and a
medicine man. After the passing of Cecil’s close friend and
bass player Melvin Scott, he formed the current Native
American blues band called Cecil Gray and the Red Road Blues
Band. In the last two years Cecil has been lending his
musical talents as a vocalist and guitarist to front
numerous professional blues bands.
Troy Simmons
is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation from the
Apache, Oklahoma area. He has been playing the drums for
thirty-two years. He began listening and practicing to
Steve Miller, Beatles, Kiss, soul, and R&B 8track music,
since he was fourteen years of age. In 1978 thru 1980 he
played with the Flying Eagle Band with Cecil Gray, Carl Fran
Gray, Terry Bennet, and Patrick Tointigh. In 1988 thru 1990
he played with the hard rock band called Speak Thunder. In
2001 he joined the Grizzleheads, who play a variety of music
from classic rock and country for local and out of state
events. In 2005 he joined the Red Dawn Blues Band and
played numerous Native American events, festivals, and
casinos. In 2008 he loaned his talents to the OIT (local
Native American band) and played local events in Oklahoma
and Texas. In 2009 he migrated from the Red Dawn Blues Band
to the Red Road Blues Band. He has been drumming for Cecil
Gray’s band for the last four years. His main influences
are Robert Cray, Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, John Hooker,
Iron Maiden, and BB King. Troy’s years of drumming
experience and his passion for drumming are readily seen
when he becomes so immersed in the blues music that he
twirls a drumstick overhead and does not miss a beat.
Sonny
Klinekole is enrolled with the Kiowa Nation. He is also an
Apache descendant. He is from Anadarko, Oklahoma and has
been playing bass for the last nineteen years. In 1987 he
began singing and playing gospel music in the local Native
American churches with his family group called the Trinity
Singers. In 1990 he assisted in the formation of the blues
band called Blues Nation. In 2000 they recorded the cd
“Blues Nation”, which was nominated in the “Best Blues
Recording” category at the 3rd Annual Native
American Music Awards in 2001. Sonny has held the bottom by
playing the blues nationwide at festivals, casinos, and
numerous Native American events, including Trier, Germany
with Blues Nation and several other blues bands. His main
influences are Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, and BB King. He has
played a variety of music from gospel, old country, rock,
soul, and finally the blues. In 2009 he was a welcomed
addition to the formation of the Red Road Blues Band. He
aptly named the band and contributes wholeheartedly his many
talents to the heart of the blues music.
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JIMMY
the Preacher
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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, a great showman and real blues.
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INVITATIONAL JAMS
10 – Midnight, CLUB STAGE |
As it wouldn’t be fair
to schedule a band opposite the headliners on the Main Stage, each nite between 9 and midnight we invite Festival
musicians to
JAM IN THE CLUB, two songs each. |
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ALL STAR JAM
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Tony Mathews and the
Rentiesville YaYas Domenica & Janie
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SATURDAY, Sept 4th —
Small Outdoor Back Porch Stage
KIDS VILLAGE
includes workshops
and is part of KID’s VILLAGE at this family-friendly
Festival.
F.O.R. Blues let's kids in free and buys some of the
best talent from OK Arts Council. |
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in the KID's
VILLAGE which is ongoing thru the entire fest - fun things
to do!
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Kids on Back Porch:
BLUE FIRE FOLEY
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a passion for the blues from age
three or earlier. He's 13, now, and sings Muddy Waters -
growing all the time.
Blue Fire
creates blue fire - photo
by Holly roach
Blue Fire Foley slide guitar from a thirteen year old
and he can really wail on the deep blues. great stage
presence.
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TONY MATHEWS
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charming, true blues, a true master of the guitar--all 3
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Fifty Cent ready to fly! and
Joann's Sun Puppet in action
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Drums Help:
- Encourage students to think for
themselves.
- Develop rhythmic skills.
- Enhance musical abilities.
- Teaches self discipline and makes good
listeners out of those who normally are not good
listeners.
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great food! |
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SUNDAY,
September 5th — Main Outdoor Stage
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GOSPEL |
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Gospel
Show Sun:
Rev Tony Wise's
Church Chior form OKC
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BERNARD
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Harry Wms
drummer |
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Selby Minner
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Blues on the Move
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Festival founders, you are at DC and Selby's home place when you come to the Festival.
Fun and true blues. Love songs.... |
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SUNDAY, Sept. 5 — Indoor Club Stage |
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BERNARD
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HARRY & DEB BLACKWELL
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DEBBIE
AND HARRY BLACKWELL – the Fabulous Blackwell Bros. in from
Dunsmuir CA. West Coast Blues hippy style…running jams and
doing their own set – and coming in early, working to bring
you the fest as well. Deb has been a musician since 13,
fender and vocals. A “mountain girl originally from east
LA..I went through heavy culture shock but this place, Mt
Shasta, has lots of magic and I just can’t leave it too
long”. That’s where she met Harry, too…
www.myspace.com/debbieblackwell
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Debbie Blackwell and Harry Blackwell....in from
Dunsmuir CA - hippy blues and more!! |
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INVITATIONAL JAMS
10 – Midnight, CLUB STAGE - 2 songs each
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catch your favorite Festival
performers doing a little extra - maybe someone from the
West coast jamming with someone from Chicago or Florida!
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SUNDAY, Sept 5 — Back Porch Stage
includes workshops
and is part of KID’s VILLAGE at this family-friendly
Festival.
F.O.R. Blues let's kids in free and buys some of the
best talent from OK Arts Council. |
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pottery and face
painting fun in the Kid's VIllage... |
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Harold Aldridge guitar |
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WORKSHOPS and PERFORMERS |
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Dusk til Dawn Faves
From other years:
Dusk til Dawn Faves
From other years:
Dusk til Dawn Faves
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Dusk til Dawn Faves
From other years
Some of last year's headliners and more |
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Our
founder and inspiration, D.C. Minner
 
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ANDREW 'To-low 16' MILLER
and his Band of Brothers 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. |
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D.C. Minner Tribute year- thanks D.C. |
DC in action in the club |
Flash/DC
DC & SELBY MINNER,
R'vl
Festival founders, DC has been inducted into 3 halls of fame
here in OK.; see 2.DC and Selby
Minner link at page TOP |
Tony Gets Lifetime Achievement
from the OK Blues Hall of Fame, and D.C. |
TINY DAVIS
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Tiny Davis is currently the
bassist in Selby's band. He is also a fine singer, guitarist. People
love the tone of his deep vocals. See him between sets
outdoors tonite as well. --all
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WANDA WATSON BAND |
WANDA WATSON from Tulsa and
Fort Smith – a good time hard rockin’ vocalist with powerful
chops, a great big heart, and a tight band. One of DC’s fave
singers. Ok Blues Hall of Fame inductee 2007 |
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BACKUPBLUESBAND
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KEVIN VAUGHN AND THE BACKUPBLUESBAND
kevin has played for little milton, johnny taylor
jr, tu tu
jones and r l griffin to name a few. he also has opened
for tyrone
davis, jennifer holiday, the ohio players, slave, kc and jo
jo, and the
lost lonley boys. In 2008 kevin performed live at the john
f kennedy
center for peforming arts with the soul crew.
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JONATHAN FOX
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Jonathan
Fox is a 14 year old blues guitarist who entertains audiences with some
licks and techniques normally seen in more experienced
guitarists. Originally from
Arizona
he migrated with his family to
San Antonio
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TX
at the early age of 3. He began playing guitar in June, 2003
and began public performance in October 2004. Jonathan has
been influenced by a number of guitar players, including
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Paul Gilbert,
Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, Buddy Guy and Eddie Van
Halen. He has been mentored by several local guitarists. In
addition to his instructor, Jorge Ortiz, Jonathan has
performed with; W.C. Clark, Gary Clark Jr., Shawn Pittman,
The After Midnight Blues Band, Will Owen-Gage, The Kristal
and Silver Band, The Bennie Harp Band, The Jimmy Spacek
Band, Delta Ryde, Albert Garcia and the Surprise Package,
Toatly Bluz, Seth Walker, Butch Morgan, Ruben V, Catherine
Denise, Joey Fender, Ed Wills, and The S.A. Blue Cats.
Jonathan has performed at Dusk To Dawn Blues Festival
(Rentiesville, OK) The Rolling Oaks Sports Bar, Casbeers,
Massimo's, Sam’s Burger Joint, Texas Pride Barbeque, The
Cove, Fiascos, Martini Ranch, The Blue Cactus Café, The
Hanging Tree Saloon, The Shade Tree Saloon, Santa’s Place,
Leon Springs Dance Hall and Chango’s Havana Club.
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tribute
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OKLAHOMA OLLIE
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OKLAHOMA OLLIE in from LA – years as a bassist and now
guitar and vocals as well… welcome home, Ollie! |
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James
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ODD SHEEP OUT
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winners of our Battle of the Blues Bands last year!! They
had a great time in Memphis at he IBC.... from the Tulsa
area... growing in leaps and bounds.
years
of time-in in this group. DFest video at
www.oddsheepout.com, vocalist
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ANDREW Jr.
BOY JONES
Andrew Jr Boy
Jones
TX -was a good enough guitarist to play in Freddie King's
band as a teenager and has been growing ever since...catch
him now before we can't afford him at all! |
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Tommy McCracken
Chicago -arrived singing. Grew up singing in church. He is
a showman in the vaudeville tradition and a "natural
entertainer who goes with the moment. His show offers a
disarming mix of reverence and ego as he rips through a
blues cannon that touches on hits from B.B. King to Z.Z.
Hill" - Steve Dollar, The Atlanta Constitution. -
here straight from Buddy Guy's Legends Chicago. He's toured
40 states and played in 4 foreign countries. |
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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.
CLARENCE
KING
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SUNSHINE jams with Tony Mathews,
Induction ceremony May 2007
Sunshine
is sweet and serious about the guitar. A lovely smile and
she has a way with a song. |
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CHECOTAH HS
JAZZ BAND
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CHECOTAH HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND with Jim Davis – an award
winning local group. |
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ROCKY FRISCO
OK Blues Hall of Fame Inductee will be with James!
KEVIN PHARISS BAND
 JAHRUBA
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http://www.randymcallister.com/PressKit/PressKit1c-Americana.pdf
Randy McAllister
(Dallas, TX) 2002 Grammy
Nominee, Randy McAllister is one of
the premier singer, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist to emerge from
Texas. Heartbreak, humor, high hair
and tall Texas tales all play a part
in the song writing of Randy
McAllister. His music has been
hailed as some of the most original
and innovative being made today.
While comparison's are not easy, it
has been said that his music is a
cross between Doug Sahm, John Hiatt
and Delbe rt McClinton, with a blues
man's background and sensibilities
thrown into the mix.
www.randymcallister.com
www.myspace.com/randymcallister
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JOE LOUIS WALKER |
Checotah singer-guitarist Jesse Cahn
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ZAC HARMON in 2009
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Zac Harmon 2009
Zac
Harmon is returning to his roots after several
decades expressing an unbiased love for music.
Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Harmon
is a disciple of the Farish Street blues sound.
(Farish Street is universally recognized as the
home of many great blues legends including the
late, great Elmore James.). During the 50’s and
60’s Harmon hung out at his father’s pharmacy on
Farish (first African-American pharmacy in
Jackson), soaking up the aura and sounds of the
musician customers while developing his skills
as a guitarist, organist and vocalist. Like many
he honed those skills while at church.
Harmon’s early years included stints as
guitarist for Z.Z Hill, Dorothy Moore, McKinley
Mitchell and Sam Myers. Sam along with Jesse
Robinson and Mel Brown played a significant role
in Harmon’s development guiding his progress
through the rifts of rock ‘n roll to the true
blues. At the age of 16 he was teaching guitar
at the local YMCA, instructing young men such as
Eddie Cotton to play church music. Family
demands and his own commitment to pursue an
education meant replacing music for college.
However once completed he couldn’t stay away
from his calling.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1980 to pursue a career
in music, Harmon worked as a studio musician and
began to make a name for himself as a
writer/producer, crafting songs for such varied
notables as Karyn White, Freddie Jackson, Evelyn
“Champagne” King, The Whispers, Cherrelle, K.C.
& Jo Jo, The Mississippi Mass Choir and
Children’s Choir, Alexander O’Neal and the
O’Jays. He produced songs on the Mystical Truth
album for Black Uhuru that received a Grammy
nomination in 1994.
Later, while composing songs for a movie score
and performing those songs in the studio, Harmon
decided to pursue his longtime dream of
recording his first blues project. The result,
Live at Babe & Ricky's Inn, (2002 Another
Production Company) was an electrifying
testimonial to the blues, featuring eight
totally original songs that truly embodies the
Mississippi blues sound.
Sponsored by the Southern California Blues
Society of Los Angeles, Harmon and the Mid South
Blues Revue went on to win The Blues
Foundation’s 2004 International Blues Challenge
as “best unsigned blues band.” Since then
there’s been no looking back with the release of
the latest CD, “The Blues According to Zacariah,”
appearances at US festivals, signing to a
booking agent and international tours to Canada
and France.
Harmon is a man on a mission and he’s here to
stay.
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Lissa Ann Wohltmann:
The blues
isn't simply a depressing state of mind. It is music
that some consider the poor man's opera. It tells a
story, but in a simple, reflective, soul-stirring
manner.
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Just try "Put Your Trust In Me" (with Eddie Kirkland and Phil Guy), i. e., and be ready for some of the best black music around!