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Welcome to DCMinnerBlues.com: Home of F.O.R. Blues Inc., Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival,
Blues Club/Hall
of Fame, bi-weekly Jam Band and more. contact:
dcminner@windstream.net |
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Schedule, 5 w's and Photos
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remember
- we have things for kids
to do thru the entire fest in the Kid's
Village - free!! |
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DUSK til
DAWN BLUES FEST
2011
Fri
Sat Sun
Sept 2, 3,
4
• 5pm -
5am Nightly
...... lineup
subject to
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FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 2 |
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 3 |
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 4 |
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T I M E |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back
Porch Stage: |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Stage: |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
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- FRIDAY - Gates Open- |
-SATURDAY - Gates Open-
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-SUNDAY - Gates Open- |
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Band breaks
RICH
BERRY
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drumming
circle |
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Band breaks
LEM
SHEPPARD
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Band breaks
ROGER HURRICANE
WILSON |
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6
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SELBY MINNER
Blues on the
MOVE!
break-
RICH
BERRY |
6 - 7
JESSE DEAN
AR
new!!- |
drumming
circle
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Checotah HS
Jazz Band
JIM DAVIS
break-
Blue Fire Foley
age 14
Stillwater |
6 - 7
DUES PAID
Wolfman Black
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drumming
circle
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GOSPEL
and Chiors
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6 - 7 PM
new!!-
CALVIN YOUNG-
BLOOD |
drumming
circle |
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7:15 PM |
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HARRY AND
DEBBIE BLACKWELL
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7
ROLAND BOWLING
8
CHUCK
BLACKWELL
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drumming
circle
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SELBY
Minner & Blues
on the Move
Rentiesville OK
OK Blues Hall of
Fame
CECIL GRAY
WANDA |
7 - 8
BERRY HARRIS
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DAVID
BERNTSON
HARMONICA
LESSONS!!
free harp and
book
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7:15
SELBY
Minner & Blues
on the Move
Rentiesville OK
OK Blues Hall of
Fame
break-
Roger
Hurricane Wilson |
LEON BLUE
just back
from 2 European
Tours and two
Blues cruises
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LEM SHEPPARD
drumming circle |
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8:30
PM |
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BIG GEORGE BROCK
Jr. formerly of THE
DETON-ATORS
break-
RICH
BERRY |
9
LEON ROLLERSON
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HAROLD ALDRIDGE |
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WATSON
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8
POOCHIE SLICK
WILLIE & THE
RIGHT CATS
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BLUE FIRE
FOLEY
DEBBIE BLACKWELL |
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8:30
EUGENE
HIDEAWAY
BRIDGES
with
LEON BLUE and
BROADWAY JIMMY
break-
Roger
Hurricane Wilson |
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JAMES WALKER
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9:45 PM |
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SELBY MINNER
(2 songs only)
JOHNNY RAWLS
"Mr. Romance"
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10 PM
Invitational
Jam
with:
ROGER HURRICANE
WILSON
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Hunter and
Clayton Vaughn |
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JOHNNY RAWLS
"Mr. Romance"
break-
LEM SHEPPARD |
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JIMMY
PREACHER
ELLIS
10 PM
RANDY
McALLISTER |
DAVID
BERNTSON
HARMONICA
LESSONS!!
free harp and
book
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new!!-
TRAMPLED
UNDER
FOOT
break-
Roger
Hurricane Wilson |
Invitational
Jam
with:
PAT MOSS |
SUNSETTER
WANDA MACON |
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11
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LIGHTININ
MALCOM
& CAMERON
KIMBROUGH |
Invitational
Jam
with:
ROGER HURRICANE
WILSON
and Harry
Willims |
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new!!-PETER
KARP AND SUE
FOLEY
break-
LEM
SHEPPARD
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11pm
Invitational
Jam
with:
HARRY WILLIAMS
and
FRANK RAY
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ROGER HURRICANE
WILSON
CARR FAMILY
BLUES BAND with
HARLEY HAMM
(COWBOY) |
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Sellby Minner 2
#'s
JOHNNY RAWLS
"Mr. Romance" |
Invitational
Jam
PAT MOSS
& Harry
Williams |
10:30
Jahruba Drum
Cirdle
11
PM
HARLEY HAMM
(COWBOY)
CHARLEY REDD |
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12 AM |
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move into
club!
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SELBY
Blues on the
Move
R'ville OK
BIG GEORGE BROCK
Jr. |
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new!!-
EUGENE
HIDEAWAY
BRIDGES
with
LEON BLUE and
BROADWAY JIMMY |
Invitational
Jam
with:
HARRY WILLIAMS
and
FRANK RAY |
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move into club!
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SELBY
Minner & Blues
on the Move
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1:15 AM |
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50 sets!!
65 hours of
music!! |
LIGHTININ
MALCOM
& CAMERON
KIMBROUGH |
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move into club!
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SELBY
Minner & Blues
on the Move
Rentiesville OK
OK Blues Hall of
Fame |
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new!!-
TRAMPLED
UNDER
FOOT |
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2:30 AM |
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30 bands from
across the US! |
JOHNNY RAWLS
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RANDY
McALLISTER
PETER KARP
AND SUE FOLEY
new!!-
EUGENE
HIDEAWAY
BRIDGES |
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new!!-
EUGENE
HIDEAWAY
BRIDGES |
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3:45 -5 AM |
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ALL STAR
JAM |
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RANDY
McALESTER
JOHNNY RAWLS
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ALL STAR
JAM
may include:
Leon Blue,
Rudy Scott
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OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
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FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 2 |
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 3 |
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 4 |
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All
Acts Subject to
Change |
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To see Rudy
Scott who plays
in Selby's band
(aka Theodore)
Performing in a
Church setting,
click this link
to you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzFoPZNWso&NR=1
*Slots
marked JAM
SESSION may
include anyone
who was EVER on
Festival!
ALL STAR JAM
is Fest
headliners! |
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BATTLE OF THE
BLUES BANDS: for
bands not hired
on the show.....details
How To Enter plus
KIDS VILLAGE:
Ongoing...ALL
during fest we
have things for
KIDS to do!
Click here for
all details!!! |
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P.S.A.
Rentiesville Blues Festival #21
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The Oklahoma
Blues Hall of Fame will hold the
21st Annual Dusk ‘til Dawn Blues
Festival, Labor Day Weekend,
Sept 2, 3, and 4th. Selby
Minner continues the legacy of
great music begun in
Rentiesville by D.C. Minner and
his family years ago. She has
the band, runs the OK Blues Hall
of Fame and a weekly Sunday Jam
Session, teaches and presents
the Festival. Music at the Blues
Fest begins at 6 PM on 3 stages
and doesn't stop til 5 AM inside
the Blues Club/Hall of Fame. The
lineup of 30 bands includes
nationals AND the area’s best .
. . Trampled Under Foot, Johnny
Rawls, Eugene Hideaway Bridges.
Sue Foley, Berry Harris, Jimmy
‘Preacher’ Ellis, Selby herself
and Wanda Watson to name a few!
The cost is $15.00
each day, with kids under 12 and
volunteers free. Volunteers are
needed, and for 3 hours time
their admission will be refunded
and ˝ off on a T-shirt. Young
hands are kept busy having fun;
the Kid’s Village all 3 days
with activities including
costumes, drumming, pottery,
face painting, performances by
young bands and more –all for
free! But the after-hours Juke
Joint is over 21 only!
The Dusk til Dawn
Blues Festival is presented at
the OK Blues Hall of Fame by the
non-profit Friends of
Rentiesville Blues, Inc..
Sponsors include the OK Arts
Council, the Current, VSA Arts
OK, Yaffee Steel, Love Bottling,
James Hodge Ford, Republic
Guitars, Budweiser, Wal mart and
Nichols Dollar Saver.
Rentiesville (say
rennys-ville) is located 5
miles N. E. of Checotah off I-40
& US 69. 70 miles S.E. of
Tulsa; 125 miles E. of OKC; Two
exits No of I-40 up US 69, two
exits S of Muskogee down US 69
918-855-0978
www.dcminnerblues.com. |
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Contact: Selby Minner
Phone: 918.855-0978 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 10, 2011 |
Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues
Festival - 21st Annual!
Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame
Friends of Rentiesville Blues
Inc.
www.dcminnerblues.com
Sept 2, 3, 4; 5 pm til 5 am,
advance tickets $10/night or $15
at the gate – old enough to
party!
30
bands on 3 stages, 5 pm – 5 am
$15/day, kids free,
Sept 2, 3, 4
“Hey Everybody! Tell
Everybody!...”
that in Oklahoma, hidden out in
the woods is a little old juke
joint called the Down Home Blues
Club, It’s authentic, funky, and
very much alive.
It’s been there since Oklahoma
Bluesman D.C. Minner’s
grandmother Lura opened up a
bootleg corn whiskey bar
in 1936. Now, however, the
bootleg whiskey is gone. You can
get a cold beer or a soda, and
sometimes people bring potluck,
but it’s all about the music.
The club hosts a free jam
session party every Sunday,
musicians show up with cases,
and the years roll back. Part of
the magic is in the music played
there, but the room itself has a
grittiness and
authenticity both palpable and
intoxicating. It is rural and
real in a sense that other
venues fail to capture. For
those who long to feel the power
of the Blues, try Rentiesville.
For the full effect, mark your
calendar for Labor Day Weekend
and come to the 21st
Annual Dusk til Dawn Blues
Festival – Sept 2, 3, and 4th
– 200 musicians from across the
US - 30 bands on three stages,
indoors and out! … created
by D.C. himself and
presented by Selby Minner and
the Friends of Rentiesville
Blues Inc., even the old cotton
field out back will ring with
the blues
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Kids are free, we keep them
busy. The High School Jazz Band
will come in courtesy of Jim
Davis. And there is a Gospel
Show to start the Festivities on
Sunday. The outdoor part
is the most family friendly
Blues festival you will find.
But adults only in the juke
joint, please. That part of the
show goes on until 5 am!
HEADLINERS
INCLUDE:
Trampled Under Foot- IBC
Winners, family Band, the sister
plays bass and sings!
Jimmy ‘Preacher’ Ellis –
up from Dallas, everyone loves
Preacher
Berry Harris – from Stringtown
and Wichita… a life in the blues
Johnny Rawls – won Soul/blues
artist of the year in Memphis …
all 3 nites. Always gets 'em up
and dancing!
Peter Karp and Sue Foley – just
back from Germany – great
guitarists and in love, too!
Eugene Hideaway Bridges – a
powerhouse from New Orleans and
Austraila, he travels the world.
Lightnin’ Malcolm and Cameron
Kimbrough – Lightnin back w
another MS powerhouse drummer
Randy McAllister – tore em up
here in 2009 – you may remember
the barefoot drummer in the club
from Texas and his trio.
The subtitle “Homecomings
and Reunions” is because
the fest functions as a
reunion on many levels, from fans to
volunteers to players. This will
bring in Wanda Watson,
Cecil Gray and Blue Fire Foley, Roger
Hurricane Wilson, Dues
Paid, Harry and Debbie
Blackwell (CA). . . It also means the
Oklahoma Blues Hall of
Famers will grace the
stage
in abundance this year in Rentiesville. At
least 10, including Jimmy
‘Preacher’ Ellis (TX),
Leon Rollerson, Berry Harris (KS),
Rudy Scott, Harry
Williams, Chuck Blackwell,
Roland Bowling, Little Miss Peggy… Lem
Sheppard (KS), and Selby
Minner herself.
Also,
NEW is Jesse Dean
(Winslow, AR) and new between
sets on the main stage will be
Rich Berry (Kansas City, slide
and vocals).
The Kid’s Village
(“children under 12 are free and
we keep them busy!” Marsha
Whalen
reports) will rock to the conga
drums once again with Jahruba
and his drum circles. He is
an OK State Arts
Council roster artist and their funding through a series of grants has
helped keep the festival
alive over these 21
years. Kid’s Village would not
be complete without Joann
McMillan and her stick
puppets
(which require lots of little hands
to make them dance across the
field) and Domenica Lovera
will be back with
crafts and face painting as
well as Patrick Duffy and
a legitimate excuse to get
dirty – the pottery wheel!
Rentiesville is…:
15 miles S of Muskogee, 125
miles E of OKC, 4 Hours N of
Dallas or less and 1 hour SE of
Tulsa
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. . From I – 40 North up US 69,
second exit at
Checotah/Rentiesville and
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. . South from Muskogee, down
US 69, second exit at
Oktah/Rentiesville
Info
(918)855-0978
. . . “World’s best - and largest - back
yard party!” . . . Such a
variety of people – “This is
peace as the world should know
it!”. . . A blues festival that
is truly unique as it is a
family event with lots for
children to do – but not after
midnight in the old Juke Joint –
adults only, please!
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Sponsors:
Oklahoma Arts Council, VSA
Artists, Yaffe, Bud, James Hodge
Ford, The Current, Love
Bottling, Republic Guitars and
scores of volunteers. Event is
coordinated by Friends of
Rentiesville Blues Inc., Selby
Minner Executive Director, and
is the premier event of the OK
Blues Hall of Fame.
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Sept 2, 3, 4
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. We call it the 'world's largest back yard
party' and it is a fun time that attracts some 3,500 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: |
2011- Labor Day Wknd, Fri Sat Sun
Sept 2, 3, 4 -- 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 (21 only) |
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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 $10/day, $15/day at the gate (about $1.50 a band!)
KIDS under 12 FREE! Volunteers FREE! |
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CONTACT |
(918) 855-0978, 473-2411,
dcminner@windstream.net, www.dcminnerblues.com,
701 D.C. Minner St Rentiesville OK 74459 |
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Volunteer Option: |
It takes a lot of people to do this - we have a
great deal for volunteers!
The Volunteer Option: help us
out for 3 hours, get your $15 for that day BACK and
˝ 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, Yaffe Steel, Love
Bottling, Coke, Walmart, The Current, James
Hodge Ford in Muskogee, Nissan Fenton in McAlester, People's National Bank in Checotah,
The Current, Budweiser, Coke, The Blues Festival Guide, KMOD, Jammin' John Peters, KGOU, Preview,
Tulsa World, The Muskogee Daily Phoenix, SW
Blues, BareBones Independant Filmmakers, Blues
Society of Tulsa, OK Blues Society (www.okblues.org),
AND 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
D.C. and Selby Minner founded it in 2003 so that the
Fest could grow into the new millenium.
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Selby photo by Jeremy Combs
and Selby Karen Woody Jimmy Preacher Ellis
and Pat Moss
JaPeter Karp & Sue Foleymes Peterson
Their first CD together the
award nominated "He Said - She
Said" was
number 1
on the Roots and Blues radio
charts for
8 weeks
- #4 most played for the tear!
Their story of how was carried
on national press, TV and radio.
Working off that success these
two combustible talents are
finishing a new CD (release fall
of 2011) of new songs that kick
it up a few decibels and pour
fuel on an already explosive
stage show.
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What the Oklahoma Arts Council
- our major funding support - has to sa y about the
Boues festival: "Wonderful family friendly
event that operates in an underserved area of the
state. Nice financial support from the community
despite being rural".
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The DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL is SEPT 3, 4, 5
in Renitesville at the
BLUES CLUB/HALL OF FAME ,
70 miles
SE of Tulsa – BA Exp, Hwy 51 South to 69 –
Stay on 69 thru Muskogee to the Rentiesville Oktaha Exit.
Turn right 4 miles, then Left (E) onto Rentiesville Honey
Springs Rd,
2 miles to DC Minner St and you are here.
(918) 473-2411,
dcminner@windstream.net
www.dcminnerblues.co
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AricAlan Sengbusch fr Houston Linda,
Jim Selby, Brad Ron at
Headquarters tent during
Festival |
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Miss Blues and Curly 'no shoes' Junior
Dick Jones, who was injured last year after the
festival
helping with the electric, as he received the VT of the Year Award
two days before the accident at DD 2009 He is now
walking again!!!
Musical Notes
~by Susan Herndon
"I don't care
What you say about me
Just so you say it."
~Woody Guthrie, 1948
the blues muse
Selby Minner,
singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist and blues
warrior, says she has no method to songwriting, but she
does have one beautiful and simple rule that she
follows: "If I get an idea, I get up and write it
down." She says she's very faithful to it-- "it's a
commitment; whenever the Muse strikes-- wait on it hand
and foot." She also has a theory about the music...
"it's a living thing, it wants to be played. For it to
stay alive, it must be taught and learned and played and
performed. It's an act of service." And so, she has
lived her life by this code, following the Muse.
Born and raised in East Providence, Rhode Island, Selby
was going to art school at the Rhode Island School of
Design when she had a life changing experience.
Janis Joplin came to the school, along with her
band, Big Brother. "They put on a four hour
concert and it blew my mind," she says. "She had all
her hits"... Selby was eighteen years old and from that
moment on, became a singer, "following guitar players
around and singing in coffeehouses."
She and guitarist, Jim Donovan, started a duo
called, Home Cookin, made their way
playing gigs across the U.S. and it was he who
encouraged her to play guitar, she also gives him credit
for teaching her to play slide guitar. The duo
eventually broke up, and Selby, in Berkley, California,
began playing solo guitar and vocal, but she was wanting
to play electric blues. She had bought a bass guitar,
and she abandoned the acoustic folk-blues she'd been
playing. It was around this time that she met D.C.
Minner. D.C. had just switched from bass to
electric; so Selby became his bass player. They also
became husband and wife. And, together they traveled
the country, the whole world even, playing four nights a
week, dedicated to that Blues Muse, as a group called
Blues on the Move.
"I switched back to guitar about four years before D.C.
passed." D.C. Minner, Selby's husband of 28
years, legendary blues man and Oklahoma Jazz Music Hall
of Fame inductee, passed away one year ago on May 6.
Together, they not only created a lot of great music,
but have put Rentiesville, Oklahoma on the musical map.
In '91 they founded the Dusk til Dawn Blues
Festival, a favorite three-day celebration, held
every Labor Day weekend. They also established the
Down Home Blues Club in 1988, hosting regular jam
sessions. And they developed the Oklahoma Blues Hall
of Fame. As Artists in Residence with the
Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council, they have
promoted the Blues Muse, teaching in the schools-- work
that Selby will continue in the upcoming 8-10 weeks.
And Selby, herself, has even written a book, The
Band Guide, which includes everything D. C.
taught her... with invaluable information about being
in a band.
The Down Home Blues Club, usually open one night
a month, will be open six nights a month this June. The
first Friday, June 5th, will be an all ages, open mic
coffee house. Saturday, the 6th, she'll be playing
there with her band, and every Sunday from 2 pm to 2 am
there will be an open jam throughout summer.
With a new CD called, Take One, coming out
in about 2-3 weeks, Selby says, "I just really love the
Blues... the minor sound, the rhythm, and the stories.
It gives you permission to live life and to enjoy it...
it's about living life and about surviving." Selby is
definitely a survivor, committed to the Muse and
dedicated to the Blues.
Fortunately, Selby likes playing in Okemah and notes how
supportive of the music everyone here is. She will be
at Okemah's Blues and Jazz Festival at the
Grape Ranch this Saturday at 2 p.m. And will be
at Grape Ranch again on Saturday, June 27th for
the weekend singer/songwriter series. She also plays on
occasion at the Brickstreet Cafe, so ask Luna
when she might be there again!
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Wes reynolds and the Bop Cats tulsa including Smokin John
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