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remember
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DUSK til
DAWN BLUES FEST
2009
Fri
Sat Sun
Sept 4, 5,
6
• 5pm -
5am Nightly
This Year's
Festival - # 19
2009
SCHEDULE
...... lineup
subject to
change!
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FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 4 |
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 5 |
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 6 |
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T I M E |
OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back
Porch Stage: |
OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Stage: |
OUTDOOR
MAIN
STAGE |
INDOOR
CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Stage: |
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4 |
-Gates Open- |
-Gates Open-
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Band breaks
Becky Reyes &
Harmonica Scott
Bisbee AZ
MC:
Wolfman Black |
Memphis
Connection |
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Band breaks
Sunshine Hahn
OK, FL
MC:TBA |
OK - TX Connection
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West Coast Connection |
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6
PM |
Battle
of Bands
Young
up-and-comers....
IBC prelims
MC TBA |
Tru-Blu |
drumming
circle
Jerry Cryout |
Checotah HS
Jazz Band
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Eric Alan
Band
Houston TX
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drumming
circle
Jerry Cryout
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GOSPEL
new!!-
John and
Rev. Tony Wise
Choir
OKC |
winners
Battle of the
Bands 2008 |
drumming
circle
Jerry Cryout |
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7 PM |
Andrew
'To-low 16'
Miller & his
Band of Brothers
age 17
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LadyDee
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drumming circle
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Hoppy Niles
One Armed Bandit
--Chi, OKC
Sunshine Hahn |
Roland Bowling
OKC |
David Berntson
Learn to
play Harmonica |
Andrew
'To-low 16'
Miller & his
Band of Brothers
age 17
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Tony Mathews
Hollywood,
Checotah
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drumming circle |
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8 PM |
Becky &
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Harry & Debbie
Blackwell
Dunsmuir CA new!!-
Becky &
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Berry
Harris
OK Blues Hall of
Fame
KS, OK
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Debbie and Trish
Henning
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Wes
Reynolds
Tulsa
Sunshine Hahn |
Cecil Gray
RED ROAD
BLUES BAND
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Andrew
'To-low 16'
Miller & his
Band of Brothers
age 17
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Jimmy the
Preacher
Ellis
OK Blues Hall of
Fame
Tulsa, Dallas,
Seattle
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new!!-
Frank Ray
was w. Flash
Terry
Tulsa |
Jesse
Cahn
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9 PM |
Becky &
____Scott____
SELBY
Minner &
Blues on the
Move w Bronko
and Tammy, Pat
Moss and Richard
Web Andrew
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sp guest |
Walter Watson
Pure Silk
Tulsa
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Clarence King
or
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SELBY
Minner
& Blues on
the Move with
Pat Moss Jerry
Miller and
Richard Webb
Rentiesville OK
OK Blues Hall of
Fame
Sunshine Hahn
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Harley Hamm
(Cowboy) & Bill
Willis|(oganist
for Jimmy
Vaughn)
Shades of Blues
Checotah, Tulsa
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David Berntson
Learn to
play Harmonica
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SELBY
Minner
& Blues on
the Move with
Pat Moss,
Richard Webb and
Jerry Miller
Rentiesville OK
OK Blues Hall of
FameK |
James Walker |
Perry Thomas
Muskogee OK
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10 PM |
Becky & Scott
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new!!-Cedrick
Burnside &
Lightnin';
2 Man Wrecking
Crew
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Invitational
Jam
w Richard Web |
Harold
Aldridge |
new!!-RANDY McALLISTER
TX
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new!!-
DETON-ATORS
TX |
Blue Fire Foley
age 14
Stillwater |
VERNON
GARRETT
TX, LA, CA
new!!-
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Invitational
Jam
w
Karen Woody
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Becky Reyes,
Scott Muhleman |
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11 PM |
WATER-MELON SLIM
& the Workers
new!! |
Invitational
Jam
w Richard Web |
Tony Mathews
OKC |
MISS BLUES
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Invitational
Jam w Frank Ray |
Tony Mathews
Hollywood,
Checotah |
JOE LOUIS WALKER
WEST COAST
amazing!! |
Invitational
Jam
w
Karen Woody |
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12 AM |
move into club!
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SELBY
Blues on the
Move
w Pat Moss and
Richard Web and
the YaYas
Tammi and Bronko
R'ville OK |
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new!!-
ZAC HARMON
TX |
SELBY
Blues on the
Move
w Pat Moss and
Richard Web and
the YaYas
R'ville OK
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SELBY
Blues on the
Move
w Pat Moss and
Richard Web and
the YaYas
R'ville OK
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1:15 AM |
50 sets!!
65 hours of
music!! |
2 MAN
Wrecking Crew
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move into club!
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RANDY
McALLISTER
TX
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move into club!
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VERNON
GARRETT
TX, L.A.
new!!- |
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2:30 AM |
35 bands from
across the US! |
WATER-MELON
SLIM
& the Workershe Workers
ALL STAR Jam
Clarence King -
sax |
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new!!-
ZAC
HARMON
TX
DETON-ATORS
TX |
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JOE LOUIS
WALKER
WEST COAST
new!! |
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3:45 -5 AM |
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ALL STAR
may include:
Leon Blue, Watermelon
Slim, Cedric,
Malcolm
+ + |
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ALL STAR
Jam:
may include:
Miss Blues,
Randy
McAllister, Zac
Harmon
Leon Blue
Clarence King
Broadway Jimmy
Detonators
+ + |
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ALL STAR
JAM
may include:
Vernon
Garrett,
Broadway Jimmy
Jimmy Ellis |
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OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
OUTDOOR
MAIN STAGE |
INDOOR CLUB
STAGE |
Back Porch
Workshops /
Kid's VIllage
Stage |
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FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 4 |
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 5 |
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 6 |
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All
Acts Subject to
Change |
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*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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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. |
..Jahruba's Drum Circle
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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
PAT MOSS BRONKO CARR
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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James Peterson
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The DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL is SEPT 4, 5, 6
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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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
Henry |
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