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Mitch Gilliam
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Apr 7, 2024 9:20 am
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The global metal family united in Tulsa on Easter weekend
2 Minutes to Tulsa The Vanguard & Cain’s Ballroom March 29 – 31, 2024
A few years back, Swedish old-school metallers Screamer popped into Tulsa, and my band, Blind Oath, took them to Olive Garden. Yes, they wanted and asked for this, and as heavy metal family, we obliged. Bread (in the form of sticks) was broken, laughs were had, and Italian margaritas were slammed. Screamer’s nine-foot-tall drummer, Henrick, vomited immediately after, but he knew he “was family.”
And that story is a micro to heavy metal’s familial macrocosm. Metal is a global family affair, and at 2024’s 2 Minutes To Tulsa Festival, this was beyond apparent.
England’s Ben Jones and Ireland’s Andrea Magee make up Beat Root Revival, an acoustic duo that combines the best of hey-ho stomp rock, country songwriting and traditional Irish and English melody-making. They rocked the hell out of Mercury Lounge last Thursday to a small, attentive crowd of 25 or 30, but they could have held the attention of a stadium. With a well-crafted and meticulously practiced set, the two used their powerhouse voices to demonstrate the very best of what a country duo can be.
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Jennie The Lloyd
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Apr 1, 2024 11:05 am
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Trueson Daugherty on the soapbox, Jordan Hehl on deck
The Salón atThe Parlour Tulsa March 23, 2024
The Salón at the Parlour drew a crowd of musicians, painters, writers, yoga instructors and creatives interested in seeing what might happen when art and community come together for a few hours on a Saturday morning. There was an air of playful unpredictability.
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 31, 2024 12:46 pm
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Bradford Lovett, "Gaythering at the Fam Farm"
Bradford Lovett: “Myths & Hymns” The Parlour Tulsa March 21, 2024
In Bradford Lovett’s Gaythering at the Fam Farm, a disembodied hand reaches down from the sky with a pink donut in its fingers, almost making contact with jubilant penises rising from little floating Mario clouds. A dude with gold-plated pecs sits next to a man in white shirtsleeves who’s groaning over a cauldron full of bones, with two apocalyptic creatures in shiny red boots poised nearby and a slain Goliath in the foreground. A pair of cows holds space with a ballerina and a giant frosted cupcake as a witch-hatted Boy Scout rolls by on a recumbent wooden bike and a dragon carries a bound figure away over the peak of a falling-down barn.
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Becky Carman
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Mar 29, 2024 2:04 pm
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Noche's totopos and salsa trio
Noche Woodfire Grill & Agave Bar 110 N Elgin Ave., Suite 140 Tulsa
Fun but focused, Noche Woodfire Grill & Agave Bar feels happening. Each side of the divided dining room is awash in red and blue jewel tones with cheeky neon signage. FLOURPOWER, reads one. ¡SALUD! reads another. The visual impact makes what the restaurant is trying to be immediately clear: vibrant, approachable but with a few signature twists. The menu, a medium-deep dive into the cuisine of Mexico, doubles down on that intent.
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Jennie Lloyd
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Mar 24, 2024 12:25 pm
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The resistance burns on at the Woody Guthrie Center
Meet & Greet: Pussy Riot Woody Guthrie Center March 14, 2024
Pussy Riot’s transgressive artivism has the world frothing — and Moscow fuming.
Yet in Tulsa on March 14, their truth-bombs detonated less in their usual colorful roar and more in searing whispers. About 50 Tulsans gathered in a cozy theater inside the Woody Guthrie Center for a meet and greet with five members of the Russian feminist protest punk group — and 2024 WGC Artist in Residence — known for their provocative, sometimes shocking, guerrilla performances and bright balaclavas.
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Cassidy McCants
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Mar 24, 2024 10:33 am
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Poets and musicians smash it up: Johnny Murrell, Cordney McClain, Zhenya Yevtushenko, Shay Lampkin, and Harvey Crowder
Poetry & Music Smash-Up Living Arts of Tulsa March 13, 2024
Apparently Zhenya Yevtushenko, our emcee for last Friday’s Poetry & Music Smash-Up, had been dreaming of this “one-night-only” event for some time. The rules: 10 poets are randomly paired with 10 musicians. Each pair gets 10 minutes to rehearse, then they perform. This was a rare chance to celebrate both local poetry and local music, two of Tulsa’s vibrant arts scenes, in one.
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Yvonne Hazelton
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Mar 24, 2024 10:32 am
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A spacious entry point for sometimes challenging music
Chamber Music Tulsa Friday Gallery Concert: Horszowski Trio 101 Archer March 15, 2024
When I moved to Tulsa from Paris last year, I knew I’d have to make some sacrifices. But to my pleasant surprise, my life shaped up nicely – I found new friends, affordable housing, art, jazz and folk music galore.
But I missed chamber music: that restrained, formal, hold-your-breath genre that scares away even symphony lovers and opera fanatics with its strict audience behavior requirements (no clapping between movements) and often challenging repertoire. I love it, though: such a concentrated art form that presents itself bare-bones, no flashy percussion or mascara-ed singers, no smoke and mirrors, just a few vulnerable musicians from the same instrument family, gamely playing some of the hardest music ever written, in a silent setting. Chamber music is my jam.
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Z.B. Reeves
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Mar 17, 2024 8:47 pm
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Dombrance at Cain's
Dombrance Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa March 9, 2024
The character of Dombrance — with his red suit, black tie, distinctive mustache, and high-energy beats — was well-received, and deservingly so, at Cain’s. Dombrance’s persona is a slightly aloof French DJ, a man of few words (“My name is Dom-brahnce! I come from Frahnce!”) who comes to work on the people in need of dance. In this he gives a fascinating physical performance, navigating his cul-de-sac of keyboards like a nuclear plant worker desperately trying to avert a meltdown, holding an arpeggiator with one hand while stretching to reach another keyboard across the way to create his feverishly danceable music. In so doing, he cartoonishly parodies a world in collapse.
What does it mean to be “good”? Two new plays presented by Heller Theatre Company last weekend raised that question — with a host of complicated, challenging, emotionally intelligent, and deeply relatable answers. (There was no question about the goodness of the tunes played onstage before the show. “The city of Tulsa’s gonna subsidize our queer love affair,” Bronco Henryetta’s Jessa Gianna DiPesa crooned, to universal cheers from the crowd.)
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 14, 2024 3:27 pm
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Composer David Alan Broome and ASL interpreter Sandie Busby
David Alan Broome: “Music Of The Senses”
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March 9, 2024
I never thought I’d see an overflow crowd show up for an experimental music gig in Tulsa, but Tulsa has a way of upending my expectations. It’s part of what keeps me here, keeps me out there: you never know when some new eddy is going to surface in the current, however familiar you are with the stream.
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 10, 2024 10:10 am
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Fashion church
“Is The Earth Just A Body Too?” Oklahoma Fashion Alliance Artisan Hall Tulsa Feb. 24, 2024
Think you don’t belong in a room full of cool kids? If the room is being run by the Oklahoma Fashion Alliance, go ahead and think again. My anxiety about showing up to a fashion show as what you might call a “scene elder” got obliterated when I read the following in OFA’s welcome email for “Is The Earth Just A Body Too?”: “If you don’t have an outfit already picked out, some inspiration from us is: wear something that tells your story.”
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 8, 2024 10:31 am
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey at 30
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey LowDown Tulsa March 2, 2024
Thirty years ago, a group of local high school and college musicians got together to share their collective love of jazz, funk, and running loud improvisational experiments in public spaces. They gave themselves a goofy name (partly inspired by Spinal Tap) and a tagline that was more like a manifestation mantra: “Jazz Millions.” Their first album, Live at the Lincoln Continental (1995), featured 12 tracks with killer hooks, including an iconic tribute (rapped, Beastie Boys-style) to the all-you-can-eat buffet at India Palace. Countless lineup changes, world tours, original songs, and boundary-busting jazz covers later, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s actual success turns out to be unquantifiable — way wilder than any human math could compute.
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Becky Carman
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Mar 8, 2024 10:10 am
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Dan Lyn Pham's installation at Belafonte.
“I Bear the Fruit of My Ancestors“ Belafonte Tulsa March 1, 2024
A dimly lit space permeated with the smell of burning incense greeted visitors, many of whom waited in line before the doors opened, to Tulsa artist Dan Lyn Pham’s “I Bear the Fruit of My Ancestors.” The three-part show was a journey between the symbolic and the literal, exploring Vietnamese ancestral worship, a cultural custom that has endured generations — beyond any specific religion, beyond colonization, and then across the world into the homes and gathering spaces of Vietnamese immigrants and refugees.
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Ryan Anderson
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Mar 1, 2024 11:00 am
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Soulbody Cyphers meets the silver screen
Soulbody Cyphers Presents: The Cinematic Showdown Circle Cinema Tulsa Feb. 22, 2024
From the big stage of collegiate sports to the big screen of Circle Cinema, Marshall Moses has always been comfortable in front of a crowd. Now going by the name Soulbody Meta, Moses has created a platform called Soulbody Cyphers, showcasing some of Oklahoma’s best hip-hop artists. With its recent “Cinematic Showdown” event, Soulbody took over the legendary Circle Cinema for a night of short films and artist intro videos on the big screen, plus a cypher for the ages, in front of a sold-out audience. The buzz around this night was real: outside the venue was a line of people who had to be turned away.
