By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Apr 24, 2009, at 9:18 PM Updated on 4/24 at 9:18 PM
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On Sunday, local singer-songwriter Eric Himan headlines the Tulsa Unites concert, 3-6 p.m. at Guthrie Green park, 111 ...
Jimmy LaFave ’s “ Walking Woody’s Road ” will kick-off this year’s Woody Guthrie Folk Festival .
He will host his ...
A new festival, Medicine Stone , is coming to the banks of the Ilinois River, Sept. 12-14 at Diamondhead Resort in Tahlequah. ...
Flamng Lips
frontman
Wayne Coyne spoke out Friday about a state House vote that killed a resolution naming the band’s 2002 hit “
Do You Realize??” as the official state rock song.
“It’s a small minority of religious wackos that think they can tell everybody what to wear and what to say and what to do and what music is right for the rest of the world.
"And all the smart, normal, rational people of Oklahoma know better,” Coyne said during a phone interview with the Tulsa World.
Soon after Thursday’s vote, Gov. Brad Henry intervened by announcing that he would sign an executive order proclaiming “Do You Realize??” as the official rock song of Oklahoma.
It will be signed during a public ceremony on Tuesday at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.
...
Some legislators believe that a T-shirt worn by Flaming Lips bassist Michael Ivins when the Senate voted on March 2 was offensive, spawning Thursday’s backlash. Underneath a blazer, Ivins wore a red T-shirt with a yellow star-and-sickle logo.
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