PRYOR, Okla. -- It's 91 degrees outside, but my thermometer tells me it feels more like 105 degrees out here. The monster country music festival
Country Fever is going on right now on 400 acres of farmland outside of Pryor.
And few seem to be bothered by the heat. Performers Brandon Jenkins and Billy Joe Shaver both played full sets to small but enthusiastic crowds on the main stage.
Many fans have chosen to camp all three nights and stay all four days, including Brandon Hadnot from Yukon.
"The first night is always the roughest," said Hadnot. He and friends April Zeien and Chad Stogsdill came in Thursday afternoon and are staying through Sunday night, they said. "I like it out here. I wanted to come last year, but there was too much rain. So far, though, it's really great."
The 27-foot travel trailer they rented will make things a little easier though, laughed Zeien. "And tonight we're cooking out – steaks and potatoes," she added.
Stogsdill said they're huge red dirt music fans, and have seen every band that's performed since Thursday: Jackson Taylor, Robert Earl Keen, Wade Bowen and more. "There's probably only three bands on the entire lineup that we haven't seen," he said.
Vendors out here sell airbrushed tattoos, straw hats, slushees, Country Fever merchandise, food, beer and more. "Okie Grown" clothes are sold in-person by Mary Beth Babcock, who owns the Dwelling Spaces boutique in downtown Tulsa.
"It's windy, but the weather's really great. People have been really curious," she said as a line formed in front of her tent. (Performer Brandon Jenkins was also spotted onstage with an "Okie Grown" bumper sticker plastered to his equipment case.)
