Tulsa World: Best bets: Rejects move up to Cain's Ballroom

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Best bets: Rejects move up to Cain's Ballroom

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By Staff Reports
Published: 11/19/2009 2:20 AM
Last Modified: 11/19/2009 8:22 AM

Mike Kennerty remembers fondly his early days with the All-American Rejects, playing venues like Curly's nightclub in downtown Tulsa's east end, he said in a Tulsa World interview earlier this year.

"We've played Tulsa countless times," said the 28-year-old Edmond resident, who joined the band in 2002.

Boy, how times have changed. The venues are bigger. The album sales are bigger. The band's fan base is more rabid than ever.

"We'll tour this fall till our heads fall off," Kennerty said. "We're hitting festivals in Europe, Asia and in China for the first time, too."

That's a huge jump from the cramped quarters of dark venues like Curly's.

"Back when I started, we were all super-stoked to play a week at a time and pay our rent at the duplex the five of us lived in," he said of his Stillwater rental.

"Those were cramped quarters, to say the least, but we were happy to be there. To get where we are today is unbelievable."

The multiplatiunum act returns to Tulsa for a show at the historic Cain's Ballroom on Wednesday.

Taking Back Sunday and Anberlin will also play. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; showtime is 7:30 p.m. Cain's Ballroom, 423 N. Main St. All ages.

Tickets are $35 plus fees. Charge by phone (866) 977-6849 or online tulsaworld.com/ProTix . For more information, visit tulsaworld.com/Cains.

— Jennifer Chancellor, World Scene writer

Gaither Vocal Band reunites Saturday

He's a Southern-style gospel legend, touring to spread God's word since the 1960s.

And to think — nearly all those years include at least one tour stop in Tulsa for singer-songwriter-entrepreneur Bill Gaither and his band. That's a lot of shows, which often run to four hours each.

"People come from all over," Gaither said in a Tulsa World interview not too long ago. "It's a great location — and driving distance from Missouri, from Wichita, Oklahoma City. . . . We just love the Mabee Center."

His sentiment still stands, and he and his Bill Gaither Band return with his "Reunited Tour" this Saturday.

Fans show up year after year to hear some of the biggest hits in modern music history. "Because He Lives," "He Touched Me" and "The King Is Coming" are widely known standards in the genre and have sold millions of copies each.

Some 600 songs and 40 album releases have contributed to his fame — his was the first gospel act to go "arena," selling out huge venues across the country.

— Jennifer Chancellor, World Scene writer

A gathering of 'Loved' ones

Former Tulsan Lavada Nicholls has been aiming her camera's lens of late at dolls — cast-off toys whose odd expressions have been captured in ways that can be seen as either poignant or disturbing.

"Loved and Lost" is Nicholls' first Tulsa show of her work in more than a decade. It opens Thursday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., at Aberson Exhibits, and will be on display through Dec. 30.

Aberson Exhibits, 3524-B S. Peoria Ave.

—James D. Watts Jr., World Scene writer

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SRV, (11/19/2009 10:09:10 AM)

I was one of the folks that booked them into Curly's! They were so GREEN!

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