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I’ll be Your Huckleberry, Festival

If you’re looking for another way to enjoy this Summer in Green Country you can take a little trip to Jay for the city's annual Huckleberry Festival July 6th. Browse through exhibit halls with arts and crafts, a quilt show and, homemade goods. Sign up for the annual Huckleberry 5K run or take it easy and meander through classic cars and street rods in the festival's car show. If you want a little fun take a spin on a carnival rides or show up early Saturday morning for the Huckleberry Festival's parade, which…continue reading →

SummerStage 2013 is Here

SummerStage 2013 has kicked into high gear in Tulsa. It opened last week with a full run of free performances of Tulsa Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the popular Tulsa Park, Guthrie Green. Throughout the rest of June and July, the Tulsa Performing Arts Center will be bursting at the seams with plays, musicals, and more. On June 21st, the festival will present “The Drowsy Chaperone.” This musical parody is the story of an early 1920s musical fan that plays a record of one of his favorite…continue reading →

RSU Radio In Studio: War On Gravity

Recently we started a new webseries at RSU Radio where we talk to local and touring artists and if they have time (and we're lucky enough) they play a couple acoustic songs for us. For our second episode, we got the oppotrunity to talk to local band War On Gravity. These guys are local to an extreme for RSU Radio as 4/5 members are right here from claremore. They talked about the beverage that started the name to the inspiration behind their first single "Tried and True" and what we can expect to…continue reading →

RSU Radio Receives Absolute Best of Tulsa Nominations

We did it! RSU Radio has been nominated for Best Radio Station and our very own Gary “Turbo” Webb has been nominated for Best Radio Personality at Urban Tulsa Weekly’s Absolute Best of Tulsa Awards! This is the station’s third nomination in the category on Turbo’s second. Thank you for your nominations! Now we're asking you to vote, and to tell everyone you know to vote too. Follow the link below, create an account, and click on "ABoT 2013 Music Awards" to view the ballot. It's super easy and we'd really appreciate it.…continue reading →

SummerStage 2013 Is Here!

SummerStage 2013 has kicked into high gear in Tulsa. It opened last week with a full run of free performances of Tulsa Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the popular Tulsa Park, Guthrie Green. Throughout the rest of June and July, the Tulsa Performing Arts Center will be bursting at the seams with plays, musicals, and more. On June 21st, the festival will present “The Drowsy Chaperone.” This musical parody is the story of an early 1920s musical fan that plays a record of one of his favorite…continue reading →

deadCENTER in Review

After attending 3 out of the 5 days that the deadCENTER Film Festival was bringing some of the best in Oklahoma filmmaking together across the better portion of Oklahoma City, I left with an even greater respect for the art and a better understanding of how great Oklahoma is for filmmaking. Even after seeing a great documentary on The Rolling Stones and a couple of funny run-ins with The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, the best experience was easily the showing of Okie Shorts. This was an hour and a half collection of short…continue reading →

Noodling Anyone?

The “World’s Richest Noodling Tournament” will be in Claremore, June 15th at the Expo Center. For those beginners, a two-day noodling course is also being offered and focusing on safety and techniques. The 48 hour tournament begins on Thursday, June 13th at 6pm with the weigh-in on Saturday, June 15th from 4 to 6pm. Noodlers will want to check in only their largest fish and they can only be caught using the noodling techniques. With over $10,000 in cash and prizes, the grand prize will be “$5,000 for the Biggest Fish”. Awards will…continue reading →

The Stevedores call 91.3

. Recently, The Stevedores were in town playing a show at The Soundpony. They gave us a call and we had a nice conversation. Ranging from the recording process for both albums, their use of Kickstarter, their late lead singer and how they honor him, and finally The Stevedores as a band. Luckily, the whole thing got recorded and you can hear it over at our Soundcloud page.continue reading →

Clogging & Fiddling on Grand Lake

This year's American Heritage Music Festival will be held June 6th - 8th at the Grove Civic Center with evening activities and entertainment at Snider's camp on Graned Lake. The highlight of the event will be the Grand Lake National Fiddle and clogging contests with prizes over $1,000 each. The public is invited to the Kick-Off Party and Cookout at Snider's campground both Thursday and Friday nights. Admission is free to the public with food available for purchase. Jana Jae, founder of the Grand Lake festivals, will perform along with Jim Garling, Russ…continue reading →

2nd Annual “Chalk It Up!” in BA

Despite all the bad weather recently, the Broken Arrow Arts & Humanities Council along with the BA Parks & Recreation department, will host the 2nd Annual "Chalk it Up!" June 7th and 8th. This year's festival will feature a variety of artists, entertainers and vendors in the recently appointed Rose District of downtown BA. Hours are Friday, June 7th from 8pm to 11pm and Saturday, June 8th from 7am to 5pm. The event is free and open to all ages. The artists represent ages from 6 years old to adult with categories including…continue reading →