Music
Joshua Boydston
Old Crow Medicine Show with Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
7 p.m. Monday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$29-$34
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: admission
Crow about it
Riding the current folk wave is Old Crow Medicine Show, which has whipped up a prescription to string success along.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Old Crow Medicine Show with Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
7 p.m. Monday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$29-$34
You go, girls
While The Chloes prefer you want to hear them because they rock, and not because they’re all women, they’ll take it.
Dirty Red & the Soulshakers — Soul Shakin’
Rock
Louis Fowler
I know most purists would look middle-aged white guys playing soul music and immediately pass — I can’t count how many times I have — but damned if Dirty Red & the Soulshakers don’t rock the joint for all of its juke, lack of pigment notwithstanding.
Michael Summers — More
Jazz
Louis Fowler
This honky cat is really something else! Need proof? Just take a listen to his swingin’ version of the Elton John classic. Deep bass grooves, jaunty piano, smooth trumpet and sexy, crystalline vocals: This is the version to which all others now must live up.
Dewey Binns — High Character
Hip Hop/Rap
Joshua Boydston
A lot of hip-hop is pure escapism: fantasies about fast cars, attractive women and having more money than you know what to do with. High Character is not that; it’s about as real and down-to-earth as it gets, while still taking the time to appreciate the small things the world gives us.
Big Jim
From behind the scenes at his Oklahoma-based talent agency, Jim Halsey helped change the face of modern music. A new exhibition of memorabilia is proof positive.
Visual Arts
Louis Fowler
Starmaker: Jim Halsey and the Legends of Country Music
through April 5
Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum
1400 Classen Drive
oklahomaheritage.com
235-4458
$5-$7
