Counterculture celebration has become an annual tradition at Norman’s Groovefest, an event that combines a human rights forum with an all-day outdoor concert. Always a community-wide collaboration, Groovefest hasn’t changed much since being founded 22 years ago. The University of Oklahoma student chapter of Amnesty International continues to spearhead the event, which takes over Andrews […]
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Unique improv concert series brings together atypical instruments
No instrument or device is off limits to “sound artist” Jon Mooneyham, the one-time KGOU-FM DJ and Flaming Lips drummer who began organizing the abnormal “White Walls” concert series last year. Disenchanted with the rock club scene, he contacted Norman’s Mainsite Contemporary Art gallery and proposed a regular improvisational music series utilizing a rotating collective […]