The music performance and interview series Normania premiered it’s initial episode today.
This week’s guests are Penny Hill & Dorian Small.
Catch these two musicians playing tonight at The Deli in Norman.
deadCENTER Film Festival is currently happening in OKC, with a handful of Oklahoma music-related documentaries and films making their Oklahoma City debuts. We’ll cover all four films over the next several days.
Today, we’ll highlight The Rounder Comes to Town.
The Rounder Comes to Town is an Okie Gothic film based on a traditional song dating back to 1720. Throughout time the music has changed in the hands of it’s performer, while the story remained largely the same. A lone drifter with no history meets the young and beautiful wife of the most powerful man in town. With a dangerous path laid out before each of them, our characters hurtle towards their destinies with no regard for the inevitable outcome. The Rounder Comes to Town is a story of deception, lust and greed…A tale as old as time itself.
The short film (35 mins.) features music by Stillwater’s Other Lives and Norman’s Dorian Small.
The film was shot entirely in Oklahoma and was written and directed by Adam Davis Beatty.
SHOWINGS:
Saturday, June 12 at 5:30pm
• [ArtSpace] @ Untitled
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Albums of the 2000s. Every weekday, we will unveil another ten Oklahoma albums that helped shape the way Oklahoma music is heard by the outside world.
We asked three dozen musicians, fans and journalists for their opinions on the top albums of the past decade. With their guidance and our own opinions, we compiled what we hope is a decent and fair list.
Hopefully, there’s a good bit of reflection, discovery and enjoyment when listening to these albums through Lala (when available). Enjoy!
40. Matthew Alvin Brown - Rainbow Around the Sun (2006)
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DOWNLOAD: “New York City Girls”
“Regardless of what one thinks of concept albums, Brown’s first solo outing, “Rainbow Around the Sun,” is not pretentious. It is track after track of engaging and colorful pop songs that guide the listener through a story, rather than dragging them.” - Charles Martin (Oklahoma Gazette contributing writer and author of “The Dominant Hand”)
Here’s Dorian Small’s music video for “Ultimatum”, from his upcoming album, Dorian Small Gives You an Ultimatum, due later this summer.
OUDaily.com interviews Dorian Small, who plays samples from his upcoming album, Dorian Small Gives You an Ultimatum, due later this summer.
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The schedule for Norman Music Festival (Saturday, April 25) has been released, along with an updated list of bands.
You can view the previously announced bands here and here.
The Lee Boys, Crocodile, The Separation, Early Beat, Penny Hill, Locust Avenue, Mayola, Dead Sea Choir, The Gunship, Mama Sweet, Hush Hush Commotion, The Ike Lamb Band, Gabriel Marshall, Galapagos, Lemma, Here is There, Ford Chastain, John Fullbright, Michael Bendure, The Workweek, Kristen Stehr, Depth and Current, Meredith Meyer, Richard Daddy Love, Susan Herndon, Dorian Small, Rainbows are Free, Proprietors of the Earth, Glowbead, Edgar Cruz, The Lily Guild, Hollywood Homicide, Bungalouski, Sugar Free Allstars, Buffalofitz, Ivan Peña Trio, The Nghiems, Buzz Radio Winner
The second-year festival will feature around 68 artists on ten stages in historic downtown Norman. Over 13,000 people attended the event last year and this year promises to be bigger and better. NMF is for all ages and FREE! So, if you like free stuff, sunny sunshine, good music and trains, they you’re in luck.
Norman Music Festival is looking for about 150 volunteers to assist in crowd control, clean up, hospitality, parking and many other areas of the festival. Volunteers will work in four hour shifts and each receive a free t-shirt. Sign up to be a volunteer here.
Full schedule after the jump.
Continuing with the Norman Music Festival recap. Not a lot of great performance videos, but here’s what we could find:
If you aren’t attending Norman Music Festival this Saturday, I don’t even know you anymore.
Here’s the most recent schedule for the festival. Oklahoma bands are in bold.
West Main Stage Schedule (located on Main and Jones)
10pm The Polyphonic Spree
8pm Chainsaw Kittens (reunion)
6:30pm British Sea Power
5:15pm The Octopus Project
4pm Evangelicals
3pm Colourmusic
2pm The Neighborhood
1pm Umbrellas
Noon Dorian SmallEast Stage Schedule (located at Main and Porter)
9pm The John Arnold Band
7pm The Starkweather Boys
5:30pm Taddy Porter
4:30pm Cheyenne (Beau Jennings & co.)
3:30pm Ryan Lindsey
2:30pm Skinfonia (former Ills members)
1:30pm Tall Cotton String Band
12:30pm Ghost of MonkshoodThe Sooner Theatre Stage (located on the corner of Main and Jones)
7pm Born A Number
6pm Citizen 5
5pm Klipspringer
4pm Gravity Propulsion System
3pm Debris (reunion)
2pm Terry “Buffalo” Ware and The Shambles
1pm Refuje
Noon The Wickers (reunion)
11am Students from McMichael School of Music
Stage hosted by Hoff the Monkey and Galvin & WilsonMAINSITE Contemporary Art Gallery
6pm White Walls series by John Mooneyham
5pm Anvil SaluteBlue Fish Companion XXI (Official after-party @ The Opolis) Begins as soon as the NMF Main Stage shuts down
Mama Sweet
Toil and Trouble
DJ BronzaiDreamer Concepts Studio & Foundation ($10 entry during day, $15 at night - goes to support DCS&F)
Torn Between
Macon Greyson
Gregg Standridge
Supreme U-gene
Ivan Peña
Resident Funk
Mama Sweet (acoustic)
Camille Harp
It all takes place in Downtown Norman (map) and it’s all FREE!
Videos of NMF bands and Graham Lee Brewer’s interview with Trent Bell of Chainsaw Kittens, after the jump.
In an effort to familiarize freshmen and new students to local (Norman) music, The Oklahoma Daily is running a five-part series this week entitled, “Five Staples of the Local Music Scene”.
Featured today are infectious pop-rock band, Starlight Mints.
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By Katie Wilder/The DailyThe Starlight Mints, who, along with Colourmusic and Dorian Small will be playing a free concert on campus tonight, are working to improve live music in Norman one concert at The Opolis at a time.
The Starlight Mints, who have been playing music in Norman for the last ten years, began renting the building that is now The Opolis in 2001. By 2002, the band had purchased the venue and acts had been booked to play. While the addition of a new venue has undoubtedly increased the amount of available performance space and the attractiveness of Norman as a possible tour stop, Nunez insists that there is still more that could be done.
DOWNLOADS:
Starlight Mints - “Inside of Me”
Starlight Mints - “Pumpkin”