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I met “Princess of Twang” Nancy Apple in 2013, my first year vol­un­teer­ing to doc­u­ment the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. I had pho­tographed her ear­lier in the day and hap­pened to sit next to her at the com­mu­nal din­ner held back­stage at the Pastures of Plenty.

Dan Weber is the only song­writer in the his­tory of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival to have pulled off the hat trick of win­ning the first-, sec­ond-, and third-place prizes in the Woody Guthrie Songwriting contest.

Anna Larson, Dan Weber Take 2nd & 1st Place Satur­day night at Woodyfest 2019 kicked off, as in past years, with a show­case for the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest win­ners. The show­case lead with sec­ond-place win­ner Anna Larson per­form­ing her win­ning song “Acting Alone” accom­pa­nied by gui­tarist Jon-Michael Rogers. The Austin-based pianist and singer appeared on NPR’s All… Read More …

By some stan­dards, Jamie Lin Wilson is a late bloomer. She was nine­teen when she heard Natlie Maines per­form­ing a

Jacob Tovar didn’t set out to be a musi­cian. The Tulsa-based musi­cian grew up with a deep, abid­ing love of

A pair of Oklahoma’s pre­mier song­writ­ers shar­ing a stage should draw a crowd. But if it’s Monday night the week before finals in a uni­ver­sity town, maybe not.

The biggest musi­cal influ­ence in Opal Agafia’s life is her mom. Agafia char­ac­ter­izes her­self as a “life­long seri­ous shower singer,” say­ing that she grew up singing with her mother, DeAnna Smith.

The first time this writer heard Brad Fielder was in 2013. I was at the Bluebonnet Bar to see Alex Culbreth, whom I’d met at that year’s Woodyfest;

Festival Friday proved to be uncom­fort­ably hot in the beer gar­den attached to Lou’s Rocky Road Tavern. The pre­vi­ous day’s patio performances

This year’s Woodyfest con­tin­ued a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of pro­vid­ing acces­si­ble enter­tain­ment through­out the host-town of Okemah. On fes­ti­val Friday