Woodyfest 2018

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

Let’s just get it out of the way. Chloe-Beth Campbell (just “Chloe-Beth” when she per­forms) is tiny. Just shy of 4′11″ and weigh­ing 110 pounds, she […]

Making their Woodyfest debut, Gypsy Twang played the Hen House stage Friday after­noon. Husband and wife Steve Huhn (bass) and Sarah Barker-Huhn (gui­tar, vocals)

You know how some­times you see a movie, and you’re pos­i­tive that a favorite actor appeared in it, and later you dis­cover it was some­one else entirely? Well, some­thing like that hap­pened to […]

Marking their third appear­ance at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the Turnpike Troubadours closed open­ing night 2018 on the Pastures of Plenty stage. […]

This writer first saw Carter Sampson three-and-a-half years ago, when she played a short set at the Community Improvement Association (CIA) Stage […]

The Red Dirt Rangers may not have birthed Red Dirt, but they helped mid­wife the musi­cal genre into the world. […]

This year’s sec­ond place song­writ­ing con­test title went to Charlie Mosbrook for his song “Remember Who We Are.” Mosbrook per­formed the song as part of a short show­case kick­ing off evening per­for­mances on the Pastures of Plenty

As most Woodyfest sup­port­ers know, fes­ti­val favorite Audrey Auld Mezera died of com­pli­ca­tions from can­cer three years ago. The Tasmanian native was known for her flam­ing red hair, her wry humor, and her kind and bois­ter­ous personality.

From the moment she began to sing “Trance” from the Brick Café stage, Mary Battiata had this writer’s short hairs stand­ing at atten­tion. The song, from her sec­ond full-length […]