5th
Annual Skiatook Bluegrass Festival - June 25-27, 2009.
Skiatook
Sports Complex Park, Skiatook, Ok.
National
and regional bluegrass bands, Junior Fiddle contest, bluegrass karaoke,
workshops, arts and crafts, food vendors. Camping- 100 RV hookups .
------918-261-3443
The
Skiatook Bluegrass Festival is an annual event sponsored by the Skiatook
Bluegrass Association. The festival has steadily grown every year and we are
looking forward to putting on our fifth festival. The upcoming festival will be
held June 25-27, 2009. Essential information is given below, more detailed
information can be found by following the links on your left and right.
The
festival is located in Skiatook, Oklahoma. Skiatook is a small friendly
community located in the heart of Green Country, about 30 miles northwest of
Tulsa, OK. In addition to the festival,
the area offers site seeing, boating, fishing, and other forms of recreation. We
received much praise for the outstanding line-up of bands featured at our 2008 festival. We will present similar
high-caliber bands in 2009. The festival will start Thursday night with a band
contest and band scramble. Professional bands will play all day Friday and
Saturday. In addition, there will be numerous children's activities, workshops,
and our Youth Fiddle Contest. And, of course, there is round the clock picking
and grinning in the camping area.
Ticket prices are a modest $5 Thursday night, $12 for Friday or Saturday,
$20 for Friday and Saturday. RV sites with water and electric -- $12 per
day, tent camping-- $3 a day. An added
draw of the festival is the Youth Fiddle Contest. The Youth Fiddle Contest is a fiddle competition open to children
and teens up to the age of 15. There are four divisions: pee wee, junior
junior, junior, and open.
We
would like to announce the remaining bands to be featured at our 2009 Festival:
the Bonham Revue, Heartland Express, Jim Blair and City Moon, Klondike 5, the
Tall Cotton String Band, and the Zoograss Boys. Read about all of the bands on our bands page. You can also
listen and/or watch them by following the links on our links page.
The
City of Skiatook will be building a permanent stage for us this year and we
plan on erecting additional structures for shade as well.
We
hope to have one or more fundraisers this spring. Please check back for
details. It will be another great festival. We'll hope to see you all there!
The
Skiatook Bluegrass Association is excited to announce the booking of three
nationally known bands for the 2009 festival.
On
Friday (June 26) we will have the Jeanette Williams Band. Jeanette is a six
time nominee for the SPBGMA Female Vocalist of the Year Award. She has toured
throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe and has performed with the likes of
George Jones and the Dan Tyminski Band.
On
Saturday (June 27) we will have Robert Hale and Wildfire! Their creative,
spontaneous, and driving arrangements create an excitement for the listener
that is unmatched.
We
are extremely fortunate to have a living legend performing on both Friday and
Saturday. I am speaking of none other than Alan Munde and his band. Alan is
well known as one of the very best banjo pickers the world has ever known! Among his many lists of achievements include
receiving the Distinguished Achievement Award at this years IBMA. This is one
of the highest honors bestowed upon a musician. This will be a "coming
home" party for Alan because he was born and raised in Oklahoma. Not only
will Alan and his band perform on both days of the event, but he is also going
to conduct workshops---kind of like Michael Jordan showing you how to shoot a
basket or Michael Phelps teaching you how to swim.
We
will be booking several local bands as well. We are also excited about making
Thursday night (June 25), gospel night.
Hopefully,
we will get some of the local churches involved.
That's
all for now.
Larry
The
festival is sponsored by the Skiatook Bluegrass Association (SBA). In addition
to the festival, the SBA activity promotes music in the schools, provides
fiddles for children, and sponsors special events throughout the year. Please
sign our guestbook and sign up for our newsletter before you leave. Our
festival depends on the help of volunteers. If you live in the Skiatook area we
would appreciate your help with the festival. Please volunteer. We need help
throughout the year and especially during festival week. Thanks!