Past Concerts
Lunch Money - Mayfest Family Music Festival, May 15, 2010
Lunch Money brings the indie-rock experience to family audiences with an energetic salute to the stuff of childhood: roller coasters, giant cookies and getting dizzy. This trio "artfully treads the line between alt-kids and just plain alternative" [Nick Jr. Family Magazine]. Dizzy, Lunch Money's second album for children, received a glowing review on NPR's "All Things Considered" and was voted the #2 family album of 2009 by a panel of reviewers and radio programmers. Their song "It Only Takes One Night to Make a Balloon Your Friend" reached the #1 spot on XM/Sirius Kids Place Live charts. The band delivers a high-energy show that aims to get children and their parents dancing, thinking and laughing.
Funky Mama - Mayfest Family Music Festival, May 15, 2010
Independent children’s recording artist Krista “Funky Mama” Eyler showcases a voice that kids’ music authority Bill Childs calls “rich, soulful, and bluesy.” Her style is bold, straightforward, funk/soul that’s imbued with a strong sense of narrative phrasing and dynamite energy. A favorite among families in Kansas City, Funky Mama scored national recognition when she performed at the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington, D.C. Funky Mama's high energy shows get families dancing, moving, clapping and singing together.
Buffalo Fitz - Mayfest Family Music Festival, May 15, 2010
Buffalofitz is a vibrant acoustic band from Oklahoma City. The versatile duo features the combined energies of Fitz Jennings and Buffalo Rogers, two very different men with a shared love of entertaining, rooted music and storytelling. Their music is an ever-evolving mixture of traditional blues, and ballads, combined with surprising originals and impeccably chosen covers. In 2006 Buffalofitz was awarded a Woody Guthrie Award from the Oklahoma Gazette for Best Folk Band.
Prairie Dawgs - Mayfest Family Music Festival, May 15, 2010
The Prairie Dawgs is an all-acoustic band playing a punchy mix of Americana, Contemporary Folk, Bluegrass, and New Grass styles. Jo Morton's lead vocals, which are reminiscent of Alison Krauss', anchor the band's sound which has a strong emphasis on two- and three-part harmony. The Dawgs decorate many of their songs with Tim Terral's rippin' bluegrass guitar solos and Jim Vincent's blazin' fiddle. Tim Terral and J. Pat Murphy also take their turns singing lead here and there to mix it up a bit. The band counts among its many influences Alison Krauss and Union Station, Patty Griffin, the Greencards, and the New Grass Revival.
Duo Sonics - Mayfest Family Music Festival, May 15, 2010
Tulsa band, Duo Sonics interpret classic blues in an exciting, high-energy show. In fact, band member David Berntson's passion for blues has led him to receive a award for keeping the blues alive in education.
Whether playing a slow blues, dripping with amplified harp and slide guitar, or a full-blown boogie-woogie or jump blues number, this duo can really sing and swing.
Oh, Daddy O! Jazz for the Entire Family – March 27, 2010
If a syncopated beat gets your blood pumping; if you just can’t resist the cool sounds of hot jazz - then the final installment of the Tulsa Children’s Museum’s concert series will be music for your ears. Jambalaya Jass Band heats up the stage as they introduce young and old alike to the elements that makes jazz great and unlike any other musical style: collaborative improvisation. Jazz is known as the music America made.
Red Dirt Rangers – January 30, 2010
Saddle up for a concert with Stillwater's very own Red Dirt Rangers! This six-man country music band draws upon the rich musical history of Oklahoma incorporating elements of Country, Folk, Western Swing, Tex Mex and Jazz to create gritty, close-to-the-earth music.
The Jellydots – September 26, 2009
The Jellydots, an eclectic Rock and Roll band from Austin, Texas, draws inspiration from a wide variety of styles including, Reggae, Pop, Punk and Ska. The group brings insight and sophisticated joy to their quirky inventive songs about essentials of childhood: the disappointment of dropping your cookie, the excitement of racing toy cars or the freedom found on a bicycle. The Jellydots’ clever and inventive lyrics, exquisite attention to musical detail and fascination with the minutiae of childhood make their songs equally accessible to kids and adults.
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra - “Symphonic Safari” – March 28, 2009
Are you ready to bring some classical culture into your kid’s musical genre? Families will be able to go on an animal themed classical music safari as they learn about each segment of the orchestra. Come dressed as your favorite animal – there will be animal face painting before and after the show as well as an instrument petting zoo.
Ralph’s World – January 24, 2009
At the John H. Williams Theatre at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Tulsa kids and parents rocked out the PAC this past January with Ralph’s World!
He has been called the Elvis (Presley and Costello) of the children’s musical genre and Ralph Covert and his band have been touring the U.S. to promote their newly released cd, The Rhyming Circus. This Chicago based artist is also a children’s book author and playwright and has won numerous awards for his high-energy melodic tunes that will certainly wear the kids out.
In celebration of pop music, kids got to pop bubbles with our POP! The Art and Science of Bubbles traveling exhibit before and after the show.
Trout Fishing in America show – September 20, 2008
Trout Fishing in America show was a huge success as a SOLD OUT crowd listened to hilarious tunes like their famous song about beadhead “My Hair Had a Party Last Night.”
Families danced together, made beautiful art with our RECLAIM THIS! exhibit and sang catchy tunes to this inaugural show in our Family Concert Series.
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Trout Fishing in America is comprised of the dynamic duo from Arkansas, Keith Grimwood and Ezra Islet. They have been writing, recording and performing together for over three decades.
They met and first played together in Houston in the folk/rock band St Elmo’s Fire, which dissolved in 1979. A decade later in 1990, they recorded Truth is Stranger than Fishin' for their own label, Trout Records.
They still release their own CD's, including their most recent Big Round World, (2008), and their three Grammy nominated children's releases, My Best Day (2006), Merry Fishes to All (2004) and inFINity (2001) on Trout Records and have earned multiple national awards.
Trout Fishing in America's album sales have passed the quarter of a million mark, an impressive feat for a group with no MTV exposure or Top 40 hits. Instead, they have played large and small venues across North America and even a couple of trips to Europe, picking up fans young and old on each swing.
Much of their songs were created in song workshops that they conduct throughout the country.
