DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL September 4-6, 2009

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DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL September 4-6, 2009
c/o Selby Minner
701 D.C. Minner Street
Rentiesville, OK 74459
Phone: (918) 473-2411

Number 18! Thirty five bands from 10 states – 50 sets – 65 hours of music in all - will be presented in Rentiesville at the OK Blues Hall of Fame, Down Home Blues Club and Minner home place...What a way to wrap up the summer! Dance under the stars or sit in air conditioned comfort. Check out the Current or log on to the website www.dcminnerblues.com for complete details and a printable poster for the three day blues extravaganza.

through playing the music itself. The Blues is party music - people who work hard need to have fun once in a while, and the blues is custom designed for this purpose, (among others, - like expressing yourself, dancing...)

The Blues presented at Rentiesville run the gamut from young guns who rely on ‘fire’ to get over straight through to the old timers of the genre who roar or finesse their way through the blues… and every stripe in between. True blues, and a few derivations.



Sept 4, 5, 6
5 pm - 5 am
WHAT:


Three days and nights, Three stages, indoors and out... 35 bands, over 200 musicians, workshops, kid's arts and music activities, bar-b-que. A fun time that attracts some 4,000 people to the historic rural Black Township Rentiesville, the birthplace and home of OK Blues Legend and founder D.C. Minner.

WHEN:


2009- Labor Day Wknd, Fri Sat Sun Sept 4, 5, 6 -- 5 pm 'til 5 am nightly

WHO:




a showcase of 24 regional groups and 5 nationally acclaimed headliners. We are a family event with two outdoor stages and lots for kids to do throughout the three day Festival. Plus the Juke Joint which goes after hours indoors!

What's Cool, What' Not:


Bring chairs or blankets unless you come early. No coolers or pets.

HOW MUCH:


Tickets are $15/day (about $1.50 a band!)
KIDS under 12 FREE! Volunteers FREE!

Volunteer Option:


It takes a lot of people to do this - we have a great deal for volunteers Volunteer Option: help us out for 3 hours, get your $15 for that day BACK and ½ off on a T-shirt! Click here for details.

WHERE WE ARE:


DC Minner's Down Home Blues Club in Rentiesville, OK (pop. 66) is in the rural township of RENTIESVILLLE OK. Just off of US 69, follow the signs into Rentiesville to DC Minner Street and you are here....Rentiesville is 15 minutes South of Muskogee, 70 miles SE of Tulsa, 1hour West of Fort Smith, 2 hours East of Oklahoma City -- 2 exits north on US 69 from I-40; Click for maps.

MOTELS:


We recommend any major chain in Muskogee, 15 minutes up US 69. Travel Lodge, Bacone Inn, Motel 6, Super 8, Ramada Inn. There are new motels in Eufaula, 15 minutes south near the lake.... In Checotah the motel we recommend is America's Best across from the truck stop, near Wal-Mart.

CAMPING:


Parking is free across the road. Also primitive camping. Or Lake Eufaula State Park, first come first served, as it is a holiday weekend. There is a KOA East of Checotah on I-40

SPONSORED BY:


SPONSORS help make this happen...OK Arts Council, VSA Arts, The Current, James Hodge Ford in Muskogee, the Muscogee Creek Nation Casino, People's National Bank in Checotah, Budweiser, Coke, The Blues Festival Guide, KMOD, Jammin' John Peters, KGOU, Preview, Tulsa World, Entertainment Fort Smith, SW Blues, BareBones Independant Filmmakers, Blues Society of Tulsa, OK Blues Society (www.okblues.org), lots of friends who come early and help...!

HOSTED BY:


OKLAHOMA BLUES HALL OF FAME, FRIENDS OF RENTIESVILLE BLUES INC. (a 501 c 3 not-for-profit corporation) together Selby Minner. Click here for more about F.O.R. Blues Inc.