One of Arkansas’ newest female voices to command the attention of music fans is also one of the state’s most dynamic, unique, and stunning female voices we’ve heard in years. Opal Agafia, a native of the Russellville/Dover area, has been singing in public for a mere two years. But she sounds as though she’s trained her entire 24 years for...
Tickets for this fall’s Bluegrass & BBQ festival are now on sale, and the lineup is smokin’ for the September 28-30 event that coincides with Northwest Arkansas’ region-wide Bikes, Blues & BBQ. Performers will include Opal Agafia & The Sweet Nothings, The Grateful Bluegrass Boys, Aaron Kamm & The One Drops, Circus No. 9, Whiskey For The Lady, and DimeTrip....
On Friday, March 23, the state’s happiest folk band makes its Central Arkansas debut when Red Oak Ruse performs at Four Quarter Bar in Argenta, beginning around 10 pm. Admission is $7, ages 21 and up. Before the show, starting at 8 pm, New Belgium Brewing is hosting a “tap takeover” Pint Night event, introducing its new Voodoo Ranger Juicy...
The 2018 Ozark Mountain Music Festival, better known as OzMoMu, has added 10 bands to its 2 previously announced headliners – Tall Tall Trees and Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy – to fill out the lineup for the January 18-21, 2018 event. The popular intimate, indoor music festival held in the ballrooms of the Basin Park Hotel in downtown Eureka...
Red Oak Ruse’s self-titled debut album officially releases Sept. 2, 2017, at its release party at Chelsea’s Corner Cafe & Bar in Eureka Springs, the group’s home base. But it’s already streaming on their website as well as on Spotify, and it is for sale now on CDBaby – and we think it’s a contender to be your new favorite...
The members of Red Oak Ruse – the newest progressive folk act to come out of Northwest Arkansas – are not new to playing music full-time; they, in fact, all have a widely varied and extensive background in music and have toured regionally with a number of bands based in Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia. But they’re already breaking barriers when...
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