New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music

Deines Cultural Center • Russell
Event Schedule
May 9 - June 22, 2008

Saturday Evening May 10th, 7:00 PM - Diamond W Wranglers Cowboy History and Song. Chuckwagon dinner available for purchase at 6:00 PM. Don Rowlison, Curator of Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site near Studley, enhances the show with a look at the life of a trail drover in "Out of the Bedroll" during intermission.

Sunday, May 11th, 2:00 PM - Opening reception for New Harmonies featuring Jerry Weaver, Native American-style drum maker and Reuben Ironhorse Kent, Native American flute maker.

Friday, May 16th, 7:00 PM - Volga German musicians Garry Batt and Johnny Shwien, formerly with Dutchmasters, play and discuss their music.

Sunday, May 18th, 2:00 PM - This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land presented by Tom Lewis. An Oklahoma songwriter, hobo, and philosopher, Woody Guthrie became a folk hero. This Land is Your Land, So Long It's Been Good to Know You, and many other songs struck a chord with the dispossessed and downtrodden in the 1940s. Discover Guthrie's wit, wisdom, and sometimes radical views during this program. Followed by a jam session of Guthrie's songs in the Stone Barn at Soapweed Farm.

Saturday, May 31st - Russell American Roots Music Festival. Click here for a pdf schedule of this all day event.

Sunday, June 8th. 2:00 PM - Riverbend Five Dixieland Band in Cecil Brinker Park. Russell County Historical Society (partner for New Harmonies).

All Summer Long - Russell County's Roots...musicians of note exhibition at the Russell County Historical Society.

For more information on events, or to confirm locations, dates, and times, contact the Deines Cultural Center at 785/483-3742.




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