Turnpike Troubadours

SATURDAY JUNE 23 8PM MIDLAND COUNTY HORSESHOE AMPHITHEATER

Roughly 3,300 people live in Okemah, Oklahoma a name that means “things up high” in Kickapoo. Okemah is a town with vintage redbrick storefronts, a dive bar called the Rocky Road Tavern, and a strange track record of birthing great American songwriters: Woody Guthrie is from Okemah. Grammy-nominee John Fullbright is too. Evan Felker belongs on that list.

“I was born in Okemah but was raised in Wright City, a town in southeastern Oklahoma,” Felker says. “Now I live in Okemah again. The characters I write about are living in that world I grew up in––a bucolic, dirt-underneath-your-fingernails sort of world. People where I grew up are tough. It’s nice to be able to represent them in art. The band’s impressive musicianship is multifaceted: a tricky mix that exudes naturally.

Don’t wait to get your tickets for one of the hottest selling bands. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. at the Horseshoe box office, www.midlandhorseshoe.com or by calling ETIX at 1-800-514-3849.