Susan is a singing songwriting musician, born in St. Louis, MO, raised in Tulsa, OK, who lived in France and Greece for a couple of years and now resides not far from San Antonio, TX, Susan was voted Best Singer-Songwriter in a Tulsa World Music Awards poll, has songs in some indie films, and her [...]

Chris Buhalis is a songwriter from Ann Arbor, Michigan who has been walking Woody's Road since he "finished" school, bought a guitar and hit the road with a Woody Guthrie songbook. Chris has released two acclaimed albums. He's still singing, writing and recording his songs, and disturbing the comfortable. Born in Detroit, singer/songwriter Chris Buhalis [...]

Gypsy Twang has been together as a band, in one form or another, since 2009. Members include Sarah Barker Huhn (lead vocals, guitar), Steve Huhn (upright bass), John Williams (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica), and Kurt ‘Frenchie’ Neilsen (mandolin, tenor guitar). John and Sarah deliver vocals, often as duets, as well as writing original tunes for [...]

David Amram is a Jazz and Folk Pioneer, who sings and scats, plays 35 instruments, and is an acclaimed classical composer whose compositions incorporate his lifetime participation in the worlds of Jazz, Global Folk, Latin, Classical, Middle Eastern, and Native American music. Over a seven-decade career in the Jazz world, he collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, [...]

Nancy Apple has that special something that you really can't define. A combination of humbleness and hotshot, honesty and hyperbole… sinner and saint. She sings and writes songs… plays guitar, drums, accordion and harmonica. She's a back up singer. She runs her own independent record label, manages her own career, books herself, designs her own [...]

Hailing from different regions of Oklahoma, Monica, the Cimarron Songbird, in Perkins, OK, and Travis from Northeastern “green country” of Oklahoma, each artist come to the table with their own unique musical influences and performance traditions. Monica grew up with Southern Gospel and Bluegrass. From an early age, Taylor sought out the performers and songwriters [...]

A world traveling troubadour with a long string of recorded songs and albums, Butch Hancock has been called "one of the finest songwriters of our time" and is acknowledged by his peers and critics alike as one of the premiere singer-songwriters Texas has ever produced. His tunes evoke mystical visions of wind-swept dry-plains and his [...]

Melissa Hembree is a Country Music Singer/Songwriter from right here in Okemah. She fronts the acoustic trio, The Union, where she is joined by her husband, Bruce Metcalf on bass, as well as Michael Kindell on lap steel and lead guitar. Melissa has been touring and playing music professionally for 4 decades and is currently [...]

Songwriters in the Round

Songwriters in the Round

That over there is Louise Goldberg, and that over there is Mary Reynolds, and we are Miss Brown to You. We play jazz, folk, country, and the Bluest Blues and Greenest Greens. Been knocking around Oklahoma City for the last 31 years, in clubs, music theater, children's music theater, church music, and teaching. We are [...]

Songwriters in the Round

Songwriters in the Round

Mallory Eagle is one of Oklahoma’s best kept secrets. . . for now that is. Her voice is strong as a heavy pour of whiskey and smother than a dancehall. She is a native Oklahoman but spent the last few years based out of Nashville, TN touring and working. Her first album “Red Dirt Home” [...]

When red dirt pioneer Tom Skinner passed away his dying wish was that his Science Project band be continued. Skinner’s longtime performing partner multi-instrumentalist Don Morris took up the mantle to become the band leader. Filling out the group is guitarist Brad James, drummer Rick Gomez, & bassist Dylan Layton. Each band member has a [...]

One of the original Woody Fest performers is very happy to be returning to the festival for more love, joy and musical mayhem

David Amram is a Jazz and Folk Pioneer, who sings and scats, plays 35 instruments, and is an acclaimed classical composer whose compositions incorporate his lifetime participation in the worlds of Jazz, Global Folk, Latin, Classical, Middle Eastern, and Native American music. Over a seven-decade career in the Jazz world, he collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, [...]