There’s a lot going on in Tulsa this week, including: 

The Eli Young Band at Cain’s Ballroom this Friday and Saturday. Tickets to see the country band are just $23 and are available at the box office or online.

Attention outdoorsmen and women! This Friday through Sunday, check out the Midwest Outdoor Sports Show at the Tulsa Convention Center.  Here you can try out some of the latest hunting equipment and accessories and have the chance to meet some of the top hunting outfitters from around the country.

Also at the Convention Center this week, the Tulsa 66ers host Iowa on Thursday and check out the Green Clean Expo on Saturday where you can learn how improve your indoor environment with safer air quality.

If you have a talented canine, make sure to sign them up for the 2010 Dog Bowl on Sunday at Cain’s Ballroom. There are 7 events for your dog to compete in as well as live music, prizes and a silent auction. 

Have fun!
Wendy with wimgo

Oklahoma is hoppin’ this week. Check out these events:

The Oklahoma City Thunder are home this Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at the Ford Center. Best part? Tickets to sit in loud city are only $10.

Join me on Friday and go see Oklahoma band SafetySuit as they hit up Diamond Ballroom. The band has recently toured with Collective Soul and Three Doors Down and their video for “Stay” was #1 on VH1’s Top 20 countdown. Joining SafetySuit is Parachute and Graham Colton and tickets are just $10.

Another Oklahoma band, Aranda, makes a stop at Oklahoma City Limits on Saturday night and tickets are just $10.

Also check out the Gun and Knife show at State Fair Park all weekend long in the Travel and Transportation Building. Admission is only $12.

There are a lot of opportunities for you to help out Haiti, including the Hearts for Haiti walk this Saturday morning at Crossroads Mall, the Haiti Relief Benefit Concert, the Help Haiti Now concert, and the Hour of Need…Hour to Help concert on Sunday.

Have a great week!
Wendy with wimgo

George Strait

Reba McEntire

Tickets to the upcoming George Strait and Reba McEntire concert at Tulsa’s BOK Center sold out in less than an hour Saturday morning, according to a news release from the venue. This marks the first time in the history of the BOK Center that more than 18,000 tickets have been sold for one event.

“The demand for this show is phenomenal,” said John Bolton, general manager of the BOK Center, in a news release. “It has been as high as all the shows we’ve had in the past and it’s…

Read more George Strait-Reba McEntire tickets sell out in an hour in Tulsa, setting BOK Center record at BAM's Blog

Travis Linville

Today’s featured event:

NORMAN – Hear Travis Linville and other local musicians play a benefit for Haiti earthquake relief at 7 tonight at The Deli, 309 White Street.

In addition to Linville’s weekly Monday show, the benefit will feature Camille Harp, Resident funk members and Mama Sweet members jamming the rest of the night. The venue will take cash donations benefiting Doctors Without Borders and the American Red Cross at the door.

For more information, go to www.thedeli.us.

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Today’s featured event:

Watch the antics of the Harlem Globetrotters at 3 p.m. today at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno. The team will donate a portion of gate proceeds from the game to UNICEF’s Earthquake Relief efforts for Haiti.

For more information, call (800) 745-3000 or go to  www.okfordcenter.com.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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Jason Boland & the Stragglers

Today’s featured event:

Listen to Jason Boland & the Stragglers and the John D. Hale Band at 9 p.m. today at the Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan. Doors open at 6 p.m. 

For more information, call 601-6276 or go to www.wormydog.com.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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A capella singing group Straight No Chaser will perform at 8 p.m. May 8 at the Tulsa Convention Center’s Assembly Hall, 100 Civic Center.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 29.

Tickets for the all-ages show are priced at $30 in advance, $35 day of the show. They will be available online at www.bokcenter.com, at the Arby’s Box Office and all Tickets.com outlets, or by phone at (866) 7BOKCTR.

The 10 members of Straight No Chaser have barely had time to shake the snow from their traveling boots…

Read more Tickets on sale Jan. 29 for Straight No Chaser’s May 8 Tulsa show at BAM's Blog

Red Dirt Improv (Photo by Stephanie Bidelspach)

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

Oklahoma City-based improv and comedy troupe Red Dirt Improv will begin today a run of shows titled “9 Fridays at 9” at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, 706 W Sheridan.

At 9 p.m. every Friday for the next nine weeks, Red Dirt Improv will explore a different facet of improv. Tonight’s show will feature short-format improv — a great introduction to improv for people who are unfamiliar with it — and by the ninth week, the troupe…

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“Bear holding two men at bay up a tree ” circa 1900, “When Animals Attack?: Humorous Hunting Tableaux.”

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.

“When Animals Attack!”, a three-part TV series that debuted on Fox television in 1996, sparked a nationwide fascination that continues to this day. Although this compilation of real-life attacks seemed to be the first of its kind, century-old stereographic images reveal Americans took interest in animal encounter mishaps long before this documentary.

Beginning today, a National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum exhibit will feature stereographs depicting staged…

Read more National Cowboy Museum opens “When Animals Attack?” exhibit at BAM's Blog

Owl City

Hear Adam Young’s synthpop project Owl City with Lights and Deas Vail at 6:30 p.m. today at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S Eastern.

My colleague George Lang recently spoke to Young about his music; click here to read George’s story.

For more information, call 677-9169 or go to www.diamondballroom.net.

For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

-BAM

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