Ali Harter

Still more bands have been added to the increasingly amazing lineup for next month’s 2010 Norman Music Festival.

According to Oklahoma Rock Newsblog, Eagle Claw, Dikes of Holland, The Cassingles, The Stuffies, Indian Jewelry, Psychedelic Horseshit, Audra Mae, Ali Harter, Maggie McClure, Sherree Chamberlain, Green Corn Revival, Sh—-/Awesome, Gang Starr Museum, The Boom Bang, Algebra, Scales of Motion, 8Bit Cynics, Hiphopotamus, Copperheads, The Easy Lovers, Venus Bogardus, Radio Deception, Quantum Turbo, The Lily Guild, Wondernaut and The Candyguns have been added to the two-day free festival.…

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Taylor Swift poses for a photo at the 2010 Grammy Awards. (Associated Press file photo)

A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Gloriana vocalist gives her view of Taylor Swift’s singing

Despite boffo album sales and sold-out shows, superstar Taylor Swift has earned jeers for her live-on-TV performances at music awards shows.

Complaints about her singing skills undoubtedly took the shine off an otherwise triumphant night at January’s Grammy Awards, where she won four prizes, for best female country vocal performance and best…

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From Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Band’s start Swift, ‘Fearless’

Touring with Taylor Swift gives Gloriana quick, high-profile exposure

For country quartet Gloriana, 2010 already has been an Olympian year.

The foursome has contributed a new song to the Team USA Winter Olympics soundtrack, won the fan-voted Academy of Country Music top new vocal group award and will compete for the ACM’s top new artist title. The band, along with former “American Idol” contender Kellie Pickler, also is continuing to open for superstar Taylor Swift on her…

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Taylor Swift

Today’s featured event:

See music sensation Taylor Swift, with special guests Kellie Pickler and Gloriana, at 7 tonight at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno.

Look for my review of the show late tonight/early Thursday morning.

For more information, go to www.okfordcenter.com.

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-BAM

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Children race out to pick up eggs during the Easter egg hunt during Eggstravaganza 2007 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Photo by Nate Billings/The Oklahoman Archives)

NORMAN – The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., is offering free admission from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday for its annual Eggstravaganza Easter egg hunt on the museum grounds.

The event also will include crafts, games and activities both inside and outside, weather permitting.

The huge egg hunt will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.…

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This photo from the exhibit “Journey Stories” shows a girl with her family during a migration from Florida to New Jersey in 1940. Black families traveled north during the Great Migration any way they could: on foot, by car, by train and even by packet boat. If by car, it was important to know safe places to stop along the way.  (Library of Congress/ Smithsonian photo)

Today’s featured event:’

CHANDLER – See the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit “Journey Stories” at the Museum of Pioneer History, 717 Manvel Ave.…

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Robin Sutherland

Today’s featured event:

Hear a quartet from the Amici New York Orchestra and Robin Sutherland, principal pianist with the San Francisco Symphony, perform at 7 tonight at Margaret E. Petree Recital Hall in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center at Oklahoma City University, 2501 N Blackwelder.

The performance is part of OK Mozart’s spring concert series, which will include shows this week in Tulsa and Bartlesville.

For more information, call 208-5227 or go to www.okmozart.com.

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-BAM

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Members of the human chessboard practice for the Medieval Fair. (Photo by Jaconna Aguirre/The Oklahoman Archives)

Today’s featured event:

NORMAN – Experience jousting tournaments, human chess games, live music and more at the 34^th annual Medieval Fair from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at Reaves Park, on Jenkins Avenue, just north of state Highway 9 East, Norman.

Today is the final day of the fair.

Admission is free. Parking is available at Lloyd Noble Center on Jenkins Avenue, one block south of Reaves Park. Cost is $5…

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In this NewsOK video, Jonathan Fowler and Quentin Bomgardner talk with NewsOK host Dave Morris about headliners the Dirty Projectors and other performers set for this year’s Norman Music Festival.

The third annual festival is set for April 24-25 in various locations around downtown Norman.

According to Oklahoma Rock Newsblog, festival organizers have announced even more bands for the event: The Octopus Project, Colourmusic, Hush Hush Commotion, Depth & Current, Locust Avenue, Junebug Spade, Kite Flying Robot, DEERPEOPLE, Ghost of Monkshood, The Toothman, Debris, Euclid Crash, Brother Gruesome,…

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Lady Gaga (Associated Press file photo)

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today for Lady Gaga’s July 20 tour stop at Oklahoma City’s Ford Center.

Ticket prices are $175.00, $85.00 and $49.50 (plus applicable fees). Floor tickets are general admission (no chairs). Reserved seating is offered in the stands.

Tickets will be available at the Ford Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets including participating Suncoast, FYE and Homeland stores, by phone at (800) 745-3000 or online at www.okfordcenter.com.

The pop star is making her highly anticipated return to…

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