Red Dirt musician Stoney LaRue appears at free concert at Cherokee Nation
Pumpkin Hollow Band opens the show on April 2
Pumpkin Hollow Band opens the show on April 2
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. —The Cherokee Nation brings bandana wearing, boot stomping Red Dirt music mainstay Stoney LaRue live in an outdoor concert Thursday, April 2. The free concert will be held just west of the W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex in Tahlequah.
Special guest Pumpkin Hollow Band, an all-Cherokee group, opens the show starting at 5:30 p.m. The concert is open to the public.
“These Oklahoma musicians have a strong local following and will put on a great show for our community and the entire Cherokee Nation,” Principal Chief Bill John Baker said. “We wanted to show our appreciation to our employees and the community with a night of good music and family fun.”
LaRue is best known for hits “Down in Flames,” “One Chord Song,” “Feet Don’t Touch the Ground” and “Oklahoma Breakdown,” but the Texas-born, longtime Oklahoman is excited to share tunes from his new album, “AVIATOR.”
“The theme is, essentially, following direction, trusting in yourself and new beginnings,” LaRue said. “I’d say it’s a little combination of rootsy rock, country, folk and whatever else is in the hodge podge, and separate as much of the pride and ego from it, and put it in a format that’s easy to listen to.”
Cherokee Nation citizens Doo Reese, Kirk Reese, Spider Stopp and Rod Buckhorn, also known as the Pumpkin Hollow Band, named in honor of their birthplace Pumpkin Hollow, open the show. The country and Red Dirt genre band have opened for Brantley Gilbert, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence and Luke Bryan.
The concert caps off the Cherokee Nation’s annual employee appreciation day, which honors employees for their hard work over the past year.
No alcohol, tobacco or ice chests are permitted on the premises. Food vendors will be on site and shuttles available for parking. Lawn chairs and blankets to sit on are encouraged. The Cherokee Nation W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex is located at 17675 S. Muskogee Ave.
