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[25 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 960 views]
New VOK blog: The Apache House

The Apache House is our latest addition to the Voices of Oklahoma Blogs. Tate James has been running the site at his own place since April, in collaboration with Seth Clark and Jared Flaming. As Tate describes it: The Apache House was born out of the wonderful Oklahoma creative community, and that community continues to be our focus…

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[19 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 121 views]

From The Journal Record:

Jim Cowan, executive director of the Bricktown Association, thinks the founding fathers of Bricktown would have approved of the entertainment district’s push to become a musical hub. The founding fathers of Bricktown, the late Neal Horton and the late Jim Brewer, might not have envisioned the University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music or the American Banjo Museum, but Cowan said he thinks both men would be proud of the two establishments bringing music to Bricktown.

“Both of them would have been just as excited as they could be,” Cowan said. “Jim and his family started the blues and barbecue and the reggae festival.”

Cowan said the district has potential as a future national hot spot for a diverse array of music.

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