Cross Canadian Ragweed has announced at least one major reunion show to happen as part of a full day festival at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater Oklahoma on April 12th.
The Turnpike Troubadours will co-headline the show with Ragweed, who confirmed the reunion to Rolling Stone. Ragweed and Turnpike will share ticket details this morning on their band websites and social media channels, with a pre-sale set for Oct. 7. The public on-sale gets underway Oct. 11.
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The bill will also include the Great Divide, Stoney LaRue, and Jason Boland and the Stragglers. Each band either directly inspired Ragweed or was heavily influenced by them during the late 1990s and early 2000s when Red Dirt went from a regional music scene based in Stillwater to a nationally-recognized genre characterized by unrefined vocals and Oklahoma-inspired lyrics.
“I can’t wait to do this,” frontman and lead guitarist Cody Canada says. “I want to make people happy, and I want people to walk away feeling like it was 15 years ago.”
“Stillwater represents a beginning — for me, personally, and for the band,” says Ragweed co-founder and drummer Randy Ragsdale. “It’s like that for most people that go there. That’s where they start their life. It’s one of the first places we got going, and I think it’s also bigger than just our band. The whole damn movement got going there. I don’t want to sound cheesy, but it’s kind of like the motherland. I cannot think of a better place to get it going again, to bury the hatchet, to try to do this the right way, and just start over.”
Tickets go on sale October 11th, with pre-sales beginning on October 7th at 10:00 AM Central. Tickets can be purchased at www.okstate.com/concert. Sign up to get your pre-sale password at www.theboysfromoklahoma.com from October 1st through October 5th.
Read the full band interview at RollingStone.com
