Coming near: Death Cab for Cutie, Bon Iver, Tenacious D and more in Tulsa
Death Cab for Cutie are set to play at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa on July 10, 2012.
Photo by Danny Clinch
A handful of notable bands are headed to Tulsa this summer including Death Cab for Cutie, Bon Iver, Tenacious D, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, and a KISS/Motley Crue show.
Of course, notable is in the ear of the beholder so instead of just listing our favorites, we poked around a few of the major venue websites today and came up with about 60 performances scheduled in Tulsa over the next few months.
For more info on each show, including ticket prices and availability, just click the venue link above each list.
See anything good?
Cain’s Ballroom – cainsballroom.com
May 1 – AWOLNATION / Neon Trees
May 2 – Hot Chelle Rae / Action Item / Electric Touch
May 3 – Hank 3 / Hellbilly / Attention Deficit Domination / 3 Bar Ranch
May 4 – Casey Donahew Band / Matt Stell & The Crashers
May 5 – Dante & The Hawks
May 6 – The Round Up Boys
May 8 – Thrice / Animals As Leaders / O’Brother
May 10 – Tulsa Playboys
May 11 – The Band of Heathens
May 12 – Jason Boland & The Stragglers / Thomas Martinez
May 15 – St. Vincent / Shearwater
May 17 – Flogging Molly / The Devil Makes Three / Brothers of Brazil
May 18 – Mt. Eden / Darku J / Big Jug Doug
May 31 – Major Lazer / Feed Me
June 3 – Flux Pavillion / Brown & Gammon / Terravita
June 4 – Collective Soul
June 8 – Reckless Kelly / Brandon Clark Band
June 11 – Walk The Moon
June 13 – JD McPherson / Broncho
June 15 – Texas Hippie Coalition / Firstryke / Fist of Rage / Joint Effect
July 1 – Reverend Horton Heat / Mountain Sprout / Red Eye Gravy
July 6 – The Gourds (unconfirmed)
July 10 – Death Cab for Cutie
July 20 – Turnpike Troubadours / The Dirty River Boys
Aug. 11 – The Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Brady Theater – bradytheater.com
May 15 – Five Finger Death Punch
May 19 – Daughtry
May 30 – Primus
June 2 – Bon Iver / The Staves
July 13 – The Dukes of September
July 21 – Tenacious D / The Sights
Aug. 1 – Seal / Macy Gray
Nov. 1 – Joe Bonamassa
Nov. 9 – Celtic Thunder
Nov 18-19 – Eddie Vedder (rescheduled from April 19-20)
BOK Center – bokcenter.com
May 1 – Van Halen
May 5 – Roger Waters – The Wall: Live
May 17 – Gabriel Iglesias
May 25 – Travis Porter / Royalty / Nuff Ced / Yung Nasti / Rated 3G
June 7 – Nickelback
June 8 – Barry Manilow
June 13 – LMFAO
July 15 – Big Time Rush
July 18 – James Taylor
Aug. 8 – Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks
Aug. 16 – Brad Paisley
Aug. 26 – KISS / Motley Crue
Oct. 24 – Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Joint – hardrockcasinotulsa.com
May 17 – Joe Walsh
May 23 – Incubus
May 28 – Rascal Flatts
June 7 – Cheap Trick
June 9 – Dennis Miller
June 28 – Bret Michaels
Aug. 9 – Gary Allan
Aug. 15 – Duran Duran
Sept. 8 – Tony Bennett
Sept. 12 – Hall & Oates
Sept. 15 – Heart
Sept. 28 – Steve Miller Band
Oct. 12 – Jeff Foxworthy
Oct. 25 – Ian Anderson
I had not realized Waters was in Tulsa…
And Phish is going to OKC in August.
I highly recommend experiencing The Wall. Saw Waters preform this show a while back in KC and it was well worth it, outstanding production and the only concert where I felt a lump in my throat due to the visual display, quite moving.
Holy cow, Tulsa is on fire this summer! There are at least ten shows on that list I would love to see!
Now, if only we had a sizable venue in town that could book some of those acts. (ideally, with a booking agent who wasn’t wearing blinders 24/7.) Sigh…….
Death Cab for Cutie will also be in Springfield on July 9th at the Gillioz Theater as well as Primus on June 1st right before Wakarusa. I went to see Lisa Lampinelli up there and that theater is awesome! Wish we had multiple venues like Tulsa and Springfield down here.
I’m usually “that guy” when it comes to seeing concerts in large-ish venues that don’t allow for much of an interpersonal connection with the band, But I bought two tickets to the Bon Iver concert based on a show at the Uptown in Kansas City last fall. It was by far the best concert I saw last year…and that includes all the sets I saw at South By Southwest n 2011.
I prefer small clubs to “seated” arenas (I want to be up front, sweating and pumping my fist right in front of the band), and tickets under $20 (for example, the first time I saw Wilco it was opening night of the Being There tour in Raleigh, NC – I think I paid $6 for my ticket – so seeing them at the AMP for >$40 is reason to sit that show out). But that Bon Iver show in KC last fall justified my getting over myself and my self-imposed concert “rules.” If there are tickets to this show left, I highly recommend it.
Tenacious D is going to put on a great show on July 21! This is a must-see concert! They premiered their music video for “The Roadie’ today. I love the D. http://smarturl.it/roadievideo
I had the pleasure of seeing the D (along with ween and the F Lips ;-) ) at Red Rocks several years back, and they were so good! Jack emanates personality on stage just as he does on screen. Highly recommended!