‘Boys from Oklahoma’ heading back to Stillwater after after huge year

“The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2” concert will take place on April 11 at Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens Stadium.
The show features reunited Red Dirt bands Cross Canadian Ragweed and Turnpike Troubadours as co-headliners.
Stillwater is launching STOKd, a 10-day Red Dirt music celebration with concerts at various local venues.

A year ago, an estimated 200,000 music lovers flocked to Stillwater to be part of the first full concerts together in a decade and a half — and the first stadium shows ever — for Cross Canadian Ragweed, after the beloved Red Dirt band set off a frenzy by announcing its reunion nearly 15 years after splitting in 2010.

This year, “The Boys from Oklahoma” are heading back to Stillwater, and the birthplace of Red Dirt music is STOKd enough to celebrate with 10 days packed with concerts.

“The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2,” which will again feature reunited Red Dirt standard-bearers Cross Canadian Ragweed and co-headliners and fellow Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers Turnpike Troubadours, is set for April 11 at Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens Stadium.

Ahead of the sequel to last year’s historic “The Boys from Oklahoma” stadium shows, the Stillwater community this year is launching STOKd, a weeklong celebration of Red Dirt music. STOKd — an acronym for Stillwater, Oklahoma — is also known as Red Dirt Music Week, a new celebration decreed by Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce in 2025 following the mindboggling ticket sales for the original shows.

“Stillwater is proud to welcome fans across the country again this year for ‘The Boys From Oklahoma’ concert in April. This event is more than a great night of music, it’s an opportunity to showcase our community,” Joyce said in an email.

Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers The Great Divide also will return for Round 2, with rising Red Dirt star and Stillwater native Wyatt Flores and Austin, Texas-based band Shane Smith and the Saints joining the lineup for this year’s one-day-only stadium show. Gates open at 3:30 p.m. April 11 at the home of OSU football.

Which Stillwater venues are planning concerts around ‘The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2’ stadium show?

Billed as a premier live music event uniting the Stillwater and OSU communities to celebrate the Payne County seat’s Red Dirt roots, STOKd will start off with acclaimed Oklahoma singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Linville performing live at 7 p.m. Friday, April 3 at Stonecloud Stillwater Patio & Taproom.

Leading up to “The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2” on April 11, the festivities will continue with multiple concerts at Stillwater venues like Eskimo Joe’s, The Salty Bronc Saloon, The Twelves Agritourism & Event Center, The Dirty Rooster, Block 34 and the recently revived Wormy Dog Saloon.

The celebration will be capped April 12 with the 15th annual Bob Childers’ Gypsy Café, the state’s biggest homegrown songwriter festival and the largest annual fundraiser for the nonprofit Red Dirt Relief Fund. Spread across five Stillwater stages — outdoors at Eskimo Joe’s as well as inside The Dirty Rooster, Wormy Dog Saloon, The Salty Bronc Saloon and George’s Stables — the Gypsy Café’s 2026 date was shifted from early May to mid-April specifically to follow “The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2.”

“The phenomenal success of ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ is a testament to the power of Red Dirt music and the impact Red Dirt artists make in Oklahoma,” said Red Dirt Relief Fund Executive Director Katie Dale in an email.

“They literally helped start this nonprofit that has since delivered over $1 million in emergency financial assistance to their fellow Oklahoma music creators, and last year ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ drew 200,000 fans from all 50 states to Stillwater. We are so excited to be part of the celebration of this full-circle moment.”

What was the impact of the 2025 ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ OSU stadium shows?

Due to overwhelming demand, the original “Boys from Oklahoma” concert series in Stillwater turned into four consecutive shows April 10-13, 2025, that sold out after just two presales and drew a total of about 180,000 fervent fans to Boone Pickens Stadium.

Featuring a lineup of five beloved homegrown Red Dirt acts — Ragweed, co-headliners the Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Stoney LaRue and The Great Divide — the initial “Boys from Oklahoma” stadium shows in Stillwater became what’s believed to be the biggest concert event in state history.

When OSU Athletics staffers crunched the numbers, they found “The Boys from Oklahoma” had attracted concertgoers from all 50 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces, plus two ticketholders from Israel and one from Argentina.

Stillwater saw a marked increase in visitor spending, hotel and short-term rental occupancy and sales tax and visitor tax receipts over the four-day concert series, which spun off several additional live-music showcases across Stillwater. The stadium event generated an estimated $100 million and created about 875 jobs.

For more information on the 2026 “Boys from Oklahoma” show, go to theboysfromoklahoma.com. For more information on the STOKd Red Dirt music celebration, go to https://www.visitstillwater.org/stokd.

Which acts are playing shows for STOKd week in Stillwater?

Travis Linville: 7 p.m. April 3 at Stonecloud Stillwater Patio & Taproom, 917 S Husband St.
“Girls From Oklahoma” with Carter Sampson and Monica Taylor: 7 p.m. April 4 at Block 34, 218 W 9th Ave.
Cassy Kendrick: 7 p.m. April 8 at Stonecloud.
Blutic Celtic Stringband: 7 p.m. April 9 at Stonecloud.
Mike McClure and Bleu Edmondson with special guests Krislyn Arthurs and Carly Nash: 9 p.m. April 9 at the Wormy Dog Saloon, 421 S Washington St.
Jake Taylor and Aiden Kirkland Song Swap: 9 p.m. April 9 at The Salty Bronc, 911 W 5th Ave.
Shelby Stone and Emily Hollingshed: 9:30 p.m. April 9 at The Dirty Rooster, 319 S Washington St.
April on Elm with BC & The Big Rig, The Smokin’ Oaks and Ray & The High Rollers: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 10 at Eskimo Joe’s, 501 W Elm Ave.
Pasture Party 2026 with Jack Tidwell, Maddox Ross and Kyle Beasley: 5 to 11 p.m. April 10 at The Twelves, 121 W 68th St.
Joe Mack & Friends: 7 p.m. April 10 at Stonecloud.
Midnight River Choir with Fast Molly: 9:30 p.m. April 10, Wormy Dog Saloon.

Waves in April: 9:30 p.m. April 10 at The Dirty Rooster.
Pace Road Band: 10 p.m. April 10 at The Salty Bronc.
Alltown: 11 p.m. April 10, The Dirty Rooster.
Color the Block with Hope MacGregor: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 11 at Block 34.
April on Elm with Thomas Trapp & Friends, Joleen Brown, The Heard, Keyland, The Brothers Moore and Kanton Teen & The Penny Pickers: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 11 at Eskimo Joe’s.
Jillian Bryant: 2 p.m. April 11 at The Salty Bronc.
OSU College of Vet Med Spring Fling Concert with Jake Taylor: 3 to 5 p.m. April 11 at Block 34.

“The Boys From Oklahoma: Round 2:” 3:30 p.m. April 11 at Boone Pickens Stadium, 700 W Hall of Fame Ave.
Mixtape Revival: 7 p.m. April 11 at Stonecloud.
Maddox Ross: 10:30 p.m. April 11 at the Wormy Dog Saloon.
Ray & The High Rollers: 11 p.m. April 11 at The Salty Bronc.
Pasture Party 2026 with Dylan Moss and Reagan Carter: 11 p.m. April 11 at The Twelves.
Hoss Miller Band: 11:59 p.m. April 11 at the Wormy Dog Saloon.
BC & The Big Rig: 11:59 p.m. April 11 at The Dirty Rooster.

Gypsy Café Twangers & Bangers: 11 a.m. April 12 at the Wormy Dog Saloon.
Bob Childers’ Gypsy Café: 1 to 8 p.m. April 12 at The Salty Bronc, George’s Stables, The Dirty Rooster, Eskimo Joe’s, and the Wormy Dog Saloon.
The Heard: 1 p.m. April 12 at Stonecloud.
Billy Bonney: 6 p.m. April 12 at Stonecloud.
Chi Omega Boots, Bands, & Wishes: 6 to 9 p.m. April 12 at Block 34.
Gypsy Café After Dark with Lance Roark: 8:30 p.m. April 12 at the Wormy Dog Saloon.