After making history this spring, “The Boys from Oklahoma” will be back in Stillwater, the birthplace of Red Dirt music, for an encore on April 11, 2026, The Oklahoman has confirmed.
As previously reported, recently reunited Red Dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed, along with co-headliners and fellow Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers Turnpike Troubadours, teased next year’s Stillwater “repeat performance” during their Saturday, Aug. 23, sold-out “The Boys from Oklahoma Texas Encore” in Waco.
Almost 40,000 fans packed Baylor University’s McLane Stadium to hear Cross Canadian Ragweed, the Turnpike Troubadours, North Carolina band American Aquarium and Texas acts Wade Bowen and Shane Smith & The Saints.
Before Ragweed closed their Baylor set with a cover of Guy Clark’s “LA Freeway,” lead singer and guitarist Cody Canada and Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker teased a 2026 Oklahoma encore back in Payne County.
“Why don’t we just do a repeat performance, and we’ll see you guys in Stillwater in, let’s say, April,” Canada said as the Texas crowd cheered.
“I would like that very much,” Felker responded.
“Evan would like that very much, so that means we’re gonna do it. How about this? We’ll see y’all next year,” Canada told the audience with a grin.
An enormous note emblazoned with the words “See you next year … in Stillwater” was even posted on the giant video screens flanking the stage.
Due to overwhelming demand, the initial “Boys from Oklahoma” concert series turned into four consecutive sold-out shows April 10-13 that drew a total of about 180,000 fervent fans to Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens Stadium.
The return date for “The Boys from Oklahoma” has been set for April 11, 2026, at Boone Pickens Stadium, The Oklahoman confirmed Wednesday, Aug. 27. An official announcement with more details is expected to be released Thursday, Aug. 28.
Grady Cross performs with Cross Canadian Ragweed on April 10 during “The Boys from Oklahoma” concert at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.
How did the initial ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ stadium shows at OSU become the biggest concert event in state history?
Four and a half months 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 last fall by announcing its reunion nearly 15 years after splitting in 2010.
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.
“‘Why wouldn’t we keep “The Boys from Oklahoma” in Stillwater going? It went off so well.’ … That’s everybody’s feeling on it,” Canada told The Oklahoman in a spring interview.
“There were people from all over the place … and it was just a lovefest. I couldn’t get enough.”
Cross Canadian Ragweed performs on April 10 during “The Boys from Oklahoma” concert at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.
Visit Stillwater President and CEO Cristy Morrison told The Oklahoman “The Boys from Oklahoma” was the biggest event she’s seen in Stillwater in her 35 years of promoting the college town. She noted that the Payne County community saw a marked increase in visitor spending, hotel and short-term rental occupancy and sales tax and visitor tax receipts over the four-day stadium series, which spawned several additional live-music showcases across Stillwater.
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. Oklahomans made up by far the largest group of ticketholders, followed by fans from Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Colorado.
“One of our takeaways, for sure, was the idea that only 31% of all the tickets sold were to people that had previous connections to OSU,” said OSU Athletics spokesman Gavin Lang, who called the stadium series “the Woodstock festival of Red Dirt.”
“People who saw Cross Canadian Ragweed play at the bars on The Strip and at the Tumbleweed, you’re expecting a lot of that. But for only 31% to have those ties really tells you how big the genre is — and for them to descend on Stillwater like this really says a lot.”
Cross Canadian Ragweed performs on April 10 during “The Boys from Oklahoma” concert at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.
Which bands will be playing the 2026 ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ encore in Stillwater?
Along with Cross Canadian Ragweed and the Turnpike Troubadours, Rolling Stone reports that Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers The Great Divide will return for the April 11, 2026, “The Boys from Oklahoma” encore at Boone Pickens Stadium.
The OSU 2026 lineup also is set to include rising Red Dirt star and Stillwater native Wyatt Flores, who performed as a special guest on Night 3 of this year’s Boone Pickens Stadium run, and Austin, Texas-based band Shane Smith and the Saints, who played last weekend’s “The Boys from Oklahoma Texas Encore.” Baylor officials called that the concert the “biggest non-football event in McLane Stadium history.”
Ahead of the band’s 2026 return to its Stillwater roots, Ragweed is set to continue its reunion run by playing “Robert Earl Keen and Friends: Applause for the Cause,” a Texas benefit concert in response to the deadly summer floods in Kerr County.
Presented by Buc-ee’s, a beloved chain of Texas-based travel centers, the sold-out “Applause for the Cause” is set for Thursday, Aug. 28, at Whitewater Amphitheater outside of New Braunfels, Texas.
A legendary Lone Star State singer-songwriter from Kerrville, Keen will hit the stage at the sold-out benefit with special guest Tyler Childers. A special trio set from Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall and Jack Ingram is included on the bill, plus performances by Cross Canadian Ragweed, Randy Rogers, Ryan Bingham and more.
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