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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSee Cross Canadian Ragweed reunite to the tune of Taylor Swift at OSU show<\/p>\n
Watch Oklahoma State University football coach Mike Gundy introduce Cross Canadian Ragweed during Night 1 of “The Boys from Oklahoma” stadium shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Recently reunited Red Dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed<\/a> is already planning a “repeat performance” next year in Stillwater after making history in spring with its “Boys from Oklahoma” stadium<\/a> show series at Oklahoma State University.<\/p>\n The members of Ragweed \u2014 lead singer and guitarist Cody Canada<\/a>, guitarist Grady Cross<\/a>, drummer Randy Ragsdale<\/a> and bassist Jeremy Plato \u2014 continued their successful reunion<\/a> Saturday, Aug. 23, with the sold-out “The Boys from Oklahoma Texas Encore<\/a>” in Waco.<\/p>\n Almost 40,000 fans packed Baylor University’s McLane Stadium<\/a> to hear Ragweed, co-headliners and fellow Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers Turnpike Troubadours<\/a>, North Carolina band American Aquarium<\/a> and Texas acts Wade Bowen and Shane Smith & The Saints.<\/p>\n Before Ragweed closed their Baylor set with a cover of Guy Clark\u2019s “LA Freeway,”<\/a> Canada and Turnpike Troubadours<\/a> frontman Evan Felker teased a 2026 Oklahoma encore in Stillwater.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n “I would like that very much,” Felker responded.<\/p>\n “Evan would like that very much, so that means we’re gonna do. How about this? We’ll see y’all next year,” Canada told the audience with a grin.<\/p>\n An enormous note emblazoned with the words “See you next year … in Stillwater” was even posted on the giant video screens flanking the stage.<\/p>\n Four and a half months ago, an estimated 200,000 music lovers<\/a>\u00a0flocked to Stillwater to be part of the first full concerts together in a decade and a half \u2014 and the first stadium shows ever \u2014 for\u00a0Cross Canadian Ragweed<\/a>,\u00a0after the beloved Red Dirt band set off a frenzy last fall by announcing its reunion nearly 15 years after\u00a0splitting in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n Featuring a lineup of five beloved homegrown Red Dirt acts \u2014 Ragweed, co-headliners the Turnpike Troubadours,\u00a0Jason Boland & The Stragglers<\/a>, Stoney LaRue and\u00a0The Great Divide<\/a> \u2014 the initial “Boys from Oklahoma” stadium shows in Stillwater became what’s believed to be the biggest concert event in state history<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> sold out four consecutive shows April 10-13, drawing a total of about 180,000 fervent fans to OSU’s Boone Pickens Stadium.<\/p>\n “‘Why wouldn’t we keep “The Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> in Stillwater going? It went off so well.’ … That’s everybody’s feeling on it,” Canada told The Oklahoman in a spring interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n “There were people from all over the place … and it was just a lovefest. I couldn’t get enough.”<\/p>\n Visit Stillwater President and CEO Cristy Morrison called “The Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n When OSU Athletics staffers crunched the numbers, they found “The Boys from Oklahoma” had attracted concertgoers from all 50 U.S. states<\/a> and five Canadian provinces, plus two ticketholders from Israel and one from Argentina.<\/p>\n Oklahomans made up by far the largest group of ticketholders, followed by fans from Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Colorado.<\/p>\n “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<\/a>, who called the stadium series “the Woodstock festival of Red Dirt.”<\/p>\n “People who saw Cross Canadian Ragweed<\/a> play at the bars on The Strip<\/a> and at the Tumbleweed<\/a>, you’re expecting a lot of that. But for only 31% to have those ties really tells you how big the genre is \u2014 and for them to descend on Stillwater like this really says a lot.”<\/p>\n Following the band’s April OSU stadium stand, Ragweed headlined the opening night of the two-day Professional Bull Riders’ Last Cowboy Standing<\/a> July 21-22 at Colorado State University’s Canvas Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado.<\/p>\n The Red Dirt rockers played the bull-riding and concert event<\/a> on July 21 in place of superstar Tim McGraw,<\/a> who was forced to cancel his performance due to a recent back surgery, while Jon Pardi<\/a> was the headliner for July 22.<\/p>\n The members of Ragweed \u2014 including Oklahoma expatriates Canada and Plato<\/a>, who have long lived in the Lone Star State \u2014 continued their successful reunion<\/a> by selling out “The Boys from Oklahoma Texas Encore”<\/a> Saturday, Aug. 23, in Waco.<\/p>\n With more than 35,000 fans in attendance, Baylor officials called<\/a> the concert the “biggest non-football event in McLane Stadium history.”<\/p>\n To celebrate the Baylor show, Ragweed teamed with the Waco-based Bowen Family Foundation<\/a> to make a $20,000 donation to REACH Therapeutic Riding Center<\/a> in Waco. The donation was made in memory of Ragsdale’s special-needs son, JC, who died last November at age 25 from complications of a rare form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n Next, Ragweed will continue its reunion run by playing “Robert Earl Keen and Friends: Applause for the Cause<\/a>,” a Texas benefit concert in response to the deadly summer floods in Kerr County<\/a>.<\/p>\n Presented by Buc-ee\u2019s<\/a>, a beloved chain of Texas-based travel centers, the sold-out “Applause for the Cause”<\/a> is set for Aug. 28 at Whitewater Amphitheater outside of New Braunfels, Texas.<\/p>\n A legendary Lone Star State singer-songwriter from Kerrville<\/a>, Keen will hit the stage with special guest Tyler Childers<\/a>. A special trio set from Miranda Lambert<\/a>, Jon Randall and Jack Ingram is included on the bill, plus performances by Cross Canadian Ragweed,<\/a> Randy Rogers, Ryan Bingham<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.oklahoman.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See Cross Canadian Ragweed reunite to the tune of Taylor Swift at OSU show Watch Oklahoma State University football coach Mike Gundy introduce Cross Canadian Ragweed during Night 1 of “The Boys from Oklahoma” stadium shows. 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Where is the recently reunited Cross Canadian Ragweed performing next?<\/h2>\n