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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWatch Cross Canadian Ragweed tease a 2026 Stillwater concert<\/p>\n
The recently reunited band’s four-day “Boys from Oklahoma” concert event in April drew about 180,000 fervent fans to OSU’s Boone Pickens Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A limited number of tickets to next spring’s “The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2”<\/a> at Oklahoma State University are expected to go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9.<\/p>\n But the remaining tickets to see Oklahoma Red Dirt music stars Cross Canadian Ragweed <\/a>and Turnpike Troubadours<\/a> perform another Stillwater stadium show next April are expected to go quickly once the sale begins.<\/p>\n More: <\/strong>Waves in April, a Texas metalcore band with deep Red Dirt roots, readies its Rocklahoma debut<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “There aren\u2019t many left, so set an alarm!” advised an announcement on Ragweed’s social media pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets will be available at http:\/\/theboysfromoklahoma.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Approaching the one-year anniversary of their reunion announcement<\/a>, Red Dirt standard-bearers Cross Canadian Ragweed<\/a> recently confirmed that they will play an encore show in Stillwater, the birthplace of Red Dirt music<\/a>, on April 11, 2026. They again will be joined in concert by co-headliners and fellow Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers Turnpike Troubadours<\/a>.<\/p>\n Along with Cross Canadian Ragweed and the Turnpike Troubadours, Oklahoma Music Hall of Famers The Great Divide<\/a> will return for next year’s “The Boys from Oklahoma: Round 2” at Boone Pickens Stadium<\/a> .<\/p>\n The OSU 2026 lineup<\/a> also is set to include rising Red Dirt star and Stillwater native Wyatt Flores<\/a>, who performed as a special guest on Night 3<\/a> of this year’s Boone Pickens Stadium showcase, and Austin, Texas-based band Shane Smith and the Saints,<\/a> who played the Aug. 23 “The Boys from Oklahoma Texas Encore.”<\/p>\n Due to overwhelming demand<\/a>, the initial “Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> concert series this spring in Stillwater turned into four consecutive shows April 10-13 that sold out after just two presales and drew a total of about 180,000 fervent fans to Boone Pickens Stadium.<\/p>\n “The Boys From Oklahoma: Round 2” will fall in the middle of April 7-13 Red Dirt Music Week<\/a>, a new celebration decreed by Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce following the landslide of tickets sales for the original shows.<\/p>\n The presale for tickets to the spring 2026 Stillwater edition of “The Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> launched at noon Friday, Sept. 5, and ended at 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8. Ragweed announced “low ticket inventory”<\/a> for the presale at about 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7.<\/p>\n “The Boys from Oklahoma” initially teased next year’s Stillwater “repeat performance”<\/a> during their sold-out “Texas Encore<\/a>” last month in Waco. Baylor officials called<\/a> that concert the “biggest non-football event in McLane Stadium history.”<\/p>\n Almost 40,000 fans packed Baylor University’s McLane Stadium<\/a> to hear Cross Canadian Ragweed, the 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> lead singer and guitarist Cody Canada<\/a> and Turnpike Troubadours<\/a> frontman Evan Felker teased a 2026 Oklahoma encore back in Payne County.<\/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 it. 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 Almost five 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 “‘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 told The Oklahoman “The Boys from Oklahoma”<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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. 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>\nHow will the 2026 ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ concert coincide with Red Dirt Music Week in Stillwater?<\/h2>\n
What was the economic impact of this spring’s ‘Boys from Oklahoma’ concerts in Stillwater?<\/h2>\n