Sunday Music

July's music starts on a Sunday this month with the Jenn Cleary band www.jenncleary.co m from Boulder, Jenn plays lots of originals some blues, some rock, some country flavored and lots more. She is a great vocalist, songwriter and guitar player.
The next Sunday the 8th will feature Trucker's Daughter www.truckersd aughter.net from Fort Collins, their first time at Oskar's they come highly recommended by the Hi- Beams and will deliver lots of that honky-tonk music we love. Led by a vivacious female lead singer they should be lots of fun.
Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe www.dikkidu.com will be here on the 15th all the way from Lawtell, Louisiana the son of the King of Zydeco- Roy Carrier wear your dancing shoes. Dikki and a couple of the guys will play outside for our Crawfish Boil and buffet from 3:30-5:30, then inside from 6-9pm.
We are having a very special show on Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd the third annual Female Blues all- Star Revue featuring 28-30 female Colorado Blues players with special guests Delores Scott from Chicago and Nancy Nielson out of Santa Fe. This will be a ticketed event with $2 from each ticket to go to the Emergency Family Assistance Association the rest to the performers. To purchase advance tickets please go to their web-site www.f emalebluesallstarrevue.com and click on Kim Leonard. Tickets will also be available at the door for $17, $15 in advance. The first two were great events, so don't miss this one here at Oskar's. Saturday is 8pm-1am and Sunday 4pm-9pm.
The last Sunday of the month we will have The Packway Handle Band www.packway handle.com from Georgia doing lots of their gospel style bluegrass.

Weekday Music

Wednesday the 18th we are starting an electric blues jam hosted by Tim Crawford and the Four AM band, we have had lots of suggestions to bring an electric blues jam back, so here goes, it will be from 8-11pm, the host band will open up the night and there will be a sign up sheet for everybody to sign and participate, everyone gets to play. We would like to do this twice a month so come on out and show your support and we will make it happen.

Rocky Grass is this month, so starting on Wednesday the 25th we will feature bluegrass with the winners of the Telluride bluegrass competition last week, Lyons own Spring Creek Bluegrass band. ww w,springcreekbluegrassband.com. Thursday night will be White Water Ramble, www.whitew aterramble.com Friday Oskar's favorite Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams www.hibea ms.com and Saturday and Sunday The Packway Handle band from Athens.

Our acoustic plug-in blues jam will be the third Monday the 16th this month with a new revised format so not everyone is trying to play at once and should be a lot more smoother from now on, so come sign up and strut your stuff, 7:30pm-10:00pm.

Bluegrass Thursdays this month will start with a private party downstairs on the 5th and will be closed to the public but we will have music upstairs with Dana Kyle Stokes that night to satisfy everyone.
The Billy Pilgrims www.myspace.com/thebillypilgrimsband will be here on the twelfth, Stray Grass from Grand Junction will be the 19th and we finish up Thursdays this month with the eclectic White water Ramble.

The weekends start off with a bang with Danny Rhodes & the Messengers www.dannyrhode s.com from Phoenix Arizona, Danny is a veteran on the Blues scene and will have his son on drums and a killer keyboardist that doubles on sax and vocals, They play blues, Cajun and lots more.
Saturday the 7th will be one of the hottest Zydeco acts in the country Curly Taylor & Zydeco Trouble www.curleytaylor.c om, son of the legendary Jude Taylor. Make sure you wear your dancing shoes for this night; it will be a Cajun party.
One of the most respected blues guitarist's alive returns to Oskar's on Friday the 13th, the great Philip Walker www.bluesmgt group.com. A true blues legend at 70, Philip has played with Clifton Chenier, Etta James, Fats Domino, Little Richard and Percy Mayfield to name a few. Guitar player magazine called Philip one of the 10 most important guitar players alive. If you can only come to Oskar's once this month this is the show to see.
Denver's own Eddie Turner www.eddieturner.ne t comes off an international tour to play at Oskar's Saturday the 14th.
The next weekend starts off Friday the 20th with Delores Scott from Chicago, with the Rex Peoples band X-factr backing her up. Delores spent many years working with KoKo Taylor and appears on 40-50 Chicago blues albums.
Then Saturday she will appear again with the female blues revue www.f emalebluesallstarrevue.com we told you about earlier. This will be a Hot Month for music at Oskar Blues so come on down and cool off with some of our fine award winning brews.