Amid INSANE Demand, Reunited Cross Canadian Ragweed Adds 2nd Show
Earlier this week, Texas country and Red Dirt fans were left agog when country rock legends Cross Canadian Ragweed announced that they were finally reuniting for a show in Stillwater, Oklahoma at T Boone Pickens Stadium on Saturday, April 12th, 2025.
To sweeten the deal, fellow reunited Oklahoma band the Turnpike Troubadours would be playing as well, along with The Great Divide, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, and Stoney LaRue, resulting in a superfecta of original Stillwater/Red Dirt talent ushering in what fans hope will be a new era for Cross Canadian Ragweed.
How well-received was it? Sources say that over 120,000 people signed up just for the presale access alone. In mid April, Stillwater is going to transform into a major music city. This might turn out to be one of the biggest musical events all year, and in any genre. It’s hard to express the scope of the event, and tickets are not even on sale at the moment.
For context, the seating capacity of T Boone Pickens Stadium is only 53,885, and that’s before you erect a stage at one end. Stillwater’s entire population is just under 50,000. So instead of setting up a scenario where fans are selling their first born or their left kidney to get in (though that might still happen at this point), promoters have set up a second show of “The Boys From Oklahoma” extravaganza happening on Friday, April 11th.
“Stillwater is the birthplace of Red Dirt music, and it means so much that these world-famous artists maintain such a strong connection to our community,” says Mayor Will Joyce of Stillwater.
Folks are already reporting that hotel rooms, AirBNBs, couches, dog kennels, and just about every other square inch in Stillwater is already getting scarfed up. This will be one for the ages for sure.
Pre-sale will still start October 7th, with public on-sale (yeah right) starting October 11th. To sign up for the presale, you can still go to theboysfromoklahoma.com.
October 3, 2024 @ 1:59 pm
I still demand they provide free fitted hats for all ticket holders, but I guess a second show is also nice.
October 3, 2024 @ 3:06 pm
My odds just doubled! Now, can I parlay that with whether Interstate Daydreamer comes on here to cry about SCM posting the new show outside of exclusive channels?
October 3, 2024 @ 3:08 pm
It looks like they are targeting the Xennial crowd hard with this one, but I’d include Wyatt Flores in this group. He’s easily the most talented live performer to ever come from the Payne County Red Dirt scene. I never imagined seeing Boland playing in a full stadium, but it’d be cool to hear “IF I Ever Get Back to Oklahoma” in front of 50K.
It’s too bad the Tumbleweed venue was mismanaged for so many years. The OG Calf Fry could have been one of the top musical festivals in the country.
October 3, 2024 @ 3:35 pm
Just the damn tour out on the road. It would be huge Red Dirt exposure and I swore the only way I’d ever see Turnpike again was if they were opening for someone big. And this is big.
October 3, 2024 @ 5:09 pm
No way I’ll get to Stillwater, so, put that lineup on the road and bring it to Billings!! I’ll be there!!
October 3, 2024 @ 5:16 pm
I signed up for the presale but I didn’t feel lucky enough to go book a place to stay. I suppose if we get lucky enough to snag tickets I’ll just sleep in the parking lot. Nostalgia!
October 3, 2024 @ 5:49 pm
We heard some rumblings, so took a chance and started looking for rooms on Monday night. Found a couple nights at a hotel, over $800 for 2 nights so we figured it was real. So we booked. Announcement came Tuesday.
October 3, 2024 @ 7:40 pm
I will write a bad review for that hotel that confirmed with high prices before they had permission. Tools!
October 4, 2024 @ 11:02 am
Get em! What hotel? I’ll write one too.
October 4, 2024 @ 4:34 am
To add context the 50K number includes students in the census. It’s not a big place. But it’s an important place to so many of us.
Maybe I can sleep in the back of my truck at Eskimo Joe’s just one more time.
October 7, 2024 @ 10:17 am
Got eeeeemmmmm! See everyone there!
October 4, 2024 @ 8:47 am
“This might turn out to be one of the biggest musical events all year, and in any genre.”
I get that it will be a really big event. But there is this little known band from the UK called Oasis… 🙂
Yeah, I know, you said “one of the biggest…” I’m just having a bit of fun!
Would love to be in Stillwater for this. But at least I have my tix to see Oasis in Manchester on July 19 to make up for not being there.
October 4, 2024 @ 9:24 am
Well, the Oasis reunion might be bigger overall, but it still might not be bigger than this individual event.
That return Oasis show will be one for the ages though.
October 4, 2024 @ 5:45 pm
Hopefully Cody doesn’t pull a Perry Farrell on night one.
October 7, 2024 @ 3:40 pm
Putting aside how the heck you sell out the entire show with a presale (didn’t think presales worked that way), they are now looking at adding two more shows? If you had told me 10 years ago CCR would be playing to 240,000 people in one long weekend I would have said you were nuts. I still can’t believe it but godspeed.
October 7, 2024 @ 4:03 pm
Gonna have an update on this as soon as all the info comes in.