Oklahoma State hosts concert at Boone Pickens Stadium

Boone Pickens Stadium will finally host more than just a football game.

For the first time since 2006 and after a major renovation, Oklahoma State’s football stadium will serve as the concert venue for “The Boys From Oklahoma” on April 12, Cross Canadian Ragweed announced Tuesday in an exclusive interview with RollingStone. Headlining the “daytime concert” are Cross Canadian Ragweed and Turnpike Troubadours. Performances by The Great Divide, Jason Boland & The Stragglers and Stoney LaRue are also scheduled. All bands performing have their roots in Stillwater.

According to Pokes Report, the concert will benefit OSU’s NIL fund, with the university selling suite and club tickets, according to Pokes Report.

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After starting in Stillwater in 1994, Cross Canadian Ragweed disbanded in 2010 but recently announced a comeback on social media. This concert would be their first concert together since breaking up 14 years ago and is currently the only concert they have planned. Turnpike Troubadours, a co-headliner, originated in Tahlequah in 2005, but during its rise to fame was known for performing on The Strip at JR Murphy’s, The Copper Penny and Willie’s Saloon. The Turnpike Troubadours also disbanded in 2019 but reunited in 2021.

The Great Divide helped launch the Red Dirt scene in Stillwater in 1992 and made their Grand Ole Opry debut in July. Although originally from Texas, Stoney LaRue moved to Stillwater, where he became friends and roommates with Jason Boland and Cody Canada, the lead singer of Cross Canadian Ragweed. Boland attended OSU before his music career took off.

“Stillwater represents a beginning – for me personally and for the band,” Cross Canadian Ragweed co-founder and drummer Randy Ragsdale told RollingStone. “That’s what happens to most people who go there. That’s where they start their life. It’s one of the first places we started and I think it’s bigger than just our band too. The whole damn movement started there. I don’t want to sound cheesy, but it’s a bit like the motherland. I can’t think of a better place to get it going again, bury the hatchet, try to get it right and just start over.”

Boone Pickens Stadium has a capacity of 52,305 spectators for football games. Concert capacity will be 43,000, according to Pokes Report. Between 1997 and 2003, Lewis Field hosted a few concerts before the stadium was renamed in 2003. Boone Pickens Stadium was officially rededicated in 2009, so this would be the first concert there in its current state.

According to RollingStone, a pre-sale is scheduled for Monday, while the public sale begins on October 11th.