Due to necessary restroom renovation, the Performing Arts Studio Gallery will be closed, and the Depot will not be available for rental, during the month of June. Office hours will be maintained in the south room of the Depot from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday as construction allows. The Depot will continue to host train passengers each morning, also in the south room.
The PAS Gallery will reopen on July 1, with an opening reception for an exhibition of Doors of Norman photo competition entries, which will continue through July 29. Summer Breeze Concerts will continue without interruption. Second Sunday Poetry Readings will not be held in June.
Call 405-307-9320 during office hours, or visit this web-site for up-to date information on PAS programs and construction progress.
The Doors of Norman Photo Competition is a celebration of 100 years of architecture in Norman, focusing on the door. A full size poster, showcasing the twelve winning entries, will be created and made available for sale to the general public. Proceeds from poster sales will help fund programs of The Performing Arts Studio, a nonprofit organization with a mission to create and present excellent and innovative fine arts programs for the enrichment and education of our community.
Click here to open entry form: Doors of Norman Photo Competition Entry Form
Click here to read the article, Norman's Front Door, from The Norman Transcript
Click here to open David Boeck's The Open Door web site
O’Keefe has a catalogue of albums, dating back to 1966, that includes a rich vein of country songs. Although his early albums featured steel guitars and fiddles, O’Keefe wasn’t limited to one genre, mixing country with jazz, R& B and rock. “I don’t think marketing guys had a clue as to what to do with me” O’Keefe says.
His musical career began in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota coffeehouse scene. A chance meeting with Buffalo Springfield’s manager in 1969 led to a telephone audition with the President of Atlantic Records, who immediately signed O’Keefe. Danny O’Keefe’s second album with Atlantic produced the top-ten hit, and now standard, Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues, a song that has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mel Torme, Chet Atkins and many others.
Kottke’s music draws on blues, jazz, and folk music influences. Focusing primarily on instrumental composition and playing, Kottke has sporadically moved in a vocal direction, singing in an unconventional yet expressive baritone. In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous and often bizarre monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career, played solo on his signature 6- and 12-string guitars.
Widely recognized as a master of the guitar, Leo Kottke has had a long and illustrious career. As a youth living in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Kottke played trombone and violin before moving to the guitar and developing his own unconventional picking style. Kottke's tunings are often unconventional as well. Early in his career he heavily utilized open tunings, while in recent years he has used more traditional voicings but often detunes his guitars as many as two full steps below standard tuning.
