
Julia Hladkowicz
with Dan Duvall
DWNTWN 312
The Dancing Rabbit Spotlight Series is an opportunity for us to do what we love – bring MORE great performers to McAlester. We can’t always coordinate the artists’ schedules to make our festivals, so we have our Spotlight Series as another way for Okies to come and enjoy amazing entertainers with the spotlight on them.
The Spotlight Series are ticketed events that take place at other venues (outside the Festival Grounds) in Downtown McAlester. These intimate, limited-seating events feature talented performers front and center for an unforgettable night of entertainment.
Will Hoge is a mainstay of 21st century rock & roll, carrying the torch for a blue-collar sound rooted in ringing Telecaster guitars and anthemic songwriting. He makes music for roadhouses and rallies, for car stereos and dive-bar jukeboxes, for Saturday night hell-raising and Sunday morning comedowns. In an era of social media influencers looking to fast-track their way to fame, Hoge has proudly taken the long way around, dedicating himself not to the destination, but to the journey itself.
Wes Barker is the most famous magician who will still answer your DMs. One of the stars of Big Trick Energy on truTV, Wes has hundreds of millions of views online, and has appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us (he fooled ‘em!), America’s Got Talent, MTV’s Greatest Party Stories Ever, and Ellen. Wes has a style of comedy magic that is uniquely his own. He will have you laughing at a hilariously true story one moment and be blowing your mind the next. Come join Wes on a wild and ridiculous ride of amazement and oversharing from a magician at the top of his game.
Wes Barker is the most famous magician who will still answer your DMs. One of the stars of Big Trick Energy on truTV, Wes has hundreds of millions of views online, and has appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us (he fooled ‘em!), America’s Got Talent, MTV’s Greatest Party Stories Ever, and Ellen. Wes has a style of comedy magic that is uniquely his own. He will have you laughing at a hilariously true story one moment and be blowing your mind the next. Come join Wes on a wild and ridiculous ride of amazement and oversharing from a magician at the top of his game.
Karaoke night @ Spaceship Earth!
Dance night @ DWNTWN312!
When someone comes from as strong a musical stock as Travis Linville, a conventional life and the path not taken are irreversibly conjoined. His preternatural musical work ethic was ignited as a small child on the built-in stage in his grandparents’ music room, and since then, Linville’s thirty-something years of sweat equity have culminated in a winding, successful career built of disparate parts: veteran and up-and-comer, mentor and underdog, session player and bandleader, sideman and songwriter.