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OKM Music has decided to move their final concert of the reformatted festival indoors due to pending inclement weather.

Clark Gibson Qunitet and Balsam Range will move from the Tower Center and Unity Square to the Bartlesville Community Center. OKM Music’s Executive Director, Mary Lynn Mihm, says the audience will be limite to the first 800 people. Seating will be spaced for your safety to every other row and two seats between ticket holders.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Clark Gibson is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator currently residing in Tulsa, OK. He is a highly sought after adjudicator and clinician throughout the country and is the Director of Jazz Studies at Northeastern State University. His forward-thinking music is strongly rooted in the traditions of jazz musicians of the 20th century, the history of Western classical music, his own life experiences, as well as musical traditions from cultures across the globe.

Balsam Range is; Buddy Melton (fiddle, lead and tenor vocals), Darren Nicholson (mandolin, octave mandolin, lead vocals, baritone and low tenor vocals), Dr. Marc Pruett (banjo), Tim Surrett (bass, dobro, baritone and lead vocals), and Caleb Smith (guitar, lead & baritone vocals). 

The five original members are all acoustic musicians and singers from western North Carolina. They thoughtfully and respectfully adopted the name of a majestic range of mountains that surround part of their home county of Haywood, NC where the Great Smoky Mountains meet the Blue Ridge, the Great Balsam Range.