What to do in Oklahoma on Aug. 24, 2019: Hear Randy Rogers Band and Stoney LaRue at Frontier City

Today's featured event:

Hear Texas country outfit Randy Rogers Band and Oklahoma red dirt standout Stoney LaRue in concert at 8 tonight at Frontier City, 11501 N I- 35 Service Rd.

The concert is free with theme park admission, season pass or active membership. Gates open at 6:30 p.m.

With countrywide tour dates stretching through the end of the year and a new studio album, “Hellbent,” occupying the upper reaches of multiple Billboard charts, Randy Rogers Band has plenty of reasons to celebrate this summer.

A hard-touring frontman whose mix of "country music based in the genre’s rich outlaw tradition" (New York Times) and "red-blooded heartland rock" (Dallas Observer) has earned an audience not only in his native Texas, but also across the entire country. Rogers has sent seven consecutive albums — including his 2015 duet album with Wade Bowen, “Hold My Beer, Volume 1” — into the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart, according to a news release. “Hellbent” finds him working once again with his longtime band, whose members will celebrate their 20-year anniversary next year.

In addition to debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Country chart and No. 4 on the Americana/Folk chart, “Hellbent” also cracked the all-genre Top 40 — a landmark for any band, but a particular rarity for an independent act.

With more than 97 million plays on Pandora in 2018 alone, Randy Rogers Band has continuously balanced its popularity as a live act with equally impressive digital stats. “Hellbent” continues that trend, debuting at the top of the iTunes country chart while receiving prominent displays on Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. "Crazy People," the album's lead single, has already earned more than 1.1 million streams, landing placements in a number of high-subscriber Spotify playlists along the way. Additionally, the song has also dominated the Texas Radio Chart, holding the No. 1 position for two weeks running, according to the news release.

Since releasing his 2002 debut album “Downtown,” LaRue has sold out shows in a continuous 200-plus dates a year tour schedule, charted albums on the Billboard, iTunes and the Texas Regional Radio chart, had his music videos featured on CMT, sold more than 1 million albums and singles sold, had Lee Ann Womack and Miranda Lambert lend guest vocals on his songs, shared stages with some of the biggest names in country music and made his coveted debut performance at Nashville’s renowned Grand Ole Opry. 

LaRue will release his new album “Onward” Nov. 1 on One Chord Song/Smith Entertainment, according to a news release.

For more information on tonight’s concert, go to www.sixflags.com/frontiercity/special-events.

For more events, go to oklahoman.com/calendar.

-BAM