Welcome to the Down Home Blues Club!

There is a blues jam session every Sunday starting at 5:00pm.

If you’re interested go to our CONTACT US page for more information.

The D.C. Minner Museum is open Sunday and by appointment, too. (an appointment means if we are here, we welcome your visit!)

After tiring of constant life on the road, in 1988, the D.C. and Selby Minner returned to Rentiesville and converted Minner’s grandmother’s prohibition-era corn-whiskey hall, The Cozy Corner, into the after-hours club, The Down Home Blues Club. The club quickly became what it had been in the first half of the twentieth century, a favorite spot for after hours relaxing, socializing, dancing, and listening to blues, and rhythm and blues, played by D.C. and Selby.

Today, it still serves as a focal point of the blues and blues history. Keeping the legacy of the traditional blues club / juke joint alive, The Down Home Blues Club focuses on the music first, next, and last. If you can play the blues, wanna’ play the blues, love the blues, just like to listen to the blues or any combination of those, we welcome you to stop by.

The Down Homes Blues Club not only hosts the annual festival, but is home to the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame and Museum. It’s the place to learn about the history of the blues and the hundreds of musicians who have been honored by induction.

The Down Homes Blues Club events include the blues hall of fame inductions, The Mini Fest in the Spring and the Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival presenting 30 bands, kid friendly, and founded in 1991.

ARCHIVAL CONTENT

Dusk Til Dawn 2023 Poster

>> GREAT STORY ON OKLAHOMA (by Selby) – BLUES IN THE BLUES FESTIVAL GUIDE

>> OETA COVERS THE HISTORIC TOWN OF RENTIESVILLE AND OUR FESTIVAL


RENTIESVILLE DUSK TIL DAWN BLUES FESTIVAL #34
will be AUGUST 31, SEPT 1,& 2, 2024!
more bands – 50!

RENTIESVILLE BLUES FESTIVAL #33 was a great success! thanks to everybody who played, who attended, and to all our Sponsors!

https://www.oeta.tv/shows/oklahoma-news-report/ (Feb 3 2023, 15 minutes into broadcast)

MORE ON D.C. MINNER many PHOTOS at: https://dcminnerblues.com/?page_id=2239

D.C. & Selby Minner Original Music: Love Will Come On Time

D.C. & Selby Minner Original Music: I Want To Thank You 4 Lovin Me

MORE ON D.C. MINNER

Many Photos at: https://dcminnerblues.com/?page_id=2239

OUR ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE!
65 slide shows! https://www.youtube.com/@SelbyMinnerBlues/videos
https://youtu.be/hMqd6Zzpz1k?si=F6Am_mzacmQ7i3Zs

Tribute to D.C. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsAubwHLjk&t=150s

RENTIESVILLE BLUES FEST #34 will be August 31, Sept 1& 2 2024

Rentiesville Blues Festival number 31 is Sept 3, 4, and 5 2021!



Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame 2021 INDUCTEES
LINKS: wall photos & certificates

  • ARREALUS ‘BOO’ WILLIAMS
  • BARBARA BURTON CHARLES BURTON
  • BRIAN McKINNEY
  • BRONKO CARR
  • COWBOY HARLEY HAMM
  • DAVE CARR JR.
  • DYCIE FUNCHES & LARRY FUNCHES
  • EDGAR J. SCOTT
  • ED WARREN
  • JERMAINE MONDAINE
  • JOE MODICA
  • KENNY DIGGS
  • KEVIN PHARISS
  • LEE NORFLEET
  • MORRIS “PO’ MACK” McCRAVEN JR.
  • OTIS WATKINS
  • RUSTY TRAYWICK

LAST YEAR’S VIRTUAL FESTIVAL Dusk til Dawn #30 Virtual

2020 – 30th Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival (Virtual)

https://www.youtube.com/user/SelbyMinnerBlues

The 30th annual Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival is the “Juke Joint in Cyberspace”. If you have the technology you could set up three video centers in three rooms of your house, and play them all at once(!) and have three stages running at one time just like here during the actual festival (!) …just a joke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4yltuI7mc

#HOPEinOK, #OKHumanities, @OKHumanities, and @NEHgov

Radio IDL: ALL LINKS

JUKE JOINT IN CYBERSPACE!

We are really MISSING you all. Such a different year… my favorite part of the Festival has always been seeing everybody here having fun together ..but… as you know we have to adapt to keep each other well… It would have been irresponsible to invite 2000 or more people to D.C. Minner’s old home place and the Festival here in Rentiesville this year.