Labor Day Weekend

September 4, 5, 6 • 5:00pm–5:00am

Rentiesville, OK

Festival Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, Sept. 4
Time Main Stage Indoor Club Stage Back Porch
5p Selby’s All-Star Band
Bronko, Tony Mathews, Homer Johnson, Stretch, John Denault, Mike, Navaeh Knight		 John White Clutch
6p Robert Glass Wanda Watson TBA
7p Scott Ellison James Slaw Band Eric Walker
8p Cecil Gray Catalyst West Side Blues
9p Teri Tsotigh & Redmen Blues Selby’s All-Star Band Tony “T-Bone” Snyder
10p Craig Vaughan Blues Band Roger “Hurricane” Wilson Tony Mathews
11p Akeem Kemp Band 19th St. Red Mississippi Blues
12a AFTER HOURS JAM TIL 5am
 
Saturday, Sept. 5
Time Main Stage Indoor Club Stage Back Porch
3p   “Down Home Blues”
Documentary Screening		 David Berntson
Free Harmonica Class
5p Jim Davis & Warner H.S. Band w/ Hurricane Wilson Lem Shepard
6p Selby’s All-Star Band Hydramatics
7p Connor Helm Sunsetter Scott & Leigh Ann Matthews
8p Slick Willie & Poochie Victoria Ellington & The Leon Rollerson Legacy Eric Walker
9p Kevin Vaughn Tony “T-Bone” Snyder Shotgun Annie & The Red Dirt Blues Band
10p Heather Buckley Ms. Gloria 19th St. Red Mississippi Blues
11p Queen Iretta Funkativity  
12a AFTER HOURS JAM TIL 5am
 
Sunday, Sept. 6
Time Main Stage Indoor Club Stage Back Porch
4p Gospel Extravaganza Featuring Rev. Donald Brown    
5p Selby’s All-Star Band Stephanie Bradley Shadow Ridge
6p Hoodookattz Walter Taylor Stretch ‘N Tha Truth
7p Joe “Survival” Caruso Harold Jefferson Eric Walker
8p Main McMann Mr. Chris & Old School Connor Helm
9p Bebo & The Evildoers Roy Lillard Watermelon Slim
10p Queen Iretta Last Call Band
11p Big Train & Loco Motives Selby’s All-Star Band
12a AFTER HOURS JAM TIL 5am

Important Info About the Festival

WHAT: Rentiesville Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival

WHEN: Labor Day Weekend
September 4–6, 2026 (Friday Saturday and Sunday)
5:00pm til 5:00am each night.
Gates open at 4:00pm
Music starts at 4:00pm inside the Club, 2 outside stages start at 5:00pm

WHO: 50 bands including many local Oklahoma talents as well as international acts

WHAT’S COOL, WHAT’S NOT: Bring chairs or blankets unless you come early. No coolers, pets, weapons, or carry in drinks & food.

HOW MUCH: $25/night, kids under 12 free!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: It takes a lot of people to do this – so we have a great deal for volunteers! Help us out for three hours before or during the event,,,you get in that night free and a 1/2 off ticket on a T Shirt. This is a great opportunity for those who come to the Festival by themselves to network , be engaged,, and meet new people, as well.

MOTELS: Muskogee is 17 miles north of here, straight up US 69. Many hotels and motels are up there!!! Muskogee Inn and America’s Best Value Inn in Muskogee are very reasonable and newly remodeled.

One of 65 originals on this YouTube page, by D.C., this song describes the Blues Festival! Lyrics by Selby, vocal, music and engineering by D.C. Minner, Rentiesville OK, Texas Road Recording. Slide show by Selby Minner. Final mix and mastering by Mark Claybrook, Mobile Audio Labs There are many other interesting videos on this page as well…Blues in Schools by the Blues Foundation featuring D.C. aand Selby, the virtual Festival in 2020, and more.

Volunteers Make Our World Go Around

Help us out for three hours = one night free admission. The life blood of the festival are the volunteers who so graciously give of their time and talents to help bring a festival of this magnitude together. We would LOVE to have you join us in making this event, which pulls in the top local and regional blues talent from 7 states from California to Washington DC, happen .

Need to know more about how, when, and where you can volunteer? Visit our Volunteer Page

Vendor Info

Interested in being a food or non-food vendor? We would love to have you join us and serve the two thousand or so blues lovers that are our customers.
You can find more information on our vendor page HERE

“One of 10 Awesome Music Festivals to Check out!”

National Geographic

“This is peace as the world should know it!”

Lisa M.

“Best $20.00 I ever spent!”

Greg D.

“Once inside the gate, there are no strangers, only friends waiting to be met”

Shelly B.

“All I know is I was in the middle of this field somewhere and there was great music coming from everywhere!”

Michael W.

“I love your family friendly Festival!”

Sheila T.

“Outstanding…Outstanding! Awesome. Loved everything!”

Ralph, Ft Smith Riverfront Blues Festival

“It was comforting to know that your hard work along with the effort and support of others pulled together to mark another unique and (especially this time around) successful Dusk til Dawn. Lifting the blues spirits of all in attendance. Music and smiling faces best of all!”

Traci W.

“Thank you Selby! Another great Dusk/Dawn We had a super time. Really enjoyed the music – stayed up til 4:30 am!”

Johnny B.

“I Spoke with a FIRST TIME FEST GUEST who was Blown Away with your festival: great music, great people. She loved how clean the grounds and campgrounds were, everyone picking up, clean porta potties, all the friendly volunteers, how safe she felt especially as a single lady. She said she was gonna tell ALL HER FRIENDS!”

Barbie D.

“Whatta rain storm Saturday night! But the fields stayed solid, no mud. Thank you, thank you! You are the best way to start our fall. Hope you can get a little time off now, be safe, Blessings,”

J. and L. S.

The Dusk Til Dawn Festival on OETA

On Feb 6, 2023, OETA aired a segment on Rentiesville, OK, and featured our own Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival. This was part of their recognition of Black History Month and included a series of reports from their staff on Oklahoma’s “Black Frontier Towns,”

Their objective was to highlight each of the 13 that remain, and throughout the year, and provide a better perspective on their past, present and future – and why they are such a vital and rich part of Oklahoma’s history. Our event opened the first episode.