The world-traveling Roustabouts of Northern Oklahoma College will appear in a dazzling display of scintillating color, whirlwind motion and superb sound on the Tonkawa campus for their annual benefit concert Saturday, April 9.
The concert opens at 7:30 p.m. in the Kinzer Performing Arts Center. Tickets may be purchased at the KPAC box office starting at 6:30 p.m. before the show. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students. All proceeds from this concert will help support the Roustabouts.
Musical selections include “Uptown Funk,” “Sugar,” “Shut Up and Dance,” “Dear Future Husband,” “Little Black Dress” and “Honey, I’m Good,” Geronimo,” “Try,” “Flashlight” and “Cool Kids.”
Other selections are “Heartbeat Song,” “50 Ways to Say Goodbye,” “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” “Stay with Me” and “Thinking Out Loud.”
Rock & Roll Tribute showcases hits such as “Hotel California,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” among others.
Acclaimed as “Oklahoma’s finest show troupe,” the Roustabouts have served as musical ambassadors since 1964, taking the show on the road annually through Oklahoma.
Audiences in Romania, Russia and the United Kingdom as well as on cruise ships sailing the Gulf of Mexico have thrilled to the troupe’s non-stop singing and dancing.
Roustabouts singer/dancers include Megan Brown, Johvanny Fiorina and Colton Shultz, Blackwell; Dalton Looper, Tonkawa; Blake Brown, Ryan Brown, Haylee Cantrell, Donald Goldsmith, Kristen Hooper, Marché Johnson, Peyten Norris, Christian Searle, Hunter Vogele, Kara Williams, all of Ponca City; Shelby Cargill, Haley Smith and Kiana Wilcoxson, Perry; Brady Nelson, Broken Bow; Austin Stewart, Collinsville; Olivia White, Kingston; Marissa Hess, Verdigris.
Instrumentalists are Dustin Hill, Phillip Hudson, Jessica Riddle and Garrett Riff, Blackwell; Jordan Gorath, Morrison; Beau Nelson, Pawnee; Michael Spielbusch, Ponca City. Cameron Hopkins and Jason McNaughton, Enid; and Mathew Gray, Tonkawa.
Technical crew members are Nathan Snyder, Tonkawa; Zedan Borrie, Blackwell; and Tryston Carson, Ponca City.
The troupe is directed by NOC Fine Arts Division Chair Dineo Heilmann, assisted by vocal director Brandon Haynes, instrumental director Edward Dixon and technical director John Michael Warburton.
Sound production is by Stan Loughridge and video presentation is by Jacob Pease.
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The Roustabouts of Northern Oklahoma College pay tribute to the American rock band Kansas during the Rock & Roll Tribute portion of the musical show troupe’s benefit concert Saturday, April 9 in the Kinzer Performing Arts Center, NOC Tonkawa. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and all proceeds will help support the Roustabouts.
