Doors open at 6pm/ Show starts at 7pm. All ages show- Please provide a valid ID. Join us for NSU Jazz Night on Thursday, May 2. The NSU Combo will perform a variety of jazz standards featuring songs by Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Jaco Pastorius The group includes Larry Poffer (saxophone), Brett Holloway (trombone), Ethan Doty (piano), Dean DeMerritt (bass), Philip Foster (drums), Seth Gioletti (drums), and Dean DeMerritt (director). ) 

Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 8 p.m. Ages 21+ Vocalist Chanda Graham returns to LowDown for a soul-filled blues show with a touch of jazz that you have to hear to believe! Chanda will be joined by Adrion Robbins (keys), Trevor Galvin (sax), Gary Mason (bass), Stanley Fary (drums), and Alphaeus Washington (guitar). An attorney, former judge, and professional vocalist, no one who knows Chanda Graham is surprised to see her transition from the courtroom to the stage. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Chanda routinely juggles her attorney and music personas, working through both to enhance the live music scene in Oklahoma. With deep roots in gospel, Chanda's transition to jazz and blues was a very natural progression. Accompanied by gifted musicians, Chanda weaves a unique tapestry of musical stylings, reflecting the rich heritage of her ancestors' musical expression. 

Drummer and percussionist John Hanrahan's encore returns to LowDown. The last show was a sold-out celebration! Hanrahan has been performing the music of John Coltrane for over 20 years throughout the United States. Hanrahan has performed nationally as well as at The Monterey Jazz Festival in 2014 and 2022. The first set will be a performance of John Coltrane's iconic recording: A Love Supreme. The second set will be a mix of the late, great, Wayne Shorter. This group features drummer, John Hanrahan, Mike Cameron on sax, Scott McQuade on piano, and Stephen Schultz on bass. Doors open at 7 p.m.| Show starts at 8 p.m. Ages 21+ (Please provide a valid I.D.) 

7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Mike Cameron Group hosts Free Energy: All-Ages Jazz Jam every second and fourth Wednesday of the month! All ages are encouraged to bring their instrument and sheet music to join the fun. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience unique collaborations between different generations, schools, and varying skill levels. LowDown provides a state-of-the-art sound system, Yamaha C7 grand piano, bass amp, and drum set. Guitar players must provide their own amp and guitar. 

Doors open at 7pm/ Show runs 8-9:30pm Ages 21+ Please provide a valid ID Michael Taylor presents Classics for a Cause on Thursday, May 16. This classical piano concert will include works by J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, and more. In honor of the recovery of Michael's brother Elijah Taylor: proceeds from this event will go toward funding cancer research and treatment. 

Doors 7pm/ Show runs 8-10pm (Ages 21+) Must provide a valid ID at the door. Gavin Matts is a New York based comedian, actor and writer. Gavin’s debut hour long special ‘progression’ was released by Bill Burr & All Things Comedy in October of 2023. Vulture said the special, “dark comedy at its best” and NY magazine featured progression on its approval matrix. Gavin was the winner of Canada’s Top Comic in 2017, A TBS Comic to Watch at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival and he made his late night television debut on CONAN in 2019. This led to multiple appearances on Comedy Central’s STAND UP FEATURING, and on Comedy Central’s stand up showcase, Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers. Gavin performs regularly in New York at the Comedy Cellar and The Stand. 

Don’t miss Tiffany Stone Richter and Friends on Saturday, May 18 at LowDown. Tiffany is an amazing vocalist, comfortable in many styles from classical to pop, but it's safe to say, her jazz stylings are incredible. This is going to be one swinging, get-down evening, featuring a stellar band with a great 4 piece horn section. In addition, she'll be debuting her new album! Her band features: Tiffany Stone-Richter - Vocals Brad Henderson - Arranger/Piano Stephen Schultz - Bass George Toumayan - Drums Bill Gable - Trumpet Victor Anderson - Alto Sax Kyle Fisher - Tenor Sax Rich Fisher - Trombone Tiffany is originally from Oklahoma, a graduate of NSU Tahlequah, earned her Masters at SW Texas State. She now teaches at Wallace State in Hanceville, Alabama where she resides with her husband and 2 children. Tiffany is in demand nationally as a clinician and performer. Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 8 p.m. Ages 21+ (Please provide valid I.D.) 

7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Mike Cameron Group hosts Free Energy: All-Ages Jazz Jam every second and fourth Wednesday of the month! All ages are encouraged to bring their instrument and sheet music to join the fun. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience unique collaborations between different generations, schools, and varying skill levels. LowDown provides a state-of-the-art sound system, Yamaha C7 grand piano, bass amp, and drum set. Guitar players must provide their own amp and guitar. 

Doors Open at 6 p.m. | Show runs 7-10 p.m. 21+ Ages (Please provide a valid I.D.) Listen as pop/rock singer-songwriter pop/rock, Ginger Leigh, takes her voice and stage antics to a new style and level on Thursday, May 23. Ginger is debuting her jazz project, “Straight Up with a Ginger Twist!” Straight Up is Ginger's dream project where she shows off her big and lush voice; sexy, funny, and charming stage style; and skills as a veteran performer. Straight Up with a Ginger Twist will be the next big thing in jazz performance! This band features: "Ginger Leigh - Vocals Mike Cameron - Sax Clinton Beeler - Tenor Sax Rod Clark - Trombone Austin Stunkard - Trumpet Scott McQuade - Piano Tye Slagle - Guitar Will Barfield - Bass Chris Peters - Drums 

Doors at 7pm/ Show runs 8-11pm 21+ Ages Please provide a valid ID. Dr. Tommy Poole has assembled an all-star group to pay tribute to the Yellowjackets and their 25 albums, 17 Grammy nominations, and 2 Grammy wins. This concert will feature songs from the Yellowjackets 43 year history. The quartet includes Tommy Poole (saxophones), Max Holm (keyboards), Glenn Dewey (bass), and Cade Crone (drums). ABOUT THE BAND: Tommy Poole has recorded as a saxophonist on numerous commercially available CDs ranging in style from classical, to jazz, to pop. has performed professionally with Ramsey Lewis, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Andy Montanez, Diane Schuur, Joe Williams, Mercer Ellington, and Dianne Reeves among many others. Pianist, Max Holm has performed hundreds of times across the US and Europe, often with renowned jazz musicians, and opening jazz festivals with his namesake combos. He is a featured performer on the album "The Inside of the Outside" with Jeff Coffin, Branford Marsalis, Trombone Shorty, et al. Bassist, Glenn Dewey has performed with Jazz and Commercial artists such as Kenny Werner, Terell Stafford, Arturo Sandoval, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, Manhattan Transfer, Toby Keith, and Larry Gatlin. Drummer, Cade Crone is quickly establishing himself as one of Oklahoma's top call drummers. For the past three years, he has been the drummer for the critically acclaimed OSU Jazz Orchestra - a LowDown favorite! 

Doors open at 7pm/ Show runs 8-11pm 21+ Ages Please provide a valid ID. An evening of selections of songs from the Great American Songbook. The Alliance will also do a melody of service songs to highlight the veterans' service and sacrifice. The Alliance is comprised of: Stephen Cosper - guitar Will Kelly - bass Richard John’s - drums Steve Beck - saxophone David Brennen- piano Steve is a retired Army Vet that preformed with the Jazz Ambassador Band. 

Banjo and songwriting master Cody Brewer circles his wagons down to LowDown for an evening of originals and cover tunes steeped in Americana, folk, jazz, and country on Thursday, May 30. Cody will be joined by Chris Combs, Andrew Bones, and Stephen Schultz. Doors open at 6 p.m. | Show starts at 8 p.m. Ages 21+ (Please provide a valid I.D.) 

Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show runs 8-11 p.m. Ages 21+ (Please provide a valid I.D.) Booker is combining his smooth voice with a stellar Pino trio and string quartet for an epic show on Friday, May 31. This show will be a rich sonic palette of styles and textures with anything from swing to Latin, and pop to standard jazz ballads. This group is comprised of: Booker Gillespie - Vocals Brad Henderson - Arranger/piano Dean Demerritt - Bass David Bowen - Drums Dina Litvinova - Violin Elena Gavrilov - Violin Ethan Landis - Viola Gulnara Hollopeter - Cello Booker is one of the area's finest male jazz vocalists. His rich baritone voice, teamed with his musical experience and swing factor, make him one of the busiest singers around. Brad has been arranging music and organizing events for decades. 

Door open at 7:30/ Show runs 8:30-10pm 21+ Ages Please provide a valid ID. Jazz icon Bill Frisell’s four-decade career as a guitarist and composer has been cited by Downbeat as “the best recorded output of the decade.” “Frisell has had a lot of practice putting high concept into a humble package,” writes the New York Times. “Long hailed as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists of our time, he has also earned a reputation for teasing out thematic connections with his music… There’s a reason that Jazz at Lincoln Center had him program a series called Roots of Americana.” Critics and peers have lauded Frisell as one of the music’s most treasured participants, praising his playing as well as the anatomy of his compositions — how he structures a form around often a simple melody or progression, creating a gesture at once complex and elemental. Recognized as one of America’s 21 most vital and productive performing artists, Frisell was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist in 2012. He is also a recipient of grants from United States Artists, Meet the Composer among others. In 2016, he was a beneficiary of the first FreshGrass Composition commission to preserve and support innovative grassroots music. Upon San Francisco Jazz opening their doors in 2013, he served as one of their Resident Artistic Directors. Bill is also the subject of a new documentary film by director Emma Franz, entitled Bill Frisell: A Portrait, which examines his creative process in depth. His latest recording is Valentine (Blue Note), recorded with acclaimed bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston—the same trio that will play this year’s FETE. Valentine has been hailed as “a masterpiece” by Downbeat: “They consistently and strikingly play as one, voices intertwined, completing phrases as if sharing a single thought… Even overdubs are so perfect that everything feels utterly organic… the performances represent jazz playing at its most sublime.” 

Doors open at 8pm/ Show runs 8:30-10pm 21+ Ages Please provide a valid ID. As a resolute preservationist, storyteller, and instrumentalist, Dom Flemons has long set himself apart by finding forgotten folk songs and making them live again. Lauded with a GRAMMY win and two EMMY nominations, he is widely known as the American Songster, since his repertoire covers over a century of early American popular music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, slam poet, music scholar, historian, and record collector. Equally virtuosic on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones, Flemons is host of the American Songster Radio show on Nashville’s WSM Radio. His latest, Traveling Wildfire, is his first album since 2018’s Black Cowboys and second for Smithsonian Folkways. A co-founder of his former band, Carolina Chocolate Drops, with bandmate Rhiannon Giddens, Flemons is originally from Phoenix and currently lives in the Chicago area with his family. 

Doors open at 8pm/ Shows runs 8:30-10pm 21+ Ages Please provide a valid ID. This is a general admission dance show! Playing ferociously danceable Cuban roots music, Changüí Majadero is a blazing five-piece band that has honed a deeply informed and highly personal take on changüí, a surging Afro-Cuban musical tradition that took shape in the late 19th Century on the eastern side of the island around Guantanamo. It’s one of the foundational styles that gave birth to son, salsa and timba, and in the hands of Changüí Majadero the music feels as fresh and intoxicating as a stiff shot of rum. Founded by guitarist/vocalist Gabriel García, an expert on Cuban tres guitar, the band mixes Cuba’s rural countryside music with L.A. grit for a deeply intoxicating, hip-shaking experience. “Hypnotically repetitive and gloriously syncopated, Changüí Majadero is captivating and liberating.” —Pop Matters