{"id":44985,"date":"2025-08-27T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/cross-canadian-ragweed-announce-2026-reunion-show\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:39:20","slug":"cross-canadian-ragweed-announce-2026-reunion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/cross-canadian-ragweed-announce-2026-reunion-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Canadian Ragweed Announce 2026 Reunion Show"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tThis past weekend, Cross Canadian Ragweed<\/a> capped the final Boys From Oklahoma show of their 2025 reunion in front of 40,000 sweaty fans inside McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, with frontman Cody Canada promising, \u201cWe will see you guys next year.\u201d Days later, the Red Dirt torchbearers are making good on their word.<\/p>\n

\n\tRagweed and the Turnpike Troubadours will return to Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on April 11 for round two of the Boys From Oklahoma series, Rolling Stone<\/em> has confirmed. Wyatt Flores, a Stillwater native, will also feature on the lineup, as will Shane Smith and the Saints. The Great Divide will round out the show. An official announcement with pre-sale and ticketing information is expected Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOf course, we will go back to Stillwater,\u201d Canada tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIf we sold that many tickets, and had that much fun, and it was that peaceful, then we should keep doing it over and over again. And, it\u2019s our home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRagweed ended a 15-year hiatus by headlining<\/a> the 2025 version of the Boys From Oklahoma, which was announced as a single show before ballooning into four sold-out nights with nearly 180,000 tickets sold. Russell Doussan, whose Doussan Music Group is organizing the event, says of the return to Stillwater, \u201cI saw people creating memories. Going back helps them re-live what they created last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSimilar memories were made in Waco when Ragweed performed in Texas for the first time since 2010. The band may be a Red Dirt icon, but it also spent its mid-2000s heyday atop the crowded Texas Music scene. Ragweed\u2019s support was key to the growth of major Lone Star State artists like Randy Rogers \u2014 who joined Ragweed on Saturday night to sing \u201cThis Time Around,\u201d which he and Canada co-wrote \u2014\u00a0and Waco native Wade Bowen.<\/p>\n

\n\tCanada played into Texas fans\u2019 state pride late in Ragweed\u2019s 22-song, two-hour set. He asked the crowd to sing as loud as possible and upstage the April crowd in Stillwater. \u201cI know how you guys feel about Oklahoma,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a football situation, I get it. But,I need you to be louder than Oklahoma State University was right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDuring Turnpike\u2019s 90-minute set ahead of Ragweed, Felker told the crowd. \u201cThese guys got back together, and we got to play the first couple of shows with them. And I swear to you, it just felt like everything was right with the world, to be opening for Ragweed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShane Smith and the Saints, Bowen, and American Aquarium played before sundown, powering through a sweltering August day in Central Texas. Aquarium frontman BJ Barham returned during Turnpike\u2019s set to sing on \u201cLong, Hot Summer Day.\u201d Smith, Bowen, and Barham also featured during Ragweed\u2019s set, along with a handful of high-profile guests.<\/p>\n

\n\tRobert Earl Keen sat in and sang lead on a cover of \u201cMy Hometown\u201d by the late Charlie Robison. Pat Green contributed a verse to \u201cBoys From Oklahoma.\u201d Jamie Lin Wilson traded verses with Canada on \u201c17.\u201d The night ended with Django Walker, Barham, and Felker joining Ragweed for a cover of Guy Clark\u2019s \u201cL.A. Freeway\u201d after Canada\u2019s tease of the Stillwater show.<\/p>\n

\n\tBands and fans aside, the concert served a business purpose for its host, Baylor University \u2014 part of a trend of college campuses hosting major concerts to benefit their athletics\u2019 name, image, and likeness programs.<\/p>\n

\n\tChad Weiberg, Oklahoma State athletic director, tells Rolling Stone the payoff alone from the 2025 event made a return a no-brainer to the school.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt a time when finding new ways to generate revenue is important to all athletic departments, last year\u2019s Boys From Oklahoma concerts were more successful than anyone imagined,\u201d Weiberg says. \u201cNot only did it generate new revenue for OSU Athletics, but the shows had a significant economic impact on Stillwater and the region \u2014 and exposed thousands of people to OSU and the home of Red Dirt music for the first time. As soon as the shows ended, we were repeatedly asked if we would do them again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tJon Folk, agent for both Ragweed and Turnpike, was the person doing the asking. When Ragweed\u2019s comeback was announced<\/a> a year ago it was filled with uncertainty after the band spent a decade-and-a-half apart. Now, Ragweed is intent on making the reunion permanent, and Folk sees a Stillwater return as the catalyst for that \u2014\u00a0as well as a chance to continue basking in the band\u2019s 2025 homecoming.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cStillwater was a love-fest,\u201d Folk says. \u201cIt was like a Red Dirt Woodstock.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJosh Crutchmer is a journalist and author whose latest books, <\/em>Never Say Never<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Red Dirt Unplugged<\/em><\/a> are available via Back Lounge Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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