OHS Annual Meeting to feature a Concert by

Michael Martin Murphey

April 27-29, 2011

The Annual Meeting Committee, chaired by Bob Klemme of Enid, has announced that a highlight of the Annual Meeting next April will be a concert by recording artist Michael Martin Murphey.  The concert will be held at the Briggs Auditorium on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College in Enid on the evening of Thursday, April 28, 2011.

Staged by the OHS to thank the donors who made the creation of the new Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid possible, the concert is an invitation only event.  Those donors and their families will be invited to obtain tickets to the concert by the Friends of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center. 

In addition, OHS members who register to attend the Annual Meeting will be invited.  There will be no charge for the concert but individuals must have a ticket to attend.  Annual Meeting presenters, session moderators, OHS employees and volunteers who work at the Annual Meeting also will be invited to the concert.

Murphey is the best-selling singer/songwriter of American Cowboy Music who also has enjoyed success as a singer/songwriter in the Pop and Country-Western fields.  A founder of the "Texas Music Scene" at Austin in 1970, he was the first singer/songwriter of this Austin scene to be signed to a major record label while living and performing in Austin.  His first "Cowboy Songs" album became the first gold album of Cowboy Music since Marty Robbins.

Murphey is considered to be the world's most prominent musical representative of the western horseman, the horse rancher, cattle rancher, and cowboy.