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Tulsa World Scene has several chances for you to win tickets to upcoming concerts while enjoying the Center of the Universe Festival.

Three ways to win: • Find Scene writer Jerry Wofford as he is covering the

festival and take a selfie with him, and tweet it to us with the hashtags #WhereIsJerry and #CoUFestTW

• Take a selfie with the CoU-themed Weekend magazine and tweet it to us with the hashtags #yourWeekend and #CoUFestTW

• Come to the Tulsa World booth and enter to win tickets to the sold-out One Direction show, Sept. 23 at the BOK Center.

We will have more giveaways at the Tulsa World booth, located near the Tulsa World Stage at Main and Brady streets.

Where to find the guide:Weekend magazine comes out in Wednesday’s Tulsa

World, which is available at QuikTrip and other retailers across the city.

But you can also ind the Tulsa World entertainment magazine in restaurants and stores across downtown, Cherry Street and Brookside, as well as in the south Tulsa entertainment districts. Or look for the bright red boxes throughout the festival grounds in the Brady Arts District.

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with his sister to Austin, Texas, before this opportu-nity came up.

“She called me and pitched the idea of me joining, as well,” Maxim said. “I lew out, and we kind of rewrote all the music and then went out on tour a month later. It was a real crazy shotgun ex-perience. It was a lot of fun, and it was exciting.”

The band has found unique ways to combine the lyrical force of Richie’s hip-hop with Sunday’s sweet yet haunting voice. Maxim’s strong vocal range and power and guitar work with the rest of the band’s dynamic range and sound. It comes together for raucous shows that have helped grow their popular-ity in Los Angeles, where it’s notoriously diicult to do so.

“When we comply to the rules of not really comply-ing to any of the rules, that’s when it comes out,” Maxim said. “Sunday and Nick just have a real natural way of reading each other and do

such an awesome job of complementing what the other is thinking.”

The band found itself performing regularly in Los Angeles and out on the col-lege tour circuit, which took

them across the country but never found them coming through the Helmerich sib-lings’ hometown.

However, Maxim and Sunday try to make it back as often as they can to visit their family, which is tight-knit, he said.

But this weekend’s visit will be diferent.

Maxim said he and Sunday “have always secretly been jealous of the people that get to be involved in the Tulsa music scene because we both started playing music when we left and just always respected the musicianship and the integrity behind the idea of this thing in Tulsa.

“I think it’s really cool that we get to come and our irst time to debut the band to our family and friends is at a festival that supports the town.”

Jerry Woford 918-581-8346jerry.woford@tulsaworld.com

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Sunday Helmerich, left, and Maxim Helmerich of the band Thick as Thieves are set to perform at Club Majestic on Saturday during the Center of the Universe Festival. Courtesy

Dublin pub plans then nixes Brooks tribute act

Garth Brooks fans in Ireland can’t seem to catch a break.

Dublin’s Croke Park sta-dium was set to be the site of his massive comeback, a ive-night run of shows there that sold 400,000 tickets.

Local residents com-plained, afraid the run of shows would cause a disrup-tion.

After the Dublin City Council refused to grant a permit for two nights of the run, Brooks took an all-or-nothing approach that ended in cancellation of the ive-show run.

In response, the Dublin pub Doheny Nesbitts planned a Garth Brooks tribute act to perform Sunday and Mon-day night, reported the Irish Independent.

Local residents weren’t thrilled about the idea either and complained to the bar management. The bar then decided to cancel the Sunday show.

“You’re not going to believe this folks but the big man has cancelled his sixth show in Dublin! Due to complaints by the residents of lower Baggot Street our Garth Brooks trib-ute this weekend will now only take place on Monday night from 8.30pm til late,” the pub posted on its Face-book page.

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I guess their next option is the break out old live CDs of Garth’s, pour a glass of whis-key at home with the rest of your friends and pretend like you’re there. Like we’ve been doing the last decade or so.

Over here in the States, we’re still waiting details on his planned world tour. Brooks has announced his irst show will take place in Chicago on Sept. 4. Tick-ets for the show are $65.50 including fees and are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at ticket-master.com, 800-745-3000 or

Ticketmaster Express, 866-448-7849.

No more details have been released about additional shows, and we’re still waiting to see if a BOK Center stop is on the list.

Brooks fans are also wait-ing for the release of his digital catalog, which would be the irst time his music would be available online. Brooks has said that release would be happening soon. A new album is also in the works, though no release date has been set.

After the country music star canceled ive shows in Ireland’s capital, a Dublin pub scheduled a Garth Brooks tribute act but then canceled the performances.  mark HumpHrey/associated press ile

Steely Dan left Brady Theater crowd ‘reeling in the years’BY MICHAEL SMITHWorld Scene Writer

Classic rock, blues, jazz, funk: It was all on display Wednesday when Steely Dan brought its signature style to Brady Theater,

leaving a crowd of 2,000-plus reeling in

the years.I had a good idea that

the concert’s sound would be exceptional because I remember how founding members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were renowned perfectionists in the recording studio.

Their live sound turned out to be that just-right mixture of performance and musical improv that reminds of Steely Dan songs you remember from the FM radio in the 1970s, with those smooth designs and funky delivery, but meeting the live act’s jamming let’s-have-fun mode on stage.

It was Fagen on keyboards and nearly all lead vocals and Becker on lead guitar, with three female backup singers (much like those

from an old-school soul group).

Add in piano, bass guitar, drums and four horns, and you have Steely Dan as they appeared on Wednesday night.

This was a “hits” concert from the Fagen-Becker catalog, including ive of the seven songs from their 1978 album “Aja,” featuring the classic-rock staples “Peg,” “Josie,” “Aja,” “Home at Last” and “Black Cow.”

Along with Chicago, Steely Dan must be one of the favorite groups for those who served in the school band, with solos for each of the players on trombone, trumpet, alto saxophone and baritone saxophone.

Both Fagen and Becker referred to their colleagues as “the best band we’ve ever had,” and there was little reason to doubt them, con-sidering their performances.

Other favorites on this night included “Bodhisattva,” “My Old School,” “Reeling in the Years,” and “Black Friday,” as well as the more rarely played “FM (No Static at All),” which was a

treat.Then there were those

hits delivered with a twist, such as “Dirty Work,” sung totally by the Danettes back-up group.

How’s this for a twist? The band delivers “Hey Nineteen,” then winds it down with a little “rap,” or interlude in which Becker just talks, in a slightly snarky fashion that its the audience.

A Becker story told of kicking back at home, only to ind a long-lost stash of marijuana from years before stuck under the couch, al-lowing for the enjoyment of a rolled-up mass quantity.

As he related this tale, the audience approval was amusing.

But his telling this story from the edge of the stage, with a front-row attendee and former district attorney about ive feet away? That’s priceless.

So was most of an evening spent with Steely Dan, which was more than two hours of music and mirth.

Michael Smith 918-581-8479michael.smith@tulsaworld.com

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BY JERRY WOFFORDWorld Scene Writer

Hip-hop artist Jabee Wil-liams is a late addition to the Center of the Universe Festi-val lineup, illing the spot left when another band moved to the Tulsa World Stage.

Williams will perform at 12:45 a.m. Saturday at Hunt Club.

Williams recently won a Heartland Emmy award for his work on a recent adver-tisement for Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.

He joins other hip-hop

artists performing on the festival’s musically diverse lineup, including Tulsa-based musicians Alan Doyle, the Oilhouse hip-hop col-lective, Algebra and Verse among others.

Earlier this week, Williams was asked to leave a local

Oklahoma City television station after he had been booked to perform on the KSBI morning show. KSBI station oicials later apolo-gized.

Jerry Woford 918-581-8346jerry.woford@tulsaworld.com

Oklahoma City hip-hop artist latest act added to festival