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A best of Minnesota music thread awhile back made me want to share this. Being a Red Dirt fan intrigued me as 1 show has now turned into 4 show residency that are all sold out to benefit NIL at OSU. Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion concert to benefit Oklahoma State athletics' NIL efforts

Then I saw Wisconsin could be in talks to do the same with Coldplay and other potential concerts.

UMN willing to do this and utilize it for similar purposes, believe they have held concerts there in the past? Who could we get to really make it worth it?
 



A best of Minnesota music thread awhile back made me want to share this. Being a Red Dirt fan intrigued me as 1 show has now turned into 4 show residency that are all sold out to benefit NIL at OSU. Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion concert to benefit Oklahoma State athletics' NIL efforts

Then I saw Wisconsin could be in talks to do the same with Coldplay and other potential concerts.

UMN willing to do this and utilize it for similar purposes, believe they have held concerts there in the past? Who could we get to really make it worth it?
What is red dirt (and I'm not talking about Mars soil)?
 



What is red dirt (and I'm not talking about Mars soil)?
Red Dirt an ambiguously defined Genre of Music based on the color of soil in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Once mostly only popular in that part of the country now mainstream thanks to the interwebs/social-media (and Zac Bryan). Most all the bands in the show went to college and/or got their start there (as did Garth Brooks and The All American Rejects).
 

Was hoping for more music fans to see the potential in Minneapolis and NIL but regardless a good update and background On CCR and OSU who capitalized well and wish one day Minnesota could ever be so lucky..:
 


Red Dirt an ambiguously defined Genre of Music based on the color of soil in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Once mostly only popular in that part of the country now mainstream thanks to the interwebs/social-media (and Zac Bryan). Most all the bands in the show went to college and/or got their start there (as did Garth Brooks and The All American Rejects).

"Red Dirt" is tough to define, but to me, you know it when you hear it. I'd call Red Dirt real contemporary country/folk/blues, as opposed to Nashville pop glam country. My daughter got me into that stuff the past few years (going to school in Central TX). Flatland Cavalry, Zach Bryan, Siverada fka Mike and the Moonpies, Turnpike Troubadours, Tyler Childress, etc. In my opinion, if you liked Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon and those guys more than their contemporary Nashville artists, you'd probably like the newer Red Dirt stuff more than pop country.
 






Hope this link works but Cross canadian ragweed and friends are now doing Baylor NIL. Come on Minnesota who can we get?!?!?

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Why did the U stop booking major acts at the Bank? For a while it was a major A list concert venue - Beyonce, U2, Rolling Stones, Imagine Dragons, Kanye, One Direction, Nicki Minaj - and then it all stopped around 2018.


Did the opening of US Bank Stadium cause acts to shift there instead?
I remember these shows, did partake in some of them while in attendance there). Was great fun and a good run, so why not revamp those while benefiting the players?

(Also us bank sucks for live music,,,)
 



I dunno. Are red dirt fans the same people that figure they'll get shot or carjacked if they go near Dinkytown, let alone anywhere in Minneapolis?
 

"Red Dirt" is tough to define, but to me, you know it when you hear it. I'd call Red Dirt real contemporary country/folk/blues, as opposed to Nashville pop glam country. My daughter got me into that stuff the past few years (going to school in Central TX). Flatland Cavalry, Zach Bryan, Siverada fka Mike and the Moonpies, Turnpike Troubadours, Tyler Childress, etc. In my opinion, if you liked Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon and those guys more than their contemporary Nashville artists, you'd probably like the newer Red Dirt stuff more than pop country.
Red Clay Strays - you wont be disappointed.
 

I dunno. Are red dirt fans the same people that figure they'll get shot or carjacked if they go near Dinkytown, let alone anywhere in Minneapolis?
Doubtful, they are not the standard rural ‘nashville country’ music folks, the lyrics answer that.
But my point is why can’t we capitalize on NIL opportunities to do similar?
 

Doubtful, they are not the standard rural ‘nashville country’ music folks, the lyrics answer that.
But my point is why can’t we capitalize on NIL opportunities to do similar?
Yup...it only makes sense. I'm not one to just hand money directly to a kid to play a sport in college, but I would gladly pay money to see a good show where some of that money eventually trickles down to a college athlete.
Oh, and beer. I also spend money on beer that supports college athletes, too. Priorities.
 




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