Bob Childers' Gypsy Cafe releases schedule for songwriter festival

Bob Childers’ Gypsy Café, Oklahoma’s largest homegrown songwriter festival, has released the schedule of 70 songwriters performing across four venues Sunday, May 4, in Stillwater. During the festival, the late Don Morris will be honored with the Restless Spirit Award, and Tulsa-based songwriter Jared Hard will perform as the winner of the Jimmy LaFave Songwriting Contest. The 14th-year festival benefits Red Dirt Relief Fund, a nonprofit that provided aid to more than half the artists in the lineup during the pandemic — plus more than $976,000 to music professionals statewide...