(This story was updated to add new information)
Less than four hours after the presale began for Cross Canadian Ragweed’s highly anticipated 2025 reunion stadium shows, all tickets had sold out for the beloved Red Dirt band‘s April 11-12 concerts at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
“Ya’ll broke Pete!!!! … The demand has been so overwhelming that we’re working to add shows on Thursday and Sunday to try to get as many people as possible in for the April 2025 weekend event,” the band posted on Facebook just before 2 p.m. Monday, with a photo of a partially deflated inflatable version of OSU mascot Pistol Pete.
Fans are advised to stay tuned for more information to be released later Monday about possible shows on April 10 and 13 at OSU’s Boone Pickens Stadium.
As the presale launched at 10 a.m. Monday for Cross Canadian Ragweed‘s long-awaited reunion concerts, fans were getting an alert about the ticketing website “experiencing high traffic volume on our site due to presales for the upcoming concert — The Boys From Oklahoma.”
The band also updated fans via social media on some of the ticketing guidelines for the April 11-12 concerts: Fans who signed up between Oct. 1-5 for the presale should have received over the weekend an email with their code. A limit of eight tickets per person has been placed on each ticket purchase, Ragweed announced on Facebook over the weekend.
The band encouraged ticket buyers to “Be kind. Share the love.”
The Red Dirt music stars also are warning fans via Facebook to avoid buying tickets from third-party ticket sites and to wait for Ragweed to rebuild its web store and launch new lines of official merchandise rather than purchasing bootleg merch from shady sellers.
Who is Cross Canadian Ragweed and why is the reunion such a big deal?
“The Boys from Oklahoma” — who came of age in Stillwater in the 1990s, took the distinctly Oklahoman Red Dirt music nationwide in the early 2000s and shocked their loyal fans when they parted ways in 2010 — created a fan frenzy last week when they revealed their plans for a long-awaited reunion show in the college town that birthed that Red Dirt sound.
Initially, Cross Canadian Ragweed — singer, songwriter and guitarist Cody Canada, bassist and singer Jeremy Plato, guitarist Grady Cross and drummer Randy Ragsdale — announced plans for a one-night-only reunion show April 12 at Boone Pickens Stadium.
The news was so well-received that within hours, practically every hotel room and short-term rental in the vicinity had been claimed, and more than 120,000 people had registered for presale tickets. Two days later, a second show had been added on April 11 at the home of OSU football.
Over the years, the members of Ragweed, especially Canada, have expressed their doubts about the likelihood of a reunion, even as fans have watched other top Red Dirt bands who had disbanded successfully come back together: The Great Divide finally healed their divide in 2011, and that seminal band’s second act now has lasted as long as its first. The Turnpike Troubadours are two and half years into their own successful reunion and playing venues bigger than the ones they were filling up before their hiatus.
The Turnpike Troubadours are co-headlining both “The Boys from Oklahoma” concerts alongside the reunited Ragweed, with The Great Divide also playing the April 12 show. The Great Divide frontman Mike McClure‘s eponymous band will perform at the added April 11 concert.
Fellow Red Dirt music stars Jason Boland & The Stragglers and Stoney LaRue are on the bill for both nights, too.
The Ragweed reunion shows will be the first concerts at Boone Pickens Stadium since the home of OSU football was rededicated in 2009 after a dramatic $286 million renovation.
OSU Athletic Director Chad Weiberg said in a statement that the concert will benefit OSU’s NIL efforts. OSU has a general name, image and likeness fund that benefits every player on the football team’s roster.
How should fans go about getting tickets to the Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion shows?
Tickets for the Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion concerts can be purchased at www.okstate.com/concert.
All ticket purchases for “The Boys From Oklahoma” concerts must be made online. No phone or walk-up orders will be accepted, according to a message from the ticketing site.
Fans attempting to buy tickets during the presale Monday morning were encountering a queuing page due to the high volume of traffic. They were urged not to exit their browser session before buying tickets, as opening a new browser window would restart the queue process.
The queuing process was sitewide, including for people trying to buy Oklahoma State Athletics event tickets or to transfer tickets for an athletics event. Those who were visiting the site for any reason other than buying Ragweed tickets were encouraged to return to the site later.
OSU Athletics issued an update just after 11 a.m. on X (formerly Twitter) advising fans in the online queue that tickets were still available and to be patient while waiting.
“For those of you in queue, tickets are still available so don’t lose your place in line! All the excited fans in the pre-sale are just making the process a little slow but tickets are still available,” according to the OSU Athletics update.
OSU Athletics posted on X at about 2:10 p.m. confirming that the April 11-12 Ragweed shows had sold out.
The public ticket sale to Cross Canadian Ragweed’s April 2025 reunion shows was originally scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11.