White Oak Music Hall announces first concerts at new outdoor venue



PHOTOS: Go inside the soon-to-open White Oak Music Hall ... less Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips will play the White Oak Music Hall's lawn stage on May 29 along with Roky Erickson, Lucero, Title Fight, and Nada Surf.

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On Tuesday morning the organizers behind the new White Oak Music Hall in the Near Northside area announced the first few concerts that will take place on the venue's outdoor stage.

French rockers M83 will christen the outdoor stage at White Music Hall on April 9. CHVRCHES will follow up on April 29.

But it’s what’s happening on Memorial Day Weekend that will really wow Houston music fans just a week before Free Press Summer Festival kicks off.

Pegstar Productions announced Tuesday that the Flaming Lips, Roky Erikson, Lucero, Title Fight, DIIV, Nada Surf, and others to be named later will play that venue's outdoor stage on May 29.

More details on that event are said to be coming in the coming days. It's much more than a Flaming Lips show, we've heard.

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Pegstar’s Jagi Katial said that he and his team were looking for maximum effect when booking the first shows on the Lawn at White Oak Music Hall. He’s wanting to give Houston an outdoor concert experience that years ago wouldn’t have been possible.

Katial and Pegstar are also in the thick of preparations for the eighth edition of Free Press Summer Festival, the two-day music festival in June that the concert promotions group has put on since 2009. This year's event is set for June 4 and June 5.

“When booking our initial lineup, we turned it to 11,” said Jagi Katial, principal of Pegstar. “I’m excited to see M83, CHVRCHES, and The Flaming Lips play outdoors with the downtown Houston skyline as the backdrop.”

There is also rumor floating around that Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne, recently seen on IFC's "Portlandia" with the band, might have something extra planned for Houston that weekend.

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"With this announcement, we are following through on our commitment of making the Lawn at White Oak Music Hall a groundbreaking new concert experience for fans," Katial added.

The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall is an outdoor, open-air component of WOMH, with a 40’ x 40’ covered stage set on a half-acre.

There will be different ticketing options for fans seeing shows on the lawn, including general admission, balcony, and roof-top viewing.

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“This is just the beginning. When we go, we go hard, and we will be giving people plenty of reasons to be excited this spring,” Katial said.

Just last week the Raven Tower, the first component of the complex at 2915 North Main, opened to the public and garnered rave reviews from the music community. There are already a handful of small shows booked for the Raven Tower’s covered pavilion area.

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As for the two stages inside the enclosed venue, Katial said that the first shows for those should be announced within a few months.

Tickets for the WOMH shows will be available at the venue’s official site starting at 10 a.m on Tuesday.