CLAREMORE - It's one thing to take a mandolin class at the Roy Clark Music School at the Northeast Technology Center. It's quite another to meet the man himself, as Ed Kirk of Talala did Thursday.

TULSA, Oklahoma -- Cancer kept a Claremore teen from attending the ... a love for concerts and a love for country music, especially guitar players. One thing they don't share is osteosarcoma ...

Owasso's Gracee Shriver is a rising country music star who says she owes it all to her Oklahoma roots ... nine years old when she won a guitar at Claremore's Bluegrass and Chili Festival.