If you live in Norman, you've probably heard some version of the same take every June: get through FourthFest, then it's just heat until football. That was maybe true a decade ago. It isn't now. The stretch from mid-July through late August is doing more work than the holiday weekend, and if you're planning around it you'll want to know why.
Between two overlapping concert series, a museum camp schedule that runs through mid-July, and three restaurant openings landing inside a six-week window, the back half of summer has quietly become the busier half. Here's how the calendar actually stacks up.
Two concert series, two very different price points
Norman is running two outdoor music series in parallel this summer, and most residents I talk to only know about one of them.
The bigger one is Beats & Bites at Riverwind Casino, celebrating its tenth year.
