“We have to make sure that the show goes on,” said Alicia Nevaquaya, friend of Selby Minner’s for 15 years.

Alicia was at the Blues Club property in Rentiesville on Wednesday morning, June 11, two days after the 75-yearold Selby was brutally slain – allegedly by her brother, Louis Carl Guenther, 68.

Guenther has no known address, but for now resides in the Mc-Intosh County jail facing a charge of first-degree murder.

Alicia was at the site with a group of friends and volunteers who were there to clean up the blood and other matter that covered an area on the floor of the nightclub where Selby was bludgeoned and stabbed to death.

The club is part of one massive structure that has grown over the years to include the club, a residence, a Blues Museum & Hall of Fame and other rooms.

As are most close friends of Selby, Alicia was stunned and distraught.

One of the uppermost questions is what will become of the Dusk ‘til Dawn Blues Festival, which has been bringing hundreds of Blues legends to the tiny town of Rentiesville for 34 years.

As everyone mourns Selby’s death, they hope they don’t have to mourn the death of the Blues following created by her and her late husband D.C. Minner.

“I’m not sure that she had been training anyone to take over for her,” Alicia said. “But there are a lot of people who helped her with the festival every year, so there’s a lot of people who have a lot of knowledge on how the festival works…it would be terrible if it went away. She had, like an international following.”

For now, it’s waitand- see. “Selby has touched enough lives in this area, internationally, really, that we can join up for her, continue her dream and her vision and her passion for the Blues in Oklahoma.”