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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, welcome, welcome, welcome time

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now for community connection and with me, I have Mary Lynn mem right here

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from OKM. And it has been
a busy, busy, busy week black

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time. We saw you tickets flying
out all over the place, people getting

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all lined up for the mostly Mozart
event, the fortyth anniversary of OKM.

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It is good morning Tom, Good
morning to you boy. It's been kind

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of fast and furious. It has
been fun. Last Thursday we kicked off

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and launched our fortieth anniversary festival Kay
and we had a nice little leap into

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a party at Oka Music. Gave
way over twenty nine tickets or sets of

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tickets, i should say, and
prizes and so that was very fun and

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festive and we appreciate everyone who came
in and who called in and gosh,

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we're just really excited about this season
man, gunness. Thanks. We're going

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to start out at Wall Rock and
we've got to two fantastic acts coming up.

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Yes, we have our very own, very special young lady, Joselle

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Dobson. You guys got to find
her for finding it. It's going to

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be probably a platinum recording artist.
I know. I've asked her, can

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I be your agent? Can I
be your attorney? Sure? And hopefully

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she'll say yes. No. Jasella
is an intern. She's still in terms

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for US at Okay perform. She's
also studying at OSU Atlahoma State University,

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and so she'll be returning to US
this summer. Last year, people got

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to sort of hear her Alicia Key
vibes with some also country songs sort of

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thrown into there in honor of Lee
Greenwood. This year, you're going to

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get to hear the classical side of
her performance. She'll be performing violin and

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then as I understand, maybe a
couple of arias. I'm not sure exactly

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what she has planned. She's working
on it. She's been working with her

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music professors, and so we're very
excited to hear that. Jasella is just

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a lovely person, but hers are
amazing. You know, she can play

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that violin like most people just walk
or breathe. It's just it's that natural

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to her. Well, and she's
just you know, it's funny. I

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was talking to her earlier this week
and she's just very humble. We're trying

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to get a fellow students of hers
to do some of our showcase. One

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of her professors is also going to
come up and perform. And I was

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piano recital and so I was talking
to her and she was just talking about

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a concert that they have coming up
on Thursday, and she was like,

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Oh, Mary Lynn, You've got
to hear this one young man on violin.

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He's just so awesome. And you
know, she's just always in awe

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of other musicians and recognizes their talents, but she never talks about her own.

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Oh yeah, you never know.
If you're having a conversation with you

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never know that she could play darn
or any instrument and can sing like an

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angel well. And she is an
extremely hard worker, and so we're very

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proud of her. We are very
excited to be able to she is opening

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up for the Manhattan Chamber Players,
and the Manhattan Chamber Players are an eighteen

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orchestra, and we're very excited about
this and talking to their representatives and agents.

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These guys are all friends in some
former fashion. They all play in

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other symphonies orchestra's chamber ensembles for their
real jobs, but they decided they all

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went to Juilliard and some of the
other schools or met at music festivals over

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the years, and so they've all
become very good friends, and they decided

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to form this ensemble, the Manhattan
Chamber of Players, and so we are

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very excited. Two of the young
men in this are also an usher quartet

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who will be in our finale.
Wow. But their talent level is off

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the charts. It is off the
charts. They are amazing. One of

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our patrons said, if she could
afford it, she would have them perform

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for her every night and play for
her before she went to sleep. So

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these guys like the traveling Willbury's of
classical music. Yeah, I mean,

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they are absolutely amazing. So if
the two out of the eighteen or anything

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to come, I am extremely excited
for this group of young musicians who I

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think are going to be just It's
going to be a beautiful night, a

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little bit of Mozart, a little
bit of bock, so you can't go

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wrong there. And then of course
out at wool Rock under the Stars,

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we'll have a nice fireworks finale.
So of course we'll have the food trucks

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there, a lot of kids stuff. Ticket prices vary. You can get

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a VIP if the parking is really
important to you. And for those new

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to Bartlesville or maybe didn't know to
get good parking, to get the reserved

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parking, used to have to pay
big bucks, like five thousand dollars or

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more for a ticket or not a
ticket, but a package to be able

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to get your parking. Now you
can pay seventy five dollars, have a

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reserve seat, have really nice VIP
parking. And so we hope that that's

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a nice That is a huge discount
compared to forty years ago, and we

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really hope that that folks will enjoy
that. We also have a student discount,

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a senior discount. You can come
for thirty five dollars. We have

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general admission for fifty So it is
there is not a bad seat. It's

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it's going to be beautiful. We
will be down again at Clyde Lake this

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year of returning to where we first
started for the festival, and so it

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should be really pretty. Uh So
we encourage people to get their tickets and

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uh get ready to have some wonderful
time out at Woolrock, a beautiful concert.

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And that's just kicking things off.
That's just kicking things off. Then

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the next night we moved to Tulsa, where we will hear Jenny Lynn and

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Adam Tidler performed. Jenny Lynn is
returning to us. She's a Steinway artist,

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is just a wonderful, wonderful pianist, also an amazing person. She

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is just fantastic. We love Jenny
Jenny. When we Rose and I went,

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gosh, I guess it was maybe
last year about this time, maybe

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a little bit later, Jenny was
in Tulsa performing for Steinway. Part of

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their being a Steinway artist means they
travel around the country and performance. Steiny,

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they's got to be for Steinway to
put their name on your ship.

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Yes, you do, but they
go around the country and perform. And

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so Rose and I went and met
her and watched her piano recital, was

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lovely, and then took her out
to dinner and we were talking about the

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fortieth anniversary in Mozart and Pieces and
we were like, Ginny, you should

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come back and then you can do
your children's performance too, and she was

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like, oh, I would love
to. And so we've known for quite

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some time that she was coming.
But as we were getting out of all

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of the details finalized, she said, Maryland, I've been traveling and performing

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with Adam Tidler. Would it be
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you guys are going to love him. And so we are not going to

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only have one amazing concert pianist,
but we're also going to have upcoming young

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star. He's won all kinds of
awards, Adam Tindler, who is a

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Yamaha artist. So we have both
pianos represented and we're very excited about that.

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So that will be at Casha Hall
that evening on Saturday, June eighth.

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The Wool Rock Concert, which I
don't think I said, is on

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Friday, June's seventh, and so
people can purchase tickets again. We have

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some senior discounts, student discounts,
we have vip uh and general admission.

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Goodness. How do we get our
tickets here? You can go to okaymusic

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dot org. You can call nine
one eight three three six nine nine zero

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zero, or you can come into
the office at four fifteen South Dewey and

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get your tickets. Ros and I
would be happy to sell you tickets sugar

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Plum Shop, and the sugar Plump
Shop is still open. We have so

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much merchandise for spring, summer,
Easter. It's it's very festive right now,

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it's very bunny esque. Now we're
going to bring me finale back to

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Bartlehill, that is true. I
do need to mention on Saturday night,

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opening will be Tulsa burg On Orchestra
and they, yes, they're amazing.

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Karen Nape, who is the co
person in charge of the orchestra, is

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an amazing musician composer herself, but
she and I work together every year to

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try to showcase her kids and give
them an opportunity to perform. So they

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will open up as people are coming
in and getting ready for the big concert,

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they'll get to hear these kids perform, and they do an excellent job.

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They are truly amazing musicians. They
play at at at the Center a

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couple years ahek they did, Yes, they played yeah, and that was

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fun for them because normally they're doing
classical and so that was a little bit.

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They helped us perform Little Beauty.
Well they actually performed forties and fifties

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music Billie Holiday tribute, but no, they did a fantastic job. This

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time they'll be going back. They've
already been working on a couple of pieces

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by Mozart, so we'll be very
excited to hear them, but yes,

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now then going to Sunday on June
ninth, we will have our finale and

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it will be at the Refinery.
I have to keep training myself. I

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love it the play on words and
the beautiful venue, the Johnstones Haair Building.

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We will have our finale conclude concert
and it will be by Uesher Quartet

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and so very excited to have eshercore
Tet return. They are amazing, amazing

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musicians. It's going to sound great
in that room. Yeah, So we're

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going to open up with a little
cocktail party upstairs and then take it downstairs

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to hear the concert, and then
at intermission we'll have a little bit of

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dessert and coffee. But I am
looking very forward to hearing them perform again.

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They are just absolutely amazing musicians.
And again, people can go on

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to our website okmusic dot org to
buy tickets. You can click You'll see

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there's a banner that scrolls across it
has the festival. You can click on

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that, or you can go to
the drop down box on top and you'll

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see where there's a festival link they
can click on. There's also a festival

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ticket link they can click on to
go directly to tickets, or if they

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want to read about the musicians and
learn more about what pieces are being performed,

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you just click on the one that
says festival and it gives you all

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of the information. They can call
Rose and I at nine one eight six

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nine nine zero zero, or they
can come to the office at four fifteen

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South Dewey. Oh my goodness,
takes you know. This is a powerful

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line. Even though it's just three
days, we're going back to the roots

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of it all here we are.
We've had a lot of questions about that.

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People are like, oh no,
why are you only going three days?

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And we said, well, that's
where it started. And so we

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thought for something fun, for something
nostalgic, we would pack it in.

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We have so much Showcase, which
we'll release on April first, but we'll

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have Friday, Saturday, Sunday we'll
be packed with Showcase. So we'll still

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have a lot of concerts that folks
can come to. They won't be missing

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out on anything. But we thought
it would be nostalgic to take it back

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to the three day And I don't
know, if I'm not sure, do

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I hold it up there? To
hold it up there? The art that

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just so we found our original program
and this is what the very first program

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all look like, and so we
emulated that. We took it back and

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you know, we're just trying to
celebrate forty years worth of amazing music,

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amazing community coming together, world renowned
artist, and just it's a celebration.

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Forty years is a long time,
it is, and so you know,

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hopefully folks will come out and enjoy
it and support it. You know,

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it's it's something that if people don't
come, then unfortunately it won't it won't

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be here. So we definitely want
folks to come out. I mean,

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what an amazing community to have a
ballet, to have an orchestra, to

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have a festival that is world renowned
that's been going for forty years, to

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have children's musical theater, I mean, we are blessed. And then the

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beautiful community center. So we just
really have to support these things or we're

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going to lose them. Now Maryland, I know we didn't bring any materials

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in on this, but just a
quick reminder folks want to check out,

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especially for kids. That's on the
website too. Yes, especially for kids.

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We have a huge lineup. It's
it's even more packed than it was

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last year. We'll be launching the
passport and all of the nice and stuff

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on April first, but it kicks
off on May thirty first, goes through

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June sixth and it is very filled. We have puppet shows, we have

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story and music time, we have
art and music immersion, we have piano

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recitals. We have something very special
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I don't want to spoil that.
No, I don't want to spoil that.

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No, but the passport's actually already
done. It's ready to go,

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and so when I come back in
April, I'll bring that and show the

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audience on Facebook. But it's pretty
cool, very nice. We're very excited.

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Rose has worked very hard, and
we have so many prizes to give

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away too. I think we have
over gosh. I know, it's like

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twenty prizes to give away during this
event, and then a grand finale prize

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so that you get your passport,
you go to each event, get a

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stamp, you get entered in for
a drawing at each event, and then

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you get you know, fifteen twenty
if you've gone to all events, how

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many of events you've gone to,
you get that many tickets into the Grand

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finale and to win. Yeah.
Oh and then I forgot to say,

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we're going to be on the radio
again here doing boogie bingo, so I

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think we have a lot of prizes
for that too. And thank you for

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coming in and thank you for letting
us be a part of OKM. Thank

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you, Thank you guys for all
your support. Thanks for listening to one

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on one with a professional, A
paid presentation in fourteen hundred K one