Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome. It's time now for
our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. I
know it's April fool but we're not fooling. We're not fooling at all.
We're having a good time here today because we're going to be talking about the
Bartonswill community concerts and we always do. Adele and Dave Register are with us.
How we doing here? We're doing great this morning. How are you
doing pretty good? Except for the allergies that's going around and sure is.
But we've got a great We've got a great show and it's nothing to sneeze
at. Tell us a little bit about the Abba tribute that we're coming up
here. Well, we've got a group coming in called Abba Fab. I
like that name. Yeah, I've been I've been in school that it's not
Abba, It's Abba. Okay, we'll bed school right now. Yeah.
Anyway, they're they're a great group. They actually are both acoustically and performance
wise very much in the Abba mode. In addition to their great music,
they also are costumed in the way they were in the seventies. It should
be a great fun performance and we have a special deal that's going on for
this particular concert, and that is that normally we have students admitted free and
younger students if that's limited by with a parent that holds a ticket. But
this time around, since the music of Abba so much appeals to so many
young people across across all generations, really we're inviting students to come for free
as usual, and if they would like to invite two adults parents, uncles,
aunts, guardians, whatever to join them in this presentation, those adults
are admitted free as well. There's no excuse Meme and Pepe to not bring
the kids to the show. You come, and what's the date on the
show? It's next Wednesday, April tenth, at seven thirty in the Center
and the main stage in the Community Hall. Beautiful, it's acoustic, Sarah
awesome they are. And even though it's a Wednesday, it's over by nine
thirty, so I know it's a school night, but it does get over
by nine thirty. So one night only kids come, older siblings, grandma,
grandpa, mom and dad, you know, special person come with your
young person and have different generations enjoying the same thing together. That it'd be
cool. It's going to be a celebration is what it sounds like. Absolutely,
you know, who hasn't heard things like Mama Mia and Waterloo and other
songs from those days, and everybody really really seems to enjoy that. One
of the reasons that we try and do this sort of thing is because our
organization, as with other organizations in the community, really believes that live performance
is the best way and the most instructive way to enjoy music and arts and
others. And so we really, you know, as a community concert,
we really would like the community to come in and join us, and this
offer is to try and make that available, especially for students who may not
have as many opportunities for that kind of exposure as they've had in years gone
by. This is going to be great. This is really going to be
something else. Now the twenty four to twenty five season spectacular. Yeah,
it's looking like it's going to be a lot of fun. Our board is
an all volunteer board. Everything that we bring in in terms of tickets and
membership goes straight back into the performers, and so, you know, it's
a diverse group, and so we try and represent different aspects of the community,
different likes and things that people would want to have. And we've got
a really really good mix me up next year a couple of Billy Joel attribute.
It's done by Jim Whitter, who if people in Bartlesville may remember in
nineteen I'm sorry. In twenty twenty two, age is showing he came in
on the Million Dollar Quartet. He played the part of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Oh yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, So he's he's reprising his
not his role as Jerry Lee, but a tribute to Billy Joel. We
also have in the next concert after that, Jeremy Stole, who was on
Broadway and Phantom of the Opera, and he's going to reprise many of the
songs from that and other Broadway songs. That should be a great a great
concert. Then we're swinging over to a kind of a Cajun country theme with
a group called the do Wa Riders. That'll be in February of twenty twenty
five. That sounds like fun, That could be a fun group. And
again, you know, we try and diversify, We try and make,
you know, bring in different venues, different styles, so it'll appeal to
many different people. And then we'll wrap up as you know, we're wrapping
up this year with Abba Fab, which is really kind of a very upbeat
and fun sort of thing that everybody should should be able to enjoy. And
we're wrapping up next year with another group called Salon, which is doing the
music of the Beach Boys. So that should be a really really fun way
to wrap up this season. So that's what we've got for next year.
Well, I tell you what we got to get folks in this year the
tenth to see Abba This is Abba Fab and this is going to be fabulous
and you get the price is right, the music's right, the venue couldn't
be better, and this is being put on by the Bartlesbell Community Concerts.
So I think you've got the formula here for a hit, we hope.
So again, you know, we try and try different venues, different styles
to appeal to a large segment of the community. And you know, one
of the best in community concerts, which goes back many, many many years.
Actually we were founded in nineteen thirty five, so we're going into our
ninetieth season. But there are other community concert groups, ones in Ponca City
and ones in Chanut. So if you're a season ticket holder with us.
You then get to go to any of the concerts in Pauca City or any
of the concerts in Schnut for no additional charge. We have these reciprocity agreements
with these other organizations. They come over to our events when they're able to,
we go to their events, and because you're a member of that organization,
your admission at the reciprocity concerts is free. So it's a great deal.
Membership has its privileges. It does. One of the main stays of
community concerts is to make certain that it's a vail to all folks in the
community, and so that's why the prices are so low. I know that
the ABAFAB is going to essentially be no cost to many people in the community,
but even in general, the cost is kept very low because it is
supposed to be a community concert opportunity, and this way, with low cost
and availability, everyone can come and enjoy. And so the whole notion of
community concerts is to make live music and entertainment available to just about everyone.
And for that reason, the prices for the season membership have been kept the
same for four years, and they're so low that you can actually go to
the entire season's concerts for no more than ten dollars per concert. My gosh,
that's amazing. You can't do that. Well, you can with this,
but anywhere else in the world you can't do that. Do you know
that. I'm sorry I have to apologize for this voice. But a woman
at the concert told me at the last concert that she writes to her friends
after every show and says, you will never believe what I just saw and
for what little costs that I paid for the ticket, and she moved here
from Los Angeles and she just raves about it. And so it's fun,
you know, to listen to comments like this, and she can't believe it.
The communities set are setting the quality of the performers and the shows,
and she says she's never seen anything like it. She's so thrilled. She
moved to Barlesville the Hammer, and I imagine if you saw a show like
what you're going to see here on April tenth, you might stick another zero
there and it'd be one hundred dollars ticket anyplace else, but but not here.
We do try and keep it affordable, and among among other things,
we're very appreciative of the support that we've received from various organizations such as the
bartle Little Community Foundation and the Oklahoma Arts Council, who have very recently provided
some very generous grants that will help us in that mission in the coming years.
Because as a community organization, we really do believe that live performance is
a wonderful way. It's so much better than looking at the little small screen
on your phone. And we just believe that. And whether you know you
prefer, you know, community concerts like ours, or Symphony or CMT,
the Great Children's Musical Theater Corral of the groups, ok come on out to
the center. They are wonderful people. They do a very professional job of
supporting all the community groups. We hope you come to ours, but you
know, depending on your choices, come to the center enjoy some great live
performances by a lot of different community groups in this in this town. Do
you have a Facebook or website or both where folks can consult from time to
time case to get a little forgetful Like me, we have accounts on most
of those platforms. Are Our own website is BCCA Music dot org. I
think the same Moniker handles Facebook and what else. I'm not very good on
social media, but they know, they know we're out there. If you
got to the website, of course, you can just click on you find
it on the other social media platforms for the website. Well that's cool.
That's cool. That way you can bookmark them and you go there whenever you
want. This is great. So once again, next Wednesday is filled the
house. Let's just fill the house for Abba fab and it's brought to you
by the Bartlesmill Community Concerts. I want to thank you both for being here
today. Well, thank you very much for being for allowing us to be
here and spread the good news about performances here in Bartlesville. It's a unique
town with the facilities and the groups that we have here. Come on out
to the center and enjoy a live performance. Indeed can send it better by
anybody else. Appreciate it. Folks, you've been watching and listening to our
community connection on K one, the one you trust. I'll never forget this call.