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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, Welcome. It's time now for

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our community connection right here on K
one, the one you trust. I

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know it's April fool but we're not
fooling. We're not fooling at all.

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We're having a good time here today
because we're going to be talking about the

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Bartonswill community concerts and we always do. Adele and Dave Register are with us.

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How we doing here? We're doing
great this morning. How are you

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doing pretty good? Except for the
allergies that's going around and sure is.

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But we've got a great We've got
a great show and it's nothing to sneeze

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at. Tell us a little bit
about the Abba tribute that we're coming up

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here. Well, we've got a
group coming in called Abba Fab. I

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like that name. Yeah, I've
been I've been in school that it's not

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Abba, It's Abba. Okay,
we'll bed school right now. Yeah.

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Anyway, they're they're a great group. They actually are both acoustically and performance

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wise very much in the Abba mode. In addition to their great music,

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they also are costumed in the way
they were in the seventies. It should

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be a great fun performance and we
have a special deal that's going on for

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this particular concert, and that is
that normally we have students admitted free and

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younger students if that's limited by with
a parent that holds a ticket. But

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this time around, since the music
of Abba so much appeals to so many

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young people across across all generations,
really we're inviting students to come for free

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as usual, and if they would
like to invite two adults parents, uncles,

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aunts, guardians, whatever to join
them in this presentation, those adults

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are admitted free as well. There's
no excuse Meme and Pepe to not bring

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the kids to the show. You
come, and what's the date on the

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show? It's next Wednesday, April
tenth, at seven thirty in the Center

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and the main stage in the Community
Hall. Beautiful, it's acoustic, Sarah

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awesome they are. And even though
it's a Wednesday, it's over by nine

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thirty, so I know it's a
school night, but it does get over

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by nine thirty. So one night
only kids come, older siblings, grandma,

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grandpa, mom and dad, you
know, special person come with your

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young person and have different generations enjoying
the same thing together. That it'd be

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cool. It's going to be a
celebration is what it sounds like. Absolutely,

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you know, who hasn't heard things
like Mama Mia and Waterloo and other

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songs from those days, and everybody
really really seems to enjoy that. One

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of the reasons that we try and
do this sort of thing is because our

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organization, as with other organizations in
the community, really believes that live performance

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is the best way and the most
instructive way to enjoy music and arts and

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others. And so we really,
you know, as a community concert,

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we really would like the community to
come in and join us, and this

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offer is to try and make that
available, especially for students who may not

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have as many opportunities for that kind
of exposure as they've had in years gone

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by. This is going to be
great. This is really going to be

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something else. Now the twenty four
to twenty five season spectacular. Yeah,

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it's looking like it's going to be
a lot of fun. Our board is

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an all volunteer board. Everything that
we bring in in terms of tickets and

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membership goes straight back into the performers, and so, you know, it's

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a diverse group, and so we
try and represent different aspects of the community,

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different likes and things that people would
want to have. And we've got

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a really really good mix me up
next year a couple of Billy Joel attribute.

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It's done by Jim Whitter, who
if people in Bartlesville may remember in

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nineteen I'm sorry. In twenty twenty
two, age is showing he came in

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on the Million Dollar Quartet. He
played the part of Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Oh yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, So he's he's reprising his

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not his role as Jerry Lee,
but a tribute to Billy Joel. We

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also have in the next concert after
that, Jeremy Stole, who was on

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Broadway and Phantom of the Opera,
and he's going to reprise many of the

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songs from that and other Broadway songs. That should be a great a great

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concert. Then we're swinging over to
a kind of a Cajun country theme with

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a group called the do Wa Riders. That'll be in February of twenty twenty

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five. That sounds like fun,
That could be a fun group. And

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again, you know, we try
and diversify, We try and make,

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you know, bring in different venues, different styles, so it'll appeal to

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many different people. And then we'll
wrap up as you know, we're wrapping

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up this year with Abba Fab,
which is really kind of a very upbeat

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and fun sort of thing that everybody
should should be able to enjoy. And

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we're wrapping up next year with another
group called Salon, which is doing the

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music of the Beach Boys. So
that should be a really really fun way

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to wrap up this season. So
that's what we've got for next year.

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Well, I tell you what we
got to get folks in this year the

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tenth to see Abba This is Abba
Fab and this is going to be fabulous

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and you get the price is right, the music's right, the venue couldn't

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be better, and this is being
put on by the Bartlesbell Community Concerts.

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So I think you've got the formula
here for a hit, we hope.

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So again, you know, we
try and try different venues, different styles

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to appeal to a large segment of
the community. And you know, one

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of the best in community concerts,
which goes back many, many many years.

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Actually we were founded in nineteen thirty
five, so we're going into our

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ninetieth season. But there are other
community concert groups, ones in Ponca City

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and ones in Chanut. So if
you're a season ticket holder with us.

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You then get to go to any
of the concerts in Pauca City or any

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of the concerts in Schnut for no
additional charge. We have these reciprocity agreements

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with these other organizations. They come
over to our events when they're able to,

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we go to their events, and
because you're a member of that organization,

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your admission at the reciprocity concerts is
free. So it's a great deal.

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Membership has its privileges. It does. One of the main stays of

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community concerts is to make certain that
it's a vail to all folks in the

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community, and so that's why the
prices are so low. I know that

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the ABAFAB is going to essentially be
no cost to many people in the community,

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but even in general, the cost
is kept very low because it is

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supposed to be a community concert opportunity, and this way, with low cost

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and availability, everyone can come and
enjoy. And so the whole notion of

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community concerts is to make live music
and entertainment available to just about everyone.

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And for that reason, the prices
for the season membership have been kept the

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same for four years, and they're
so low that you can actually go to

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the entire season's concerts for no more
than ten dollars per concert. My gosh,

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that's amazing. You can't do that. Well, you can with this,

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but anywhere else in the world you
can't do that. Do you know

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that. I'm sorry I have to
apologize for this voice. But a woman

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at the concert told me at the
last concert that she writes to her friends

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after every show and says, you
will never believe what I just saw and

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for what little costs that I paid
for the ticket, and she moved here

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from Los Angeles and she just raves
about it. And so it's fun,

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you know, to listen to comments
like this, and she can't believe it.

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The communities set are setting the quality
of the performers and the shows,

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and she says she's never seen anything
like it. She's so thrilled. She

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moved to Barlesville the Hammer, and
I imagine if you saw a show like

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what you're going to see here on
April tenth, you might stick another zero

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there and it'd be one hundred dollars
ticket anyplace else, but but not here.

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We do try and keep it affordable, and among among other things,

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we're very appreciative of the support that
we've received from various organizations such as the

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bartle Little Community Foundation and the Oklahoma
Arts Council, who have very recently provided

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some very generous grants that will help
us in that mission in the coming years.

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Because as a community organization, we
really do believe that live performance is

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a wonderful way. It's so much
better than looking at the little small screen

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on your phone. And we just
believe that. And whether you know you

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prefer, you know, community concerts
like ours, or Symphony or CMT,

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the Great Children's Musical Theater Corral of
the groups, ok come on out to

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the center. They are wonderful people. They do a very professional job of

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supporting all the community groups. We
hope you come to ours, but you

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know, depending on your choices,
come to the center enjoy some great live

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performances by a lot of different community
groups in this in this town. Do

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you have a Facebook or website or
both where folks can consult from time to

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time case to get a little forgetful
Like me, we have accounts on most

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of those platforms. Are Our own
website is BCCA Music dot org. I

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think the same Moniker handles Facebook and
what else. I'm not very good on

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social media, but they know,
they know we're out there. If you

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got to the website, of course, you can just click on you find

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it on the other social media platforms
for the website. Well that's cool.

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That's cool. That way you can
bookmark them and you go there whenever you

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want. This is great. So
once again, next Wednesday is filled the

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house. Let's just fill the house
for Abba fab and it's brought to you

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by the Bartlesmill Community Concerts. I
want to thank you both for being here

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today. Well, thank you very
much for being for allowing us to be

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here and spread the good news about
performances here in Bartlesville. It's a unique

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town with the facilities and the groups
that we have here. Come on out

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to the center and enjoy a live
performance. Indeed can send it better by

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anybody else. Appreciate it. Folks, you've been watching and listening to our

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community connection on K one, the
one you trust. I'll never forget this call.