Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trusted, and it's brought to you by Arnold Moore and Nick
Campunal Home, also Tall Grass Motors and get Real Ministries. We have miss
Adel registering with is today. How are you doing today? Boy? You're
bright and shiny ready to go, aren't you. Yes, except for this
voice that I've had for a month, I think everybody's had a little taste
of that. It's been kind of going around. But you know something,
we've got some beautiful music in the air. I understand us a little bit
about it. We do, especially if you like the movies and the music
that goes with some of those movies. Oh yes, I know that.
You know sometimes that that movie music sticks with me for years and it goes
around and around in my head, and some of the makes me cry.
I think the best well, the best music is the kind that allys have
to do is think about it. And I don't know about anybody else,
but that music that makes me cry is the kind I like this So it
resonates with with a person's soul. Well, well, in a little bit,
especially if you're romantic. Yeah, it's just that that's it's coming up
in about a week and it happens to be our next community concert show.
Do you tell what we have coming up to our stage. Well, these
folks are straight out of I was going to say Hollywood, but not exactly
Hollywood. They're coming from New York City. And it's just that a lot
of the movies of that kind, you know, the movies from the big
silver screen time came out of Hollywood, and these these are the folks.
It's it's a trio from New York City. But what they're doing right now
are the movies from Hollywood with that famous music, like the James Bond movies.
You know how each James Bond movie has a famous song. Oh yeah,
they have the same little intro blah blah blah blah. But then then
did to the famous songs that go with it, the gold gold Finger that's
one that just well, that one kills me. And then there's there's several
of the others that are so well known. And then the famous singers that
do those songs, well, they'll do some of those songs, and then
of course they'll do some Disney songs, because Disney they make a lot of
movies, a lot of big movies, and a lot of big songs.
And then they'll do some the Judy Garland like Wizard of Oz. All that
that period of time was wonderful songs. And I think, no matter if
you are ten years old or twenty or eighty, you probably know those songs.
Oh you will. Their standards, they're right there. Part of our
American history is what they are. And then the one that makes me cry
is the one that Barber Streisan sang. Now. I don't know if you
want to see this movie, but or if you had a song one special
that dragged you to see it, and the song the way we were,
Yeah, I remember seeing that back in the seventies. Yeah, and that's
I can still you know, I won't believe me, especially with this voice,
but I can still sing every word. It's a beautiful song. It
was a big hit on the radio for many months. Yes, well,
and that wouldn't make the tears roll down my face. So songs, songs
like that will be part of their repertoire. Wow, And as gorgeous as
they are, their voices are even more perfect and they're super I don't know
what these super professional folk. I mean, I love Bartlestell, uh huh,
But how do we get such super professional folks here in Bartlestill. I
think they've kind of heard of us, and I think they kind of know
that there's a little bit of a bar they got to meet. And we've
had a good reputation for great quality music. Our concert our community concerts have
been going on for over what eighty years? Yeah, and then we've got
the OKM We've got. We've got a pretty good high standard here in town.
And I think this is what they call a destination for up and coming
performers. But up and coming love it here, oh they do. We
have such wonderful facilities and we've got a wonderful town, and I think that
we make them feel very welcome. And I think they really like that,
because I'm going to tell you that's not the same treatment you're getting every now.
You know, are like state your business, pay your money, Okay,
hit the rud you know. The thing that they say to us almost
every every time is what a wonderful facility you have here. It's so well,
it's beautiful, it is and it has wonderful acoustics. The you know,
just the way it's built and I guess I don't know about the how
the sound system works, and you know just how just everything how the surrounded
well everything is acoustically pitched with the architecture and the folks who know what they're
doing with the with the sound, oh do they know what they're doing and
they can they can figure out decibels per squarance, you know, and this
that and everything, and that that's a marriage made in heaven, is what
that facility is. That that's awesome stuff there. You're not going to find
that too many places in America. Well that was We're my husband and I
and my family. We're not from Oklahoma, and when we first moved here
from the Los Angeles area saw that building, it was like, wow,
this is amazing that I've never seen it. But what it looked like to
me was what you see in Australia that the huge music hall in Sydney Bartlesville,
Oklahoma. Oh my goodness, look at this. This is wonderful and
it's you know, right down the street. And so it truly is a
blessing for this community and it's well for community concerts. They're meant to be
inexpensive, and because they're meant to be inexpensive, you know, there it's
something for everyone, and that's well. We got involved when our children were
older and you know, we were a little bit more free to go out
in the evening and we went and it was we could afford it, and
it was such a surprise, the quality and just everything about it. It
was so available and then it was so excellent. So when you have something
available and excellent, oh my goodness, you know, that is really incredible.
We had been accustomed to being maybe only twenty miles from really good facilities,
but it took an hour to get there, and then you had to
part, and then you had to pay, and this was a long time
ago, and you have to pay ten or fifteen dollars to part. And
so now you can be five miles away and get there in five minutes and
then it's free to part, and then it's as good a quality and it's
wonderful. What a bargain do we have for you, folks? How much
are the tickets for this show coming up? Well, they could range anywhere
from you know, you have to full the disclosure. There's always the facility
fee and ticket fee, and no one mentions that. But I'm actually from
New England, and when you're from New England, you're cheerably honest. It's
got to be transparent and it's that dog gone Franklin guy. You know,
it must be something. And so when you add those fees that gets tickets
are like six six dollars to forty six dollars, can you range? You
add the you know, the fees. If you get season tickets at the
start of the season, they are so inexpensive that you can wind up going
to the entire season and they'll cost you. I mean it would wind up
costing you from about four dollars to maybe twenty five dollars for each show.
Well, that's quite a deal when you take that into consideration with the season
tickets. Yeah, it is. It's remarkable. But but what we've for
this this last year, it's really been great because we've had we've had the
real blessing of having a small grant. And I'm sure you can't see this
song, I'm going to tell you what it says in the small print.
It says that students are admitted free. And we've been able to do that
because of the small grant and it as a person who took seven years of
piano lessons. But I have no musical talent, but I love music and
I love the arts and I really appreciate it. But you know, like
I would never be a musician because I think you have to have that smidgeon
of talent. But I really appreciate it, and I think that everyone gains
from being exposed to it because it's a wonderful thing in your life. I
think all kids need to have exposure to the arts, and we don't have
enough of it. You're absolutely correct on that a child's only going to know
what a child's going to know based on environment. And when we broaden the
horizons, good things start to happen. The I can starts to take place,
and you know, with a little bit of hope and a whole lot
of will, good things start to sprat from that. And all kids,
well kids now, and I'm guilty of it too. If I don't have
my phone near me right now, it's in my purse, you know.
So kids' lives are on their phone more than they are in real life.
A lot of times. It's a big when they find out otherwise, And
so what we'd really like to do is have more kids exposed to arts in
real life, and if we can bring them into the center and have them
enjoy music, performance, people interacting with them. And we're we're trying as
we can afford because of being so inexpensive and not we're obviously a nonprofit and
and so we don't have usually the additional funding to do a lot of outreach.
But with any extra than what we then we have, we do outreach
and we try and extend as much of this to children or students, and
so not for this show so much in that it is a little bit it's
not so much oriented towards adults, because of course it has the Disney programs
and Disney music, it's the whole spectrum. But for some of our other
shows, like the Next Show, the Next Show is our last show at
the season, and it's going to be one that everybody knows because it everybody
knows there go Abba, and no matter if you're five or you know,
one hundred and five, everybody knows that everybody knows Abba. They do.
They have such catchy little songs and well, they just invigorate people. You
know, and so we're going to be doing an outreach program at the school
for ABBO and you know, and the school has done an ABBOT program themselves.
Oh yeah, and so you know, we try and include as much
as we can for kids for one on one with the performers. So mostly
I think I want to say that there's an opportunity for everyone. Whether you're
just interested in being part of the audience and enjoying the quality the performers,
there's a real variety, or if you have children and you would like to
have them exposed to live music, not just on their phones, but the
live reformers and maybe stimulate them and their interest are to our surprise, my
family, to our surprise, our daughter has become a musician. And we're
like, what where did that come from? So and you know that that
is so outside of our purview that we're kind of like, oh my goodness.
So you never know that it's a big world out there. How can
people find out more about our community concerts? Do you have a Facebook page
or a website? Sure? At b CCA that stands for Bartlesville Community Concert
Association, kind of a long name b CCA dot BCCA music dot org.
It's got all the information. It's got the you know, like the whole
season, the performers, but it's got all the background everything you want to
know, and it sends you, well, it sends you to the center
for tickets and it all. Also it sends you to the sister organizations and
you know what you can talk about inexpensive. You can go to punkas City
isn't that far and the other local sister organization is in Shanoo and they have
like four or five concerts and they're they're similar, but you know they're different.
They might be rock and molt roll, they might be classic, they
might be comedy. There's a magician at one of them. And you can
go for free because you get little well you get little membership tickets if you
do the season membership. Nice little benefit of membership. I like that,
and you can you can go, you know like it. There might be
one a month and it's free free. Well what you get there? You
brought goodies here. You guys are gonna this this week one day a week,
you're going to have a promotion of giving away two tickets to this concert
and they're going to be the like expensive tickets front close to it anyway,
And I know that they're going to come inside of couzies. I believe these
are called kusie. They are your drink cool and cool or your hands dry
when your canter bottle might be, you know, kind of chilly. And
they're going to come inside of koozies. They're vouchers that you bring to the
box office and you turn them in and you get free tickets. Nice sweet,
I like that. I want to thank you for being with us here
today and I look forward to having you back pretty soon. But it's gonna
be a lot of fun. And the date for the concert is it is
it's next week on Wednesday, and of course it's at the Center, and
it's seven point thirty, got it, February seventh. All right, Hey,
Adel, thank you very much for being with us today. Well,
thank you so much for having me