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you dress and these lovely ladies they're from Okay and music. How are we
doing? Very good? Happy Saint Nicholas day, Tom it is, isn't
it? Yes? It is Umber six. I'm great, well, you're
always great. We've got a lot of fun going on today with Saint Nicholas
dies if we do, we're the busiest busiest did okay? Am? So
please if you've ordered yours, your Chris Kendle niggas bags, Chris Kendle,
it all runs together, bags, please stop by and join us this evening.
We have a whole lot of activities. Really what's going on from five
to six thirty if you will stop by Ambler Hall. It's free to the
public, primarily targeted for children and families. But we have three different types
of crafts. You can make button tree ornaments. You can do can cane
beads or beaded candy canes. Maybe I should say you can do coloring books.
You can listen to the Bartlesville Choir, come and seeing they're going to
do some singing, some readings, we're going to have Saint Nicholas there.
We're going to have lots and lots of sweets. So we have cookies,
we have trees, we have chocolates and candies in honor of Saint Nicholas.
And of course every child will also get an orange that comes in a peppermint
or a candy cane, I should say, And so it's going to be
really nice. But the kids are going to read several stories. Saint Nicholas
will read a story about himself. And so today is not only a celebration
of Saint Nicholas and all of the good that he did, but it's just
a celebration of giving back to the community and giving to the children in our
communities. So we are so thrilled to be able to do that, and
I think it's going to be a really special evening. So yes, please
come out. It's free to the public. We do still have four Saint
Nicholas bags left. If anyone wants to purchase those, they're ten dollars apiece.
You can call off Fish, she could go online to do so.
If you have purchased them, like Roast said, please come by pick up
your bags. Don't forget them. Rose will be calling you or you can
pick them up tonight as well. Oh that'd be great. This is gonna
be a lot of fun. You know you mentioned you mentioned the orange.
When I was a kid, that was a big gang deal because orange is
well, you know, they came from Florida and California, and the exportation
wasn't I mean, it was okay in the early nineteen sixties, but you
know, it wasn't like an everyday thing, so you know what you take
for granted now, you know, it was kind of a big deal.
So it's a big deal that for Christmas. It's symbolic, it's special.
Of course, the candy cane is symbolic of Saint Nicholas was a bishop and
so of course he had his Yeah, he had his staff, his kirks,
so of course it's shaped like the candy cane. And of course we
do have chocolate coins tonight, unfortunately not real gold, but they're a delicious
other kind of gold. And so some of what Saint Nicholas maybe would have
given to someone in need back in his day in Maira. And so we
are just hoping that kids can kind of pay it forward by learning the gift
of giving. That's something special, it's something that you know, it's it's
a wonderful joy to give, and it's a wonderful joy to receive. And
so we hope that we can teach the kids a little bit about that and
all the time while they're enjoying doing crafts and singing and having a good time.
So yes, we're very thrilled. This is our last calendar event for
the year. So after tonight Rose and I might take a little bit of
breath and side. I then have a wedding coming up for my daughter,
and after that will be back hard at work for the festival coming in June.
Oh my goodness sakes, Rose, I like know where you get the
energy because you do all of the things with the kids and everything. And
I think we all know that when it comes to OKM, we kind of
all become kids at heart. We do, we really do. And it
is fun being with all the children. And the other day some of the
parents had stopped in and they go, oh my gosh, the kids,
I'll love you again, and some of them even remember what they did during
the summer. I hope that's really good. It's good, and I hope
that tradition stays forever. It's all about kids, it is. It is
give them a good start and they finish well usually this year and the St.
Nicholas Bags, talking about that. This summer we gave away so many
different kinds of instruments, but this time in the Saint Nicholas bags, we
have a really fun they're high quality. They're from the music store in Tulsa.
We love Larry, He's always very good to partner with us. But
this year he gave us green recorders which are super fun and red harmonicas,
and then we have jingle bells in each bag. So yeah, there are
craft books. There are actual hardback books that are really nice for the kids
to get to read. From the summer festival. We have books that we've
thrown in there. There's Code of many colors. There's eighty eight instruments.
Eighty eight instruments. Yeah, we have a John Lithgow but it's they're really
good books. And then of course we have an activity book about Saint Nick,
a coloring book about Saint Nick and sort of the Christmas season, and
then a book that's the story. It's the Baker's Dozen that is also about
Saint Nick. So the backs are pretty cool. And then there's some other
surprises in there that I won't run always every you know, of course,
we wouldn't be doing our job if we weren't trying to educate the kids about
music. Sure, so it always has a music spin to it, and
so I think it will be fun. Parents may not be happy with us
in a couple of days, but I think the kids are going to have
a really good time playing and learning their musical instruments. Well. With the
recorder. I remember being a fourth grader that was a big deal our little
grade school. Once you got to be a fourth grader, you were a
big time. You got the musical instrument. Yes, now, the first
few days people are just making a rock us. But after that, you
know, they learned a couple of notes and wow, you can really play
that thing. Yeah you can't do it in the book, that's right.
I remember having a recorder. I do remember that. That was fun.
We hope the kids these are you know, I think the recorders we all
had were probably not sort of our ivory color. Yeah they were are right
green. They are so fun wow and bright red. Yeah. Wow.
So what I did for the bags. You got one color of each one,
okay, you know, like if you got a red, you got
a green. Okay. And Christmas there you go, keep it, keep
it lively, that's right. I like that. I think I think the
kids will have fun with them. I think they will, you know secretly
Mom and Dad every now and they'll take that recorder and nobody's looking there you
go try to figure out how. Yeah, they do. They won't admit
it, but they do. I caught my mom in the kitchen. She
was what you doing? Nothing, just making sure it was clean, Okay,
anything you need to know. And we can send families our way five
to six, five to six Ambler Hall, which is out four fifteen South
or five to six thirty. I think he rose five to six thirty.
It's on December sixth Yeah, and it is free to the public. And
you know, Rose and I need some coffee and we have we haven't had
the chocolate coins yet, you know, we need some coffee. You go,
just coffee, coffee there. Oh my gosh, this is so good.
And once again it's the last big event of the calendar year is for
the children. For the children. Yeah, and then boy, I just
it's going to be just like that, like a snap of the fingers.
Will be right into the middle festival and the children's programs in June. Right,
you will be here first literally out about nine days of children's programming,
three days for the festival fortieth anniversary. So we've taken the original part of
the festival, We've taken back to its roots and said, Okay, we're
going to do some really big, really fun things, really cool things for
that part of the festival, and then the kids festival we've expanded by a
couple of days, added a bunch of new things, and have some really
exciting things to announce at the beginning of the year. So you will be
seeing a lot of Rose and I like the fortieth anniversary all right, you
know with the kids, I imagine you had to expand because from what I've
been told, you guys have had full classes and almost like a little weight
going on there. So this is going to help things out, isn't it.
It is. I can hardly wait. We have been planning, We
have most of our events scheduled. It's just now the finalization of each one
of them. So they are ready, that's right. I can tell she's
ready. She's excited. I'm excited because I love. If you touch one
child's life with music, it is a miracle. It is, it is,
and that's like every child I would like to have. Every child is
a child at heart. One thing that I thought this was silly until I
started realizing it. Music makes you better with numbers, that's right, Absolutely,
it really does. Math and me were not even close relatives when I
was a little guy, but once I got my first guitar and I had
to meet her out different things for different notes, for you know, for
holding for different times and this, and all of a sudden, you know,
fractions got real easy, timing got real easy. Everything that you counted,
what had to go in where this right, All of a sudden,
it just became applied science and dog gun And if it wasn't fun at the
same time, I hate it when they tricky you like that. But music
absolutely has spatial connotations, it has cognitive I mean, it is so important
and there's a reason why different cultures, you know, will put on maybe
Beethoven or remote Sart while you're doing your math, while you're trying to do
your science. It absolutely works hand in hand. And you know, if
you can have fun and learn at the same time. Why not? Why
not? And I mean music makes everything better. I always tell people.
Can you imagine a wedding without a march? Can you imagine Jaws without Donna?
And you know, just music brings everyone together. It's a harmon harmonious
language, there are no barriers to it, and it's something for everyone.
So tonight again, if you love music, please adults too, come out
and hear the Bartlesville High School choir seeing they're going to be doing some Christmas
carols, some nice storybook reading and then the kids will be singing along as
well. Alrighty well, I thank you for being here tonight. Oh,
thank you, thank you, And the schedule is all clear for you for
this spring because we're going to be busy. We are going to be busy.
We'll be there to tell you all about it. So come see us
tonight, Tom. We'll give you some hot chocolate. All right, sounds
great. Thank you folks. You have been watching and listening to our community
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