And welcome, Welcome, welcome in. It's had time now for our one.
I'm sorry it's starting out for communic connection with okam. How you doing,
Mary Lynn. I'm a little bit frazzled here today, but it's nice
to have your calm reassuringself in here with me. You're here, we're here,
We're ready for tuber fess. It's better be because it's only a couple
of days away, I know, and through five hundred different weather cycles,
it looks like it's going to be beautiful. I have sixty six super sunny
is what the weather forecast was this morning, and I think it's going to
be lovely. So it should be good beer drinking, good braught, eating
good bunt cake, apple strudle, you name it, we got it.
Oh, game playing and all that good stuff. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
you're looking at the dynamic crisp but fall weather here, it's really going
to be absolutely It's going to be on Dewey between fourth and fifth Street,
right in front of our office, just like that has been for the last
couple of years, three to nine on Saturday. So we will all be
there. We hope everybody will come join us. We have two tents,
so lots of seating. We have three bands, Mack Schnell, Blas Capella,
and King Cabbage. To finish it off, we have the German American
Society Dancers, so we're super excited about those guys. If you like the
Chicken dance, you have to come out and do the Chicken dance. If
you don't like the Chicken dance, they'll make you come do some polka and
you'll learn how to do that. It's lots of fun. We have games
out the wazoo. We have corn fun. Yes, we have cornhole,
acts, throwing, root beer pong, giant Game of Life, pot put
goff, the Zoo Fall, which is like a cake walk. Those are
all family friendly because this is, after all, the fan venturous Octoberfest of
Oklahoma. We are very family friendly. Then for kids, we have schlute
bags, jumpy houses, wooden woodland, animal painting, Shrinky Dink art,
ceramic pumpkin painting, giant duck pick, and we hope we'll have face painting.
It's a little bit undecided, but she's she's had I guess the flu,
and so we'll see if she's okay in time. Obviously we don't want
her anywhere near any of us if she's not feeling good. By the way,
thanks for sending me that picture of the Shaluti bag because im trying to
imagine this. That looks pretty darn handy. Yes, it's a cone shape
bag typically in Germany, filled with all kinds of school supplies. Ours is
a little bit more Carrey friendly. It's a little nice bag with a handle
and the kids get to put things in there like erasers, pencils, temporary
tattoos. They have stickers, they have candy, there's all kinds of good
stuff. That's as it is fun and the good news is kids twelve and
underget in free. People can go to okayamusic dot org click on the Octoberfest
link. It's both on the slider screen on the front page. It's at
the top. All they need to do is click on there. They can
buy their tickets in advance. It'll just speed up the check in process,
so super super easy. Yeah, we got some games for adults too.
We do have games for adults. We have a Hummer slogin and then of
course the Zoo Fall again is really family friendly. We have the beer Stein
Relay competition and then the Beerstein Competition. Relay, you just need to get
four people, so three of your best friends and yourself could be family members.
You're going to do relay, just have to be twenty one and older.
And then the Beerstein competition is the one that everyone anticipates where they have
to hold the one leader Stein of beer and not spill any can't binger arm.
There's all these rules and the winner will get one hundred dollars in cash,
so you can't go wrong with that. The relay team gets two hundred
dollars in cash. They get to split it, so not too bad,
and a fun Octoberfessed T shirt. There you get one of a kind collectors
absolutely IMC and it's somebody I know. It's somebody we both know. I
know. We revealed that last week. We wanted to give a big shout
out to Bartlesville Radio and our very own Tammy Brink. Mandy is on the
board and she will again be our MC. She always makes it super fun
and she gets everyone to play the games and so it makes it a hooped.
She has a lot of what it's gonna be great. Yeah, no,
you know you're talking about some of the food that we're going to have
here, yes, you know, and I see Prices Mark met Market.
It's going to be involved. See I'm salivating already. Yes, Prices book
Market, who brings all the wonderful brats and Knockwurst and all the different typical
German food. We have nothing but cakes. We have Frey Meat to Heaven
who does like a fried cheesecake, which is pretty cool. The Noodle Truck
which has the most amazing Macaranie cheese ever, Tats tater Truck, who I
hear is just super super popular, and barbas Are everyone loves their potatoes,
and she also has nachos. We have the ok Who's which is us?
And we have the apple strudle, so come get your apple strudle. And
then we also have freeze dried candy, which I hear is like super popular
with the kids, tea, teenagers, young people. All of the interns
that work for me during the festival couldn't get enough of the freeze dried candy
at SunFest. Okay, now I got to get into the loop here because
I'm listening something. So we got to do the freeze riede candy. I
gotta I gotta taste test. Yes, you've got to come out and try
it. I'll let you all know. Apparently there's all kinds of left over
like skittles that are freeze dried. Really yes, wow, I know it's
super cool. And then of course it's it's I don't think it's cold,
it's just freeze driede gotcha. The beer and wine, of course, is
always an important popular thing at Octoberfest. Ele We have palace rooms who will
be serving the wine and of course pretzels. We have Scissor Tail Brewing Company,
Fat Toed Brewing Company and our very own local Cooper and Mill, which
we're very pleased to have, and they will all have wonderful delicious beers that
they have broods specifically for Octoberfest. So yay, yay that from right down
the street exactly the very very exciting and of course they will help us play
all the games. They'll be filling all those big one leader steins, so
you can't go wrong, Tom, you can't, you can't. You know.
It's nice. So we get our local people that are involved with this
too. They have just as much fun as OK does. Absolutely we keep
coming back. We have over fifty volunteers, and of course there is still
time to sign up. If you want to volunteers, just go to the
okmusic dot org page. If again you click on Octoberfest, you'll see a
link to volunteers. We have a few spots left. Why would you want
to volunteer? Well, Number one, it's the nice thing to do.
It's a way to make a difference in your community. It's fun. It's
fun, it's a way to make new friends. And we give you a
free food voucher so you get in free. You'll also get to eat for
free, so you can't really go wrong in that. So come on out
and help us. Okay, Oh, this is going to be a lot
of fun. Now, we have some great sponsors, and I see that
DSR is one of our big ones. DSR is our huge sponsor. Talked
about that a little bit with Nathan last time I was here. Of course,
we could never replace John Bond and all that he did for the Bartlesville
community, but we are so blessed and so grateful to have DSR be our
big corporate sponsor for this event. They are also our big corporate sponsor for
Chris Kendle Market, which is also coming up November eleventh and twelfth, and
so a huge shout out to DSR and a huge shout out to John and
just saying thank you for all that you did for our community and for OKAM
music. John's gift for yes, absolutely his legacy most definitely will and so
that's why we want to honor him. And we are very excited to be
able to do that and very proud to be able to do that. Oh,
very very good, very very good. Now this is this seems like
there's just so much going on here, and we're going to fit this in
in four hours. We're going to try maybe maybe six three to nine six.
I've seen things kind of go but that that can happen. That can
happen. But it's always a good time and it's always a lot of fun.
And except for maybe one year, every time the weather has been picture
perfect I can remember. It's you know, we've been very fortunate. It's
rained a few times and then stopped right before the event. We've had a
little bit of wind occasionally. Last year was a little windy. But this
year, knock on wood, seriously, knock on wood. I think it's
going to be a beautiful evening. So we invite people to come out again.
Where on Saturday, October seventh, three to nine pm between fourth and
fifth Street on Dewey if you don't know where that is. We're right next
to the RSU building downtown Bartlesville. And it seems like the TV stations from
Tulsa like to come up and take a look, see, don't they every
once in a while. How you doing exactly? So be prepared you might
get to be on TV and you can also come out and hopefully, depending
on what's going on at the Capitol, you might get to see Senator Daniels
out there, ask her what's going on. Representative Kane, and thank them
for all that they do. They are a huge supporter of the arts.
We are very grateful to them. They help us secure funding and help let
the legislators know that the arts are extremely important to all communities throughout Oklahoma.
So thank you to both of them. Now, ok music is a very
beautiful facet of our community because our community is just a big like a fabric
here that's all woven together here. But this is this is something that's really
kind of magical. Now we do the festival each and every year and those
go off and it's just splendid but year round we have fun and we kind
of remind ourselves that the festival is not exactly free. We have to kind
of maintain what we're doing not only for entertainment, but all for our education
for our kids too, and that's why we have fun events like october Fest,
like Chris Kindlemarket and a few others along the way to kind of keep
it a top of mind that we got to take care of this correct.
It is a fundraiser for us, So of course we appreciate everyone who comes
out and supports Octoberfest, supports the art, supports, supports OKM, because
all the funding does go for children's programming for educational purposes as well as the
festival programming that we bring. And you know, we try very hard to
give back to the community. So that's why children twelve and under are free.
Children are free at the festival, Children twelve and under are free at
Chris Kendall, and so we really do try to give Most of the games
are also free, and the act all of the crafts are free for the
kids at Octoberfest. So again it's a way to give back to our families
and we thank them for spending their time and coming out. And of course
education is extremely important. You know, think about a world of silence with
no Mo's art or no you know, country music or no theme to Jaws
if if you did have music, you know, and and it is very
important. And the cultural aspects of learning about other countries, I think is
also equally important. And so this is a way for children to get introduced
to that in a fun way. You don't even know that you're maybe being
educated, you're just experiencing something really fun. And we hope it's also a
unique way for those in Bartlesviield to get you introduced a little bit into polka
dancing, into the German Verian traditions. It's just a it's a special date
and so we welcome everyone to come out and participate in that. It is
a lot of fun. Yeah, I will tell you. Growing up near
Chicago, I got introduced to all that different cultures pretty quick because people were
inter marrying into different families for like one generation off the boat. And now
to see this kind of all right here on one city block, it's really
a neat thing. It kind of brings back so many good memories of being
a kid and just all the fun that way music is awesome, so I
can take it. You're going to be out there, Tom, You're going
to join us. Awesome, you know, excellent for the world. I
want to thank you for being here with this, and I want to thank
everybody at OKAM for all their hard work. Thanks. And not only are
the great friends in our community, are the people we know, and they
are people who care about our community too, and they just do such an
awesome job everything from the interns of the volunteers they do folks who will do
all the wheeling and dealing. We could not do it without them. So
please come by. Say hi to the staff, Say hi to Rose who
will be at children's programming, and thank you again to Bartlesviell Radio for supporting
us. Mary Lynn, always a pleasure. Don't make it so long next
time, Okay, I won't, alrighty? Thanks who has been listening to community Connections