Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome time. Now for our second part of our community connection right here
on K one, the one you trust. Hey, it's getting to look
a lot like Chris Kendle Market. Yes, it is, ma'am. Great
Tom, How are you doing? I'm doing OKM, I mean okay,
I like that. Yeah, Chris Kindle Market's coming up on November eleventh and
twelfth. It's on a Saturday and a Sunday. This year we've added a
day. On the eleventh will be from nine to five, and on Sunday
it'll be from eleven to did I say nine to five? Yes? And
on Sunday it'll be from eleven to five. So we are super excited to
have two days. We have more vendors than we've ever had. We have
amazing food, amazing shopping, amazing kids things going on, and I know
you're going to be there for the glue vine and some pastries and some awesome
food prepared by Oliver ivand be prepared for the stamp of approval. There you
go, thank you. And we're also excited about our kids' events. We
have decorating gingerbread cookies and for those of you who haven't had food from Melodies,
you've got to go buy there. She is making the gingerbread cookies,
so they are going to be fantastic. So kids will get to decorate them,
take them home, and then eat them later, so that will be
exciting. We've to get them home before they eat, that is true.
I may have to come by in Snag one. We're going to have decorating
wooden snowmen. We're going to have decorating some beautiful little wooden ornaments for Christmas,
so maybe kids can decorate those and give them out as gifts or keep
them for themselves as a keepsake. We've got our annual Christmas tree bowling,
which is always fun with some fun prizes, a snowball toss, a huge
jumpy house again, falling snow, and I'm really excited about the snow.
Normally we have a nice machine, of course, because we can't always depend
that it's going to snow, so we have a nice little machine that makes
it snow. This year we have two machines. It's a snowman and a
missus snowman who looked like they are blowing snow out and from their hands and
so I think it'll be really cute. I think it's going to be fun.
So of course, lots of things for kids, kids twelve and under
are free, so that should help out the family and get those kiddos out
there. And then of course we have our Giant Candy Land game, so
that's always fun and you can win lots of candy. If you didn't get
enough last night, come back out on the eleventh of November and the twelfth
of November and get some more candy. You know. The thing about the
snow is really kind of cool. We're from up Boy and the first year
we went to the one where we had it at the community center. Yes,
the snow machine was there. Yes, Our youngest of seven, yes
at that time, was maybe about thirteen. She goes, oh my gosh,
there's snow in Oklahoma, and there wouldn't be any even though she bought
into it. I remember that year we had to put it up high on
the riser she did going into the community center. We thought, I don't
know if people willpreciate this or not, but it's a pretty light fault.
It was. It was very nice. We did not put it on blizzard
setting, so we need people to buy their tickets. If they want to
buy their tickets before the fourth of November, they can get a nice discount,
and so they need to go to okayamusic dot org, come by the
office at four fifteen South Dewey, or they can call us at nine one
eight three three six nine nine zero zero to get their tickets. It's always
a good idea to get them early so that you don't have to stand in
line. We'll just scan you on in and you can get into shopping and
eating. Wow. We there you go. Yeah, zoom, it's all
about the zoom, that is true. But we don't have any zoom requirements
for this event. No, no, no, no, it's about getting
in there quickly. Yeah no. And we have a lot of amazing entertainment
that we will also have. We'll have the Bartlesville Jazz Choir, just Sell
Dobson, Matty McGuire, Lisa Steele, and we'll have some of her piano
students come and perform. The Bartlesville orchest Or, Bartoswell High School organ Stra
Santa and Missus Clause of course will be there. And then we'll also have
Josh Colway, who I think will be playing pianos, so very exciting to
hear all of these students. It's a day that we like to really pay
tribute to our local youth artists and performers. And I think it's a really
great way for people to get to come out and see the talent that we
have in Bartlesville, the uprising or upcoming stars. Of course, you know
Justial, they come up in a hurry. But then we have just Sell
and you know, Maddie played for us a couple of years ago at wool
O Rock. Just Sell played for us this last year at wooll O' Rock.
And they both are extremely talented young ladies who have beautiful voices. So
I think people will not be disappointed. And if that wasn't enough, then
you've got to come out, hang out with the family, see your friends,
see your neighbors, and do a lot of shopping. We have so
many kinds of artists. We have crafts, we have arts, we have
wreaths, knits, glassware, we have sweet confections, children's books, sauces
and spices, home to court, garden, decord, jewelry, and clay
art. And I think there's even more that I haven't mentioned. I know
we have a garden store that will be there. We have Christmas ornaments.
I was just talking to one of the vendors who lived in Germany for I
think she said, thirteen or fifteen years, and she took German folk art,
Russian folk art, and Scandinavian sort of rose Maul folk art and has
sort of combineded those into her own form of a folk art. And she
paints these wonderful Christmas ornaments. And she paints like stacking dolls. She paints
like if you're gonna drink like out of a coffee, a kind of thermal
cup. She paints on the outside of those and decorates them anyway. She's
very talented. And I told her I can't wait to see all of her
stuff. I can't wait to see it. I want to see how this
all comes together. Yeah, we have another vendor who's coming who does a
lot of Western sort of like I don't know that it's all Christmas related,
but from the pictures I've seen, she does like she'll take like a rope
and make it into a wreath and it's just beautiful, garnish it with floral
designs and whatnot. And so I'm very excited. She has some type of
very intrigued kind of blingy horseshoes that she decorates, and so I think there's
going to be something for everyone. This is great and it all BENEFITSKM music.
And of course we're more than just the big festival that you're familiar with.
We also do tons of children's programs where we're out there with the educational
outreach and it just goes on. It started out as just a little show
and now it's a whole darn thing that goes from kids to kids to ninety
two. That is true. And at the Chris Kendal Market, because we
do pay so much homage to our youth artist, we try to raise as
much money as possible to help us continue with the youth programming, and the
more we raise, the more we can do. Of course, the programming
that we do for almost seven to ten days if you overlap the start of
the main festival, it's all free for kids and we give away books,
we give away instruments, we give away art supplies. It's very expensive to
do that. Normally somewhere we spend on a given year anywhere between sixty five
thousand and eighty five thousand dollars on our children's programming. Free to the community,
free to the families, free to kids. Obviously, we try to
let the kids get in free to all the concerts, even free to all
of these events, and so unfortunately the things that we have to purchase for
that are not free. So we have to raise money. And so you
know, yes, people's support by coming out and you know, giving us
a little bit poor a gate entry. That's what your money goes to help
support. It's the youth. It's to introduce them to culture, to arts,
to music, and it really does make a difference when you see a
little guy's face just light up because they're getting introduced to something new, or
even if it's painting a gingerbread cookie while maybe listening to some of those art
it's all worth it. It's wonderful, it's an awesome experience. We do
also have tom I can't go without saying. We have another fundraiser which we
always try to do, a raffle. This year it's mary Lynn's Favorite Things
for the twelve Days of Christmas and for twenty twenty three. The valued package
of this item is twenty twenty three dollars and it has twelve wonderful gifts.
So we have a green pan pots sort of twelve piece pot pan, a
thing that's wonderful. We have a thermal mug. We have a candle,
We have a smeg mixer. We have a green pan, really cool croc
pod. It does all this other stuff as well, a Las Crusee baking
pan, a Kate Spade purse. We have two different kinds of candy that
are delicious. We have a beautiful luscious fur type blanket. Of course it's
faux fur, but it's wonderful. We have McKenzie child stacking nutcracker mugs,
and then we have which everyone I think has on their Christmas list, the
Therma gun, which is like the massager that you can do for your back.
So it's a really nice package. You can go on get your Raffle
tickets now you can buy them at the event. We have all kinds of
packages for those twenty dollars for one ticket, or you can get you know
it stairsteps on all the way up to seven tickets for one hundred dollars.
So we try to give our nice sponsors and our nice people who buy these
tickets a little bit of a break. But it all goes back to children's
programming, and some lucky winner can either get all their Christmas presents to give
out to the family or they can have a really nice Christmas for themselves.
I like how that works out there, really exactly got a got all the
angles covered on that one. That is true. This is gonna be so
much fun. And it's coming up the eleventh and the twelfth, Yes,
the eleven and twelfth of November. It is a Saturday Sunday, nine to
five on Saturday eleven to five on Sunday at the Hilton Garden End. Nice
again. Go get your tickets at okmusic dot org. You can buy your
raffle tickets at okmmusic dot org. I don't know what if I think I
just said ok okammusic dot org. And then come by the office if you
don't want to do the internet and see Rose or I And that's at four
fifteen South Dewey or you can give us a call nine one eight through three
six nine nine zero zero. Very good. Wow, that's a lot to
cover, folks. So you've got to get out there and see it for
yourself and just have yourself a good time. Just make a day of it,
because you'll be there for a couple hours even three. And don't forget.
If you want to get your bottle of bluevine, go on early and
get it ordered. We will have the will have it for sale. It's
part of the ticket packages, so you do have to pre purchase that for
able rules, but then you can also pre purchase a bottle of it and
take it home and have it over the weekend. Fall a Lah exactly.
You've been listening to Marilyn mim and she's with Okay and music and this has
been our community connection. Am