Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is time now for our community connection right here on Kay one,
the one you trust, and we're gonna be talking to some lovely young ladies
with okay M Music today. Our program is brought to you in part by
Tall Grass Motors and Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home. Well, first
of all, I want to introduce you to our guest, miss Mia.
How are you doing today? Well, you missed me as I've been with
us here before a time or two when we do some of our political forum.
She's always been our timekeeper, so we actually get to hear you talk.
This is gonna be great. And also, Jessel, you're with us
here today. Both of you are interns at okay AM. Tell us a
little bit about your experience. I know it's only been a short while.
Yeah, I really like working there. We do a lot of design stuff
for the festival. Recently we have been It's a really great job. Everyone
friendly there and very good. So you've been doing a lot of the digital
stuff. Man. We for the past couple of days we've been doing a
bunch of the kids programming and the main program as well. We haven't quite
gone to the digital marketing marketing just yet. What are you doing with the
kids programming? I know that Rose is always just busy, busy, busy
this time a year. Yeah, we're just trying to help everyone make sure
everything's good and organize. We're just making sure that the kids have a little
book that they can take home. Has all there been some place where they
can stamp their event cards and at the back we have all the event prizes
that we do drawings for. Well, that's cool. And so they're really
kind of butting into work. So you do a little bit more than working.
I mean, yes, you're you're just graduated a couple of days ago.
In your first big professional gig is opening for Lee Greenwood. Just just
a little thing you jacked up about that? Yes, I'm really excited.
All I've done before is just little restaurant gigs and farmer's market stuff, and
this is kind of my first thinking. Yeah, that's kind of what I
do. This is really big stuff. Now you're going to be out there
at Clyde Lake at wool Rock. Have you ever done outdoor stuff assigned to
the farmer's market? Yeah? I have actually for Okam before I started working
there, I did the Chris Kindle Market twice. Good. Yeah, what
kind of songs do you think you're going to be presenting to folks? I
think I'm going to sing some poppy stuff, some country like I love singing
Alicia Keys and Adele, but I like Reba McIntyre as well. Now she
was gonna bring her fiddle. Yeah, I'm sorry, violin. I don't
want to insult the instrument. He's gonna bring her violin in here today,
but kind of got in the transfer. It didn't It didn't work out,
but that's okay. The first time I saw you actually play and sing was
Bruins on Broadway and he did a little bit of a country song there,
and you're playing the fiddle life like nobody's business. And I'm sitting there going,
I'm going to take my violin at home and it turn it into kindling
wood. Because you're really good. Thank you? Hollo are you were starting?
How along? How are we when struggling? I've been playing since I
was in fifth grade, so that was like a while a while seven years.
Oh my gosh, maybe I struggled with seventeen. It didn't work out
for me. Ya yah, you're you're was with the FFA and your your
group went to what the Nationals for speaking and things like that. Yeah,
we went to Nationals for Agricultural Communications. So we had four of us.
I was one of the four and we went up to Indiana and it was
great. Now that that's kind of your strong suit, isn't it? Marketing
and speaking and just getting people together, isn't it. Yeah, you know,
everybody thinks, okay, m music, it's all about the music,
but it takes a lot of people with a lot of different talents to really
make it work work. And you know, for youngsters, I shouldn't say
youngsters, I should say young men and young women because you are if you're
looking for internships, Okam. I mean, like I said, they take
good care of you, don't they. Yes, well that's great, that
is really super. And of course, you know with all of this coming
at you. You've been there for a few days now working with the kids
stuff. But there's gonna be a lot of things happening once the performers start
rolling in. You're ready for that kind of education, I am. You've
ready. Now you get to see the other side of it because you've been
on the stage many times, but and I know it it'd behs. They
make sure you know the back end as well as the front end. You
know, I'm familiar with that. But now with all these different types of
performers, you're probably going to see some things that are going to be new
and kind of challenging. Yeah, I'm really excited to meet all of them,
especially like the violinists, so you're gonna be plenty of them. Yes,
I'm excited to see like the professional side of like orchestral music, because
really all I've been exposed to is high school and college level orchestras. So
it's nice to see people having fun with it, making their own way that
isn't so classical. Oh well, you know that is going to be great.
Now you're also seeing the real nuts and bolts of marketing MIA, and
this is something that you're going to go through when you go to was in
Arkansas to college, and this is gonna be a nice little training ground for
you. I know they've got you doing a variety of different things, but
wow, what a nice little leg up. Yeah, I'm really excited to
kind of experience what I'm playing the major in. But then also like we're
both Giselle and I were helping try and get as many people involved, like
the kids. We have a bunch of kids stuff that's coming up, we
have we want to get all ages there. So from like a little little
a little little, little little and I think it's going to be really good.
Well that's a that's gonna be fantastic, and you know the payoff is
something else. A reason why we're bringing you on today is we want everyone
to know that, Okay, am just using for grown folks. It's for
all folks. I don't care if your child or if you're you can up
they're like I am, you know, but everywhere in between. And you
know, these shows I've seen so many over the years. It's unbelievable,
just the variety, the different genres, the different types of music that you
can be exposed to. And all I could think I was if I was
a kid growing up on the farm in Indiana and I had a chance to
see something like this, Wow, that could have changed things in a hurry.
And uh, you know, exposure to art is a great thing.
And if you're a young person, if you just happen to be listening in
dad's car right now because he's listening to the AM. I want you to
think seriously about maybe poking Dad in the heart and saying, won't we get
a couple of tickets to see a few of the shows? What do you
think? Yeah, I'm sure if you ask real nice, he'd say,
well, how can I say no? So I want you to do that.
We're gonna take a quick break and we're gonna be back with our ladies
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here with Miya and Jasell and they're from okam Meya. You've you've really gotten
a step into the adult world as far as doing a lot of things because
your folks kind of immersed you into bringing you into the real world, so
to speak. And that's paid off pretty good, hasn't it. Oh yeah,
they've helped me prepare for going on my own a whole bunch, and
I'm really I'm glad that they did that. It wasn't such a big shock.
It's like, hey, the adult worlds here. But it's like,
okay, we're good. It doesn't even feel like I graduated. Yeah,
it doesn't. It's kind of odd. I'm still waking up in the morning
and going somewhere. It's just worked. Now that's the way you feel to
Yeah, I'm just like, okay, I graduated. What's next. Well
that college is going to be a surprise. Oh yeah, just realize this.
They make it act, they act like it's really easy, but it's
not. The classes seemed to be like a breeze, like wow, that
was easy. Well, it's not like high school. There's a lot of
reading you gotta do. This will just be prepared to just McGray balls.
Just burn, uh now, just sell. We've got a little keyboard on
your telephone here, and Jasella is going to be opening for Lee Greenwood.
Could you do a little bit of something we might might not hear from that
might might not hear? I can I can sing something from Trek the musical
Let's do that. She played the dragon, by the way she did.
Wasn't in costume. She wore a cute little mask and she was off stage
until the very end. And there because that's the girl who's saying, wow,
she's great. So and go ahead, sure, um another day in
sad Na keep, I get nor rest, I get nastly cousin. When
I started to count my sheep, you come around, whoop Wow. Okay,
all right, you're gonna go places your kid, trust me. Thanks,
you're going to college. But I am stay all four years. All
four years. Okay, before you sign any funny papers with folks, okay,
all right, they're just an old entertainer telling you how not to be
an old entertainer. All right. So this is great. This is Gessell
at Dobson and she's going to be opening for Lee Greenwood out at at World
Rock with part of our Okam Music Extravaganza. Now, as far as getting
things already for the kids, there's gonna be a lot of kids. Yeah,
you've already Rosaray told you that, right, Yeah, we're you here,
you are you gets graduated high school and it's like, okay, the
little guys are coming in. Wow, and this is going to be the
next generation perhaps a musical performance or people who just simply appreciate music or even
teach it too. It's it's amazing just how long the lessons of Okam linger
with people. It's really good to get that exposure at such a young age.
Now your musically inclined, as we just heard, or did we just
hear? When did you start taking an interest in music yourself? I remember
being in my like school music class in kindergarten. That's like I remember singing
and be like, wow, this is fun, and then I just like
never liked anything else from that point on. Oh really, wow, your
heart. I was good at like math and stuff, but I was kind
of like that's there, but I would never ever pursue that. Well,
this is great. It's been wonderful having you both. And of course the
website is Okay a music dot org. We have the full line up here.
We have everything for the kids programs which the ladies have been working on,
to the big productions that you're going to see not only at wool Rock
but also at Unity Square and also at the Bartlesville Community Center and down at
Tulsa where we have the big finale. So this is going to be like
one if you thought they're getting ready for graduation and getting everything all compacted and
ready to go was a bit of a bunch. This is going to be
the most exciting ball of energy YouTube ever encountered. By being associated with the
wonderful people at okay M Music and meeting the performers that you're going to meet
with, I wish you the best luck and I want to everybody else you
know who's listening in today just ask about the tickets. Go on line at
okay M Music dot org and check out a show that you'd like to see
and bring the whole family because it is family fun and children zero to twelve
or three YouTube have been marketing. I can tell all right, Well,
thank you and thank you Mary Lynn men for letting the Ladies come back and
be on the radio with us today. You've been listening to our community connection
on K one. The one you trust