Speaker 1: Good morning, give morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. Meet.
Speaker 1: Is time now for our community connection on K one.
Speaker 1: The one you trust. Mary Lynn mem is with you
Speaker 1: here and she is with Okam Music and we have
Speaker 1: got one Saint Lee Day coming up here that is true.
Speaker 2: Tom, good morning.
Speaker 1: Are you. I'm doing wonderfully, Thank you very much. The
Speaker 1: sun is shining. I hope everybody's doing okay today. But
Speaker 1: we've got a very special day coming up with Saint
Speaker 1: Nicholas Day.
Speaker 2: We do. Saint Nicholas Day is one of our favorite
Speaker 2: days at okay In Music. It honors and celebrates the
Speaker 2: life of Saint Nicholas. Too many also know as Santa Claus,
Speaker 2: but Saint Nicholas was a real person, and so we'd
Speaker 2: like to honor this day by celebrating it with our
Speaker 2: young okay In Music patron and we invite parents, grandparents,
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, aunt and uncles to come out and
Speaker 2: celebrate that day through a story time with Saint Nicholas.
Speaker 2: Saint Nicholas will be at our event. It is this Friday,
Speaker 2: December sixth, which is Saint Nicholas Day. It will be
Speaker 2: at six pm at Ambler Hall and for those who
Speaker 2: don't know what Amble Hall or where that is, but
Speaker 2: that four fifteen Southview Ambler Hall is on Music Hall.
Speaker 2: It's a very small music hall that is a wonderful
Speaker 2: acoust six and it's a very pretty little venue. And
Speaker 2: so we'd like to host bar with St Nicholas stay
Speaker 2: there and we'll have kids come and they'll do crafts,
Speaker 2: they'll hear a story time about Saint Nicholas. They're going
Speaker 2: to hear the Bartlespool Choir, the high school choirs seeing
Speaker 2: amazing Christmas carols and songs. They can get up and
Speaker 2: dance and sing with them. We'll have cookies and hot
Speaker 2: cocoa and lots of craft.
Speaker 1: Wow, this sounds like an action packed a little to
Speaker 1: get together here.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's a really good time. We already
Speaker 2: have I think over fifty children who have reserved their spot,
Speaker 2: so we have a little bit of room weft. So
Speaker 2: if you still want to come, pease get on our
Speaker 2: website at okaynmusic dot org go to the Saint Nicholas
Speaker 2: page and reserve your spot. It's free to the public.
Speaker 2: We just have to make sure that we are not
Speaker 2: exceeding our part of Marshall capacity and we have to
Speaker 2: make sure that we have plenty of food and crafts
Speaker 2: for everyone, so please go on and do that. We're
Speaker 2: very excited to have it. We also have a special
Speaker 2: Saint Nicholas Day bag. The tradition of Saint Nicholas is
Speaker 2: often that he would have sort of gone quietly in
Speaker 2: the night and given gifts to those in need, and
Speaker 2: given gifts to those in his village. And so in
Speaker 2: honor of doing that, we have a Saint Day Nicholas
Speaker 2: or Saint play Bad that you can purchase ten dollars,
Speaker 2: which value have gone up eighty dollars gets filled with
Speaker 2: two special books about Saint Netbooks, a second story book
Speaker 2: of fun tales of music Adventure, a Saint Nechli's activity book,
Speaker 2: colored pencils, three musical instruments, fun Christmas coloring pages, an
Speaker 2: orange again in honor of Saint Nicholas, two candy canes
Speaker 2: in honor of Saint Nicholas, chocolates and other sweet treats,
Speaker 2: a gingerbread house hit and morphities that have made their
Speaker 2: way into the bags. Those bags can be purchased again
Speaker 2: on a cand music dot org and you can pick
Speaker 2: them up today starting today through Fridays, wow five at
Speaker 2: our office, which again is at four or fifteen south.
Speaker 1: East dewey Man.
Speaker 3: That is really cool.
Speaker 1: And you know what the thing is with the instruments
Speaker 1: in there, It gives the kids a little first hand
Speaker 1: to hands on, to kind of get familiar with maybe
Speaker 1: something fun, maybe something that's going to take their interest
Speaker 1: a little bit further than just one day.
Speaker 2: And he usually yes, no, it's really exciting.
Speaker 3: It has.
Speaker 2: I will just tell you about the instruments. We have
Speaker 2: a recorder. They're really fun. You either get a red
Speaker 2: one or a green one for cook clubs, or harmonica
Speaker 2: which also very nice to monica red or green, and
Speaker 2: then you get jingle belts. And then the peace saver
Speaker 2: resistance is the ukulele. You get an actual real ukulele
Speaker 2: in your bag. And so I think you could make
Speaker 2: it a family event. Everyone could take an instrument and
Speaker 2: you could all learn jingle belts together. So I think
Speaker 2: it's a wonderful way to introduce children to music, to
Speaker 2: music instrumentation, and it's just you know, the opening in
Speaker 2: the beginning to a lifelong filled with music. And you know,
Speaker 2: com being a musician yourself, how much joy music brings
Speaker 2: through one and to the community, and so we're we're
Speaker 2: excited and tickle pinks that we're able to offer these bags.
Speaker 2: They really are special. In fact, we have adults who
Speaker 2: buy them as gifts for a nieces and nephews, and
Speaker 2: I think we have some adults too actually buy them
Speaker 2: for themselves. And so because they celebrated Saint Michelis as
Speaker 2: a child and they have fond memories of that tradition,
Speaker 2: and so you know, we want to keep that tradition going.
Speaker 2: So again, come get your bag or reserve your spot.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a great time. I was just
Speaker 2: talking to Camera Walker, who is obviously the director of
Speaker 2: the Bartlesfell Chloir, and she has so many wonderful songs prepared.
Speaker 2: The kids are really excited, and so those of you
Speaker 2: who came out to the Kindle market you heard them perform,
Speaker 2: and they are truly amazing. Everyone sort of thought that
Speaker 2: they were doing when they started performing and really paid
Speaker 2: attention and listened, and you know that they were asking,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, she really did. And we were excited
Speaker 2: to tell them that they were in the Bartowell High
Speaker 2: School and they are part of the choir and jobs
Speaker 2: Choir en Humble and they are truly talented, so please
Speaker 2: come out and support them. They do a fantastic job
Speaker 2: and the kids love to get up and sing well
Speaker 2: them and dance, and it's a really it's a fun time,
Speaker 2: oh it is.
Speaker 3: It is really a joyous time, you know.
Speaker 1: With the ok A lot of people will think, okay festival,
Speaker 1: But the thing is, we do these other fun things
Speaker 1: year round, not only to raise funds for the festival,
Speaker 1: but also to bring music into people's life with different
Speaker 1: forms of engagement, this being one of them, you know.
Speaker 3: And we just had the October Fest.
Speaker 1: We had the Chris Kindle Market and a few other
Speaker 1: things too, but it keeps everything pretty much on the
Speaker 1: top of mind awareness.
Speaker 2: As they say, absolutely we want folks to have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to have programming year round. It's a way. Both
Speaker 2: Cryptkindle Market and Saint Nicholas Day are a way for
Speaker 2: ACAM Music to truly showcase our youth performers in Bartlesville
Speaker 2: and showcase their talents, allow them the opportunity to perform
Speaker 2: outside of school and give them more experience, give them
Speaker 2: more exposure, and it truly is a way, and of
Speaker 2: course then it inspires younger students and younger performers that
Speaker 2: you know someday they'll get to do the same thing,
Speaker 2: and it gives some inspiration, but also be good education.
Speaker 2: So often you know, you learn maybe new piece of music,
Speaker 2: or you learn a cultural pidbit about maybe a performance
Speaker 2: or a peep of music. And so it's a wonderful experience.
Speaker 2: It's wonderful for the community. I never seen anyone frowning.
Speaker 2: Everyone is always my work. So it brings joy, I
Speaker 2: think when you get to do all this wonderful music.
Speaker 2: But again, our event is this Friday, December sixth It
Speaker 2: starts at six pm, will go to probably about seven
Speaker 2: point thirty, maybe run over a little bit. We want
Speaker 2: everyone to be able to get their time and picture
Speaker 2: with Saint Netflix and be able to listen to the
Speaker 2: stories and complete their traps of course Pisa, Pussy's and
Speaker 2: Hot Poto and have a wonderful time doing all of that.
Speaker 2: And of course very Hamer Schmidt or do the police
Speaker 2: programming will be there. I will be there as well
Speaker 2: as one of our other board members to help everyone
Speaker 2: have a story of Saint Nicholas Day. And so if
Speaker 2: they want to come with you, if you're so in
Speaker 2: CLIENTE used to get our website at okaymmusic dot org.
Speaker 2: Go to the Saint Nicholis tabs and reserve your spot again.
Speaker 2: If you want to buy a Saint Nicholis Day bag
Speaker 2: filled with musical instruments, books, all kinds of wonderful budies
Speaker 2: value that approximately eighty dollars. They're only ten dollars. Our
Speaker 2: way to give back to the community and share a
Speaker 2: little bit of Saint Nicholas stories and in a special
Speaker 2: time of year with everyone.
Speaker 1: You know, we we have so many different events that
Speaker 1: we do with Okay, but this one is the one
Speaker 1: just kind of brings the big old smile that just doesn't.
Speaker 3: Go away for days, you know, because they say they're
Speaker 3: so cute.
Speaker 2: You know. And you know, that's the nice thing about
Speaker 2: Saint Nicholas Day is it really encompasses what a nonprofit
Speaker 2: is all about, and it's about giving. Saint Nicholais was
Speaker 2: an amazing saint who of course was known throughout his
Speaker 2: life for being extremely generous and basically a very philanthropic gentleman.
Speaker 2: And so we celebrate that because without nonprofits, the world
Speaker 2: would not be the place that it is, and so
Speaker 2: we celebrate nonprofits. We celebrate the joy of giving, and
Speaker 2: we thank all of our patrons for supporting us and
Speaker 2: making it possible for us to give back to the
Speaker 2: community and to give back to the children of Bartlesviille.
Speaker 2: I will say we also have another very special event
Speaker 2: coming up a week from the sixth, on the thirteenth,
Speaker 2: we have a merry musical Christmas concert with our very
Speaker 2: own Ocean Music to use keyboard orchestra, and we are
Speaker 2: very excited about that. It will be at the First
Speaker 2: Positarian Church which is located on five or five South Zwi,
Speaker 2: just right across the street from the Ocean Music office,
Speaker 2: and they are going to be playing amazing pieces that
Speaker 2: everyone is very similiar with, like Chikopsky's Overturch to the Nutcracker,
Speaker 2: jingle Bells, Personalel Deck the Halls, songs that everyone certainly
Speaker 2: will be able to get into and we'll really enjoy.
Speaker 2: Our instructors used to Steal and Happy Stewart have been
Speaker 2: looking very hard with these kids, and so again, if
Speaker 2: you're interested in coming, we just asked as you get
Speaker 2: on the web site it open and music dot org,
Speaker 2: reserve your spot. It's free to the public, come out
Speaker 2: and support these kids. We are pretty confident at all
Speaker 2: the leases that we've done that we are definitely in
Speaker 2: this area and we've seen nationwide. Are the first true
Speaker 2: use keyboard orchestra, and these kids do an amazing job.
Speaker 2: So they learn how to play different instruments, pution on
Speaker 2: these keyboards, and when you hear it, it sounds like
Speaker 2: a full ensemble orchestra. It's pretty remarkable. It's really cool,
Speaker 2: and they have a lot of fun with it. So
Speaker 2: we're very excited to showcase these instruments, and we're very
Speaker 2: excited to showcase the talent of these young performers. And
Speaker 2: so again that's coming up on Friday, December thirteenth, seven
Speaker 2: o'clock at the Change.
Speaker 3: Wow, it happened here in Barlsville.
Speaker 1: I like that it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, from November through December, it is
Speaker 2: all about our youth. It's all about our young performers,
Speaker 2: and it's all about you know, showcasing their talents and
Speaker 2: letting everyone come out and see why we do what
Speaker 2: we do and why we have the festival. All of
Speaker 2: these professional musicians got started somewhere, and we hope that
Speaker 2: it's you know, at a place like Okay and Music,
Speaker 2: where someone gave them the a chance and worked with them,
Speaker 2: and you know, then they grew into an amazing adult performer.
Speaker 3: Why my goodness.
Speaker 1: You know, when we think about all of the things
Speaker 1: that OK does for our community and for basically the
Speaker 1: kid too and everyone involved, we would just like to
Speaker 1: say thanks to.
Speaker 3: You for doing all that you do and your real
Speaker 3: gym here in our community and.
Speaker 1: Folks, you just need to take care of it, participate
Speaker 1: in the things we've got going on, and you might
Speaker 1: accidentally enjoy yourself and have a good time at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: It is so I you know, I think it's very hard,
Speaker 2: unless maybe you are possibly I think maybe you know,
Speaker 2: there there are times that music can elicit sad emotion,
Speaker 2: obviously at a funeral or whatnot. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: I think that music is joyous, it's inspirational, it's soulful.
Speaker 2: You know, often it can elicit someone to cry, it
Speaker 2: can listen someone to die laughing, or just bring a
Speaker 2: smile to their faith. It's calming, it's beautiful, and that's
Speaker 2: what we try to share with kids throughout our musical
Speaker 2: educational programming. You know, we talk about all of the
Speaker 2: different composers, and we talk about all the different of music,
Speaker 2: but it's fun to, you know, just share the emotional
Speaker 2: joy that music can have. And so I you know,
Speaker 2: you're talking about the crety coming out. Very rarely do
Speaker 2: I see anyone that was just singed. I think less
Speaker 2: people have smiles on their face. And I think people
Speaker 2: are extremely accreciatives And I appreciate you saying that, Tom,
Speaker 2: with what we do, they certainly support it. We have
Speaker 2: patrons who has been coming for forty years and we
Speaker 2: are so grateful to them, and we hope we have
Speaker 2: a new generation that will be coming for another forty
Speaker 2: years because music is important and we want to continue
Speaker 2: sharing that with all ages and make it accessible and
Speaker 2: make it free to the public.
Speaker 1: And you know what, we also have scholarships and we
Speaker 1: just have a brief amount of time, but folks can
Speaker 1: find out about the scholarships available at your website, can
Speaker 1: they not?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? If you go to Okay on music dot word
Speaker 2: and you click on the scholarship tab, you can read
Speaker 2: about the three different scholarships that we have. We have
Speaker 2: scholarship for students that are in elementary school as well
Speaker 2: as high schools who are studying. Currently, we give about
Speaker 2: two one thousand dollars scholarships throughout the school year, and
Speaker 2: then we also have a post high school scholarship that
Speaker 2: we give for again one thousand dollars for a student
Speaker 2: who is pursuing at least a minor in music through
Speaker 2: their college studies. So yeah, we're excited to be able
Speaker 2: to do that and thinks to events a White Crystal
Speaker 2: Market and our pivis us we're able to fund Bose
Speaker 2: scholarships and we're grateful to be able to do that
Speaker 2: and so excited to offer you know, students. Chris Aldobson,
Speaker 2: who is one of our interns who a series on
Speaker 2: the radio with New occasionally, is a primate example of
Speaker 2: a recipient of a scholarship and how it's thinking of
Speaker 2: difference in her life because she is studying music at
Speaker 2: Oklahimom State University and we are stilled to be able
Speaker 2: to help her do that.
Speaker 1: And thank you for being with Usha on our community
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