Speaker 1: All right, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. You know. Spring is
Speaker 1: in the air and pretty soon, well you know, things
Speaker 1: are going to get real musical, real fast. We've got
Speaker 1: from Okam, Mary Lynn, Miam. How are we doing, young lady.
Speaker 2: I'm great this morning, running a tad bit late, but
Speaker 2: I'm awesome. How about you?
Speaker 3: Tom?
Speaker 1: Pretty much the same? Mondays do that to me.
Speaker 2: I yeah sometimes, but we are so excited. We are
Speaker 2: back for our forty first festival, a hard to say
Speaker 2: forty first, and it kicks off with our especially for
Speaker 2: kids festival, of course, and then leads into our main stage.
Speaker 3: And we have not announced our lineup, but we'll be
Speaker 3: doing so this week. For the main stage.
Speaker 2: However, we kicked off our kids festival on Friday, and
Speaker 2: oh my goodness, it was a huge success.
Speaker 3: We've already got.
Speaker 2: Over one hundred slots signed up for his families and
Speaker 2: that's the most that we've ever had on day one,
Speaker 2: and so I think the tea that we have is
Speaker 2: halfway full, which is amazing. And so yeah, it kicks
Speaker 2: off on May thirtieth and runs through June eighth, and
Speaker 2: again we have so much for the kids.
Speaker 3: It's going to be amazing. We have our Keyboard Orchestra.
Speaker 2: Kicking off on Friday, May thirtieth. We have our Tea
Speaker 2: and Erindale for those who love Frozen. On Saturday, May third,
Speaker 2: we have our Dancing with Eagles with the Hoop Dancers,
Speaker 2: which are amazing on Saturday May thirty first. On Sunday,
Speaker 2: June first, we have an art immersion that is going
Speaker 2: to be so fun. You're going to learn about Edvard
Speaker 2: Grieg and do some painting.
Speaker 3: We've got Ziggy Bingo at the radio station shout out
Speaker 3: to Bartlesviill.
Speaker 2: Radio on Sunday, June first, where families can come pick
Speaker 2: up their Bingo cards, get a free piece us.
Speaker 3: And win some prizes. So that's always fun.
Speaker 2: Then on Monday and Tuesday, we have our Story and
Speaker 2: Experience sort of it, and it's where kids come. They
Speaker 2: get to listen to a story, learn something about some music,
Speaker 2: and sometimes you get to take home a book. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you might get to take home a toy, sometimes you
Speaker 2: might get to take home an instrument, and so we're
Speaker 2: really excited this season. We're heavily focusing on Norway and
Speaker 2: the composer Edvard Grieg.
Speaker 3: So we have a lot of story and experiences.
Speaker 2: About trolls, about Elsa and Anna from Frozen, we have
Speaker 2: a story about Vikings, and we have a story about
Speaker 2: the little animals who be friends and tries to trick
Speaker 2: a troll.
Speaker 3: So those are our story experiences for the season.
Speaker 2: Tom, you need to come.
Speaker 3: I think you would enjoy them. They always bring a
Speaker 3: lot of laughter. Followed by that, we have two of
Speaker 3: our puppets series.
Speaker 2: One will happen in Tulsa. We have a wonderful puppet
Speaker 2: show coming back to us and again that's about how
Speaker 2: to Snag a Sea Monster. Then on Wednesday we will
Speaker 2: have two puppet shows in Bartlesville, Ringo's Singalong Puppet Show
Speaker 2: and then also how to Sack Snag a Sea Monster.
Speaker 3: We also have going back to Tuesday evening a.
Speaker 2: Piano recital with our very young budding talented artist through
Speaker 2: Lusa Steele's Piano studio, and we're excited to have them
Speaker 2: in concert. Then on Wednesday night, after the two puppet shows,
Speaker 2: we have the Twinkle Little Stars with the Bigger Stars
Speaker 2: from Lisa Steele's Piano Studios. So we're always tickled to
Speaker 2: hear them. They are amazingly talented young artists. Thursday, we
Speaker 2: go into another art immersion where kids will learn about
Speaker 2: Edvard Monk who painted the Scream if you remember the Scream,
Speaker 2: and they'll he's also a Norwegian, a very famous artist,
Speaker 2: and so they'll come in and they'll get to do
Speaker 2: a self portrait and again listen to some Edvard grieg
Speaker 2: while learning about Edvard Munch. Then we also have another
Speaker 2: wonderful series out at the Green which is kind of
Speaker 2: our finale, but that'll be jamming with the trolls.
Speaker 3: That's going to be fun.
Speaker 2: Just so our wonderful intern is going to do an
Speaker 2: instrument and music immersion on the violin and the ukulele,
Speaker 2: talking about similarities, talking about the differences in the instruments,
Speaker 2: and then children will leave with a violin or a ukulele.
Speaker 3: So that's very exciting.
Speaker 2: And then we have another keyboard concert orchestra concert with
Speaker 2: our older kids on June.
Speaker 3: Eighth, So we have a lot.
Speaker 2: We have over twenty events for kids this season and
Speaker 2: we are very excited about them.
Speaker 1: I'd say that is a lot. That's almost like a
Speaker 1: college semester packed in just a few days it is.
Speaker 2: It's a lot. I'm really excited. And of course kids
Speaker 2: can pick up their passport. If they've been before, they
Speaker 2: know we have a little passport. You bring it to
Speaker 2: each event, you get a stamped and then you get
Speaker 2: entered into the opportunity to win a Rappel prize at
Speaker 2: each event.
Speaker 3: So that's always exciting.
Speaker 2: And the passports will be available on or after May twentieth,
Speaker 2: and you can pick those up at the OKAM office,
Speaker 2: you can pick them up the library, you can pick
Speaker 2: them up at the community center. So we're excited about those.
Speaker 3: I think the prizes are going to be fun.
Speaker 2: There might be some little troll dolls in some of
Speaker 2: those prizes. Lots of games, lots of musical things, art supplies,
Speaker 2: all kinds of really fun stuff for the summer.
Speaker 1: This really sounds fun. I mean it always is, but
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like you guys went the extra
Speaker 1: mile this year.
Speaker 3: Well every year.
Speaker 2: Our children's programming is you know, it's amazing to watch
Speaker 2: these kids. It is the life and the future, of
Speaker 2: course of Okaya Music. It has become so popular that
Speaker 2: we keep adding more and more events to it just
Speaker 2: so that kids can come. We try to keep them
Speaker 2: small and intimate, so usually there's not more than eighty
Speaker 2: eighty kids who attend one session, so that's why we
Speaker 2: have to have a lot of sessions so we can
Speaker 2: get a lot of kiddos served and help and introduce
Speaker 2: them to the arts and music and just have a
Speaker 2: really good time. But yeah, please sign up. You can
Speaker 2: find us on the OKM website okmmusic dot org. You're
Speaker 2: welcome to come by the office at four fifteen South
Speaker 2: Dewey or give us a call at nine one eight
Speaker 2: three three six nine eight zero zero and get signed
Speaker 2: up for these events. Because while they're all free except
Speaker 2: for the tea, there is a ten dollars charge per
Speaker 2: person for that. They fill up fast and it is
Speaker 2: first come, first served. It is by reservation only, so
Speaker 2: you definitely want to sign up, so again, okmusic dot
Speaker 2: Org nine one eight three three six nine eight zero
Speaker 2: zero or come by in Zeros and I at four
Speaker 2: fifteen South Uie.
Speaker 1: All right, that is amazing, man, you're off to a
Speaker 1: great start, and later this week we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: the lineup right for the big thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
Speaker 2: Launching at the end of the week and we are
Speaker 2: very excited it's going to be an amazing season, folks.
Speaker 1: What you don't know is that she's ready to burst
Speaker 1: it the seams right now, but she knows she can't
Speaker 1: say anything until it's time. But it's always nice to
Speaker 1: have a little fun with you. I don't mean anything
Speaker 1: bad by teasing you on that. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's always great the big unveil, and then of course
Speaker 1: the tickets will go on sale shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, the tickets will go on sale the same day,
Speaker 2: well on Friday, and then tickets will go on sale
Speaker 2: on Friday around noon, and so we are very excited
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Oh mine, this is going to be great. This is
Speaker 1: going to be absolutely forty one. I like this the
Speaker 1: forty first season of OKM, right here in Bartlesfield, Treasure
Speaker 1: at Trasure, We're going to keep forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 1: And the way we do that is we just keep
Speaker 1: showing up for the festival. We keep showing up at
Speaker 1: all the fundraisers and having fun with you. You know.
Speaker 1: The thing is, too, you got you're going to have
Speaker 1: some new recruits there, aren't you. With some of the
Speaker 1: college kids coming in to help out the interns.
Speaker 2: We have college interns every season. We have three that
Speaker 2: will be returning for us for the entire summer, and
Speaker 2: that's just all Madeline and Jacob, and so we're very
Speaker 2: tickled to have them back. And then we will have
Speaker 2: five additional new interns that will be coming to us.
Speaker 2: And it looks like we're going to have some interns
Speaker 2: not only from Oklahoma, but but Tennessee as well as Gosh,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: I'm blanking on on the other state.
Speaker 2: I want to say, maybe Arizona is.
Speaker 3: One of our other states.
Speaker 2: So it's not just Oklahoma kids who come to us
Speaker 2: somewhere tickled. We have kids who are business majors, music majors,
Speaker 2: maybe they're into production planning type of majors. I think
Speaker 2: we have a young man who's coming that's actually a
Speaker 2: sound engineer major this year, so that's super exciting.
Speaker 3: And these you know, these.
Speaker 2: Kids get introduced to everything from marketing to ticket sales,
Speaker 2: to children's programming to adult programming, to sound and stage
Speaker 2: and lighting, and you know, just learning how a nonprofit operates,
Speaker 2: but also learning behind the scenes of how a music
Speaker 2: festival works and how it's run. And so we give
Speaker 2: them an opportunity and experience to try it all, and
Speaker 2: we're very excited. We had a lot of applications this
Speaker 2: year and we're just getting ready to reveal on April first,
Speaker 2: So I guess next week. Oh my goodness, who are
Speaker 2: our new interns.
Speaker 3: Are for the season.
Speaker 2: But we've already got been selected and we are good
Speaker 2: to go, tom So you'll be getting to meet some
Speaker 2: more kids this the summer.
Speaker 1: That is great. It's always nice to see some of
Speaker 1: the familiar faces, of course, but also the newbies that
Speaker 1: come in too, because they have a tendency to stick around.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that they do. I've got a question I
Speaker 1: should know better, have we? How are we on the scholarships.
Speaker 3: Scholarships are amazing. We have three that we give away.
Speaker 2: We're getting ready to announce our Thomas Saying Chapel. We'll
Speaker 2: be releasing that scholarship coming up for our young kids
Speaker 2: who are in school that want to take piano lessons
Speaker 2: or some kind of music lessons. They can apply for
Speaker 2: those again online at Okanmusic dot org. But the one
Speaker 2: that we're getting ready to announce. Sorry I got ahead
Speaker 2: of myself is the Men Scholarship, and that is for
Speaker 2: seniors who are going into college to at least get
Speaker 2: a minor in music, and that's one thousand dollars scholarships.
Speaker 2: They need to again apply online at okaymusic dot org,
Speaker 2: but that is through the Bartlesville High School or Dewey
Speaker 2: High School and we will announce that winner at the
Speaker 2: Bartlesville Annual Honor or not honor, but the annual awards
Speaker 2: of simply I will also work for it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that will be in I believe early May that we
Speaker 2: make those announcements.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was hoping that I hadn't missed out on
Speaker 1: that yet.
Speaker 2: No, No, there they go all year long, I know.
Speaker 3: And then we also have one.
Speaker 2: More scholarship that they can apply for in the fall.
Speaker 2: That are for kids who are studying music that are teenagers.
Speaker 2: So we kind of break up our two scholarships and
Speaker 2: the younger kids and the older kids. And again that's
Speaker 2: for students who are studying that are pursuing music lessons
Speaker 2: during the school year, and so we absolutely.
Speaker 3: Encourage people to apply for those.
Speaker 2: Those will open up after July and then we'll select
Speaker 2: those winners in the fall.
Speaker 1: Great, Mary Lynn, if folks want to find out anything
Speaker 1: and everything about OKAM music, what's your website.
Speaker 2: Okmmusic dot org. And again they can call us at
Speaker 2: nine one eight three three six ninety eight hundred, or
Speaker 2: they can come by and see us at four fifteen.
Speaker 1: South Dewey, Mary Lanne, thank you very much for being
Speaker 1: with us today.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I'm so sorry that I was tarty.
Speaker 2: But I certainly appreciate you guys very much. Tom, and
Speaker 2: we can't wait to see you at all of our
Speaker 2: spectacular children's stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna be a lot of fun, thank you, ma'am.
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