Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome in
Speaker 1: this time now for our community, get action right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust. And we have
Speaker 1: OKAM music in here with us today. Oh my goodness sakes,
Speaker 1: we have Jacob, we have Madeline, and we have Jaselle.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, Jiselle?
Speaker 3: Good are you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, big time at OKM. Hot and cool
Speaker 1: at the same time, a little warm out there at
Speaker 1: well rockbedd. It was a cool time all the way around.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about the success of what
Speaker 1: we had going on here.
Speaker 3: Well, the festival was amazing yet again, we had world
Speaker 3: class musicians at all three of our shows during the
Speaker 3: mainstage festival, at our showcase series, we had world class musicians,
Speaker 3: local talent, young musicians. It was a great celebration of music.
Speaker 1: Now, Jacob, did you get a chance to have a
Speaker 1: little fun with this or what was your role in it?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: I did a lot of stuff with our especially for
Speaker 4: kids festival, which we had hundreds of kids show up,
Speaker 4: all sorts of events like art immersions, puppet shows, story times,
Speaker 4: instrument workshops and like so much more.
Speaker 2: So many kids were there.
Speaker 5: Uh and just seeing the kids smiles was so so priceless.
Speaker 2: My goodness sake.
Speaker 1: So you know, I saw some pictures of that that
Speaker 1: they came back from I think Craig's photography, and it.
Speaker 2: Kept showing our esteemed Rose looking like she had a
Speaker 2: halo globe, going go oh, I like that. And Madeline,
Speaker 2: how was your internship so far?
Speaker 6: Mine's been very good. I've learned a lot and it's
Speaker 6: been an amazing internship.
Speaker 2: What did they have you doing.
Speaker 6: I've done a lot for the tea for especially for kids.
Speaker 6: I was Elsa and just like some behind the scene work.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I've learned a lot.
Speaker 1: So you got to be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: performer as well as behind the scenes at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yes, kind of like Gisell over here.
Speaker 1: Goodness things now we had the Keyboard Orchestra is something that.
Speaker 2: Mary Lynn tells.
Speaker 1: Me we might be one of the only communities in
Speaker 1: the world that has a keyboard orchestra or.
Speaker 2: Youth keyboard orchestra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, our Keyboard Orchestra, as far as we know,
Speaker 3: is the only year round program in the nation we have.
Speaker 3: It's very popular. We have kids on the wait list
Speaker 3: and their performances are just amazing. A lot of people say,
Speaker 3: if I close my eyes, I wouldn't know it was
Speaker 3: a ton of kids on pianos.
Speaker 2: Worked out great, worked out great.
Speaker 1: Now. We also have some scholarships that I know that
Speaker 1: have always been on the website. But those are pretty
Speaker 1: pretty darn nice, Jacob, Do you know anything about the
Speaker 1: scholarships do you like to talk to us about?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we have the Thomasin and John Malllett Music Scholarship,
Speaker 5: which is for ages four to eighteen, which provides one
Speaker 5: thousand dollars to students pursue music education, which is just
Speaker 5: so important.
Speaker 2: Oh it is.
Speaker 1: And once again, if you go to okay Music dot
Speaker 1: org you can read about how to apply and how.
Speaker 2: To go about.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be great. We've got some big things coming up.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks, oh, well, festival, Well, what do you do
Speaker 1: the right Well, I'll tell you if they do the
Speaker 1: rest of you. OKAM has a lot of fun raising funds.
Speaker 1: One of those is Octoberfest. Can you tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about that matter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Octoberfest is coming up. It's gonna be October fourth,
Speaker 6: and it's gonna be there's gonna be lots of food, music, games,
Speaker 6: dancing and activities for the whole family, and tickets will
Speaker 6: go for sale on August fourth.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know what it seems like. Oh well October,
Speaker 1: Well it's not that far away. I'm just here to
Speaker 1: tell you he'll be right up on you and you'll
Speaker 1: be ready to party too.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And of course if you go to the website Okaya
Speaker 1: music dot org and tell you a little bit more
Speaker 1: about it, I know that right now, Maryland, the whole crew,
Speaker 1: you guys and gals, are putting this together, put the
Speaker 1: acts together, making sure that beer steining holding petition goes
Speaker 1: off with that a hitch that is something else. Watch
Speaker 1: some people just actually hold beer get warm that way.
Speaker 1: I think too much, Okay, maybe not enough. We also
Speaker 1: have a Chris Kindle Market coming up. That's a fun one.
Speaker 1: That one sparkles.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Chris Kindle Market is going to be extra special this
Speaker 3: year because we're partnering with wool Rock. So we've had
Speaker 3: multiple venues throughout the year, but wool Rock is going
Speaker 3: to be where our Chris Kindle Market is. It's going
Speaker 3: to be in line with their Festival of Lights, So
Speaker 3: come out to see the lights. And then shop some
Speaker 3: local vendors. We're going to have handcrafted goods, foods, live music,
Speaker 3: and then of course Santa and Missus Klaus are going
Speaker 3: to be there. Those tickets will go on sale September
Speaker 3: twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's the I remember last year. It was
Speaker 1: just so darn cool. Now we're partnering with will Rock
Speaker 1: on this one. That's always changes just a little bit. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a third or fourth venue. I think I've witnessed
Speaker 1: here in the last six years or so. So always
Speaker 1: a surprise, always a surprise. Giving Tuesday is coming up
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hashtag Giving Tuesday is on December second and will
Speaker 5: feature Oklahoma native and Okay Festival performer Grady Nichols for
Speaker 5: a jazz Christmas concert. And those tickets sales will be
Speaker 5: coming out soon now.
Speaker 1: Grady had such an awesome performance at Okay If you
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to see him out there at
Speaker 1: will Rock on that ninth stage, I like that setup.
Speaker 1: That setup was really wonderful. But I got to tell
Speaker 1: you that was probably one of the smoothest performances I've
Speaker 1: seen with the three piece band, and they made it
Speaker 1: sound like an orchestra. Yeah, it was that that was
Speaker 1: just puer pleasure the whole time. Nicholas Day we got
Speaker 1: some fun with kids too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So the last thing we're doing this year is Saint
Speaker 5: Nicholas Day on December sixth, where we'll have families enjoying
Speaker 5: the day of giving story times, sweet treats and check
Speaker 5: that out on our website on the especially for kids
Speaker 5: tab okay at music dot org.
Speaker 1: You know, I think all in all, I can kind
Speaker 1: of gauge well, had a lot of fun so far
Speaker 1: on the summer internship.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about your highlight.
Speaker 1: I know that being a little bit of a performer
Speaker 1: was kind of cool, but everything else of some takeaways
Speaker 1: that folks might not really expect from being an intern.
Speaker 6: My takeaways were learning a lot of stuff like marketing,
Speaker 6: like stuff you wouldn't like really expect, but just stuff
Speaker 6: behind the scenes that I learned that can help me
Speaker 6: with like my future jobs. And I've learned so much.
Speaker 6: I've got a lot of experience from all of this.
Speaker 6: So that was my key.
Speaker 2: Takeaway, and Jacob, what was yours?
Speaker 5: I think for me some time I'm a music ed major,
Speaker 5: getting to work with the kids and help plan some
Speaker 5: of the kids events. I was really really helpful for
Speaker 5: me and I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 3: Joshelle, I always love meeting the performers every year. Like
Speaker 3: I said, these are world class musicians coming out to
Speaker 3: Bartlesville and Tulsa, So it's a really great opportunity to
Speaker 3: meet them and hear what they have to say. For
Speaker 3: young musicians like.
Speaker 2: Me, there you go.
Speaker 1: You know, you play a violin and she plays it
Speaker 1: almost like effortlessly, like you and I will breathe. She's
Speaker 1: all over that thing and she can sing at the
Speaker 1: same time. So I'm imagining some of those artists are
Speaker 1: asking you questions like how do you do that?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Now you're going to what school? This show?
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State?
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State, and Jacob, I'm going to owe you.
Speaker 6: I go to University of Arizona.
Speaker 2: Oh very good. Yeah, we got a transplant it here
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But this has all been a very fun year and
Speaker 1: still lots more to go.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: I want everyone to visit the website. It took a
Speaker 1: lot of work to make it so easy to travel on.
Speaker 1: I'm in my mid sixties and I don't get lost
Speaker 1: there anywhere else hits the crap shoot, but I can
Speaker 1: navigate this one pretty well. And if you want to
Speaker 1: learn a little bit more about the scholarships, you want
Speaker 1: to learn more about Octoberfesson, what kind of fun that's
Speaker 1: going to entail, if you want to get ready for
Speaker 1: a whole new kind of Chris Kindle market as well
Speaker 1: as prepare for giving Tuesday Saint Nicholas Day, or just
Speaker 1: find out more about OKAM music.
Speaker 2: And how this all got.
Speaker 1: Started many many years ago, I think forty one and
Speaker 1: a half years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying yeah, I'm getting the high sight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you pass the man test.
Speaker 1: I just go to okmmusic dot org. Do we still
Speaker 1: have the Sugar Plumb shop hanging out there at the
Speaker 1: main office.
Speaker 6: Yes, we do. We just had a giveaway, a bunch
Speaker 6: of giveaways yesterday for July first. It turned out very good.
Speaker 6: But we're open from ten to five every day except
Speaker 6: Saturdays and Sundays. But there's a lot of good stuff
Speaker 6: in there. You can find some good finds in there.
Speaker 1: Well. My daughter and Miss Susie I had the privilege
Speaker 1: of performing with this year with the Suns of Beaches,
Speaker 1: and right before our show they saw some yummies in there.
Speaker 1: They can't keep them away from the candy. But you
Speaker 1: kind of live up to that sugar plum business there
Speaker 1: with that, so that sounds pretty good. But you got
Speaker 1: all kinds of souvenirs and everything else, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have lots of gifts. We have different holiday items,
Speaker 3: home decors, kitchen, just about anything you need you can
Speaker 3: hop in there find that, And I would say it's
Speaker 3: a great stop if you're looking to buy someone a present.
Speaker 1: Indeed, and also you can make a few friends in
Speaker 1: there too, because the office help is really wonderful, very friendly,
Speaker 1: and if you have any questions about OKM, they'll do
Speaker 1: everything they can in order to get that answered. And
Speaker 1: you might even see mister John and zipping around he
Speaker 1: moves still at the speed of light time. Do you
Speaker 1: believe I don't know how he gets that energy. Man,
Speaker 1: By golly, I want to case that and also say
Speaker 1: hi to Mary Lynn while you're in there, and Ms
Speaker 1: Rose as well. I want to thank you all for
Speaker 1: coming in today and representing OKM so very very well.
Speaker 1: All right, good on you there, ladies and gentlemen. You
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