Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome Wenchael, welcome
Speaker 1: in this time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust sun First is
Speaker 1: coming in just a matter of days.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, eleven days we have.
Speaker 1: But Tina and Trey both in studio here today and
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I can't wait. This is
Speaker 1: going to be awesome. Now, Tina, I was talking to
Speaker 1: you in the green room. We really don't have green room,
Speaker 1: but anyway, we've got more people in the marketplace than
Speaker 1: ever before. We had to create more room.
Speaker 2: They did. Charles had to give us my room.
Speaker 3: I kind of requested it and he was kind enough
Speaker 3: to give me more space.
Speaker 2: So it was awesome.
Speaker 3: So we're kind of taking over some area that hasn't
Speaker 3: been used before. So you know, we're just making it
Speaker 3: better for everybody. So no matter where you go, you're
Speaker 3: going to see things. You're going to see the marketplace,
Speaker 3: you're going to see our nonprofits, to see just.
Speaker 2: All different types of vendors out there.
Speaker 3: A little bit of everything will be out there that
Speaker 3: weekend and you'll be able to visit with people and
Speaker 3: see some amazing artisans that we've collected over this last year,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people came back from last year,
Speaker 3: so we're thrilled to pieces.
Speaker 1: My goodness, and Trey. We've got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: And I understand that, of course, all the food being
Speaker 1: sold out there is cottery neutral because you'll be walking
Speaker 1: it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm already starting to think about the Dippin' Dots Indian
Speaker 5: Taco's final.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know, just is corn dogs out there, dogs
Speaker 4: on sticks.
Speaker 2: Did you know that we have a corn guy this year.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I knew that or oh yeah,
Speaker 4: talking about it.
Speaker 3: I love when they thrilled that corn open and all
Speaker 3: different seasonings going on top of that, so awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, we got some great entertainment coming up, Yes
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 4: We got to watch show, yeah, yep, whichever you want
Speaker 4: to cover. First the show Car Show.
Speaker 5: Okay, So car Show is going to be on Saturday,
Speaker 5: May thirty, first, south end of the park up there
Speaker 5: by the play tower, eight am to three pm. Entry
Speaker 5: fee is twenty dollars and there's gonna be prizes for
Speaker 5: the top twenty cars and that is being brought to
Speaker 5: us by Tri County Tech.
Speaker 1: Alrighty then, and then of course we've got some big
Speaker 1: time sponsors as well that are doing the kind of
Speaker 1: the overarching thing right.
Speaker 3: DSR and Conaco Phillips are our platinum sponsors this year,
Speaker 3: and we want to say a special thank you to
Speaker 3: them for.
Speaker 2: Being, you know, part of our community and giving back.
Speaker 1: By God, they're doing it in Spains too. We got
Speaker 1: a line up of music because this is kind of
Speaker 1: how this all got started. It was like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: this plays of music in the park.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got hung on that. It is a good lineup.
Speaker 5: Of course, every day leading up to it, we've been
Speaker 5: featuring some of the bands on our Facebook page is
Speaker 5: kind of highlighting some of the ones. But the ones
Speaker 5: that we think you're really going to like is Friday,
Speaker 5: May thirtieth at eight o'clock is a new female artist
Speaker 5: from Oklahoma City who plays country and rock. Tory Ray,
Speaker 5: which there's been a lot of excitement out there about her.
Speaker 4: She's got a really good band and places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is this the one that sounds like you know,
Speaker 3: summer music, sounds like Tannis Joplin.
Speaker 4: No, that's Robbie. Yeah, Robbie Bill will be there.
Speaker 5: Yes, Robbie Bell's early still open it up for us
Speaker 5: that Friday May thirtieth at five pm. And then of
Speaker 5: course I can't forget Steve Suberlin and the Red budd bandits.
Speaker 1: They like to come back to the Sheedith Grame. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then Saturday May thirty, first we'll start out start
Speaker 5: out at eleven am with the Barrel Fish Community still
Speaker 5: drum band, which we love.
Speaker 4: Still drum music here at SunFest is probably.
Speaker 5: One of our most popular requests year after years to
Speaker 5: bring some sort of still drum back to the park.
Speaker 5: H And then at twelve thirty Tom Davis and your band,
Speaker 5: the Sons of Beaches.
Speaker 1: We might just kidnap a few of those steel drummers
Speaker 1: there and just say, hey, guys.
Speaker 4: Play a lot island music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, any wait, we're gonna have a good time,
Speaker 3: and we are who follows us.
Speaker 5: So three guys from Bartlesville created the band and they're
Speaker 5: called Prairie Smoke. At two pm. This is gonna be
Speaker 5: a good band. They've played at Lobby Pops, the Pizza
Speaker 5: Place downtown and so they're gaining some popularity. And they're
Speaker 5: going to play a mix of like roots rock and
Speaker 5: marcana music, you know, easy the stuff that I think
Speaker 5: most of us have enjoy sure for an afternoon is that?
Speaker 5: And then at three thirty pm we're bringing back Pearl
Speaker 5: Grace and Company, that William family, So that's gonna be
Speaker 5: really good bluegrass. They man, they have played all over
Speaker 5: the place, Silver Dollars Cityhrie.
Speaker 4: They just played in Guthrie last month.
Speaker 5: So but and then a five pm is our Sheriff's
Speaker 5: band Terry Milton and Let It Ride, So Sheriff's.
Speaker 1: Scott very popular band yes years.
Speaker 5: And then at six thirty we're bringing back the Hydramatics
Speaker 5: blues band from Tulsa, and we're rounding it out at
Speaker 5: eight o'clock with the Paul Benjamin Band, also from Tulsa.
Speaker 1: That's a killer nighttime lineup right it is. It's going
Speaker 1: to be good.
Speaker 5: We're excited to have all of these bands and we
Speaker 5: hope the public will come out and the community enjoys it.
Speaker 4: And it's all free.
Speaker 1: And Sunday we got some church music.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we do.
Speaker 5: That will start Sunday, June first, at ten thirty am.
Speaker 5: Borlsville Southern Baptist Church has invited some of the local
Speaker 5: Baptist churches to get together and come as one, so
Speaker 5: there'll be several pre these teams all together as one man.
Speaker 5: Of course, we really liked them and they do well
Speaker 5: for us. And at twelve fifteen is Kelly Graham and
Speaker 5: James Lee Judas and at one thirty is Barlswild First
Speaker 5: Church in Nazarene. And at two forty five and we
Speaker 5: have a treat for you the Wilson family, Chase Wilson,
Speaker 5: Jason Wilson, Jackson Wilson and I will be playing percussion
Speaker 5: with them too one that home Cahon Box drum playing
Speaker 5: gospel ending it out there. And of course we also
Speaker 5: have the Banchell to talk about, which.
Speaker 4: We have a full line up there.
Speaker 5: Barlsville Gymnastics will be there Friday, May thirtieth. Will have
Speaker 5: a movie for the kids on Friday May thirtieth, Kindergarten cop.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen that movie before a
Speaker 4: little bit before my time, I think.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then Saturday and May thirty first fitness classes are
Speaker 5: going on Everett Music Studio.
Speaker 4: Little Dan, Austin, Travis, seven pm.
Speaker 5: OKM Music is bringing the Native American hoop dancers again.
Speaker 5: So I've talked to OKAM and they're excited to get
Speaker 5: their kids fest rolling.
Speaker 4: It's hard to believe that's coming up too. I can't
Speaker 4: believe time. Yeah, we all kind of go together for everyone.
Speaker 3: There really isis shopping, eating, army, food vendors everywhere.
Speaker 2: This a little bit of something for everybody.
Speaker 4: Bring your lunch. That's to see for sure, seeing lots
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness sakes, we got everything from car shows. Well,
Speaker 1: we even got the benchos. Even got a church service, don't.
Speaker 5: They they do, Yes, get real ministries. Rendow and Shotling
Speaker 5: so great people. I just saw them at Gracefest with
Speaker 5: the Beat of Light mission with Keith and Christie, so
Speaker 5: I got to see them, and they're excited about coming back.
Speaker 1: We should be.
Speaker 5: So they do a lot of great stuff for our
Speaker 5: community and really excited.
Speaker 1: Now we've got all kinds of great things coming together.
Speaker 1: We heard of the entertainment, we heard of the vendors.
Speaker 1: We've got a little bit of the food thing going
Speaker 1: on here. But the overall atmosphere is simply just fun
Speaker 1: in the sun.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: It's just a great, big, giant get together of people
Speaker 3: having fun, enjoying family entertainment, just you know, just clean
Speaker 3: cut fun. And you know, we have our Youth Fest
Speaker 3: going on during that time. And that's sponsored by Safari Smiles.
Speaker 3: By the way, we got the pony rides for the
Speaker 3: kids and my granddaughter's for she loves it and we
Speaker 3: have pictures of her last year on these. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of fun for the kids to come out and enjoy,
Speaker 3: and especially the youth Fest because there's all kinds of
Speaker 3: activities for them to do, so mom and dad can do,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever they like, whether it's the.
Speaker 2: Music, the eating, the shopping.
Speaker 3: It's have kids, you know, youth fest, So youth Fast
Speaker 3: is great for them. Then on Saturday night we have
Speaker 3: glow Fest.
Speaker 2: Now I did not know in the.
Speaker 3: Beginning what it was, but when I saw it, I
Speaker 3: was like, these kids are just having a blast. They
Speaker 3: turn on the music, it's the glow in the dark paint.
Speaker 3: They're just having a blast out there.
Speaker 5: Non stop, squealing in the drums when you play, you know,
Speaker 5: when you beat on the buckets or whatever, and it's
Speaker 5: just Spider's paint on it.
Speaker 4: It's fine, watched, yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, and the kids are just you know, they love
Speaker 3: having a good time with the music and just enjoying it.
Speaker 3: And it all happens at as soon as it goes
Speaker 3: kind of dark.
Speaker 5: Yeah, about eight thirty. It goes to about ten. So
Speaker 5: say you have a party up there, for sure it
Speaker 5: will be a good time.
Speaker 3: So then we have movie nights and then, like we talk,
Speaker 3: Kindergarten Cop will be playing I Leave on Friday night
Speaker 3: and Incredibles too on Saturday night.
Speaker 4: That one I have seen.
Speaker 2: I've seen that. Now, that's one I had see it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: But I just love that there's this entertainment for everyone,
Speaker 3: whether they're at the band listening to them play, or
Speaker 3: they're sitting in their little yard chairs in front and watching.
Speaker 2: You know, a movie. There's just something for everyone to do.
Speaker 1: And it's so wonderful. There's no alcohol. I want to know,
Speaker 1: folks were watering well. Sounds like a great place to
Speaker 1: take the kids. But if there's going to be alcohol,
Speaker 1: there might be problems. Well, we've eliminated the problem.
Speaker 3: There's no alcohol now we have out there, No never
Speaker 3: has been. There's never been anything served other than some
Speaker 3: sweet tea.
Speaker 1: And you can get plenty jacked up on sweet tea
Speaker 1: if you have enough of it. You know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: we'll be there.
Speaker 4: What's that think lemonade?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so specially squeezed love it. I love that's
Speaker 2: good that one.
Speaker 3: I can't even remember the name of them right now
Speaker 3: for the life of me. Have they show you them?
Speaker 3: I mean, they're squeezing that lemonade. They're putting it over eyes.
Speaker 2: It's just so yummy.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 3: And the fact that they brought the corn guy back.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy. One of the things I wanted to
Speaker 3: mention is that if anyone's thinking about volunteering, go to
Speaker 3: our website. It's Bartsville SunFest dot org. You can get
Speaker 3: more information about the car show, volunteering Marketplace Entertainment. You
Speaker 3: can sign up to volunteer. There is a spot there
Speaker 3: it says click here and you can volunteer, you know,
Speaker 3: and we have a lot of really wonderful volunteers that
Speaker 3: come out.
Speaker 5: It takes a village of absolutely does in this community.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Your volunteers over the years have
Speaker 1: always been awesome. Yes, And the scout chop out too,
Speaker 1: and everybody else like that. Yes, so yeah, it's always
Speaker 1: it's so clean, man. That's what they that we marveled
Speaker 1: at the first time we did sun Fast when we
Speaker 1: first moved here about six years ago. They're so clean.
Speaker 1: You dont have to worry about, you know, waiting through
Speaker 1: trash like you do sometimes at fairgrounds or things like.
Speaker 2: Those guys stay on it.
Speaker 3: They make sure they're dumping trash and making sure, you know,
Speaker 3: the park's clean.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing is also is our citizens are pretty
Speaker 1: aware right of what's going on, and they do their
Speaker 1: They do the responsible thing too, and that's just kind
Speaker 1: of part of where we grew up right here in
Speaker 1: this area. So you know, leave it better than you
Speaker 1: found it. I think it's something that a lot of
Speaker 1: people kind of subscribe to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Plus Center Park is just beautiful year round. I just
Speaker 5: drove by it the other day. I was like, man,
Speaker 5: this place looks great.
Speaker 4: You know it's festival time now.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you it's coming up here.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the thirty thirty first and the first.
Speaker 5: Yes, they're hours are Friday, May thirtieth, three p is
Speaker 5: when the festival will open and close around ten pm
Speaker 5: on Friday May thirtieth. Saturday, May thirty first, we'll open
Speaker 5: at ten am, close around ten pm.
Speaker 4: And then Sunday, June first, ten am to four Very good?
Speaker 1: Is there anything else I might have miss because you
Speaker 1: got a whole book.
Speaker 3: There, idea, the information, it's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: When Charles tells me something, I write it down a
Speaker 3: lot and whatever. Yeah, the website again, let's go back
Speaker 3: to that. Anybody that wants to have more information about
Speaker 3: the car show how to do the entry, there's a
Speaker 3: QR code on there that they can scan and get
Speaker 3: more information. So by all means, scan, find out and
Speaker 3: join the fun.
Speaker 1: Very good, Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 5: Also bars the radio, you're doing a live remote for
Speaker 5: us that fund.
Speaker 1: We do the big T shirt give away right around
Speaker 1: five ish somewhere in there. And I don't I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the shoars model. I haven't seen the shoes design.
Speaker 1: But to go so fast, you got to get there.
Speaker 1: You go so fast, it's like a big blur of
Speaker 1: lungry being liberated across the park.
Speaker 3: Now that's when you can go to our sun our
Speaker 3: Facebook page and see what's coming out because we have
Speaker 3: some really good market people and they're putting it out
Speaker 3: there information as we were on the artisans and crafters
Speaker 3: that are going to be in the marketplace. You can
Speaker 3: see what they sent in as far as pictures. You
Speaker 3: can see the bands that are coming out and when
Speaker 3: they're going to be playing. You can see more information
Speaker 3: about the car show on the Facebook page. So by
Speaker 3: all means, go and take a look.
Speaker 1: This is going to be so big and it's going
Speaker 1: to be so fun. Yes, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: have a ticket to get in, they'll just walk right,
Speaker 1: It's right.
Speaker 4: Parking is free too.
Speaker 1: But exercise patients because you're going to have a lot
Speaker 1: of people around it.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, yes, be ready to walk, Be ready
Speaker 3: to walk walking. She's on and there'll be maps posted around.
Speaker 3: Oh Yeahweiler. She is my partner in the marketplace, and
Speaker 3: she is creating maps and uh, Charles is creating maps,
Speaker 3: so they'll be mark maps around there so you can
Speaker 3: see and find your vendors.
Speaker 1: I like that, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean when I talk about some of the people
Speaker 3: that are on board this year, we've got people who
Speaker 3: make different seasoning rubs for barbecue, vegetables, just all kinds
Speaker 3: of yummy stuff. Oki Brittles coming back this year. We've
Speaker 3: got jerky, We've got bakers. We've got people that do
Speaker 3: leather stuff and jams and jellies, people who crochet, all
Speaker 3: these little flushies that I keep seeing everywhere painters, photographers
Speaker 3: just really tried to cover all, you know, gendres of
Speaker 3: art to be there. And I'm telling you that those
Speaker 3: applications came pouring in. And of course we're going to
Speaker 3: have the jury show for our marketplace people again and
Speaker 3: we'll have judges on that in We'll also have our
Speaker 3: scavenger hunt going on so you can win some prizes there.
Speaker 1: Can we know about that on the Facebook page?
Speaker 3: Or is explain that it will be coming out of
Speaker 3: the directions on what to do. You go over there
Speaker 3: and pick up the paper and you fill it. You
Speaker 3: find all the SunFest logos and they'll be scattered throughout
Speaker 3: the park and find twenty five of them. Sign up,
Speaker 3: put your paper in there and we will draw on
Speaker 3: Saturday evening.
Speaker 1: My goodness, I want to thank you Tina Crey.
Speaker 4: Thanks wonderful news.
Speaker 1: The way to start off a week. Huh yeah, SunFest
Speaker 1: coming up, folks, don't you dare miss it.