Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time down for our community connection right here
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Speaker 2: One you trust.
Speaker 1: And we have Mary Lynn Mim from ok M and
Speaker 1: you brought friends.
Speaker 3: I did, Hi, Tom, good morning, how are.
Speaker 2: You You know?
Speaker 1: It's a week away for the kids and two weeks
Speaker 1: away for the Big Shebang or this.
Speaker 2: This is starting to get really exciting.
Speaker 3: It is getting very exciting. And to your point, I
Speaker 3: did bring one of our summer interns, Madeline childs Hell,
Speaker 3: all the way from Arizona is her home base and
Speaker 3: her school base at the university is Arizona, so she
Speaker 3: likes very fluctuating temperatures cold and then really hot. Oh my,
Speaker 3: so welcome to Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can get all that one day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, we are gearing up. Oh my gosh. We kick
Speaker 3: off next Friday. I cannot believe it. A week from tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We have it our keyboard orchestra at First Press. So
Speaker 3: if people haven't gotten on yet to see the kids programming,
Speaker 3: we have a few spots that are still open for
Speaker 3: a few of our things. But I are a few
Speaker 3: of our events, but I encourage people to get on
Speaker 3: there and get your spot reserved because they are many
Speaker 3: of them almost I think over half of them are
Speaker 3: sold out, and so we do have a waiting list.
Speaker 3: So if you still want to go to something, call rows,
Speaker 3: go online see what you really want to go to.
Speaker 3: Call the office at nine one eight three three six
Speaker 3: nine nine zero zero and get your spot in. But
Speaker 3: we have the tea time on Saturday. We have still
Speaker 3: our Dancing Eagles that night out at SunFest. We have
Speaker 3: five story times on Monday and Tuesday. We have three
Speaker 3: puppet shows on Tuesday night in Tulsa, and then three
Speaker 3: more sets of puppet shows on Wednesday. Those are all
Speaker 3: at Amber Hall. Those are amazing, They're fun. We had
Speaker 3: those at Octoberfest and the dads even like them. In fact,
Speaker 3: Caleb Potter told me was like Mainland. The only complaint
Speaker 3: I have about october Fest is that you had the
Speaker 3: beer Stein holding competition at the same time you had
Speaker 3: the puppet show. He was like, don't do that again.
Speaker 3: I need to do both, and I said, okay, Caleb,
Speaker 3: you got it. And then Thursday we have our really
Speaker 3: fun Oh let me go back to Tuesday night we
Speaker 3: have our Twinkle Big Stars performance with dlnn Everts Kids
Speaker 3: they're going to come perform and sing for us. That's
Speaker 3: going to be really fun. And then we have two
Speaker 3: art immersions that are going to be great. We actually
Speaker 3: opened up another session on Sunday, so people can go
Speaker 3: check that out see if there's still some space available.
Speaker 3: But then on Thursday we have another art immersion, we
Speaker 3: have a ukulele and violin session. And then we have
Speaker 3: our grand finale for the kids, which is a troll
Speaker 3: Jam party out at Unity Square, and so we have
Speaker 3: the DJs coming. They're always crazy. We're gonna have dancing
Speaker 3: and bubbles and games and fun and I think, I
Speaker 3: don't know matter and madel and I just ordered I
Speaker 3: think like seven different kinds of ice cream bars and popsicles,
Speaker 3: So I think it's going to be really good. And
Speaker 3: adults can have it too. That's free. Everything is free
Speaker 3: to the public and to the kids, except for the tea.
Speaker 3: You do have to pay for that, but unfortunately it's
Speaker 3: sold out, so if you want to go, get on
Speaker 3: the wait list. We are super excited. And then of
Speaker 3: course after that our main festival kicks off. That's on Friday,
Speaker 3: June sixth. We have wool Rock that night and I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be amazing. The weather's going to
Speaker 3: be good. I'm just confident. I probably shouldn't say that
Speaker 3: out loud anyway, But we have Grady Nichols opening for
Speaker 3: us with Manhattan Chamber Players here. No, but he's fantastic
Speaker 3: and so sweet. And this is actually the year of
Speaker 3: okay A Music and Grady. He is coming to a
Speaker 3: lot of our things. He's going to be performing at
Speaker 3: the festival, He's going to be performing at Octoberfest. He
Speaker 3: is bringing another musician with him and I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be very fun. So he's going to do
Speaker 3: some jazz polka, and then he's going to be performing
Speaker 3: at Hashtag Giving Tuesday, and I think that's going to
Speaker 3: be really fun. And he's going to do his I
Speaker 3: think he's a Christmas album and so he's going to
Speaker 3: be performing that for us and we're really excited. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So it is the Year of Grady Nichols at okay
Speaker 3: and Music. Saturday Night on June seventh, we'll be in
Speaker 3: Tulsa at Cashall Hall. The Tulsa Honors Baroque Orchestra is
Speaker 3: coming back. Those young students mixed in with probably about
Speaker 3: ten adults who are professional musicians will be performing and
Speaker 3: they are amazing, amazingly talented. They do a great job.
Speaker 3: And then that night the main act is Natasha Perimski
Speaker 3: and she is a beautiful pianist who we are very
Speaker 3: excited to have and I'm super excited to meet her.
Speaker 3: This will be her first time at Okay and Music
Speaker 3: of course Manhattan Chamber of Players. This is their third
Speaker 3: year to perform for us, so our second year, so sorry,
Speaker 3: second year, third year for Esher, who is our finale
Speaker 3: to perform with us, and so we're excited. We always
Speaker 3: love having artists back, and I think it's a really
Speaker 3: good testament to Bartlesville and hopefully to Okay and Music
Speaker 3: that you know, we get calls after these festivals are
Speaker 3: over and agents are like, hey, our guys would really
Speaker 3: like to come back. They have an amazing time, and
Speaker 3: so you know, it's a way for us to sort
Speaker 3: of get that old, rekindled relationship with the artists that
Speaker 3: we used to have when OKAM first started. And so
Speaker 3: it's nice to have these guys back because people get
Speaker 3: to know them. They see them at the restaurants, they
Speaker 3: see them around town at Bowling Alley's obscure places, and
Speaker 3: you know, they get to know them, and so that
Speaker 3: makes it even more special. Not only wonderful music, but hey,
Speaker 3: I know that guy he's playing and you know I
Speaker 3: met him. He's super nice. And then on Sunday, June eighth,
Speaker 3: we have our finale at the Refinery and we have
Speaker 3: Lisa Steele's students who will be performing for us. They're
Speaker 3: amazingly talented. I think a couple of them may go
Speaker 3: on to be concert pianists. So we highly encourage folks
Speaker 3: to come out and hear them and clap for them,
Speaker 3: support them. And then at seven o'clock is our beloved Quartet,
Speaker 3: who is just one of the world's best quartets and
Speaker 3: right here in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. So we're very excited for that.
Speaker 3: But now to talk about the really good stuff, Tom,
Speaker 3: because I think it includes you. We have you about
Speaker 3: the good stuff. We have so many showcase events for
Speaker 3: folks to come to and those are all free. Those
Speaker 3: are typically during the day, and we kick off with
Speaker 3: those on Friday, June six we have the Bartlesville Ringers
Speaker 3: Bell Ringers at ten am, followed by the Trinity Recorder
Speaker 3: Consort at eleven am, and then Wade Daniels, who everyone
Speaker 3: loves and will be playing a amazing ensemble of He's
Speaker 3: playing all kinds of different music and so I think
Speaker 3: people will really enjoy that. Come out. That's at first
Speaker 3: pres Again, that's all free, but we do ask that
Speaker 3: you please reserve your spot just so we make sure
Speaker 3: we have enough room for everybody. On Saturday, June seventh,
Speaker 3: we have part of Manhattan Chamber Players. Four of them
Speaker 3: will be performing in a coretet for us at eleven
Speaker 3: am at Ambler Hall, and then the one and only
Speaker 3: Tom Davis yourself, who featuring the Sons of Beaches, will
Speaker 3: be coming. And we just got the inside scoop that
Speaker 3: Tom was rehearsing last night. He's up really late, but
Speaker 3: it all went good. He's here this morning. And then
Speaker 3: on Sunday we conclude our showcase with a two pm okay,
Speaker 3: another youth board, keyboard orchestra, and so please come out
Speaker 3: and hear these kids.
Speaker 2: They are once in a lifetime thing we need.
Speaker 3: They are fantastic because they are our opening group. We
Speaker 3: have one of the age groups and then the older
Speaker 3: age group is playing on that Sunday and people are
Speaker 3: going to be blown away because it's like having a
Speaker 3: full orchestra but on keyboards, and the sound is amazing.
Speaker 3: These kids are amazingly talented at it, and they really
Speaker 3: just have a really good time. We have a again
Speaker 3: wide variety of music styles that they will be performing
Speaker 3: to really show off those keyboards that are extremely expensive
Speaker 3: and very fancy, as my dad would call them, and
Speaker 3: so we really really these kids are amazing. We had
Speaker 3: our Christmas concert I mentioned I think last time I
Speaker 3: was on here and we had over three hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty people at that and it was fantastic, and so,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just something that we are the only
Speaker 3: ones in northeast Oklahoma, actually the whole state of Oklahoma
Speaker 3: that has a full year round program. We are pretty
Speaker 3: confident that we are the only ones in the United
Speaker 3: States that have a youth keyboard orchestra that is year round.
Speaker 3: We haven't found another one, and so I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's pretty pretty darn exciting. But
Speaker 3: Lisa Stiehill does an amazing job, along with a lot
Speaker 3: of other adults that help. And then our last performance,
Speaker 3: one that is is a fan favorite is Brent Gooddens.
Speaker 3: He will be performing as Elvis and so there you
Speaker 3: go at four o'clock on Sunday and again free. So
Speaker 3: nine one eight three three six nine nine zero zero
Speaker 3: is the office number. You can come by and see Madeline.
Speaker 3: She'll sell you a ticket. You can call Rose, she'll
Speaker 3: sell you a ticket. Or you can go online okaymusic
Speaker 3: dot org and see where the festival. It kind of
Speaker 3: scrolls by, or you can go to events. You can
Speaker 3: go to the calendar, you can go to the drop
Speaker 3: down menu that says festival and you just click on
Speaker 3: and buy your tickets. Super easy.
Speaker 2: My gosh it is.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how you do this with
Speaker 1: your your website, but every year it just keeps getting
Speaker 1: better and better and easier and easier.
Speaker 2: They have Even an.
Speaker 1: Old guy like me can get on there and say, hey,
Speaker 1: that was pretty easy.
Speaker 3: We are trying, you know. It always it's WordPress is
Speaker 3: a fun, fun app. It always has a lot of
Speaker 3: intricate details. So we have a lot of people. Jasell
Speaker 3: who has been on here many times, one of our
Speaker 3: other summer a really full time interns. She is amazing
Speaker 3: with it. And we have a lot of help from
Speaker 3: other folks too that have to come in and help
Speaker 3: us do some coding. But you know, it's one of
Speaker 3: those things that, yeah, it's it is what it is,
Speaker 3: and we hope that it's user friendly for people. I
Speaker 3: buy tickets for people all the time on my phone
Speaker 3: when I'm out and about, and so yeah, it's you
Speaker 3: can do it on your phone, you can do it
Speaker 3: on your iPad, your computer. Coming and see us coming
Speaker 3: and see Madeline, tell her hi, meet her. Madelin helps
Speaker 3: run our sugar Plum shop too. She and Katie work
Speaker 3: hard on that. In fact, her project this week is
Speaker 3: and we just got the news square, I guess reader,
Speaker 3: and I don't know all the fancy stuff that goes
Speaker 3: with having scanners and bells and whistles and so all that.
Speaker 3: So it'll make it faster for our customers when they're
Speaker 3: checking out. Okay, so we're having fun setting that up.
Speaker 2: How do you like it so far? How's your internship going?
Speaker 3: I really like it.
Speaker 2: It's great, isn't it everything that was promised? Yeah? Pretty
Speaker 2: fast paced, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I like it my goodness sake. So well, you know,
Speaker 2: come back if you know.
Speaker 1: This is one of the festivals that you just won't
Speaker 1: find anywhere else. It's rather unique and it's right here
Speaker 1: in our hometown. We're so proud of it. We're so
Speaker 1: proud of you for being here.
Speaker 3: And choosing it. No, it's fun, and the interns worked
Speaker 3: very hard. We couldn't do this festival without the interns.
Speaker 3: They are amazing. In fact, we have three more coming.
Speaker 3: They'll start on Tuesday, after Memorial Day, and so we're exited.
Speaker 3: One of them is our very own Luke Olsen. So
Speaker 3: great a young man. He's just going to be a
Speaker 3: graduate this Friday. I think that's graduation for Bartlesville High School.
Speaker 3: And I think Luke just cleaned up at the Senior
Speaker 3: Awards simply. He got an award from Okay on music.
Speaker 3: He got the mim Scholarship. He did not know that
Speaker 3: he was getting that. He came in the other day
Speaker 3: to talk about the internship and we're just going a
Speaker 3: little bit over about you know, what to expect and
Speaker 3: all that good stuff. And I had to sort of
Speaker 3: play dom like, oh, Luke, what instrument do you play?
Speaker 3: And where are you going to school? Because I knew
Speaker 3: he was getting the award. He didn't know that I
Speaker 3: knew that, and so I hope he was surprised. And
Speaker 3: I can't wait to give them a hard time about
Speaker 3: it when he comes in. But what an amazing kid.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of our interns are so amazingly talented.
Speaker 3: Madelin is a business major, so that's kind of fun
Speaker 3: for me because normally we have mostly music majors. I
Speaker 3: think Luke's going on to do music education or music performance.
Speaker 3: Just Sell of course is doing music, and so many
Speaker 3: of our other ones, so they usually know a lot
Speaker 3: of things I don't know. But Madeline is business and
Speaker 3: I feel like I know a little bit more maybe
Speaker 3: about that than I always do music. But it's it's awesome.
Speaker 3: She's been helping me do financials and she's been learning
Speaker 3: about sort of how we do the backside on the
Speaker 3: operations side. So it's kind of fun for me to
Speaker 3: get to have an intern that I can share my
Speaker 3: knowledge with. Since I don't play musical instruments and don't sing,
Speaker 3: and I can't you could share that, you could, I could,
Speaker 3: but nobody would want to listen to I don't have
Speaker 3: some fun. Okay, you know, I can sing in the
Speaker 3: car quite nicely, but I'm not sure anyone else would
Speaker 3: really want to hear that.
Speaker 2: And I hate it when the singer on the radio
Speaker 2: changes the words.
Speaker 3: Well, the words and the keys. You know, you just
Speaker 3: can't stay. I mean it's like really hard to sing
Speaker 3: with Seline Dion. I cannot hit those notes that might
Speaker 3: be a good thing. Tom No, But I think you
Speaker 3: know again, we're so grateful to the interns, Grateful to
Speaker 3: Rose she has worked so hard on the children's programming.
Speaker 3: Thankful to we call him Papa at the office. But
Speaker 3: to John M. He has been out. If he doesn't
Speaker 3: ask you for money, he asks if he can put
Speaker 3: a poster up. And if he doesn't ask for that,
Speaker 3: he asks you to come. And I think when people
Speaker 3: see him coming, they're like, well, John, why are you
Speaker 3: here today? And he says, well, nice that you ask.
Speaker 3: But you know, we invite everyone to come because that's
Speaker 3: how you continue the legacy. It's not just about making donations.
Speaker 3: It's not just about you know, a nonprofit, but it
Speaker 3: is about getting involved. It's about making the community enriched
Speaker 3: with the arts. Arts are important. They bring education, they
Speaker 3: bring soul. Music is universal. It's a universal language. It
Speaker 3: appeals to everyone. It brings businesses together, communities together, and
Speaker 3: such as the radio. We love partnering with our business
Speaker 3: community partners.
Speaker 2: You know's something.
Speaker 1: Every time I'm out at Sunbeast, I see John and
Speaker 1: it's like, dude, do you ever sleep?
Speaker 2: He is a million places you know.
Speaker 3: Actually, yes, he goes to bed every night pretty early,
Speaker 3: likes to do his prayers, and then he reads I
Speaker 3: don't know, five hundred different newspaper periodicals and then he's
Speaker 3: just me to sleep by I would say, ten, ten thirty,
Speaker 3: and then gets up every morning at four am again
Speaker 3: does morning prayers and more reading, and he is ready
Speaker 3: to go. I'm sure he's out right now making calls
Speaker 3: to patrons, are out again seeing businesses, saying are you
Speaker 3: going to come? Don't you want to come? Don't you
Speaker 3: want to volunteer? Exactly? He's very persuasive. Everyone loves him.
Speaker 3: He is truly an asset. Rose is truly an asset.
Speaker 3: And Katie, also our new staff member, is doing a
Speaker 3: fantastic job. She is help writing our safety manuals right
Speaker 3: now for training, and so I think she's having all
Speaker 3: kinds of fun. So yeah, no, we do a little
Speaker 3: bit of everything at Okay Music. Also encourage people to
Speaker 3: come by and see all of our summer line of
Speaker 3: things at the Sugar Plumb shop. That's hard and yes,
Speaker 3: visit Madeline. She'll give you a tour, show you all
Speaker 3: the good, tasty things that you want to buy. Are
Speaker 3: the pretty things you want to put in your house.
Speaker 3: And again, all proceeds from the Sugar Pump Shop. Help.
Speaker 3: OKAY Music children's programming.
Speaker 1: Very good in the Calarie Free Now tell everybody where
Speaker 1: we can find the OKM office, because we were talking
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: That is true. We are located downtown in the heart
Speaker 3: of Bartlesville. We are at four fifteen South Dewey. We
Speaker 3: are across the street from Gateway Bank, Caddy corner from
Speaker 3: RBS Bank, and right next door to Roger State University.
Speaker 2: Can't miss it.
Speaker 3: You can't miss it. If I go out the door,
Speaker 3: I look down to the right to see Price Tower,
Speaker 3: I look down to the left and you can see
Speaker 3: the rest of downtown, the baseball stadium, So you cannot
Speaker 3: miss us.
Speaker 2: Best in town.
Speaker 3: It is a very good view. Everyone is very friendly.
Speaker 3: We have an amazing staff. So yeah, come by and
Speaker 3: see us. We'll give you a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: Now, if we want to get tickets, just go to
Speaker 1: the website, folks, and remember with the showcase, you need
Speaker 1: to get your RSVP right there at the site and
Speaker 1: when you go there, it gives you. It's like three choices,
Speaker 1: you know, kids, the Festivall and the showcase. Just follow
Speaker 1: the directions. The prompts are pretty easy. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get lost, You're not going to say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what have I done. It'll get you right where you
Speaker 1: want to go. And if you're not too sure about it,
Speaker 1: just call in your grandkid.
Speaker 3: No, it's super easy. And we do have patrons that
Speaker 3: light to come in and just say hi to Rose
Speaker 3: and see and so that part's nice. You know. Again,
Speaker 3: want to give a shout out all of children. Programming
Speaker 3: is free all children attending the main stage concert the festival.
Speaker 3: Children eighteen and under are free. So there's no reason
Speaker 3: not to bring your kids. Introduce them to classical music,
Speaker 3: Introduce them to going to concerts and having fun. We
Speaker 3: will have children's games and whatnot out at wool Rock,
Speaker 3: so it's a really nice time for families to come
Speaker 3: out there. We have food trucks, amazing food trucks, so
Speaker 3: please come out and support those guys. You just can't
Speaker 3: go wrong.
Speaker 2: I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: This is someone who had ask me to shorty sure,
Speaker 1: how soon can they start signing up for the kids
Speaker 1: programs for next year.
Speaker 3: We will probably not release that now. There will be
Speaker 3: programming for Tiberfest and Chris Kendall. No. I usually we
Speaker 3: start the kids stuff early. We started in March. We
Speaker 3: try to start it before spring break so that people
Speaker 3: can start thinking about it and plan. We know that,
Speaker 3: you know, it takes a lot of planning for parents
Speaker 3: who work to get their kids to these things, so
Speaker 3: we do try to start that early. So I would say,
Speaker 3: you know, in the last three years, if I average
Speaker 3: it out, it's been the last part of February, first
Speaker 3: part of March. Very good, thank you. That's that's a
Speaker 3: nice question. A problem to have.
Speaker 2: It's a great problem, it's true.
Speaker 1: So once again we start with the kids, and we've
Speaker 1: got the big FESTI we're coming up and everybody has Friday,
Speaker 1: and then we get ready for October Fast and Chris
Speaker 1: Kendle Market and start the whole thing.
Speaker 3: All over a we do. We have a year's packed
Speaker 3: worth of events. We will at the end of the
Speaker 3: day give over thousands of books away to children, other
Speaker 3: educational items, instruments. I mean, you name it, we do it.
Speaker 3: But come by the office four fifteen South Dewey. Call
Speaker 3: Rose nine one eight three three six nine nine zero zero.
Speaker 3: Come see Madeline or go on the website and see
Speaker 3: what a great dog Distelle has done building that website
Speaker 3: and it's okmmusic dot org.
Speaker 2: Very good, lady, thanks for being with us today.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
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