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Speaker 2: And it starts so soon.
Speaker 3: Okam, I can't believe it's here. Marylynn, ma'am, it's just
Speaker 3: right around here.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Tom, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm kind of excited here because there's a
Speaker 3: lot going on.
Speaker 2: There is so much going on. We kick off our
Speaker 2: festival this Friday, especially for kids. We'll kick off and
Speaker 2: we are almost at capacity with all of our events.
Speaker 2: It is really crazy. But not only do we have that,
Speaker 2: we have our main festival which will then also kick
Speaker 2: off on June sixth through eighth. So we ask everyone
Speaker 2: and anyone to go to okmusic dot org and check
Speaker 2: us out. But today, Tom, even though I want to
Speaker 2: sell tickets and I want people to come and I
Speaker 2: want them to see all this wonderful stuff, I've brought
Speaker 2: a friend and I want to talk about community partners.
Speaker 2: Brought Lucas Nettles from Revo, and I want to talk
Speaker 2: about why it's so important for OKM Music and all
Speaker 2: nonprofits to partner and have community partners, because without them,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't be here. Just like the radio station. Revo
Speaker 2: Financials makes it possible. Lucas and his father John are
Speaker 2: just amazing, amazing partners to partner with. They are so
Speaker 2: supportive of our programming and of all the children's programming.
Speaker 2: I was just asking Lucas how many children he has.
Speaker 2: He has five, and so he needs to bring them
Speaker 2: to all the children's stuff. But the Revo Financial family
Speaker 2: has helped us sponsor the passport for gosh, going back
Speaker 2: at least five six years, and we are just so
Speaker 2: thankful to them. It makes us able to do these
Speaker 2: really cute little passports that all the kids get and
Speaker 2: you see the Nettles family on the back and the
Speaker 2: Revo stuff, and so I want to just say thank
Speaker 2: you so much, Lucas. We really couldn't do this without you.
Speaker 2: And I told Lucas I wanted him to come and
Speaker 2: I wanted to share this time because we know everyone's
Speaker 2: going to come to the festival, We know people are
Speaker 2: signed up and tell us about your business and tell
Speaker 2: us what it's like to be a partner with the
Speaker 2: arts and what that means to you, guys, absolutely so.
Speaker 4: Revo Financial we're an independent, faith based financial planning firm.
Speaker 4: We primarily work with clients to help them establish and
Speaker 4: define goals and then come up with a strategy to
Speaker 4: meet those goals, all while shooting for peace of mind
Speaker 4: and investments that they can be proud of, and aligning
Speaker 4: everything with biblical stewardship. I work with my father, and
Speaker 4: he and I are like minded. We love music, we
Speaker 4: love the arts. I am a musician. My oldest daughter
Speaker 4: loves to sing and play piano. And it's important to
Speaker 4: REVO to invest in our community, particularly with organizations that
Speaker 4: align with our values. And Mozart is right there. And
Speaker 4: so we love participating, we love supporting, we love bringing
Speaker 4: our kids, and we think everyone should have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to learn the value of music and fine arts.
Speaker 2: Thank you, And because of Reva's generosity, we're able to
Speaker 2: offer all of our children's programming free, and so that's
Speaker 2: what makes it really nice for the community and for
Speaker 2: our kiddos, because we want all children to have access
Speaker 2: to the arts. I mean, just like your daughter, she
Speaker 2: loves to sing, she loves to play the piano. You know,
Speaker 2: when you bring kids, then maybe I've never been exposed
Speaker 2: to the arts or music. It's so amazing just to
Speaker 2: watch their face light up, they see someone play an instrument,
Speaker 2: they hear someone seeing I've been to numerous of our
Speaker 2: events where you just you know, this light comes on
Speaker 2: and you can just see it in their eyes. And
Speaker 2: that's why we do what we do. That's why it
Speaker 2: makes it magical and we're so excited. And I know
Speaker 2: in working with your dad, Lucas, that you guys also
Speaker 2: have a lot of help for special needs families and
Speaker 2: like doing the Special Needs Trust and all of those things,
Speaker 2: and so I know that whenever we work with John,
Speaker 2: you know, he's always like, well, what do you have
Speaker 2: for my clients and what can I tell them about?
Speaker 2: And so you know, we have focused certainly at Okay
Speaker 2: and Music on special needs children's whether it's autism or
Speaker 2: deaf education, and we try to bring music components and
Speaker 2: the arts to everyone and really make it accessible. And
Speaker 2: so we always really appreciate Rebo financial that you're thoughtful
Speaker 2: about that and that you're interested in that, and that
Speaker 2: you know we can help serve another underserved population and
Speaker 2: I think that's really important, So again, thank you for
Speaker 2: that too. And then tell us the ages of your
Speaker 2: kids and we'll tell them what they need to come to.
Speaker 4: Oh, goodness. So my oldest is nine, I have a
Speaker 4: seven year old, I have a four year old, I
Speaker 4: have a two year old, and I have a seven
Speaker 4: month old, all right, and so we're right in the
Speaker 4: thick of it.
Speaker 2: Even the seven month old would enjoy the music. But
Speaker 2: I mean, those are the perfect ages. We have art
Speaker 2: immersion programming where they get to come and they get
Speaker 2: to learn about edeg and classical music, but then they
Speaker 2: also get to do some painting. We have another one
Speaker 2: where they're going to get to draw a self portrait
Speaker 2: because they're going to we're sort of celebrating Norway this season,
Speaker 2: and so they're gonna learn about Edward Greig, they're gonna
Speaker 2: learn about Edvard Munk and the Scream. Then they get
Speaker 2: to do a self portrait. We have all kinds of
Speaker 2: like if your your daughter might really like this. Lisa
Speaker 2: Steele's kids do this wonderful keyboard orchestra. And these kids
Speaker 2: come in and they have this really fancy keyboard at
Speaker 2: Clava Nova Yamaha, and they get to play it and
Speaker 2: they're gonna play the trumpet, they may be playing a violin,
Speaker 2: they may be playing brass. I mean, it's really cool,
Speaker 2: and so they sound like a full orchestra, and so
Speaker 2: we have those experiences. Your daughter might want to join
Speaker 2: that orchestra and become part of that. We have puppet shows.
Speaker 2: We have story time. Every story time again thanks to Rebo,
Speaker 2: every child will get a book, and so that's really
Speaker 2: exciting for us to be able to give away thousands
Speaker 2: of books each season. And I hear the dads even
Speaker 2: like the puppet shows, Caleb. Caleb was, yeah, no, I
Speaker 2: think the puppet shows are fantastic. They're all music themed.
Speaker 2: We have a tea party if you like to do
Speaker 2: tea is in theme. I actually brought Elsa with me today.
Speaker 2: She's long from Norway coming and she's going to be there.
Speaker 2: So we're super excited. But again, we could not do
Speaker 2: this without Revo. And so you know, we hope that
Speaker 2: did your dad play musical instrument too?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I think he may well.
Speaker 4: He did piano as a child and he sings.
Speaker 2: So so you got it from did your mom play?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom's so. My mom's a singer.
Speaker 4: Okay, she sung all through my childhood and music has
Speaker 4: a special place. I mean, it can communicate things that
Speaker 4: just words alone can't communicate. So it's a great thing
Speaker 4: for everyone to be exposed to. And it's more we
Speaker 4: care about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean there is no boundary, and it
Speaker 2: just it unites a community and it brings businesses together.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the part that is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 2: we have Tom and his band performing for us, and
Speaker 2: he also worked to the radio station is so kind
Speaker 2: to us every time we come on air, and it
Speaker 2: really just takes an entire community. But I think, what's
Speaker 2: so cool. And I'm always so excited when I meet
Speaker 2: a community member that actually is a musician too. It's
Speaker 2: like we have all these hidden talents and Bartlesville. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: so I think that's really cool. So did your daughter
Speaker 2: tape piano listens? She does? Yes, Oh wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, and see that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: We just have all these budding artists. Maybe someday she'll
Speaker 2: perform for ok AS and she'll be one of our stars.
Speaker 2: You might tell her. We have a pianist the share
Speaker 2: who's doing a concert in Tulsa, Natasha Peremski. She's on
Speaker 2: Saturday night at Casha Hall, and so we would love
Speaker 2: for your daughter to come if she would love to
Speaker 2: hear that we have our Woola Rock concert, which we'll
Speaker 2: kick off on Friday night. We will have also a
Speaker 2: pianist there who will have a couple of solo pieces
Speaker 2: that we're very excited about. Tom is going to be
Speaker 2: in seeing that along with John Howe, so we're super excited.
Speaker 2: John's on the board. I think that's going to beautiful
Speaker 2: and then we'll end it at the Refinery downtown and
Speaker 2: we will have usher quartete that we were returning. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if you like strings, but we invite
Speaker 2: everyone to come out and if you can, please check
Speaker 2: out Okay Music at okmusic dot org and get all
Speaker 2: of our schedules. And then Lucas where do they find you.
Speaker 4: At Rivorevo financial dot com.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, Please go and visit. This family is amazing. They're
Speaker 2: always about in the community. They're very supportive of everything
Speaker 2: in the community. And again, this is my first time
Speaker 2: getting to meet Lucas, but I've known his dad for
Speaker 2: a while and he is just truly an angel. He's
Speaker 2: just the sweetest, kindest man. I'm sure that Lucas is
Speaker 2: also equally sweet, and you know, we're just very very
Speaker 2: excited to have your family, help us, have your business,
Speaker 2: help us, and we want to send as many people
Speaker 2: your way as we can. So we really thank you thanks.
Speaker 1: For really helping out with the kids program, especially for children.
Speaker 1: This is really a remarkable thing. When mary Lynne told
Speaker 1: me he was feeling up fast, I had no idea
Speaker 1: how fast it was filling up and without your help,
Speaker 1: you know, great, thank you for everything it did.
Speaker 2: The day we launched, I told Tom on one of
Speaker 2: our radio broadcasts that it was insane. We had over
Speaker 2: eighteen hundred people who went ahead and registered their kids,
Speaker 2: and so we do still have a few. We've opened
Speaker 2: up one of our art immersions. We opened up a
Speaker 2: second one to try to to give more kids an opportunities.
Speaker 2: So please go on the website look for that, okayammusic
Speaker 2: dot org. And then you know our SunFest one. We
Speaker 2: partner with Chevron Phillips and they provide hoops and we
Speaker 2: have hoop dancing and it's really fantastic because it brings
Speaker 2: in local culture, but then it also gives the kids
Speaker 2: an opportunity to learn something new and new dance and
Speaker 2: so every child will leave with a hoop that one.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's huge. So as many kids can come
Speaker 2: as wan, so please sign up for that to make
Speaker 2: sure we have enough hoops. Of course, our puppet shows,
Speaker 2: our bigger audiences, our art immersion and our story times
Speaker 2: tend to be a little bit smaller just because of
Speaker 2: the spacing issues. But a lot of our events there's
Speaker 2: plenty of rooms, so please just sign up for those
Speaker 2: and bring out the kids and come see Lucas. We're
Speaker 2: hoping his five children will be there. Yeah, we you know,
Speaker 2: we And the other nice thing that when we do
Speaker 2: partner is we are able to give tickets and exchange
Speaker 2: and so you know, we always just you know, companies
Speaker 2: say well, what can we do to help, and we're like,
Speaker 2: you know, please volunteer. We want to give goodwill to
Speaker 2: your company. So bring signage if you know, if like
Speaker 2: you're a car dealer, bring out your cars, showcase them off.
Speaker 2: You can always bring out brochures and hand out and
Speaker 2: if you want to give us some to put up
Speaker 2: our booth at SunFest, we love to pass those out
Speaker 2: for you. You know. That is what community partnering is
Speaker 2: all about, sharing everyone's story and sharing the wealth of
Speaker 2: information with the community.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, and it works out so well. In
Speaker 1: this community. It really does. I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: I think Bartles Will is pretty unique in everything.
Speaker 2: I think Bartlesviill is amazingly generous and you know, just
Speaker 2: the most philanthropic, volunteer oriented community I've ever lived in.
Speaker 3: Indeed, this is really something.
Speaker 1: So once again we start off at SunFest with the
Speaker 1: Hoop Dance.
Speaker 2: Actually that will be Saturday. Normally it does kick it off,
Speaker 2: but this year the kickoff is the keyboard orchestra concert
Speaker 2: at first Presbyterian we did. We do have that first,
Speaker 2: and then we go to SunFest. Then we go to
Speaker 2: Sunday or we have Saturday. We have our tea Sunday.
Speaker 2: We'll go into the radio boogie Bingo that night, and
Speaker 2: an art immersion during the day too, Art immersions actually,
Speaker 2: then the rest of the week we go into story time,
Speaker 2: puppet times, all of those shows and amazing fun and
Speaker 2: then our finale and then we have another art immersion.
Speaker 2: We do have a violin instruction in ukulele, which the
Speaker 2: kids have been preparing for. Are our interns are master musicians,
Speaker 2: so that'll be fun. Every kid gets a ukulele or
Speaker 2: a violin if they come. And then we end it
Speaker 2: with a really fun little troll jam experience out on
Speaker 2: the green of the whatever tower. I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun. We'll have a DJ. We have all kinds
Speaker 2: of ice cream that Elsa over here has helped figure.
Speaker 2: Actually it's Madeline, our intern, but she's pick all the
Speaker 2: ice cream up for that. I think she's got some
Speaker 2: good ice cream plans. I think the kids are gonna
Speaker 2: have fun. We have lots of games and bubbles, and
Speaker 2: she's all kinds of fun and of course the DJ
Speaker 2: always makes it magical. So the adults are dancing, the
Speaker 2: kids are dancing, and it's just fun, and there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of prizes and oh yeah, and then on the
Speaker 2: passport again, yes, we have a financial sponsor for us.
Speaker 2: You're so grateful. Every childhood comes, they can start picking
Speaker 2: those up this week, actually today, they'll they'll come to events,
Speaker 2: they'll get a stamp. Somewhere in here there's a stamp page.
Speaker 2: They will then have it stamped, and then they're entered
Speaker 2: to when a prize and then we have all these
Speaker 2: drawings for these amazing prizes. Companies like Ribo have made
Speaker 2: possible for us, and it's really fun for the kids.
Speaker 2: They have fun and come out learn seeing dance win
Speaker 2: a prize.
Speaker 3: My goodness, it's.
Speaker 1: All coming together and it's all coming so fast, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be wonderful. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: action packed week for the youngsters. Buy an action pack
Speaker 1: for the adults with the.
Speaker 2: Adults and families. Yeah, absolutely so okaymusic dot Org. Or
Speaker 2: you can call the office nine one eight three three
Speaker 2: six nine nine zero zero. Lookas who do they call?
Speaker 2: If they want to come set up.
Speaker 4: An appointment, they can call our office nine one eight
Speaker 4: three three six seven eight seven seven awesome.
Speaker 2: Please do go see youbo Financial. They're amazing, amazing folks.
Speaker 2: They'll take care of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, all of you for coming in
Speaker 1: today and sharing with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you Tom.
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