Speaker 1: It's a busy day today with us here and k
Speaker 1: one for our community connections. And standing by on the
Speaker 1: telephone is Mary Lynn min with OKM. It is getting
Speaker 1: so close to festival. How are you doing, young lady?
Speaker 2: It is getting so close. Good morning, Tom, I'm great.
Speaker 2: How about yourself?
Speaker 1: I couldn't be finer. We got the kids programs coming up,
Speaker 1: We've got the programs for everyone coming up. And wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you and your staff and your
Speaker 1: interns pull it all together, but thank you on behalf
Speaker 1: of all of us here in the community for what
Speaker 1: the wonderful things you do for our town.
Speaker 2: That's very kind. And you know we work very hard
Speaker 2: all year with a lot of help from God and
Speaker 2: a lot of help from our patrons and community and
Speaker 2: community partners like yourself. Somehow it manages to go off.
Speaker 2: But we do kick off this season with our kids,
Speaker 2: especially for kids. That begins Friday, May thirtieth, where we
Speaker 2: will have our Keyboard Orchestra give its third concert and
Speaker 2: we're very excited about that. The kids are very excited
Speaker 2: about it. They'll be playing many pieces that are familiar
Speaker 2: to everyone, so we invite everyone to come out on
Speaker 2: Friday May thirtieth. The concert will start at six pm
Speaker 2: and it will be at first Sebyterian Church. And then
Speaker 2: following that we go into our beloved tea time in Arundelle,
Speaker 2: a frozen theme tea this year on Saturday May thirty
Speaker 2: first at one pm, and that will be at Saint
Speaker 2: Luke's Church. I believe we have we were sold out
Speaker 2: as of yesterday. However, we were able to shift around
Speaker 2: at another table and I think we have six spots left,
Speaker 2: So if you want to come to that tea, you
Speaker 2: need to get your spot. That is the only thing
Speaker 2: during the Kids Festival that is a actual pay event dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Tickets are ten dollars a person. It's a
Speaker 2: really spectacular tea. There's wonderful harp music by Laura liied Bar,
Speaker 2: which of course leaves all the songs from Prison that
Speaker 2: everyone can dance and sing to. And then we have
Speaker 2: a lovely tea party. We have games and then we
Speaker 2: have really fun giveaways. So it's a very popular part
Speaker 2: of the festival and we all really enjoy it as
Speaker 2: the staff goes. Then following that evening, at seven o'clock,
Speaker 2: we will have our dancing and eagles return out to
Speaker 2: SunFest at Sooner Park and the kids will get hoops,
Speaker 2: they'll learn how to hoop dance, they will learn the
Speaker 2: cultural meeting behind the hoop dancing, and then they'll get
Speaker 2: to watch the hoop dancers that are just fantastic. We
Speaker 2: love having them. On Sunday, June first, at two pm,
Speaker 2: we have our first art immersion experience. This year's festival
Speaker 2: is dedicated to Edvard Gries and so it's a heavy
Speaker 2: focus on Edvard's life, his music, a little bit about
Speaker 2: Norway where he came from. And so our first art
Speaker 2: and immersion will be the painting of trolls, and so
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a really fun time
Speaker 2: for the kids that'll be at Ambler Hall on Sunday,
Speaker 2: June first, two pm. Every child that comes to participate
Speaker 2: will get to take home this magic a light brush
Speaker 2: by Crayola, and they'll get to take their piece of
Speaker 2: art home that they make and about trolls, they'll learn
Speaker 2: a little bit about Edward Greek and they'll listen to
Speaker 2: some music by at Bard Greek while they're painting. So
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be fun. Tom. I hope
Speaker 2: that I get to paint a troll on that evening
Speaker 2: thanks to the radio station again partnering with us, so
Speaker 2: thank you guys so much, Dori and Kevin, we will
Speaker 2: be doing Boogie Bingo and that will be at six pm.
Speaker 2: Families will get to come by pick up their Bingo
Speaker 2: cards and then every family gets a pizza, get certificate
Speaker 2: to order a pizza that night, play Boogy Bingo and
Speaker 2: we give out prices and it's always so much fun.
Speaker 2: So again Sunday, June first, six pm for Boogie Bingo
Speaker 2: and we might have a little bit of a Frozen
Speaker 2: music thrown in that one as well. Then on Monday
Speaker 2: we begin our first story and experience and that is
Speaker 2: The Trouble with Trolls at the Bartletone Library and that
Speaker 2: will be at ten am and so that's going to
Speaker 2: be really fun. That book is illustrated by Jan Brett
Speaker 2: and it's just so such a beautiful book. Then that
Speaker 2: afternoon we will have another story experience at the Bartislow
Speaker 2: Library at one pm and that will be the Frozen
Speaker 2: Story Book Collection, so again bringing Elsa and on it
Speaker 2: back to the scene and having their tale told, so
Speaker 2: that will be fun. Then later that day at three
Speaker 2: o'clock again on Monday, June second, at the Bartlestow Library,
Speaker 2: we will have a story about the three Vikings. So
Speaker 2: you see our theme. Tom we either have trolls or
Speaker 2: Vikings or explore the characters from Frozen. Then on Tuesday
Speaker 2: we go into yet another fun, fun story about Vole
Speaker 2: and the Troll, so a little animal creature who tries
Speaker 2: to befriend of trolls. That will also be at the
Speaker 2: bartles of the Library at ten am. On that afternoon,
Speaker 2: we have a music experience that's also story telling as well,
Speaker 2: and that is the Story Orchestra in the Hall of
Speaker 2: the Mountain King, and that will be again at the
Speaker 2: Bartlesviill Library. And the really nice thing about all of
Speaker 2: the music story experiences is every child will leave with
Speaker 2: a book, and so the book the story that they
Speaker 2: get to hear read by the library and at the
Speaker 2: bars of the library, they then get to take home
Speaker 2: and continue the magic of reliving that story as often
Speaker 2: as they would like. And so I think that's something
Speaker 2: that's really important to us to be able to share
Speaker 2: that with children and to inspire them to dream, to
Speaker 2: inspire them to maybe become a musician someday, or at
Speaker 2: least take up music as a hobby and it's just
Speaker 2: a way for them to explore. So we're always very
Speaker 2: blessed that our patrons and our corporate generals help us
Speaker 2: make that possible for our youth. We think it's very
Speaker 2: important and we think it's just a really nice way
Speaker 2: to teach them music education and to inspire their creativity.
Speaker 2: So then continuing we're only halfway through. On Tuesday, at
Speaker 2: six pm we have our Twinkled Big Stars Concerts in
Speaker 2: Ambler Hall and that will be a very special night
Speaker 2: where we are going to have Dylan Everts students come
Speaker 2: in and they will be performing on piano, they will
Speaker 2: also be singing, and so we can't wait to hear
Speaker 2: her students share their talents and inspire some new talents
Speaker 2: to take flight. Then also at that same time in
Speaker 2: Tulsa at seven pm on Tuesday evening, we have our
Speaker 2: first puppet show, How to Skag a Sea Monster, and
Speaker 2: that will be at Hardest Library. Then on June fourth,
Speaker 2: now we're on Wednesday, at nine thirty am, we have
Speaker 2: Ringo's Singalongs puppet show in Ambler Hall and the puppet
Speaker 2: company that's coming is just an amazing They do an
Speaker 2: amazing job. They every year we have standing room only
Speaker 2: and it's just super fun. So we're going to have
Speaker 2: two showings of Ringos Sing Along on Wednesday, one at
Speaker 2: nine point thirty and then another one at eleven, and
Speaker 2: I think we're almost filled to capacity on both of those.
Speaker 2: Then later that afternoon at two pm, we will have
Speaker 2: How to Snag a Sea Monster, which was the same
Speaker 2: puppet show that was performed Untilsa the evening before, so
Speaker 2: we're bringing that one to Bartlesville as well. And the
Speaker 2: fun thing about those events is every child will take
Speaker 2: home a puppet, and then when they attend, they'll be
Speaker 2: also entered into a drawing to win a bigger type
Speaker 2: of puppet, so they'll leave with a little finger puppet
Speaker 2: and then they might win an actual, bigger handheld type puppet.
Speaker 2: Then we go into our finale on Thursday. We have
Speaker 2: another art immersion at ten am and once again on Thursday,
Speaker 2: June Stiffs, and this time they're going to listen and
Speaker 2: learn about Edvard Grieg, so listen to some more music,
Speaker 2: but then they're also going to learn about Edvard Monch
Speaker 2: who played it, ormonk who painted the scream, and so
Speaker 2: this time they'll be painting a self portrait of themselves
Speaker 2: while learning about these two very famous Norwegian artists, and
Speaker 2: so we're very excited to share that. Then that evening
Speaker 2: or I'm sority that afternoon, actually we have an instrument
Speaker 2: and music immersion where every child that comes will learn
Speaker 2: about violin and the ukulele, and then they will leave
Speaker 2: with those instruments, and so that's always super fun and exciting.
Speaker 2: And then that evening our finale is a jammin with trolls,
Speaker 2: and that's going to be a fun musical dance, have
Speaker 2: snow cones and then just kind of do the troll
Speaker 2: dancing with our DJ out at the Unity Square. So
Speaker 2: we're very excited about it. It was wildly popular last year.
Speaker 2: We hope kids will come out. We have lots of
Speaker 2: games and bubbles and all kinds of troll themed type
Speaker 2: scenes we do have as part of our festival. The
Speaker 2: main part of the festival on Sunday, June eighth, we
Speaker 2: will have our second older kids playing the keyboard orchestra
Speaker 2: at two PM at the First Presbyterian Church, but that's
Speaker 2: also during the main part, so we hope that everyone
Speaker 2: will come out and hear that the kids have been
Speaker 2: preparing for several months now, and it's just they are
Speaker 2: truly amazing. If you don't know what a keyboard orchestra is,
Speaker 2: imagine that you have a full sixty pieced orchestra, but
Speaker 2: instead of having sixty individuals a lot about twenty ten
Speaker 2: to twenty kids at each of these concerts that will
Speaker 2: actually be playing a keyboard that reproduces the sound of
Speaker 2: a violin, of a base of whatever instrument will be
Speaker 2: included in that particular arrangement. So it's really amazing. I
Speaker 2: think it takes people kind of back sometimes when they
Speaker 2: come for the first time how much it just sounds
Speaker 2: like an orchestra and it's wonderful, and it's just it's
Speaker 2: really incredible what these kids are able to do. So
Speaker 2: we invite everyone to do that and Tom, if that
Speaker 2: wasn't enough, then we go into our main stage performances
Speaker 2: for our forty first Okay and Music Festival, and that
Speaker 2: kicks off on Friday, June sixth at our wonderful, beloved
Speaker 2: partner and usual landscape of Woollolock Gates will open up
Speaker 2: six We'll have Grady Nichols, our lovely friends and he's
Speaker 2: performed numerous times at the Okay and Music Festival. But
Speaker 2: he's just down the road in Tulsa and he's our
Speaker 2: very beloved jazz artist. He's coming to open up for
Speaker 2: us at Wolloocks. We can't wait to have him. And
Speaker 2: then at eight thirty, Manhattan Chamber Players will make their
Speaker 2: second debut at the Okay and Music Festival and where
Speaker 2: it's super excited to have them back. They are an
Speaker 2: ensemble that they all individually have day jobs performing in
Speaker 2: various symphonies and various chamber ensembles, but they come together
Speaker 2: for these special events and occasions. Many of these guys
Speaker 2: went to school together, you know, ten fifteen years ago,
Speaker 2: but they decided that they would have this sort of
Speaker 2: eclectic group that they form, and then they travel all
Speaker 2: over the world and all over the United States and
Speaker 2: come together in various ensembles to perform at festivals like ours.
Speaker 2: And so they're very very talented. We're very excited to
Speaker 2: have them. They will be performing beautiful, they'll be performing
Speaker 2: Greek for us, they'll be performing Mozart for us, and
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a very very special night.
Speaker 2: And so you know, of course you can't go wrong
Speaker 2: at Will. The walk will conclude the easying with fireworks.
Speaker 2: We'll have food trucks out there. We're going to have
Speaker 2: just an amazing time. So I think you're going to
Speaker 2: come out Tom and help MC. So we are super
Speaker 2: excited to have you come out there and knock on wood.
Speaker 2: We have wonderful weather.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to and it's going to be fun.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be beautiful. On Saturday night
Speaker 2: and June seventh will be at Kasha Hall in Tulsa
Speaker 2: and we will have the Talsa Owners Baroque Orchestra opening
Speaker 2: ups for us at six pm. George will open at
Speaker 2: five and then at seven pm Natasha Parimski will be
Speaker 2: performing a beautiful piano candlelight concert, and she also is
Speaker 2: going to be playing some pieces from Edward Greek the
Speaker 2: Piergent Suite, including Morning Mood and in the Hall of
Speaker 2: the Mountain King, which is of course two of Greek's
Speaker 2: those famous pieces, and so I think that will be
Speaker 2: very beautiful. She's also going to do some other pieces
Speaker 2: from Romeo and Juliet. She's going to be doing trade
Speaker 2: movements from Patrushka, and so I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be a beautiful concert. We can't wait Cashle Hall. I
Speaker 2: love to formally refer to it as the Hogwarts of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: So it's a beautiful facility. It's really cool looking. We
Speaker 2: love partnering with them and helping support them, and so
Speaker 2: you know, please come join us on Saturday, June seventh
Speaker 2: at Cashle Hall. Then Sunday, June eighth will conclude our
Speaker 2: main stage concerts with a lovely concert starting off with
Speaker 2: Lisa Steele's piano students, who are quite accomplished. One of them,
Speaker 2: we believe is going to become a concert pianist. And
Speaker 2: so they will start off at six pm playing some
Speaker 2: selected pieces that they've chosen, and then the doors will
Speaker 2: open f five seven o'clock is when then our most
Speaker 2: amazingly talented come friends of Okay Music. Extra Quartet is returning.
Speaker 2: And for those who have heard Extra Quartet, they know
Speaker 2: how amazingly lucky we are to have them. They are
Speaker 2: truly truly gifted, beautiful talented musicians. They have trained and
Speaker 2: learned from Istak Perlman. They have won numerous awards, they
Speaker 2: are world renowned and we are so lucky to have
Speaker 2: them in our own backyard here in Bartlesville. So again
Speaker 2: they will play at seven pm on Sunday, June eighth.
Speaker 2: They are just the nicest guys and I think they
Speaker 2: have fun coming to Bartlesville. They get to meet everyone
Speaker 2: when they go to breakfast and talk to people. I
Speaker 2: think they went bowling twice last year, which which sort
Speaker 2: of cracked all of us up. But they are just truly,
Speaker 2: truly talented, and they are going to be performing in
Speaker 2: some Mozart, some Barber Mendelssohn, and I think it's just
Speaker 2: going to be a beautiful, beautiful evening. I think we
Speaker 2: have a sneak a surprise that I asked them. I
Speaker 2: think they will also be playing a piece from Greek.
Speaker 2: I just don't know which piece they were going to
Speaker 2: surprise us, but I think that that will be there.
Speaker 2: They're encore and so if that wasn't enough, we also
Speaker 2: tom have showcase, and so on Friday, June sixth, we'll
Speaker 2: kick our showcase off at the First Presbyterian Church with
Speaker 2: the Bartlesfield Bell Ringers at ten am, followed by the
Speaker 2: Trinity Recorder Concort at eleven am, and then Wade Daniels,
Speaker 2: who has beloved in the community a very talented pianist,
Speaker 2: will be performing at one pm that afternoon, and that's
Speaker 2: all on Friday. Then on Saturday, June seventh, in Ambler Hall,
Speaker 2: we will have a quartet. Four of the players from
Speaker 2: Manhattan Chamber Players are sticking around after their Friday night
Speaker 2: concert and will be performing a lovely morning concert at
Speaker 2: eleven am. And then the rock star of all of them,
Speaker 2: our very own you, Tom Davis, featuring the Suns of
Speaker 2: Beaches is coming to Amber Hall at one pm and
Speaker 2: we are so excited. We cannot wait to have you
Speaker 2: perform for us. You're making your debut at the Okay
Speaker 2: and Music Festival, and thank you Tom. We are so
Speaker 2: excited to have you. Are you all ready to go?
Speaker 1: We just had rehearsal last night and it's looking really
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. Well, we invite everyone to come out and
Speaker 2: maybe we'll have some fun refreshments and just sort of
Speaker 2: kick back and sing along and have a really good
Speaker 2: time again. Those are on Saturday, June seventh, eleven am
Speaker 2: for Manhattan Chamber Players Quartet and then one pm for
Speaker 2: Tom Davis featuring the Sons of Beaches, And then we
Speaker 2: will on Sunday have a two pm that concert I
Speaker 2: mentioned before the Okay and youth keyboard orchestra, the older
Speaker 2: kids will perform their concert, and then at four o'clock
Speaker 2: the King himself, Brent get and it is going to
Speaker 2: be performing as Elvis, and so that will end our showcase.
Speaker 2: But he is very beloved. He's a board member. Everyone
Speaker 2: loves it when he does Elvis. He's going to do
Speaker 2: some of Elvis's most beloved pieces as well as some
Speaker 2: of Elvis's beautiful gospel music. So we are excited. We
Speaker 2: are selling tickets like crazy. The phones are ringing off
Speaker 2: the hook, people are coming in, we're getting emails. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I do have to say many of the kids events
Speaker 2: are already at capacity. We are trying to work on
Speaker 2: trying to make room for more, maybe opening up additional sessions,
Speaker 2: So please keep checking back, but if you haven't reserved
Speaker 2: your spot for the kids events, please do so. I
Speaker 2: think by Labor, I'm not Labor Day, I think Love
Speaker 2: Memorial Day. They're all going to be filled. We have
Speaker 2: five events that are already at capacity, and like I said,
Speaker 2: we're working on those. But it's been crazy. We had
Speaker 2: our biggest the day we launched. We almost sold out.
Speaker 2: I always use the words sold out. But reserved out
Speaker 2: a couple of events on that day, so it was insane.
Speaker 2: People know parents, I think grandparents' guardians who have come,
Speaker 2: they love it. They come back every year and it's
Speaker 2: just an amazing time for these kids because not only
Speaker 2: do they get the experience the exposure to musical education,
Speaker 2: they get a ton of books and musical instruments and
Speaker 2: art supplies and so it's just something that's you really meaningful.
Speaker 2: It's something that they can take back home with them,
Speaker 2: not only the memory, but they actually get to take
Speaker 2: a physical item home with them to help continue to
Speaker 2: inspire them. And then as far as the main stage
Speaker 2: performances go, again, the venues, except for Rula Rock are
Speaker 2: are pretty intimate, so we encourage people go hand get
Speaker 2: your tickets now, don't wait till the last minute because
Speaker 2: you may be too late. Extra Quartet in particular has
Speaker 2: always done really well and sold out, so we highly
Speaker 2: encourage you to get those tickets. You can find our
Speaker 2: tickets on okmusic dot org again that's okaymusic dot org.
Speaker 2: Or you can call in our box office nine one
Speaker 2: eight three three six nine nine zero zero and Katie
Speaker 2: myself a Rose will be happy to sell you tickets,
Speaker 2: and you know it's one of those things that you
Speaker 2: can also come by and see us. Four fifteen South
Speaker 2: Dewey Sweet one hundred. We're right next to RSU Caddy Corner,
Speaker 2: across from Artist Bank and just down the street from
Speaker 2: the Price Power, so we're easy to find.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Briy Lann and once again, OK
Speaker 1: music dot org is the website to get everything taken
Speaker 1: care of it. Also you can order your tickets and
Speaker 1: check the lineup and if we have any more things
Speaker 1: said that we can do for the kids that'll be
Speaker 1: on there too. Correct.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you get your tickets on you reserve them on there,
Speaker 2: you buy your tickets on there. All kids is free
Speaker 2: except for the tea, just ten dollars per person, and
Speaker 2: kids eighteen and under are free for the main stage performances,
Speaker 2: so we hope that that helps families out. We've tried
Speaker 2: to reduce the ticket prices this year to make them
Speaker 2: very affordable. We have senior discounts, college age student discounts,
Speaker 2: we have General Mission b P. So we've tried to
Speaker 2: take into account that sometimes the economy isn't always the
Speaker 2: best and although we have lots of hope for it,
Speaker 2: but we want to make music accessible. That is our
Speaker 2: mission and we want to make it accessible to all,
Speaker 2: So please come out and check us out.
Speaker 1: Oh right, thank you. Marylyn Min from OKAM Music, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Take care,