Speaker 1: Morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It is
Speaker 1: a nine forty five bright on the nose, and it's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection. We have Mary Lynn
Speaker 1: min with these year and she is with Okay Music.
Speaker 1: Tell me something sweet, I mean bad sugar Plum Shop,
Speaker 1: I guess is what we're talking about, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, good morning Tom.
Speaker 1: How are you doing wonderfully? Thank you very much, well
Speaker 1: but always well in your world. But I know that
Speaker 1: you got a lot of things happen.
Speaker 2: We are. We are getting ready for our Valentine's Day
Speaker 2: special open house at the sugar Plum Shop. For those
Speaker 2: who don't know. Of course, Okay in Music, also known
Speaker 2: as ok Mozart, has been around. We're in our forty
Speaker 2: first season, if you can believe that. And as a
Speaker 2: way to get supplemental income to our youth programming, we
Speaker 2: have a very sweet little sugar Plum Shop. And while
Speaker 2: the name would indicate that it might be all candy,
Speaker 2: it is definitely not. We have so many gift items,
Speaker 2: but we thought it would be fun to have a
Speaker 2: nice Valentine Valentine's Day open house next Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: So February thirteenth and fourteenth on Thursday, will be open
Speaker 2: from nine to six, so those people who are doing
Speaker 2: their lasting at Valentine shopping can stop by, or if
Speaker 2: you just want to have a nice day out, come
Speaker 2: by and see us. We'll be open from nine to six.
Speaker 2: On Friday, will be open from nine to five, and
Speaker 2: we're going to have some drawing, some prizes, wonderful sweet
Speaker 2: treats prepared by Melody's Cuisine, so we know those are
Speaker 2: going to be fantastic, maybe some bubbly chocolates and so
Speaker 2: much more. So we hope people will come out and
Speaker 2: see us. If you've been to the store, please come
Speaker 2: back if you have it, it'll be fun for you
Speaker 2: to get to see it for the first time. We're
Speaker 2: getting a lot of good feedback about the store and
Speaker 2: we hope that the community will really enjoy it. And
Speaker 2: then we also tom have so many things that you
Speaker 2: can shop for if you haven't already done so for
Speaker 2: your Valentine.
Speaker 1: Now I'm seeing here that we've got everything from chocolates, jewelry,
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch more. Wow we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have really fun little glory chocolates. That way
Speaker 2: is really cute heart boxes that are made out of
Speaker 2: chocolate and they have truckles in them. We have other
Speaker 2: chocolate candies. We have Vinchy chocolate. We have some fun
Speaker 2: whimsical Valentine them jewelry. We have the those boxes, which
Speaker 2: are little porcelain boxes made in France that are also
Speaker 2: adorned with very sweet little Valentine paintings on them. They're
Speaker 2: really They're really cool. We have those flowers so you
Speaker 2: don't worry about them dying. We have Sinse Toulis. We
Speaker 2: have some really fun kind of gummy bears or gummy candies,
Speaker 2: but they're Margarita flavors process so Bela words. So if
Speaker 2: you if you want to have a little Cosmopolitan without
Speaker 2: the alcohol, those are kind of fun. We have little
Speaker 2: coin purses. We have other bigger purses that are Valentine
Speaker 2: them also ones that are not Valentine. Theams, but we
Speaker 2: have Valentine's team headbands, can a little fat products. We
Speaker 2: have some really fun heart art. I love it.
Speaker 1: Ryan.
Speaker 2: We have paper products, so if you're throwing a little
Speaker 2: party and you want to have some really sweet little
Speaker 2: Valentine theme paper products. We have uh tea for like
Speaker 2: hot tea. We have serving suices, huzzles, broads of course
Speaker 2: Dave mackenzie Child, which if you're not familiar without Tom,
Speaker 2: it's a brand of home decor, and the tinware, and
Speaker 2: we have some really fun sweet peices that are very
Speaker 2: Valentine soons. We have some really fun new little dryer
Speaker 2: balls of all things. Like you think, well, maybe that's
Speaker 2: not very fun, but actually they're really popular right now.
Speaker 2: And these little balls go in and replace the dryer sheets,
Speaker 2: the little tire sheet and you can put a central
Speaker 2: oil on them if you want, they just postpone it,
Speaker 2: or you can put them about them and we have
Speaker 2: a lot of really fun soon little drier balls. We
Speaker 2: also have if you're done with if you're done with Valentine,
Speaker 2: we have so much the core and Easter the course
Speaker 2: if you're starting to get ready for all of that,
Speaker 2: with decorative pillows and floral decor, hummingbird theaters, more mckendee child,
Speaker 2: paper mache ed stuff, animals. I mean, what Easter wouldn't
Speaker 2: be complete without the little stuff sunning or the stuff check.
Speaker 2: We have more candles, little bunnies and edge shapes, more
Speaker 2: than those boxes religious art. I think we have something
Speaker 2: for everyone. And then of course we have our stuff
Speaker 2: that's not seasonal that we have all year round. We
Speaker 2: have some fun music related beamed piss books. We have
Speaker 2: musical ornaments, We have other dishware. We have some really
Speaker 2: fun umbrellas. They look like a bottle of wine, but
Speaker 2: they're actually an umbrella in all different sort of designs.
Speaker 2: We have other art. We can come a little bit
Speaker 2: of everything and it's really fun and all posted go
Speaker 2: to our children's programming for Okay and music. And we
Speaker 2: are hearing up for our forty first festival, which will
Speaker 2: be made three the eight So of course we want
Speaker 2: to raise as much money as the m so good
Speaker 2: way for folks to come out, have a suit sheet
Speaker 2: on us, a glass of Bubbly or maybe some juice
Speaker 2: appor not in the bubbly and just say hello, enjoy
Speaker 2: some shopping, get your left one a fun gift and
Speaker 2: help support the Alico theme home.
Speaker 1: And folks are not familiar with the Okay, I'm office
Speaker 1: and also the sugar Plum Shop. Where are you physically?
Speaker 1: What's your physical address?
Speaker 2: We are located if you know we're Wheezy Those We're
Speaker 2: down the street in between Wheezy's and the Price Tower
Speaker 2: on the opposite side of the street. Right next door
Speaker 2: to RSU, but the actual address is four fifteen South Dewey,
Speaker 2: Sweet one hundred and there's a black lining on the
Speaker 2: outside and it says Okamo's Art and then you just
Speaker 2: come on in the door and we're the first door
Speaker 2: on the left in Sweet one hundred. Our hours are
Speaker 2: regular hour is our Monday through Friday nine to five,
Speaker 2: and then if you need to call us, please do so.
Speaker 2: Our number is nine one eight three three six nine
Speaker 2: to nine Delo Zulo. And then folks can also check
Speaker 2: out what inventory and what items we have at our
Speaker 2: shop OKM dot square dot site, so they can actually
Speaker 2: go on our square shop and see what we have online.
Speaker 2: And we actually sell items online. So if you have
Speaker 2: a girlfriend or somebody that you want to share these
Speaker 2: items with and you can say, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 2: know you were looking for this victims, he tells chief
Speaker 2: and Okay and Music has it at the Sugar Pong shop.
Speaker 2: They can go online order it and we'll more see them.
Speaker 2: So again that's shop OKAYM dot Square dot site. So
Speaker 2: we try to make it as easy as possible for
Speaker 2: our patrons and customers to come in and shop.
Speaker 1: We're speaking with Marylynnemim and she is with Okay and music.
Speaker 1: Now another thing coming up is intern program and we
Speaker 1: get to visit a lot with your interns each and
Speaker 1: every year and many times during the course of the year.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you you're turning out some
Speaker 1: pretty darn good kids.
Speaker 2: We're pretty proud of them, you know, and I think
Speaker 2: it's important. You know, I am very lucky and fortunate
Speaker 2: to have gone to Saint John's School myself as well
Speaker 2: as my daughter. And one of the things they focus
Speaker 2: on is public speaking. But I know a lot of
Speaker 2: kids don't have that opportunity and experience, and I think
Speaker 2: that that is something that really helps development overall skills.
Speaker 2: And I think it's important for are used to be
Speaker 2: introduced to to experience. And so I try to bring
Speaker 2: the interns with me or I send them by themselves,
Speaker 2: which is probably even more silly to do radio interviews
Speaker 2: them to go, you know, present at different clubs like
Speaker 2: literally as an example, and so, you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's something that you know, public speaking is an important skill.
Speaker 2: It's a very youthful still. And yeah, we're very very
Speaker 2: proud of Na who has I think been on those
Speaker 2: recently and of course yourself, and they are both coming back.
Speaker 2: We're also having Monolin who is coming back. But currently
Speaker 2: we still have some spots left for our internship programs
Speaker 2: and it basically focuses on the high school seniors. We
Speaker 2: try to get eighteen and older, and then our main
Speaker 2: focus is on college students. But you know, certainly and
Speaker 2: I'm happy to interview a student who maybe is going
Speaker 2: into those senior year. We have made exceptions because we
Speaker 2: have amazing kids and buddlefolk who are interested. And you
Speaker 2: don't have to be a music major to do this.
Speaker 2: You could be interested in business, to be interested in development,
Speaker 2: you could be interested in technology. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of different aspects retailed because we have our little stops,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of different aspects of those cam
Speaker 2: that a young person can learn a skill set or
Speaker 2: learned the behind the scenes. So if you're interested, basically
Speaker 2: it's for interning for our OPM Music Festival, which is
Speaker 2: an annual accestival that we have every year. It's a
Speaker 2: multi genre heavy and it's this song Possible. It's held
Speaker 2: in June, the main stage part and then the children's
Speaker 2: part is held in May and June, so they've been
Speaker 2: May thirtieth through June eighth that will be here in
Speaker 2: Bottlesfill and we have a lot of different musicians that
Speaker 2: will be performing showcase event, main stage events, children certainly
Speaker 2: events and showcase a lot of which for the children's
Speaker 2: part is as office as the public. And these in
Speaker 2: terms will come in and they'll come in about a
Speaker 2: week early and stay a couple of days after the
Speaker 2: last date and help us put this on and get
Speaker 2: ready for it and get to develop all kinds of
Speaker 2: skills from maybe helping with marketing, helping with social media,
Speaker 2: helping run the children's programming, helping sell titus. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's just there's endless to possib abilities of the skill
Speaker 2: sets that they get to learn. So if we have
Speaker 2: someone that is a high school getting ready to be
Speaker 2: a senior next year, or that is already a senior,
Speaker 2: maybe you're graduating through college. Our internship can be found
Speaker 2: at okay in music dot org forward slash Internships, or
Speaker 2: you can just sit at okay a music dot org
Speaker 2: and there's a drop down menus that you'll see for internships.
Speaker 2: Those applications are due April first. It is a paid position,
Speaker 2: So for the approximate teams that you'll be here. You
Speaker 2: will get paid for that. And so if your interests
Speaker 2: you will come by see us call, check out the website,
Speaker 2: fill out the application. You can again come before sixteen
Speaker 2: self d through one hundreds and ask for me Maryland,
Speaker 2: or you can call us at nine one eight three
Speaker 2: six nine nine zero zero if you have questions, or
Speaker 2: again just go on to the website. Okay and music
Speaker 2: dot org forward slash interns and fill that out and
Speaker 2: get it back to us by fathful.
Speaker 1: First. Wow, we that's a lot going on. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that each and every one of the interns
Speaker 1: that we've spoken with, they said that they were exposed
Speaker 1: to a lot of really cool experiences that you're not
Speaker 1: really going to find in school. You're going to hear
Speaker 1: about them. But this is so very hands on and
Speaker 1: so varied and so wide. But the experience at this
Speaker 1: level is just priceless in their eyes.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really special in the sense that we
Speaker 2: try to when they felt their application, we have them
Speaker 2: the areas that they have interest in, the areas that
Speaker 2: they have experience and from box office, which would be
Speaker 2: ticket sales and software, social media creating campaigns, learning how
Speaker 2: to do the production of the social media campaigns, learning
Speaker 2: about online analytics, and then we go into marketing, which
Speaker 2: is graphic design, in person sales, event production, which could
Speaker 2: be a lighting down behind the scenes, running errands for artists,
Speaker 2: helping pick artists up from airport, that kind of thing,
Speaker 2: to booking in hotel rooms and whatnot, which pretty much
Speaker 2: we reready done. But that is something that we just
Speaker 2: all help with because they are my full time interns
Speaker 2: throughout the year, and then our course helping with our
Speaker 2: children's programming. So I mean, I think it's an opportunity
Speaker 2: for them to get to learn about something if they
Speaker 2: think they want to go into an industry, or they're
Speaker 2: interested in something that they're just not quite sure or
Speaker 2: kind of like myself when I go to the bar conference,
Speaker 2: I typically pick out courses that I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about because I want to learn about something new. So
Speaker 2: maybe they just want to learn about something new, is
Speaker 2: to it. The other thing that's really fun is that
Speaker 2: I think you could make lifelong friendships and you get
Speaker 2: to meet other students, maybe some Puddle school, but they
Speaker 2: may be from Gecial. We've had ou we've had texts
Speaker 2: represented that on sending University of Arizona, we could piss
Speaker 2: them all over, and so I it's a fun way
Speaker 2: to get to meet other students and hang out for
Speaker 2: that couple of weeks. But then the really cool part
Speaker 2: I think that especially like it yourself would really appreciate
Speaker 2: is getting to be behind the scenes and get to
Speaker 2: meet these artists in person, into their stories and learn
Speaker 2: their life experience and make those contacts and connections. Because
Speaker 2: if it is an industry that you're interested in going into,
Speaker 2: whether it's nonprofit or music, I mean, what better way
Speaker 2: then to get to be part of it but to
Speaker 2: meet the actful artists who are performing for us. So
Speaker 2: I think it's a really neat opportunity. We put you
Speaker 2: to work. We don't toddle you. I mean, you become
Speaker 2: part of the team and you are expected to put
Speaker 2: your weight. So I think that's also something that may
Speaker 2: be different than sometimes when the intern we actually we've
Speaker 2: got us to it right in the middle of what
Speaker 2: we're doing, and at that point it is a very
Speaker 2: crazy time. It is very busy, but we love our interns.
Speaker 2: We couldn't do it without our interns, and so we
Speaker 2: are very grateful for them. And you know, we have
Speaker 2: interns we turn every year, so I think that says
Speaker 2: something about the program. And again we love just selling
Speaker 2: and as a lead, an incredible difference for us. And
Speaker 2: we are excited to have them back, excited to have Madeline.
Speaker 1: And can't wait to meet the new and very good
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Mary Lynn Mim If you have any questions,
Speaker 1: just go to the website okmusic dot org. It's very
Speaker 1: easy to navigate. Got the phone number on there and
Speaker 1: everything else. Mary Lynn, thank you very much for being
Speaker 1: with us today.
Speaker 2: Thank you Tom. If you don't get to come over,
Speaker 2: I will send one of our our interns over with
Speaker 2: a sweet treat for you next week.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much, appreciate it. As always, folks,
Speaker 1: once again you've been listening to our community connection right
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