Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Guess what, Yes, indeed, it's time for
Speaker 1: community connection right here on K one, the one you trust,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk Okay music here today because
Speaker 1: by Golly Festival and especially for kids that's just coming
Speaker 1: around the corner.
Speaker 2: Hi, Mary Lyann, Hey Tom, good morning.
Speaker 1: Are you doing great? You brought friends?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I brought a very special board member who also happens
Speaker 3: to be my husband.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you like? John?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 1: John, Nice to be here, Nice to have you back.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: John is on a rock star tour right now, going
Speaker 3: around town, going to Kuwanas and he's going to the
Speaker 3: Our Best Forum, and he's going to the Rotary meetings
Speaker 3: both noon and daybreak. He's going to Lions and Pilots clubs. So,
Speaker 3: if you have a group, whether it's a church group,
Speaker 3: an organized group, a nonprofit organization, that you would like
Speaker 3: John to come give a little presentation about the kids festival,
Speaker 3: especially for kids, or the big festival for OKAM Music.
Speaker 3: It's our forty first season. He would love to come,
Speaker 3: So please contact me. I'm mary Lynn Mim, I'm chairman
Speaker 3: of the board at nine eight three three six nine
Speaker 3: nine zero zero, or you can email me at emailmim
Speaker 3: at okmosart dot com, or you can go onto our
Speaker 3: website and send us a note to at okmmusic dot org.
Speaker 2: But we would love to send John your way.
Speaker 3: He'll pass out some brochures, he'll give you a really entertaining,
Speaker 3: funny history and speech, and he might even give away
Speaker 3: some free tickets.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness sake, tell them John, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: keep roller skates on. Keep up with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all of the above. I'm I'm ready to talk
Speaker 4: moy noon or night.
Speaker 1: Well, that's great, and of course you know the Oka
Speaker 1: Music Festival and especially for kids. The folks who've lived
Speaker 1: here in town know so much about it. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we all know, we've got so many new people
Speaker 1: that always move into town. This is due to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing, you get the new people don't know
Speaker 4: a lot about the OKAM music. So we started this
Speaker 4: year to really fan out and go to all the
Speaker 4: organizations we can that would would give us an audience
Speaker 4: and we'll talk two to three minutes or two to
Speaker 4: three hours and be happy to spread the word. But
Speaker 4: It's really been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: John knows a lot about classical music, so he loves
Speaker 3: to go and talk, and then of course he can
Speaker 3: always bring rows about the kids, but he also knows
Speaker 3: about the kids' performances. The really exciting thing is we
Speaker 3: are for at least six of our events we are
Speaker 3: sold out, So if you want to come, we still
Speaker 3: have some story times, we still have some music experiences open.
Speaker 3: You really need to get on there and get your space.
Speaker 3: I do have some good news and some bad news.
Speaker 3: I guess we had a family who unfortunately ended up
Speaker 3: having something come up and they couldn't come.
Speaker 2: So we do have spots for the tea that just
Speaker 2: opened up as a result of that.
Speaker 3: So if you're interested in coming to the children's tea,
Speaker 3: that all kicks off May thirtieth. We'll kick off with
Speaker 3: our you Keyboard Orchestra? Are you Keyboard Orchestra, which we're
Speaker 3: so excited about at First Presbyterian Church that night, and
Speaker 3: then it goes all the way through June eighth. The
Speaker 3: bulk of it goes from May thirty through June sixth,
Speaker 3: and we have so much I'll.
Speaker 2: Hold it up for Facebook. This is how much.
Speaker 3: Oh these are how many twenty plus showcase events for children,
Speaker 3: and then we have three main stage concerts starting on Friday,
Speaker 3: June six going through Sunday June eighth for adults and
Speaker 3: families alike. And then we have let's see we have one, two, three,
Speaker 3: four or five six that we have ten more showcase
Speaker 3: events during the festival.
Speaker 2: So and we're really excited. John, I don't know, I think.
Speaker 3: You know this, but we have our own very Tom Davis,
Speaker 3: who's going to perform for us. So for the first debut,
Speaker 3: I'm very excited Tom Davis featuring the Suns of Beaches.
Speaker 2: So, Tom, how do you describe your band?
Speaker 1: Well? On you usual and it's unique. We do have
Speaker 1: that beach flavor, right, but we also have classically trained musicians,
Speaker 1: very nice on board. We have an international cast from Europe,
Speaker 1: in the United States and some of US Native Americans,
Speaker 1: and we put together some songs that you've known for
Speaker 1: years and a ton of our original works. So we're
Speaker 1: going to be presenting just a very wide spectrum of
Speaker 1: music and the influences from around the world.
Speaker 2: So it's a very fun, upbeat vibe.
Speaker 3: So people need to come out and after they get out,
Speaker 3: after they know after they get done with gardening or
Speaker 3: whatever that morning, they need to come out and just
Speaker 3: be ready to jam.
Speaker 1: It's called Jimmy Buffett goes to college.
Speaker 2: That will be excellent.
Speaker 3: So you are on Saturday, June seventh and Ambler Hall
Speaker 3: at one pm.
Speaker 2: And so we do ask people.
Speaker 3: Even though the showcase events are free and all of
Speaker 3: the children's items are free except for the tea, we
Speaker 3: do ask that you sign.
Speaker 2: Up because we have limited space.
Speaker 3: Our venues only hold so many, so those who have
Speaker 3: signed up obviously get first come, first serve.
Speaker 2: But we are so excited to have you. Thank you
Speaker 2: for coming.
Speaker 1: You know, we're always happy to fill in in a
Speaker 1: pitch and we're just happy to be considered.
Speaker 2: So no thank you.
Speaker 3: So we invite everyone on the schedule is so large
Speaker 3: I won't read all of it. I've done that a
Speaker 3: couple of different times. But like I said, we have
Speaker 3: our keyboard orchestra for.
Speaker 2: Kids kicking off, we have a tea.
Speaker 3: We have the Dancing Eagles are coming back at Sooner
Speaker 3: Park during Shunfest to do our hoop dancing and every
Speaker 3: child will receive hoops. We have Boogu Bingo thanks to
Speaker 3: Bartoswel radio, so yay, and so we'll be doing that again.
Speaker 2: Come by get your Bingo card. You'll get a free
Speaker 2: pizza for your family. We have a lot of prizes.
Speaker 3: We'll make it easy this year and hopefully get in
Speaker 3: at least three or four rounds.
Speaker 2: That night.
Speaker 3: We have five story sessions where children will get to
Speaker 3: learn about a fun story that has to do something
Speaker 3: with Norway trolls, music and.
Speaker 2: Five different stories.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be really fun all that week,
Speaker 3: starting on Monday, June second, and then going through I
Speaker 3: think we go through the third for that and so
Speaker 3: those are always super fun.
Speaker 2: Every child will leave with a book and so you
Speaker 2: can't go wrong there.
Speaker 3: We have two puppet shows this year which are going
Speaker 3: to be super fun. One of them, sadly is already
Speaker 3: sold out, but there are still two other spots open.
Speaker 2: So get your reservation in there.
Speaker 3: And then we have a Twinkle Big Star concert that
Speaker 3: will be Dlann Everett and her students will be performing
Speaker 3: vocal and piano.
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be really nice. That's going
Speaker 2: to be at Ambler Hall on June third.
Speaker 3: And then we end all of our sare with the
Speaker 3: Jamin with Trolls out at Unity Square. That's a really big,
Speaker 3: kind of fun dance fest, lots of games for kids
Speaker 3: and some nice snow.
Speaker 2: Cones out there, so come out there. That again is free,
Speaker 2: and then we'll have the kids will.
Speaker 3: Play one more recital for the Keyboard Orchestra on that Sunday,
Speaker 3: June eighth, so that kind.
Speaker 2: Of concludes the chill to this portion of it.
Speaker 3: And then our main stage we have John you want
Speaker 3: to tell them about that, since.
Speaker 4: On the main stage we're gonna be a wool of
Speaker 4: rock on the June sixth and Grady Nichols is gonna
Speaker 4: kick us off, and then in smooth jazz and then
Speaker 4: Manhattan Chamber Players, which are kind of nationally renowned. We're
Speaker 4: really happy to have them. They're going to be our
Speaker 4: main event and play. We're really excited to have them.
Speaker 4: And then on Saturday, I would suggest people go to
Speaker 4: Yunica Square to shop June seventh, and then at six
Speaker 4: o'clock they need to go to Casha Hall in Tulsa
Speaker 4: in their music place, and we're gonna have at six
Speaker 4: o'clock the Tulsa Honors Broke Orchestra. These are some kids
Speaker 4: that play really phenomenal musicians and then they have some
Speaker 4: older folks that fill in as well, and between the
Speaker 4: two of them they have a really good concert. And
Speaker 4: then Natasha Pazinski is a pianist. It's gonna play at
Speaker 4: seven o'clock and she's like thirty seven years old and
Speaker 4: she is considered one of the best penis of per
Speaker 4: generation and we're going to have her there at cash
Speaker 4: Aw So I'm really looking.
Speaker 1: Forward to that.
Speaker 4: And then on Sunday at at the Refinery that we
Speaker 4: call it in Bartlesville, now we'll have Escher Quartet and
Speaker 4: they are again they are nationally ranked. We had them
Speaker 4: last year and they're pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: So if you.
Speaker 4: Can't I only make one event, I would go here
Speaker 4: at Asher Quartet for sure.
Speaker 1: I have the Tulsa of the kids. Yeah, didn't they
Speaker 1: play up here at the you have with the Dallas Strings.
Speaker 2: Yes, my goodness.
Speaker 1: Sakes that those kids are predenomenal.
Speaker 3: They've played, they have actually played, I guess for now
Speaker 3: that I've been here for a little over ten seasons.
Speaker 2: I think they've played for at least eight running years.
Speaker 3: Thought, but one year they've even played out of Unity
Speaker 3: Square and sort of deviated from their genre and learned
Speaker 3: all the scores to some big sort of roaring twenties music,
Speaker 3: which was really fun. So yeah, I mean they're they're
Speaker 3: extremely talented.
Speaker 2: We love them.
Speaker 3: They are amazing students who really practice very hard, play
Speaker 3: like adults. I mean, they're remarkable. So Karen Nape is
Speaker 3: their conductor is she also writes music. She's been in
Speaker 3: several movies, so we're excited to have her back.
Speaker 2: She performs with.
Speaker 3: Them as well with some of the other instructors. So
Speaker 3: they're very talented.
Speaker 1: They really just kill me because they're so good, and
Speaker 1: I don't think they know how good they are. They
Speaker 1: just played like there's no tomorrow and then they said,
Speaker 1: well that's a nice that was phenomenal, you know.
Speaker 3: And we're always so excited to have them, and of
Speaker 3: course Karen and we always tell them, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: you're so good. And the thing that they get most
Speaker 3: excited about tom is not the recognition, not the praise.
Speaker 2: They like the T shirts from.
Speaker 3: The festival, so they would be Saturday to get their
Speaker 3: T shirts, so they'll get their T shirts again. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: and then we cannot say enough about a sure quartet.
Speaker 3: I mean they are trained under is talk Perlman but
Speaker 3: they are that is talk Perlman of string quartets. And
Speaker 3: you know, those who have come and keep coming, this
Speaker 3: will be their third year to come back to us
Speaker 3: have just said they are pure. They are just phenomenal, amazing,
Speaker 3: just beautiful musicians.
Speaker 2: Really sweet guys. They're super funny.
Speaker 3: Last year they enjoyed hanging out at the bowling Alley,
Speaker 3: so we had to give them a hard time about that.
Speaker 3: But of course, oh, I mean that was already so yeah,
Speaker 3: so no, I mean, so they're super down to earth
Speaker 3: but just amazingly talented musicians, So we hope that everyone
Speaker 3: will come out. They can get tickets on okammusic dot org.
Speaker 3: They can call Rose or Katie or I at the
Speaker 3: box office nine one eight three three six nine nine
Speaker 3: zero zero, or they can come by and see us
Speaker 3: at four fifteen South Dewey. We have a big awning
Speaker 3: that says Okay, Mozart and then we're right next door
Speaker 3: to RSU Roger States.
Speaker 1: Funny Showcase shows. Do we need to get an RSVP
Speaker 1: so we can make sure.
Speaker 2: Yes, we need everyone.
Speaker 3: Even though the showcase events and those start on at
Speaker 3: ten am on Friday, June six, at first Press, we
Speaker 3: have the Bartlesville Ringers. At eleven we have Trinity Recorder Consort.
Speaker 3: At one we have Wade Daniels. And then on Saturday
Speaker 3: at Ambler Hall we have an eleven am. MCP is
Speaker 3: going to give us four of their members to do
Speaker 3: a special quartet ensemble, and so we're excited about that.
Speaker 2: And then again one o'clock the.
Speaker 3: Rock Star Show starts with Cal Davis featuring the suns
Speaker 3: of Beaches, so we're super excited. Sunday, June eighth, we
Speaker 3: have the ok Youth Keyboard Orchestra, and then Sunday night
Speaker 3: before our big finale, we have Brent Geddens as Elvis.
Speaker 3: He'll be doing a little bit of Possibel and a
Speaker 3: little bit of Elvis's favorite hits and so Brent is
Speaker 3: beloved and people follow him all over the state when
Speaker 3: he does his Elvis gig.
Speaker 2: So it's super fun.
Speaker 3: But all of those events, while free, do need an
Speaker 3: RSVP because spacing is limited and those who reserve their
Speaker 3: spot are first come, first served.
Speaker 1: Very good, Very good. Now I want to go back
Speaker 1: to the Keyboard Orchestra because from what I can understand,
Speaker 1: this might be the first in the nation.
Speaker 2: We believe that it is the first year round.
Speaker 3: Only that's all they do is keyboard. Okay, there are
Speaker 3: other ensembles I understand, try to emulate our great yeah
Speaker 3: that maybe do a camp or something in the summer,
Speaker 3: but that's all they do.
Speaker 2: They don't have an actual ensemble.
Speaker 3: We have over twenty kids that have committed for the
Speaker 3: entire year that do this keyboard ensemble for the orchestra
Speaker 3: that are amazing, and so most of these are piano
Speaker 3: students who have now expressed an interest in learning other
Speaker 3: instrumentation and have come together and they're playing on these
Speaker 3: fantastic Yamaha keyboards that basically allow you to play the
Speaker 3: sound of a cello, the sound of a bass, the
Speaker 3: sound of any string instrument, any bass instrument, and it's
Speaker 3: just it's fantastic. So when you come here and listen,
Speaker 3: it's like you're listening to a full piece orchestra, so
Speaker 3: you know, and one student's maybe playing the violin, one
Speaker 3: student's playing the cello, and so it's fun. And often
Speaker 3: you'll have two students sitting on a keyboard and one's
Speaker 3: playing one instrument and the other's playing a different instrument,
Speaker 3: so it's really fun.
Speaker 2: They learn a lot.
Speaker 3: These kids are all in their own right amazingly talented.
Speaker 3: But when you come and hear I think it really
Speaker 3: surprises people and blows them away. So we've had two concerts.
Speaker 3: We had last year's first camp and then we had
Speaker 3: a Christmas concert. This year we'll have two concerts at
Speaker 3: the festival and then we'll have another Christmas concert. So
Speaker 3: I think at a first Presbyterian John when you say
Speaker 3: we had every three hundred fifty people, yes.
Speaker 1: It was nice.
Speaker 2: It was very nice.
Speaker 3: So and it was great. I mean, the kids did wonderful.
Speaker 3: Lisa has them play certainly orchestral pieces and then they
Speaker 3: also do some individual solos, so it's nice.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so please come out join us.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, I would almost like to be a
Speaker 1: fly on the wall in the office right because I
Speaker 1: know how busy this is going to get, and it
Speaker 1: already has been busy, because we already have so many
Speaker 1: full things for the kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the day that we launched on Kids,
Speaker 3: we had over eighteen hundred reservations for that day. It
Speaker 3: was the biggest one that we've had, you know, And
Speaker 3: it's sad for us that we haven't even gotten a
Speaker 3: Memorial Day. Schools not even out and we're already sold
Speaker 3: out or reserved. However, you want to say that for
Speaker 3: many of our reserved out for many of our events,
Speaker 3: and our ticket sales for the festival are going really
Speaker 3: well too, so you know, please get your tickets, make
Speaker 3: sure you get your spot. We have a lot of
Speaker 3: questions about wool of Rock. The next time I come
Speaker 3: on the radio, I think I'll just bring a little
Speaker 3: bit more of the rules and what not for wool Rock.
Speaker 3: People want to know. Can I bring my own food? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Can you bring your own chair? Absolutely? If you get
Speaker 3: a vipackage VIP package, we have your chair for you.
Speaker 3: And I think the shore we're going to do something
Speaker 3: a little different where we'll have a reserve section that
Speaker 3: doesn't have the seats set up so that it's more
Speaker 3: spread out. So like if you want to bring a
Speaker 3: picnic blanket and you don't want to sit in a chair,
Speaker 3: but you still want that front row, you'll have it.
Speaker 3: And then we'll have another section that's VIP that's set
Speaker 3: up more like theater style, and so it's really nice,
Speaker 3: and we'll have lots of food trucks out there.
Speaker 2: We're going to have wine out there.
Speaker 3: So I think it's going to be beautiful weather at
Speaker 3: knock On Wood permitting. We've got the fireworks, everything's ready
Speaker 3: to go. And I'm excited because I'm sitting here with
Speaker 3: my two co hosts for the MC of that night.
Speaker 3: John is going to co host it and you're going
Speaker 3: to co host it, Tom. So I think it's going
Speaker 3: to be a really nice night.
Speaker 1: John's good to do the talking. I'm just gonna stand
Speaker 1: around smiling right now.
Speaker 2: At our interns.
Speaker 3: I'll start coming in next week, so we're very excited
Speaker 3: to have them back. That always is a huge relief
Speaker 3: and help. And so yeah, we're we're getting down to
Speaker 3: the wire. Our conference room is stacked with about one
Speaker 3: hundred boxes for kids Days and all of the things
Speaker 3: that they get, the books, the toys, the puppets, the instruments,
Speaker 3: you name it. It's insane, and so yeah, the days go
Speaker 3: by very fast at this point.
Speaker 1: My goodness. I want to thank you both John Mary
Speaker 1: for being here with us today.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time.
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