Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. It's a thirty five,
Speaker 1: and we're blessed to have the Bartlesville Choir in here today.
Speaker 1: And when I say Bartlesville, it's because we've got Bartlesville
Speaker 1: High School Jazz Choir and we've got some members of
Speaker 1: the middle school choirs here with us too. Don't ask
Speaker 1: us how we got us all into this tiny little
Speaker 1: room and how we're all fitting on your dashboard while
Speaker 1: you're driving into work, but we did it. Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing well? Great? The voices are in perfect pitch.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness sakes. Now, let's start out here with riker,
Speaker 1: birch Riker. That's what we've got going on. We've got
Speaker 1: a big concert coming.
Speaker 2: Up, so Tuesday the seventeenth, we have a choir concert
Speaker 2: that is at the Particville High School Fine Arts Center.
Speaker 2: And this concert is real special because we are combining
Speaker 2: middle school and high school at this concert.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is great. Now I understand. We have
Speaker 1: Evelyn Miller here. You're what grade? Are you in? Six?
Speaker 1: Sixth grade? So you get to kind of hang out
Speaker 1: with all the big high school kids now. Kind of groovy, huh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody knows what groovy means these days. Brian,
Speaker 1: you too? Where are you from? What school? You were in? Madison?
Speaker 1: You got to talk louder here, folks, I see you're
Speaker 1: at Madison. Okay? Great? And this is kind of fun too,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Well? Great? Super? Now I want to get
Speaker 1: to Ava here. Ava. You've got a little list of
Speaker 1: the songs, don't you. I do. Yes.
Speaker 3: We'll be singing lots of fun classics like rocking around
Speaker 3: the Christmas Tree and Mary did you know? But there's
Speaker 3: also a few special ones in there that are less
Speaker 3: classic and more just getting us into the season.
Speaker 1: So it'll be really great. Now, Mackenzie, you're just back
Speaker 1: to smiling that up. You know this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great show, don't you. Yes, it is.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be very great. I'm so excited to sing
Speaker 4: with all the middle schoolers and just have a great time.
Speaker 1: Well, now, how long you been doing this?
Speaker 4: Since elementary? For a long time?
Speaker 1: Just like this? Geez? You guys following a pretty good
Speaker 1: footsteps here with these three bigger kids right now, This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a lot of fun. Now, what is
Speaker 1: the cost to get in? Is it? It's free admission? Really?
Speaker 1: All this festive been frawley and great sound of music.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be free, all of our talent and it's free.
Speaker 1: I got an agent you kids need to talk to.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is really something else. How long have
Speaker 1: you been working on this?
Speaker 4: Oh, for a long time. We've been working on several
Speaker 4: different pieces of music. We've had tons of runout gigs
Speaker 4: for jazz, so we've been working on Christmas music since
Speaker 4: like November.
Speaker 1: Alright, Ryan, how about you and in your group? How
Speaker 1: how how long you been working on it? Here?
Speaker 4: Not very hard?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness saying so you're gonna toss some surprises
Speaker 1: our way. Huh, it'll be good. It'll be good. What
Speaker 1: about you Central?
Speaker 5: I think has been working on it since like right
Speaker 5: after our fall concerts, which I honestly could not remember
Speaker 5: when it was sometime in October?
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So you you're pretty confident you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: aren't you. Yeah, You're gonna be singing with your big brother,
Speaker 1: aren't you. Yeah, this is the first time you two
Speaker 1: have done this. So well, this is gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Yeah, look as you're taking it all in
Speaker 1: stride and it's no big, it's nothing big. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna go out there. We're just gonna slay the audience.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wonderful. Don't you just love her confidence? Yes, Now,
Speaker 1: of the songs that are coming up with the high
Speaker 1: school choir, did you say it's going to be the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge for you as a vocalist?
Speaker 3: Probably, Mary, did you know, because it's such a quiet song,
Speaker 3: and we as a choir loves to sing loud, and
Speaker 3: so it's sometimes hard to rein it back and sing
Speaker 3: like this beautiful, peaceful song. So that'll probably be the
Speaker 3: hardest for us. But we've got all the notes down.
Speaker 3: It's just the volume.
Speaker 1: What's going to be the most fun.
Speaker 4: Oh, for Jos's definitely rocking around the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: We never gets hold, It never gets hold, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's a fun song. It's a lively song. I think
Speaker 1: I was telling the students earlier that the lady who
Speaker 1: did that song, original lady is Brenda Lee And yeah,
Speaker 1: yesterday she turned eighty And it's one of the most
Speaker 1: played records ever with the female voice for the holiday.
Speaker 1: It is the as a matter of fact. And you
Speaker 1: know what she says, she doesn't care. She just likes
Speaker 1: the song, likes singing it. You know, she's been singing,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, to be the big singer when
Speaker 1: she was fifteen. So well, it's gonna fit your your
Speaker 1: your your level just just right here now the big stage.
Speaker 1: Now I have to ask you right and you ever,
Speaker 1: that stage is huge. You're ready for it. You're ready
Speaker 1: for it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, done it before?
Speaker 1: Oh you did? So you're not a rookie. You're not
Speaker 1: a rookie anymore. You're a big timer. What about you?
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be pretty easy. This is it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a little difficult trying to fit all of
Speaker 5: the high school and the middle school.
Speaker 1: That's right, because we're all gonna be very close and
Speaker 1: like crammed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've already made a plan, like for all the mappings.
Speaker 1: Like I said, confident, you've got a plan. We've got
Speaker 1: it mapped. Everybody's going to take a bath. So no,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be no surprises there. That why that's going
Speaker 1: to be fun. And again the.
Speaker 3: Date, it's the seventeenth, at seven pm at the high school.
Speaker 1: All right, well, this is gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Does it put you in a more of a festive moon?
Speaker 4: Oh for sure. I've been saying Christmas song since like July,
Speaker 4: with all the choir songs.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it, you and what about you? Writer?
Speaker 2: Normally Christmas sneaks up on me, but I think I'm
Speaker 2: ready for it this year.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're you're ready to go. She's she's got
Speaker 1: the list. Of course, she's ready to go. My goodness,
Speaker 1: you too. Overhear the two most prepared. I swear of goodness.
Speaker 1: And how about a shout out to your teachers? Who's
Speaker 1: putting this all together? Here?
Speaker 3: So our lovely director, Director Tamra Walker, she's the best.
Speaker 3: And then we have our assistant director Arnold, missus Arnold,
Speaker 3: And then we have our pianist, Jan Watt. They're all amazing.
Speaker 3: And then we have Miss Pattison from the middle school
Speaker 3: who comes and helps us out.
Speaker 5: And then little teachers, Miss Long Miss Shaw Carter Wells
Speaker 5: helps out. He's like a.
Speaker 4: Little he little I've seen him, Yeah, he's one of ours.
Speaker 5: And our pianist is Ben Paul's.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's so great. You got to like a
Speaker 1: whole community.
Speaker 3: We have a whole team, and they're phenomenal. They're awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen the teachers and your company. They
Speaker 1: never sleep. I got the feeling that they really just
Speaker 1: don't rest much. They're always wrangling kids and getting everybody
Speaker 1: to it from now, you've got a few performances. What today? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we're going.
Speaker 4: We have two gigs today.
Speaker 1: One gigs I like it, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 4: We have one of them all for the Cultures Club,
Speaker 4: and then we have one out of church for retired teachers.
Speaker 4: So Jos is going to go sing for them and
Speaker 4: sing a couple of songs and just have fun.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, he's going to school. I mean,
Speaker 1: they come out of what I'm oh. Yeah, But it's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. You get a lot of real
Speaker 1: world experience when you do that, and with different audiences too.
Speaker 1: So if you're planning on doing this a little bit
Speaker 1: later on in life, you know, get ready because you
Speaker 1: got to keep hopping, You got to keep moving, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: got to be in the crow. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you all for coming in and again it's it's going
Speaker 1: to be on the seventeenth at seven o'clock BHS Fine
Speaker 1: Arts Center. Done cost a dime, but I encourage you
Speaker 1: to bring your applause, yes, and stand while you're doing it,
Speaker 1: because they need the standing ovation they deserve. It's hard
Speaker 1: work going into it. I want to thank you all
Speaker 1: for coming in today, especially two youngsters here. I know
Speaker 1: it was a little tough getting in here, but my golly,
Speaker 1: it's great to have you on board and you pros
Speaker 1: you come back again. Okay, yeah, alrighty. Thank you. You
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