Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust in, the lovely
Speaker 1: young lady see it. Next to me here is miss
Speaker 1: Miya and she is with OKM Music. How you doing today,
Speaker 1: young lady, I'm doing good. How are you doing super?
Speaker 1: You're getting ready to go back to school, but we
Speaker 1: want to talk about OKAYM man, you're an intern, so
Speaker 1: you can go to school and do some work with
Speaker 1: OKAM as well. Now you're not a rookie intern by
Speaker 1: any means. Tell us a little bit about your time
Speaker 1: and some of the things that you get to do
Speaker 1: as an intern with OKM.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm going into my third summer with OKM and
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for the forty first year. So we
Speaker 2: are currently looking for interns for our festival, which will
Speaker 2: be May twenty seventh through June tenth, and so interns
Speaker 2: can range from many majors. We're looking for college kids.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be music education at all. I'm
Speaker 2: not music degree at Also.
Speaker 3: You're kind of my business and promotion and things like that.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, strategic communications. Yeah, I'm getting a lot of
Speaker 2: experience everybody else do. Interns can also get a lot
Speaker 2: of experience. So we're excited, we're pumps.
Speaker 3: You should be. You should be now.
Speaker 1: Being an intern with Okay and Music is really pretty
Speaker 1: top notch because you get to do a variety of things.
Speaker 1: You're not like pigeonholed into one little set of menial tasks.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of important things to do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, we definitely have a lot a lot of program development,
Speaker 2: children's programming, marketing, pr advertising. We get to meet with
Speaker 2: world class artists and so we get to manage all
Speaker 2: of that, manage all what we're going to have at
Speaker 2: the festival. So there's definitely a lot of things to
Speaker 2: do and a lot of opportunities for our interns to do.
Speaker 3: Also, did you get to meet Lee Greenwood?
Speaker 1: I did, knew it and he was out there at
Speaker 1: the OKMT at Wooll of Rock And what a night
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 3: That was a night to remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when we talk about some of the perks of
Speaker 1: the job, that was one of the perks is that
Speaker 1: you get to meet the artists, but you get to
Speaker 1: do a lot of other things. You really get the
Speaker 1: full impact of what a festival like this on a
Speaker 1: world class stage, is backstage, the business end, the office end,
Speaker 1: in even the coordination, and that's got to be the
Speaker 1: hardest part, making sure all the pieces come together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely some kind sometimes can be difficult, but
Speaker 2: we're working on this right when the festival ends. From
Speaker 2: last summer, we're working on the next one, so we
Speaker 2: have quite a bit of time. But it's definitely vital
Speaker 2: for the interns that are working during that period where
Speaker 2: everything does need to come together right then and there.
Speaker 1: So the children's programs are outstanding.
Speaker 2: Do you get a hand in that too, Yes, So
Speaker 2: we work the children's programming, We help out with Rose
Speaker 2: and we go from the children's programming straight to the
Speaker 2: music festival. So it's a jam packed ten days, but
Speaker 2: it's really fun.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite part? My favorite part, absolute favorite part.
Speaker 2: I really like the advertising side of it, but I
Speaker 2: think that's just my degree kind of pushing in a
Speaker 2: little bit. But I really the program development, the advertising,
Speaker 2: that's my favorite part.
Speaker 1: Well, you do it so well because everybody in the
Speaker 1: United States knows about this festival. It is not It
Speaker 1: has grown from a you know, just kind of a
Speaker 1: local thing to a regional thing to a state wide
Speaker 1: thing to you know, now you've got several states where
Speaker 1: folks are going, hey, we got to go there, we
Speaker 1: got to see this act, and we've spread it not
Speaker 1: only from here. We also do a couple of things
Speaker 1: in Tulsa as well. Because it's grown so much, that's
Speaker 1: got to be just really cool.
Speaker 3: To be around.
Speaker 2: It's definitely really fun. I like all the behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: So uh huh? And how do you become an intern
Speaker 3: with OKAM Music?
Speaker 2: So we are taking applications currently if you go to
Speaker 2: okmmusic dot org forward slash Internship. Our applications are open
Speaker 2: and they are due April first.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Now, we were talking about how you do different things
Speaker 1: as far as being in the marketing and in that
Speaker 1: end of it all. But I'm seeing here that finance, development,
Speaker 1: volunteer coordinator, box office it production, retail design, early childhood,
Speaker 1: music education, and music education are all the different types
Speaker 1: of majors that they're looking for. Now. I know about
Speaker 1: the retail thing because you sell tickets, but you also
Speaker 1: have that little sugar plum shop.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do have a little shot that's currently of
Speaker 2: so me and just sell the other intern we've been
Speaker 2: working on getting everything ready for Valentine's. Say, anybody's looking
Speaker 2: for Valentine's Day guests, you can come in. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we definitely have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to it, I imagine you might
Speaker 1: work a little bit with them with marketing, you know,
Speaker 1: making sure all the graphics and things and everything flows
Speaker 1: like it's supposed to on the computers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Definitely, social media, our website, all of our ticket programs,
Speaker 2: we definitely need somebody in it who knows how to
Speaker 2: work that. So we're looking for like a big diversity
Speaker 2: of people. So it's not just for music majors.
Speaker 3: Well, me, like this is like your second or third year.
Speaker 2: I'm going into my third year.
Speaker 1: It seems like you're a veteran, you know, but it's
Speaker 1: all paying out. How does this helping you in your
Speaker 1: school work? Does it kind of kind of wrap your
Speaker 1: mind around the real world aspect of what you're learning
Speaker 1: in school?
Speaker 2: Oh, definitely for sure. With my major being strategic Communications,
Speaker 2: I've gotten a lot of real world experience that I'm
Speaker 2: super thanking for. Mary Linda give me it's really awesome
Speaker 2: for my resume. She's helping me kind of go in
Speaker 2: the direction where I'm majoring with all the advertising and stuff,
Speaker 2: so I definitely get real world experience. I get world
Speaker 2: problem solving. So it's awesome.
Speaker 1: Well that is outstanding, you know, that is just really cool.
Speaker 1: And it's all right here courtesy of OKAYM Music. Now,
Speaker 1: where are you located physically? You're right down there by
Speaker 1: that white buffalo, aren't you.
Speaker 3: Undoing?
Speaker 2: I technically live out towards Nowada, but I'm in no
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, well the buffalo is not there anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. The wind got it that one
Speaker 1: time during the storm. Yeah, tagged it pretty good, so.
Speaker 3: That it was fun. Well that lasted.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you've got that wonderful Ambler Hall right next
Speaker 1: door for some of your facilities. That's a nice little uh,
Speaker 1: that's a nice little place to enjoy some music or
Speaker 1: maybe even children's program.
Speaker 2: To Oh yeah, I definitely host some events there. But
Speaker 2: we also rented out towards people, so if people are
Speaker 2: ever needing a space, we work on that side.
Speaker 1: So oh okay, So okay, somebody says, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I got a band, I need a listening room.
Speaker 3: You know what a deal you just called Ambler Hall.
Speaker 3: This is great now once again.
Speaker 1: If you go to OKM music dot org slash internships,
Speaker 1: you're going to find out just about everything there is now.
Speaker 1: We're taking applications all the way up to Tuesday, April first.
Speaker 3: No fooling, no, no fooling.
Speaker 1: So all you have to do is go there and
Speaker 1: you can download the internship application and you can find
Speaker 1: out more there. And of course, if you really want
Speaker 1: to speak to someone, imagine you could just give a
Speaker 1: call down there. It's on the website as well, and
Speaker 1: you can talk to a real human being and they
Speaker 1: can put you in touch with the right folks. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a neat family of a people who've been
Speaker 1: there because the interns have been the You and to
Speaker 1: Sell have been there for about the same amount of time,
Speaker 1: but the other folks who've been there, they've been there
Speaker 1: for many many years. And you got this kind of
Speaker 1: neat mash of a veteran folks and interns there.
Speaker 3: How you guys make it all work? It just kind
Speaker 3: of happens, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've kind of worked at each other for a
Speaker 2: little bit. Now we all communicate, get the job done,
Speaker 2: and it's everybody pitches in their experience to make the
Speaker 2: music festival what it is.
Speaker 1: Well, that's good, so nobody really gets all worried about this,
Speaker 1: that or the other. It's a team effort, yes, and
Speaker 1: we all come together and we all watch it unfold.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: The thing is from an observer who's just taking in
Speaker 1: the festival.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is a.
Speaker 1: Well oiled machine, we're saying, My goodness sakes, look at this.
Speaker 1: We're listening to one of the top musical acts in
Speaker 1: the world and all this behind the stuff machinery that
Speaker 1: goes on is just well, it's seamless. And hats off
Speaker 1: to you and everybody you work with.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, all right, once again, the intern program
Speaker 1: is available. All you have to do is go to
Speaker 1: okmmusic dot org Internships and we'll get you.
Speaker 3: You got to get to school, don't you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, miya, Thank you for stopping by, and good luck
Speaker 1: there at OSU. Right, thank you, all right, very good folks.
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