Speaker 1: All right, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome in his time now for our community connection right
Speaker 1: here on Kay one, the one you trust, and we
Speaker 1: do this about every year. We have a little fun
Speaker 1: because I'm an old country boy at heart and i
Speaker 1: love bluegrass music. And we've got a big bluegrass festival
Speaker 1: coming up here. And I got Steve Cannon on the line. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: how you doing doing well?
Speaker 2: Tom? How are you guys up there this morning? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, just picking and grinning? Yeah, So what we
Speaker 1: got coming up and when we got.
Speaker 2: A guming well, you know, we have that the International
Speaker 2: calho On, the International Bluegrass Festival happens in Guthrie every
Speaker 2: year and it's coming up here on October ten, eleven twelve.
Speaker 2: So we're just a couple of weeks out if if that,
Speaker 2: depending on my mask. And it's the time of the
Speaker 2: year it's getting cooler and hopefully we don't have any
Speaker 2: any major storms. But uh, yeah, we got a big
Speaker 2: festival going on. And this year we have our headliner
Speaker 2: is a band called Jig Jam Jam Yeah. Uh, it's
Speaker 2: an Irish band and they're from Ireland. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna be here and We're super excited to having their
Speaker 2: high energy, foot stump and style bluegrass music. So they
Speaker 2: have a lot to live up to. Somebody named in
Speaker 2: Ireland's answer to the new Grass Revival. Boy happen to
Speaker 2: know who that is. That's that's a lot of that's
Speaker 2: a big shoes to walk in to follow. We also
Speaker 2: have the lead singer of the Turnpike Troubadours, Evan Selker.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be playing, uh doing a solo show for us,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be really cool because I don't know
Speaker 2: Evan's played with with a I'm sure he's played with
Speaker 2: other musicians, but you know, he's been comfortable playing with
Speaker 2: his musicians for a long time. And so see how
Speaker 2: he does playing with some fellow buddies. You got John Moore,
Speaker 2: he's the horse Doctor out of Colorado. He actually played
Speaker 2: played with Byron in uh in a couple of different bands,
Speaker 2: the band California and Bluegrass et cetera and very talented
Speaker 2: multi instruments the Fretliners coming Back. They're a group that
Speaker 2: has won the band competition out of Tell Your Rye
Speaker 2: Bluegrass Festival and the Rocky Grass Festival. They've wanted both
Speaker 2: band competitions the same year.
Speaker 1: I love the name the fret Liners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, one of the guys in the fret Liners
Speaker 2: actually grew up at our festival. Really and yeah, he
Speaker 2: grew up at our festival. And I have to look
Speaker 2: back in the records and I haven't made this, I
Speaker 2: haven't done, haven't my due diligence on it, but I
Speaker 2: believe he came through the youth band youth instrument competitions.
Speaker 2: Wow that we have well I talked to a pre
Speaker 2: pre recorded the pre interview about the youth band competition,
Speaker 2: youth instrument competition. Yeah, that's that's pretty cool. And there's
Speaker 2: that we have Actually another guy that's done it too,
Speaker 2: so I'll talk about him in just a minute. Darren
Speaker 2: and Brook Aldridge a married couple. Uh. Brook was four
Speaker 2: time IBM A five Female Vocalists of the Year. Uh
Speaker 2: Darren played with the Country Gentleman and it's very uncommon
Speaker 2: to find married couples that play together. There's another couple
Speaker 2: we've had at the festival in the past, Kenny and
Speaker 2: Manda Smith come to mind. But excited to have that
Speaker 2: couple come in and they do some gospel music and
Speaker 2: and uh positive Bluegrash music is what they're what they're about,
Speaker 2: So excited to have them come. We've got Alan Munday
Speaker 2: coming back. Ala Munday, I didn't know this until I
Speaker 2: was actually researching. He was actually born in Norman. Another
Speaker 2: musician that Byron brought into the festival. He's also was
Speaker 2: inducted in the American Banjo Hall of Fame right here
Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City. So excited to have him come back
Speaker 2: this year. Trap Mallecks and Moore a couple of people
Speaker 2: up there in your neck of the woods that would
Speaker 2: know who those people are. Thomas Trapp and Johnny Maulneck,
Speaker 2: Stephen Moore, a great set of pickers and musicians. And
Speaker 2: we got a couple of Western swing groups, Oklahoma Swing,
Speaker 2: which is based right here in the Oklahoma City area.
Speaker 2: And then a group out of Austin the Walk and
Speaker 2: Talk Susie's. And you would think by that they were
Speaker 2: all named Susie, but not one of them are. So
Speaker 2: they do a little bit of wettern swing. We've got
Speaker 2: a band out of Maryland called Tornado Rose who's making
Speaker 2: some waves in the bluegrass music scene, and coming back
Speaker 2: this year be a solo artist called by the name
Speaker 2: of Tim McDonald Tim's Dunn h an album with Byron
Speaker 2: and Vince gill Uh. He was a US Army veteran,
Speaker 2: and we don't talk about that enough about the musicians
Speaker 2: that have background. But he's not playing his own thing
Speaker 2: or doing something with somebody else. He is a full
Speaker 2: time musician for the rocker Rick Derringer. I'll be daring
Speaker 2: you know that Hoochie Coo song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he's not picking the bluegrass, he's picking that
Speaker 1: rock and roll Hoochie coop.
Speaker 2: Yes, rock and roll, you got it, Yes, you got it.
Speaker 2: So h we got some regional bands still win Cowboy,
Speaker 2: Jim Garling, Gypsy Twang Uh will make their first appear
Speaker 2: on the main stage. Monica Taylor, she's over from Perkins
Speaker 2: and operates the Old Church over there. You may hear
Speaker 2: some music over there from time to time. And the
Speaker 2: Good Friends Bluegrass Band. A member of that band is
Speaker 2: actually the member of the committee that is in charge
Speaker 2: of the youth band competition and the youth instrument competitions.
Speaker 2: So the gentleman with all the knowledge about that is
Speaker 2: his name is Ron Mashore. So if you're a youth
Speaker 2: and you're looking to be in the band competition or
Speaker 2: the instrument competitions. You can get a hold of Ron
Speaker 2: Mashore via the Bluegrass website OIBF dot com and Ron
Speaker 2: can set you up and give you all the right information.
Speaker 2: Last year, I think we did We're set up for
Speaker 2: six different instruments, but I think we did five. On
Speaker 2: the instrument competition last year we just fiddle, mandling, guitar, banjo,
Speaker 2: and bass. There is also a resonator, but I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody entered that one last year. So there is
Speaker 2: lots of stuff going on, lots of music. We have
Speaker 2: music from noon till about ten o'clock Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2: We got food vendors down there. We actually probably ought
Speaker 2: to mention are some of our sponsors, Oklahoma Arts, Council
Speaker 2: of the City of Guthrie and the National Endowment for
Speaker 2: the Arts. So if you need some more information, you
Speaker 2: can go to the website OIBF dot com.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is gonna be great. And you know, we
Speaker 1: have touched on the the young people portion of this
Speaker 1: and a couple of them that have come through the
Speaker 1: young person's portions of the of the festival. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things that you got to start in some
Speaker 1: place and this is a great avenue, great on ramp
Speaker 1: for the young people.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yes, I've mentioned earlier about another individual. We have
Speaker 2: a young man who was mentored by Byron, but he
Speaker 2: actually came through the competition. His name is Henry Byron
Speaker 2: Burgess and he was named after Byron. So Henry is
Speaker 2: now I believe he's seventeen years maybe eighteen years old.
Speaker 2: Seventeen years old or eighteen years old right now, and
Speaker 2: he is actually out playing with Rick Ferris, who is
Speaker 2: one of the national Bluegressers, national acts in the bluegrass scene.
Speaker 2: But he's out on the road at that age right now,
Speaker 2: and we're super proud of him. He's doing a fantastic
Speaker 2: job of playing and living up to what Iron instilled
Speaker 2: in him. So there's probably more. I know that there
Speaker 2: are more musicians that have come through the festival that
Speaker 2: I don't I can't tell you about, but we're excited
Speaker 2: about that. And by the way, one of the things
Speaker 2: you were talking about the young people, one of the
Speaker 2: things we have not talked about ever is we have
Speaker 2: a special deal for college students. We do, and we
Speaker 2: don't promote it because we only have a limited number,
Speaker 2: but we give away tickets to a valid college ID.
Speaker 2: So anybody shows up with a valid college I D.
Speaker 2: They can get in free. So, uh, we try to
Speaker 2: publicize it a little bit to colleges, but we've only
Speaker 2: reached out this many. There's only so much of us.
Speaker 2: Like peanut butter, you get spread too thin, you can't
Speaker 2: even taste it. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Hey, for for all of us who really want to
Speaker 1: go out and buy tickets and invest in a good time,
Speaker 1: how do we go about making a purchase of tickets
Speaker 1: ensure that this goes on forever?
Speaker 2: Well, that's the one thing. You'd have to go right now.
Speaker 2: You go to the website OYBF dot com and then
Speaker 2: there's a ticket page right there and you can you
Speaker 2: can purchase your tickets right online. At this point when
Speaker 2: the festival starts, well, we've be selling tickets at the gates,
Speaker 2: so you can come there and get them. Those are
Speaker 2: our two avenues and we hope everybody has the opportunity
Speaker 2: to come and obviously everybody is a big word.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: We couldn't fit everybody in there. Well, here we are
Speaker 2: in Guthrie at the Cottonwood Flats. There's camping available. You
Speaker 2: can bring our RV bring a tent, uh sleep in
Speaker 2: your car. And obviously we have food vendors there that
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier. Uh uh, I'm not sure you could eat.
Speaker 2: You could survive on kettle corn, but man, the kettle
Speaker 2: corn is really good. So uh there's a whole lot
Speaker 2: of other stuff to you. There's merchandise. We got some uh
Speaker 2: some archy stuff out in the back of the uh
Speaker 2: from the main stage area. Uh So bring your ponchos
Speaker 2: just in case it rains or maybe the ward off
Speaker 2: the rain, and bring your bring your lawn chairs. Sounds good.
Speaker 1: The date time, what are the dates against Steve?
Speaker 2: That'd be October tenth, eleventh, and twelfth.
Speaker 1: And all roads will lead to Guthrie, Oklahoma that weekend.
Speaker 2: We hope they do. We hope they do. And Tom,
Speaker 2: we really appreciate you working with us again this year.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, it's my.
Speaker 1: Pleasure there, Steve. I always look forward to to this
Speaker 1: time of year when we get together there and talk
Speaker 1: a little bit of music and have a little fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you very much.
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