Speaker 1: The dynamic duo from Sunfast in with us here today,
Speaker 1: Trey staying out of trouble. Yeah, I'm asking for a
Speaker 1: friend because I know, I know, Okay, I know, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a lots I just took a look at
Speaker 1: the weather forecast. I don't think we're going to be
Speaker 1: in mudfast mode. It looks like for Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 1: sunshine and eighty two both days. On Friday, what do
Speaker 1: we got here? Clear skies and fifty six overnight, So
Speaker 1: it probably might want to bring a jacket when you're
Speaker 1: bringing everybody out on Friday night.
Speaker 2: Here you go.
Speaker 1: Now, see you can finally even bigger.
Speaker 2: Now we're so happy.
Speaker 3: I like the forecast.
Speaker 1: Oh very good, now, miss Tina. We've got a theme.
Speaker 1: It's called our Hometown Heroes, and this is really good.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: This is what they've been wanting to do for a while,
Speaker 4: and there's been talking to you how to do this
Speaker 4: and how they were going to present this. This is
Speaker 4: a kind of a celebration of all our hometown heroes
Speaker 4: from our military, our reservists, our firemen, our policemen, our doctors,
Speaker 4: our nurses, our teachers, you know, saying thank you for
Speaker 4: all that they do in our community.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, it's going to be great
Speaker 1: and I am so looking forward to this. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a beautiful time. But we've got so
Speaker 1: many selections. Now I understand the number of booths have
Speaker 1: increased exponentially.
Speaker 4: They have, and you know, I'm really, you know, very
Speaker 4: glad about marketplace that's grown very big. We have some
Speaker 4: wonderful crafters and artisans that'll be in attendance this coming weekend.
Speaker 2: True artisans.
Speaker 4: We have woodworking, we have leather, we have pottery, we
Speaker 4: have you think about whatever out there, soap, lotions, all
Speaker 4: of it, and they're going to be there this weekend.
Speaker 4: We tremendous amount of people coming from all over, not
Speaker 4: just here, all over.
Speaker 2: We've got people as far as Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now this is known as Oklahoma's biggest outdoor barbecue,
Speaker 1: but there's also a barbecue with craft and vendors and
Speaker 1: even a car show. Trey, Let's go the.
Speaker 3: Car car So the car show is going to be
Speaker 3: on Saturday morning, starts at eight am. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: up at the top of the hill by the play tower.
Speaker 3: Tri County Tech is offered to sponsor that again for
Speaker 3: us nice a group of students and one of their
Speaker 3: teachers out there, Duke Jefferson. So we're thankful for him
Speaker 3: and he does a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: We're just asking twenty dollars an entree. Then the admission
Speaker 3: is free. So I mean, if you want to show
Speaker 3: off your car, you know, just pay the twenty bucks
Speaker 3: and you're there from eight am till three. That's right.
Speaker 4: You can go to our website Barbisville SunFest dot org
Speaker 4: and you can find the QR code there and just
Speaker 4: go ahead and scan it and get your inter fee.
Speaker 1: Now, this is more than just cars. This is trucks
Speaker 1: and bikes too. Yes, it's all of it.
Speaker 3: You know, old and vintage and wow, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a sparkler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes it is.
Speaker 1: I'm liking that. Now we've got something for the kids, too,
Speaker 1: don't we.
Speaker 2: Oh, we do. We have the youth Fest.
Speaker 4: You youth Fest sponsored by Safar Smiles, and we have
Speaker 4: pony rides, and we have glow Fest.
Speaker 2: And let's not forget about our movies.
Speaker 1: Let's talk movies.
Speaker 4: Yes, kindergarten cop one night and the following night we
Speaker 4: have Incredibles two nice, so kids will have.
Speaker 2: A lot to do.
Speaker 4: I like watching them when they do the glow Fest one.
Speaker 4: They just get they do. They put the music on
Speaker 4: and they're out there just having a great time. And
Speaker 4: to see the smiles and see how being excited they
Speaker 4: get about just being laddered with cloak paint.
Speaker 2: It's just really cute.
Speaker 1: My gosh. I understand that Okam's going to have their
Speaker 1: dancer out.
Speaker 3: There there well yeh, the Native American hoop dancers Okay
Speaker 3: and music Their kids Best kicks off this week and
Speaker 3: so they'll be out there as part of one of
Speaker 3: their events, and they'll be at the band Shill on
Speaker 3: Saturday evening at seven. So it's going to be perfect,
Speaker 3: you know, like you said, Hi about what seventy five
Speaker 3: seventy eight. Yeah, man, that's perfect.
Speaker 1: That'll be just right now. When we talk about some
Speaker 1: of the things that are going on, the Bandshell is
Speaker 1: equally it's it's there are two great, big places there
Speaker 1: for congregate entertainment. You've got the main stage, which we'll
Speaker 1: get to a little bit. Yeah, that Bandshell there's always something.
Speaker 2: Going on exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: You know, bring your lawn chairs, come on out and
Speaker 4: get some food, sit down and enjoy the entertainment.
Speaker 2: If you're not shopping, enjoy the entertainment.
Speaker 1: You know what. That's kind of built in with that
Speaker 1: little rise that looks down into the bed.
Speaker 2: I like that, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: And it's gonna dry up. I think, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it's it's not gonna be that bad to sit on
Speaker 3: the hill there.
Speaker 1: And we got some church things going on at the
Speaker 1: banch Ho. I know that get real ministries and the
Speaker 1: revelators are going to be there at twelve.
Speaker 3: Thirty, Yes, yes, sir, about twelve fifteen thirty. Yes, on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We got a church that's going on at the main stage.
Speaker 3: We do, yep. And that's gonna be put on by
Speaker 3: Barlsville Southern Baptist Church on Sunday at ten thirty am.
Speaker 3: They've invited some of the other local Baptist churches in
Speaker 3: town and they're going to have one big praise team
Speaker 3: and I believe a special guest speaker for the sermons.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, that's all gonna be main stage on
Speaker 3: Sunday at ten thirty. Of course we still go on
Speaker 3: from there. I know that we're going to have the
Speaker 3: first church in the Nazaren here in Bartlesville will be there. Uh,
Speaker 3: the Wilson's Chase Wilson and his dad Jason, and his
Speaker 3: brother Jackson, myself on the percussion. And I've also heard
Speaker 3: last night. I heard that Luke Christiansen will be joining
Speaker 3: joining us too on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He's been getting around a lot. He did Summer Fast
Speaker 1: and then he did the uh the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: the barbecue. Now he's gonna head out there to to Sunfist.
Speaker 3: That's what I wondered last night. So he's really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now we got food vendors, I understand.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: One of them is coming back.
Speaker 4: Yes, we we got the corn, the guy that does
Speaker 4: the corn coming back. I love that, So we have
Speaker 4: that when of course we have our turkey leg people.
Speaker 4: We've you got several others that are that are going
Speaker 4: to be there. So we're gonna have a nice wide
Speaker 4: variety of foods for everyone.
Speaker 2: Of course, you know ice cream and everything else.
Speaker 4: You know that fresh squeeze lemonade that you know that's
Speaker 4: perfect for you nice warm day when you walking around.
Speaker 4: Got to have that fresh squeeze lemonade. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: have a lot of really good food vendors out there.
Speaker 1: My gosh, this is gonna be awesome. Now we've got
Speaker 1: the big stage, the main stage entertainment. This is going
Speaker 1: to be two and a half days of good, big
Speaker 1: maybe three days of big.
Speaker 3: Stuff, yes sir, Yeah, three days of music and it
Speaker 3: all starts Friday at five o'clock on the main stage.
Speaker 1: Robbie Bell, this will be your first believe it or not,
Speaker 1: She's been around for a long time, but this is
Speaker 1: her first time at Sunfish, which is hard to get
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're excited. She's the one who plays music from
Speaker 3: like Janis Joplin, the Black Crows, I've seen Chris Stapleton,
Speaker 3: I mean you name it, or Creeden's Clearwater Revival as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you if it's, if you know it's,
Speaker 1: she plays it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also following her be Steve Sutherland and the Red
Speaker 3: Bud Bandits which they just played at Big Heart Day
Speaker 3: by last weekend, so there'll be at six thirty and
Speaker 3: then rounding it out Friday evening for us is one
Speaker 3: that we're really excited to have Tory Ray from Oklahoma City, so.
Speaker 1: Playing if folks, don't worry if you've not heard of toy.
Speaker 1: If you're out there, just go out there and take
Speaker 1: a listen, grab a seed, and enjoy, because you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: I knew we'll win.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Probably within eighteen months to two years, she's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be big stup.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a high energy ninety minute show.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you a good rock and country there. She's
Speaker 3: got a good band back in the I'm.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to this lineup.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then of course that's not at all Saturday morning,
Speaker 3: we were right back out there at eleven am Burrel
Speaker 3: Fish Community still drum band from a Watso we'll be
Speaker 3: here performing for us at eleven am. So a lot
Speaker 3: of people ask us every year is there going to
Speaker 3: be still drums? Yes, there is this year. And then
Speaker 3: at twelve thirty, is you Tom with your band, the
Speaker 3: Sons of Beaches.
Speaker 1: We might be stealing some of them steel drummers though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Their mom is just stay a little alone.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, and we're gonna have.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun, and I'm gonna let the secret
Speaker 1: out right now. We're gonna have Robbie come back and
Speaker 1: do a couple of songs with us from the gap
Speaker 1: from Friday night, come back and do a.
Speaker 2: Couple of songs. Fantastic.
Speaker 1: There's a reason for it, but you'll find out that
Speaker 1: it's part of our birthday bash, creating us this because
Speaker 1: our band was birthed on that stage.
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember you say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the first time I ever met her, rubber Wow.
Speaker 1: One of us had rehearsed, but we never met the drummer,
Speaker 1: and we did. Are you here for the show? Yeah? Good,
Speaker 1: nice meeting. You keep studying, okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it turned out to be really good last year,
Speaker 3: so we're excited to have you guys back again. And
Speaker 3: then at two pm there's another new band from Bartlesville,
Speaker 3: three guys that formed the band three Dads. So they're
Speaker 3: called Prairie Smoke.
Speaker 1: Now I'm staying around for this.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be you know, if you like Americano music,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: You can make tens of dollars in Maricono music. I'm
Speaker 1: proved positive of that. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. It's gonna be a good variety of
Speaker 3: stuff that I think people like to hear on an afternoon.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, on Saturday. So and then following them at
Speaker 3: three point thirty is the Williamson family Pearl Grayson Company,
Speaker 3: which they have a CD that's just released and I'm
Speaker 3: sure they'll bring it with them to sell copies of.
Speaker 3: But they've got a six song EP.
Speaker 1: Old for Tree.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to this, Yes.
Speaker 3: And this bluegrass band they've played it. I've seen them
Speaker 3: at Silver Dollar City before. Of course, they played at
Speaker 3: SunFest for US three years ago when they first moved here.
Speaker 3: And then they've over got three too, Yeah, at an
Speaker 3: event called Family Bandfest. So that's a fun time there.
Speaker 3: So you're not gonna want to miss him. This Saturday
Speaker 3: at three thirty.
Speaker 1: Their big Favorites down in Sepulpa at the Kindley Gospel
Speaker 1: Barn as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen that too. Yeah, that's good. So and
Speaker 3: then who else we have five PM is uh, let
Speaker 3: it ride with Terry Melton. So that's gonna be nineties
Speaker 3: country favorites and our Sheriff Scotty Owen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a little song though for in
Speaker 1: homage to Sheriff Owen.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some prison blues, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: And then rounding it out at six point thirty is
Speaker 3: the Hydramatics blues band from Tulsa and at eight o'clock
Speaker 3: at eight pm.
Speaker 1: The Paul Benjamin Band High Energy again.
Speaker 3: Another high energy artist. Yeah, he's been in Tulsa staple.
Speaker 3: He's played here before for ok Mozart a few years back.
Speaker 3: So we're we're glad to have him back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and once again, you don't have to buy tickets
Speaker 1: to any of these shows. Books there, just walking, that's right,
Speaker 1: and come in with the right attitude that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have fun and by got you out. And on top
Speaker 1: of that, you can shop the marketplace, taking the car
Speaker 1: show on Saturday, let the kids watch the movies for free.
Speaker 1: And then also the glow Fast and everything that goes
Speaker 1: with Sunfast, including Sunshine this year.
Speaker 2: Yes, you believe this.
Speaker 1: We got a forecast. It's two years in a row. Right,
Speaker 1: it's looking very favorable at this time.
Speaker 4: That's right, and I'm looking forward to this. Let's not
Speaker 4: forget about the scavenger hunt.
Speaker 1: You know something. I'm glad you brought that up because
Speaker 1: people were asking me about that. They said, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: the next time the traning Teina come on, ask them
Speaker 1: about the scavenger because last year we had a blast.
Speaker 2: It's coming again.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have about twenty five of the Little sun
Speaker 4: sun Fest little faces in different booze. You're going to
Speaker 4: come into the park and as you cross that bridge,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be an information center right there where Robin
Speaker 4: is and you'll be able to pick up your little
Speaker 4: papers to fill them out. You'll put your name in
Speaker 4: a way for us to contact you. If you are
Speaker 4: a winner, you'll walk around find the little Sunshines, write
Speaker 4: the booth number down and then take it back to
Speaker 4: the information center and put it in the hopper so
Speaker 4: that we can draw on Saturday, and then.
Speaker 2: It will be cash prizes for that.
Speaker 4: So you'll want to find those twenty five little SunFest faces.
Speaker 4: No no age limit or everybody can participate. I encourage
Speaker 4: everyone to do it and you'll have a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: But you it'll be all over the park, so you
Speaker 4: got to walk around and find them.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, it really was.
Speaker 4: The kids loved it last year. They had a lot
Speaker 4: of fun doing it.
Speaker 1: They did, and that's why I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: we got that in there that it's.
Speaker 4: All moms and dads and aunts and uncles and grandparents
Speaker 4: can participate as well as just for the kids.
Speaker 1: My goodness, sakes, and this year is year number forty. Yes, boy,
Speaker 1: there are people who are listening right now thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: it must be like twenty I know, it went really quick.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and seven was the twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was ten, I was ten. You were a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is this is your your whole life?
Speaker 3: Has that been? I've been going to this man since
Speaker 3: swo thousands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, this is incredible. So make this a part
Speaker 1: of your family tradition. One Tina was just telling me
Speaker 1: that when you know your your kids were shipping around
Speaker 1: and walk going through here, and now all.
Speaker 2: Of a sudden, they're the adults.
Speaker 1: They're the adults, and they got the kids.
Speaker 4: And they're my oldest is the grandparent taking the new
Speaker 4: one to SunFest.
Speaker 1: So my gosh.
Speaker 4: So it's it's really neat to see that the generations,
Speaker 4: you know, come back and you know, be there and
Speaker 4: enjoy SunFest and you.
Speaker 1: Know something, Sooner Park is the most beautiful setting for this.
Speaker 2: It really is. It really is perfect. It is.
Speaker 4: It's a nice location, easy access. They're going to have
Speaker 4: a great time coming out and enjoying the entertainment, enjoying
Speaker 4: the you know, the food and the vendors. There's just
Speaker 4: so much to do, the movies and all that this
Speaker 4: is all done, and everybody that helps do this are
Speaker 4: all volunteers. So it's the community coming together to put
Speaker 4: this together for them and they come out and they
Speaker 4: enjoy it and it's fantastic to watch.
Speaker 1: My goodness, see it for yourself, folks. That is SunFest
Speaker 1: coming up. It's Friday.
Speaker 2: It's Friday. Is it time to start thinking about a
Speaker 2: new car? But the thought of dealing with a large
Speaker 2: dealership