Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome, and
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection right here on Kay one,
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Speaker 1: the line with this and you might have heard him
Speaker 1: on our air waves a few years back. More Sullivan.
Speaker 1: How you doing, sir?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Tom. How are you?
Speaker 1: I am wonderful. We've got a big, big event, a
Speaker 1: festival coming up this weekend in Bahaska. Tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about it.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see first Pahusco Western Swing Festival and we're
Speaker 2: going to be there on Friday evening at the Fairgrounds building.
Speaker 2: And I say we the Brazes Valley Boys, which was
Speaker 2: Hank Thompson's band who is in the Country Music Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame in Nashville, and he wanted me to carry
Speaker 2: on the band. So that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Well wonderful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we play western swing with most people from Oklahoma
Speaker 2: know what western swing is, but for those who don't,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a usion of country and jazz with
Speaker 2: blues and big band swing thrown in. So it's a
Speaker 2: little bit of an inclusive music that's something for everybody.
Speaker 1: It's purely American, that's for sure. It is, so tell
Speaker 1: us what can we expect from from this this big
Speaker 1: presentation that we're waiting for.
Speaker 2: Well, they have on Friday night, of course, we'll be there.
Speaker 2: On Saturday. They have a fiddle contest wow that anyone
Speaker 2: can can enter into their prizes and all. There's also
Speaker 2: a documentary that's been shown about the history of Western
Speaker 2: swing music and that'll be shown at the Constantine Theater
Speaker 2: and the fiddle contest is at Constantine as well, but
Speaker 2: that'll be on Saturday. Both of those things on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And a group called Oklahoma Swing they'll be there on
Speaker 2: Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Wonderful Now with your band, it's got to be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Now. I still see a lot of
Speaker 1: Texas Swing and a lot of what we call that
Speaker 1: that that genre music being performed all over the Southwest,
Speaker 1: and it is still as popular as it ever was.
Speaker 2: It is. It's a very very energetic music. It's got
Speaker 2: an infectious beat to it. Great for dancing. Uh. And
Speaker 2: we have been doing this a long time. I've got
Speaker 2: a nine piece band and we've got saxophone, trumpet, steel guitar, fiddles, soul, piano,
Speaker 2: the whole thing. So we play a I guess a
Speaker 2: variety of Western swing. I mean there's Western swing and
Speaker 2: then you can if you want to, you can dissect
Speaker 2: it if if you want to. I don't like to,
Speaker 2: but if you want to. So we will play on
Speaker 2: the country side of Western swing for a while, then
Speaker 2: we'll play on the big band side for western for
Speaker 2: a while because we do things like a train from
Speaker 2: Duke Ellington Aston Street Blues, which is a Dixieland band
Speaker 2: a song that and Dixieland is very prominent in Western
Speaker 2: swing music. That beat and that feel of Dixieland. And
Speaker 2: so we invite everybody out to be with us. We'd
Speaker 2: love to see you come up to the band sand
Speaker 2: and talk to us. We love to interact with folks.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh. Like I say, We're going to start
Speaker 2: at eight and go to eleven on Friday evening. They're
Speaker 2: at the Fairgrounds building in Pehusca.
Speaker 1: Now, how can people get tickets just right at the door?
Speaker 1: Can we get them in advance?
Speaker 2: They can get them at the door, but they can
Speaker 2: also go online to Pehustal Western Swing Festival dot com.
Speaker 1: That's easy to remember, yeah.
Speaker 2: And and buy tickets there as well. So, and we
Speaker 2: really would like to see I have I've had a
Speaker 2: lot of friends from Bartlesville over the years, and I'd
Speaker 2: love to see some of them over there, so I
Speaker 2: would invite them to come on over.
Speaker 1: I tell you what this sounds like. It's going to
Speaker 1: be one of those things that will keep on going.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this will be one of the things we have
Speaker 1: every year that'd be kind of heat if we could.
Speaker 2: Do that, I think it will. We just played a
Speaker 2: festival in Fort Worth over the weekend and there on
Speaker 2: their fourth year, and it was a packed house, just
Speaker 2: packed of all people of all ages. Because it attracts
Speaker 2: people of all ages, and so I hope I feel
Speaker 2: that they will continue it and it'll be a great
Speaker 2: addition to northeast Oklahoma and what you all do there now.
Speaker 1: Fort Worth a buddy of mine, Steve Marquard, has got
Speaker 1: a band and he plays that circuit all the time
Speaker 1: and he just loves taking that swing the western swing
Speaker 1: music all over the place. But he calls that home
Speaker 1: base and he says he you haven't really danced till
Speaker 1: you danced in Fort Worth. And I'm going, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take your word for it, but I'll dance a posca.
Speaker 2: Steve was Steve was there. Oh, he was good at
Speaker 2: the Fort Worth because that was his brother, Mike and
Speaker 2: Steve with this one on. Oh they did, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're the promoter and the organizer of it, and so
Speaker 2: Steve was on stage on We were there on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: He was there Friday night, but I did get to
Speaker 2: meet him and talk to him for a second.
Speaker 1: Interesting guy.
Speaker 2: They've done a great job. And this documentary that I
Speaker 2: mentioned is the documentary that Steve and Mike produced, Hobby
Speaker 2: Dog on. Yeah, they'll be showing at the Constantine on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Great, hey, Morty, thanks for stopping buy and visiting with us,
Speaker 1: and let's kick out. Let's kick up a storm and
Speaker 1: have ourselves a great time this weekend.
Speaker 2: We are going to have a great time, So we
Speaker 2: invite everybody over.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Tom, Thank you, Thanks Tom very much.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. All right, folks, you've been listening to our
Speaker 1: community connection on K one.