Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome Malcam. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection. I'm Tom Davis and
Speaker 1: joining me by phone. Followings in the air, and that
Speaker 1: means October Vince is very very near mary Land.
Speaker 2: Men with Okam, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm great, Tom, how are you well?
Speaker 2: I can't wait. You know. I like a good street party.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's coming up on October fifth, on a
Speaker 3: Saturday between fourth and fifth on Dewey Avenue, and it's
Speaker 3: going to be here before you know it. We are
Speaker 3: on the countdown, yes we are.
Speaker 1: And you know what, this is one of the best
Speaker 1: outdoor events we got going on. You got it right
Speaker 1: here at the pretty pretty pretty time of the year
Speaker 1: and there's going to be a lot of fun in
Speaker 1: the air, a lot of things to do. But this
Speaker 1: year it's a more family inclusive. It's really something for everyone.
Speaker 2: This year it is.
Speaker 3: It's a family fantastic event. We have a certain deveener
Speaker 3: pubbet so we have numerous story times telling stories of
Speaker 3: the Dash on the dashun and talking of about the
Speaker 3: different cultures. If anyone has ever read of the love
Speaker 3: stories of Heidi, tales of the magical postcards about some
Speaker 3: children who travel to Germany and learn about all the
Speaker 3: German heritage and culture. We also have a special story
Speaker 3: time about a goat called Once upon a Goat, and
Speaker 3: then of course of the loved Hansel and Gruttle. So
Speaker 3: we hope that kids and families and parents and grandparents,
Speaker 3: aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters will come out and
Speaker 3: join us for a really good time. We've got a
Speaker 3: bouncy help, we have pissy decorating, pretzel making. We have
Speaker 3: these bags that the kids get to fill with all
Speaker 3: kinds of art supplies, storytelling of course, like I said,
Speaker 3: the pumpkin paigning, the acts throwing. A fun thing that
Speaker 3: has become a tradition now is root beer pong, and
Speaker 3: it's so fun to watch a thing we've played that.
Speaker 3: But we also this year have a root beer garden,
Speaker 3: so if you want to get a nice root beer,
Speaker 3: play some root beer pong, have a root beer float,
Speaker 3: then this is your October first. We also have a
Speaker 3: fun football toss game and then kind of an icky
Speaker 3: but fun sausage game if you want to throw the
Speaker 3: brought into the bucket God. But we also have a
Speaker 3: lot of things that are fun for adults too, we
Speaker 3: have amazing food. We have a food vendor called Get Toasted.
Speaker 3: People have seen that in my office for the last
Speaker 3: three months and they're like, is that like a bar
Speaker 3: cart And I'm like, no, it's like French toast, Like
Speaker 3: you have waffles and chicken, but this is like French
Speaker 3: toast and chicken, so it's kind of a play on
Speaker 3: beloved French Toast. They have savory dishes, they have sweet dishes,
Speaker 3: and of course we have Prices Meat Market who brings
Speaker 3: all the delicious German food. New to us is Jack Barbecue.
Speaker 3: We have Palace Rooms who is bringing their delicious vessels
Speaker 3: and some nice wine. We have Anything but Hate coming
Speaker 3: super and Mill Scissor Tail will also bring back their
Speaker 3: delicious beer. And in fact, I was just talking to
Speaker 3: Chris last week and he is going to have some
Speaker 3: wonderful october Fest beer that he's bringing. So we're very
Speaker 3: excited about that.
Speaker 1: This is going to be one for the books. We
Speaker 1: also have so much great entertainer is coming our way too.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: We have the German American of Society Tulsa Dancers, they
Speaker 3: will be coming, and then we have three live bands.
Speaker 3: We have Blos Capella, Mark Schnell and of course the
Speaker 3: beloved Kings Cabbage, who will be playing traditional Polka music
Speaker 3: with some twists on it. And of course everyone has
Speaker 3: to do the Chicken dance at least one hundred times
Speaker 3: at Octoberfest, so we can't wait for that. We are
Speaker 3: also bringing back our very popular beer sign relay and
Speaker 3: our beer sign competition, and neither of those are easy,
Speaker 3: but I think it's really fun to watch the beer sign.
Speaker 3: You know, if people look at this one leader at
Speaker 3: beer and they think, oh, I can do it, that's
Speaker 3: not a problem. You know, with the mugs last it
Speaker 3: weighs quite a bit. Then you have the beer to it.
Speaker 3: And even my son in law, he's out of the army,
Speaker 3: who thought, oh this is no problem as you can
Speaker 3: use very strong. He was flooding at the end and
Speaker 3: his arm was shaky. I don't know if he's done
Speaker 3: anything to prepare for this year, but you know, start
Speaker 3: listing your ways and start practicing. It's not as easy
Speaker 3: as it looks. We also have a raffle tom, a
Speaker 3: really cool yetti filled with all kinds of German goodies
Speaker 3: and so it's a really cute. It's kind of a
Speaker 3: bright blue color, on wheels and so I think everybody
Speaker 3: will really like this YETI it's fun, it's very october festish,
Speaker 3: but it's also kind of supportive of the Bruins. So
Speaker 3: it's one that is perfect for Bartlesville.
Speaker 2: My goodness, you've got it all going on. Now, how
Speaker 2: do we get tickets?
Speaker 3: So if you want to come into the office, we
Speaker 3: are located at four fifteen South Dewey and Rose or
Speaker 3: I would be happy to sell you tickets. You can
Speaker 3: also go online at Okayan Music dot org of okmusic
Speaker 3: dot org and you can buy your tickets easily there.
Speaker 3: We also have flyers all over town. I believe that
Speaker 3: as QR codes on them that you can stand and
Speaker 3: do it that way, or you can do the old
Speaker 3: fashioned way and give us a call at nine one
Speaker 3: eight three three six nine to nine zero zero and
Speaker 3: we'll sell you a ticket over the phone. And I
Speaker 3: just forget to mention going with our family fantastic themes.
Speaker 3: All kids eighteen and under are free. Oh wow, that's
Speaker 3: our gift back to the community. That's our gift to students.
Speaker 3: We know it's a busy day. Bartlefeil has their of
Speaker 3: course homecoming there and some celebration, but we hope that
Speaker 3: you know, we're having it from twelve to eight on Saturday,
Speaker 3: October fifth, and we're hoping that maybe that's early enough
Speaker 3: that they can do both. They can come out and
Speaker 3: have some fantastic food at lunch and then go home
Speaker 3: and get time in time to get ready for their
Speaker 3: special dance.
Speaker 1: This sounds like it's going to be great fun as always,
Speaker 1: and of course with we have these events from time
Speaker 1: to time with Okay and music. This is one of
Speaker 1: your signature events. But this all helps out with the
Speaker 1: festival that comes up each and every year and also
Speaker 1: with the education programs that go on year round.
Speaker 3: It does it helps us support all of our kids
Speaker 3: programming and it also helps support our educational programming, and
Speaker 3: we hope that everyone you know gets to learn a
Speaker 3: little bit about the culture of Stay Germany in this
Speaker 3: in this instance that also has you know, a wonderful
Speaker 3: time while they're learning about it. There are just so
Speaker 3: many wonderful things that go on in the world and
Speaker 3: we want to share them, and of course our Mozart
Speaker 3: heritagage are very Bavarian and German heritage. We want to
Speaker 3: share that and we're very proud of it. I think
Speaker 3: it's just and it's a good time. It's wonderful music,
Speaker 3: it's time to catch up with friends, amazing food, wonderful
Speaker 3: craft food, beer, and you just can't go along. And
Speaker 3: actually I forgot to mention, we will also have okam,
Speaker 3: we'll have a special really call a little German shop,
Speaker 3: so that if you want to get your beer signs
Speaker 3: and your beds and your fun felt hats and the
Speaker 3: little tins that go on the hat. But we will
Speaker 3: also have apple spirittle, so kind of another way for
Speaker 3: us to do a little bit of fundraisings that also
Speaker 3: have the traditional German items, the incense burners, all of
Speaker 3: those things that everyone likes to collect, you know, Christmas
Speaker 3: ornaments and so on.
Speaker 2: You pulled out all the stops.
Speaker 3: Wow, to be tried.
Speaker 1: Every year it just gets a little bit bigger, a
Speaker 1: little bit more fun, a little bit more to do.
Speaker 1: And once again this is coming up first weekend in October.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, Saturday, October fifth, on Dewey Avenue between fourth
Speaker 3: and fifth streets, so right where our office is located,
Speaker 3: right next to RSU from twelve to eight pm. Children
Speaker 3: eighteen and under are free and please go buy your
Speaker 3: tickets at okmusic dot org or come to see us.
Speaker 3: We would love to see everybody at the office at
Speaker 3: four fifteen South.
Speaker 2: Dey, Maryland before we go. Do you need volunteers?
Speaker 1: I know this is going to be a big undertaking
Speaker 1: and you got a lot more going on.
Speaker 2: Do you still need folks to help out?
Speaker 3: We would love to have folks. You know, we can
Speaker 3: never have too many volunteers helping us set up hair down.
Speaker 3: If you want to come help usher in people to
Speaker 3: see the puppet show, or if you want to sign
Speaker 3: up to help work the gate, if you want to
Speaker 3: help work some of the kids events, we always need
Speaker 3: help and you know it takes an entire town these events,
Speaker 3: So we would love to have volunteers, especially if you
Speaker 3: need service hours at the high school for one of
Speaker 3: your programs or whatnot. That's a good way for kids
Speaker 3: to get those service hours out, or if you just
Speaker 3: like to volunteer. All of our volunteers get in free.
Speaker 3: We also give them a food boucher to say thank you.
Speaker 3: So I think it's a win win for both OKM
Speaker 3: and those who come and volunteer.
Speaker 2: I think so too, mary Lynn, thank you very much
Speaker 2: for being with us today.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Tom, thank you for always hosting us,
Speaker 3: and we look forward to seeing you there and again
Speaker 3: come see us on October fifth, between twelve and eight
Speaker 3: on Dewey.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, Marylyn men with OKM,
Speaker 1: and once again that is October Fest coming up