Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. I know it's April fool but we're not fooling. We're not fooling at all. We're having a good time here today because we're going to be talking about the Bartonswill community concerts and we always do. Adele and Dave Register are with us. How we doing here? We're doing great this morning. How are you
doing pretty good? Except for the allergies that's going around and sure is. But we've got a great We've got a great show and it's nothing to sneeze at. Tell us a little bit about the Abba tribute that we're coming up here. Well, we've got a group coming in called Abba Fab. I like that name. Yeah, I've been I've been in school that it's not Abba, It's Abba. Okay, we'll bed school right now. Yeah. Anyway, they're they're a great group. They actually are both acoustically and performance
wise very much in the Abba mode. In addition to their great music, they also are costumed in the way they were in the seventies. It should be a great fun performance and we have a special deal that's going on for this particular concert, and that is that normally we have students admitted free and
younger students if that's limited by with a parent that holds a ticket. But this time around, since the music of Abba so much appeals to so many young people across across all generations, really we're inviting students to come for free as usual, and if they would like to invite two adults parents, uncles, aunts, guardians, whatever to join them in this presentation, those adults are admitted free as well. There's no excuse Meme and Pepe to not bring
the kids to the show. You come, and what's the date on the show? It's next Wednesday, April tenth, at seven thirty in the Center and the main stage in the Community Hall. Beautiful, it's acoustic, Sarah awesome they are. And even though it's a Wednesday, it's over by nine thirty, so I know it's a school night, but it does get over by nine thirty. So one night only kids come, older siblings, grandma, grandpa, mom and dad, you know, special person come with your
young person and have different generations enjoying the same thing together. That it'd be cool. It's going to be a celebration is what it sounds like. Absolutely, you know, who hasn't heard things like Mama Mia and Waterloo and other
songs from those days, and everybody really really seems to enjoy that. One of the reasons that we try and do this sort of thing is because our organization, as with other organizations in the community, really believes that live performance is the best way and the most instructive way to enjoy music and arts and
others. And so we really, you know, as a community concert, we really would like the community to come in and join us, and this offer is to try and make that available, especially for students who may not have as many opportunities for that kind of exposure as they've had in years gone by. This is going to be great. This is really going to be something else. Now the twenty four to twenty five season spectacular. Yeah, it's looking like it's going to be a lot of fun. Our board is
an all volunteer board. Everything that we bring in in terms of tickets and membership goes straight back into the performers, and so, you know, it's a diverse group, and so we try and represent different aspects of the community, different likes and things that people would want to have. And we've got a really really good mix me up next year a couple of Billy Joel attribute. It's done by Jim Whitter, who if people in Bartlesville may remember in
nineteen I'm sorry. In twenty twenty two, age is showing he came in on the Million Dollar Quartet. He played the part of Jerry Lee Lewis. Oh yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, So he's he's reprising his not his role as Jerry Lee, but a tribute to Billy Joel. We also have in the next concert after that, Jeremy Stole, who was on Broadway and Phantom of the Opera, and he's going to reprise many of the songs from that and other Broadway songs. That should be a great a great
concert. Then we're swinging over to a kind of a Cajun country theme with a group called the do Wa Riders. That'll be in February of twenty twenty five. That sounds like fun, That could be a fun group. And again, you know, we try and diversify, We try and make, you know, bring in different venues, different styles, so it'll appeal to many different people. And then we'll wrap up as you know, we're wrapping up this year with Abba Fab, which is really kind of a very upbeat
and fun sort of thing that everybody should should be able to enjoy. And we're wrapping up next year with another group called Salon, which is doing the music of the Beach Boys. So that should be a really really fun way to wrap up this season. So that's what we've got for next year.
Well, I tell you what we got to get folks in this year the tenth to see Abba This is Abba Fab and this is going to be fabulous and you get the price is right, the music's right, the venue couldn't be better, and this is being put on by the Bartlesbell Community Concerts. So I think you've got the formula here for a hit, we hope. So again, you know, we try and try different venues, different styles
to appeal to a large segment of the community. And you know, one of the best in community concerts, which goes back many, many many years. Actually we were founded in nineteen thirty five, so we're going into our ninetieth season. But there are other community concert groups, ones in Ponca City and ones in Chanut. So if you're a season ticket holder with us. You then get to go to any of the concerts in Pauca City or any
of the concerts in Schnut for no additional charge. We have these reciprocity agreements with these other organizations. They come over to our events when they're able to, we go to their events, and because you're a member of that organization, your admission at the reciprocity concerts is free. So it's a great deal. Membership has its privileges. It does. One of the main stays of community concerts is to make certain that it's a vail to all folks in the
community, and so that's why the prices are so low. I know that the ABAFAB is going to essentially be no cost to many people in the community, but even in general, the cost is kept very low because it is supposed to be a community concert opportunity, and this way, with low cost and availability, everyone can come and enjoy. And so the whole notion of community concerts is to make live music and entertainment available to just about everyone.
And for that reason, the prices for the season membership have been kept the same for four years, and they're so low that you can actually go to the entire season's concerts for no more than ten dollars per concert. My gosh, that's amazing. You can't do that. Well, you can with this, but anywhere else in the world you can't do that. Do you know
that. I'm sorry I have to apologize for this voice. But a woman at the concert told me at the last concert that she writes to her friends after every show and says, you will never believe what I just saw and for what little costs that I paid for the ticket, and she moved here from Los Angeles and she just raves about it. And so it's fun, you know, to listen to comments like this, and she can't believe it. The communities set are setting the quality of the performers and the shows,
and she says she's never seen anything like it. She's so thrilled. She moved to Barlesville the Hammer, and I imagine if you saw a show like what you're going to see here on April tenth, you might stick another zero there and it'd be one hundred dollars ticket anyplace else, but but not here.
We do try and keep it affordable, and among among other things, we're very appreciative of the support that we've received from various organizations such as the bartle Little Community Foundation and the Oklahoma Arts Council, who have very recently provided some very generous grants that will help us in that mission in the coming years. Because as a community organization, we really do believe that live performance is a wonderful way. It's so much better than looking at the little small screen
on your phone. And we just believe that. And whether you know you prefer, you know, community concerts like ours, or Symphony or CMT, the Great Children's Musical Theater Corral of the groups, ok come on out to the center. They are wonderful people. They do a very professional job of supporting all the community groups. We hope you come to ours, but you know, depending on your choices, come to the center enjoy some great live
performances by a lot of different community groups in this in this town. Do you have a Facebook or website or both where folks can consult from time to time case to get a little forgetful Like me, we have accounts on most of those platforms. Are Our own website is BCCA Music dot org. I think the same Moniker handles Facebook and what else. I'm not very good on social media, but they know, they know we're out there. If you got to the website, of course, you can just click on you find
it on the other social media platforms for the website. Well that's cool. That's cool. That way you can bookmark them and you go there whenever you want. This is great. So once again, next Wednesday is filled the house. Let's just fill the house for Abba fab and it's brought to you by the Bartlesmill Community Concerts. I want to thank you both for being here today. Well, thank you very much for being for allowing us to be
here and spread the good news about performances here in Bartlesville. It's a unique town with the facilities and the groups that we have here. Come on out to the center and enjoy a live performance. Indeed can send it better by anybody else. Appreciate it. Folks, you've been watching and listening to our community connection on K one, the one you trust. I'll never forget this call.