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Good money, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome one time for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. And we have OKM music in the house. So we have Haley, Jacob and Savannah. How are we doing today? Kids world? Super the oughtoy because this is a busy week. My goodness. Six Now, who's all a first year intern here? Ah? I got a veteran here, So introduce yourself and tell us what you do. Miss Wooten. Hi, I'm Suanna

Wooten. I'm just behind the scenes. I'm in the office creating social media posts, making sure that we have packing lists for all of our events that we set up. Really beautiful, boots, alrighty, so handy with the guts you're doing. We're kind of doing all the things. But my main job is audio. Oh really, So you get to make sure the performers sound the best they could possibly be. I go to school for audio. To where do you go to school? I go to MTSU. Ok?

Good, where do you go to school? The State University? Jacob, I got to owe you, owe you. It was one of my daughters. So okay, we got I got seven kids. I gotta remember that one finally, So what do you do? I kind of did the same thing, Haley, just kind of helping set up the performers. But I tell what to do, Yeah, make them carry the things. Yeah.

Well, we got the main stage events coming up. We've got the showcases going on and the especialty for kids that have been rocking and rolling since what last Friday? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were out there at at at the church with the keyboard orchestra, and then we had the Dancing Eagles out there. But the showcase events, who wants to talk about that one? I'll get you there. I got that out, okay, perfect.

So Friday, both our first showcase is Barcel Dolls and that will be at Ambler Home, and then our second one it's at the Frank Phillips Mansion at eleven am, so it'll be an outdoor event. And then on Saturday, the same people who will be performing Friday Night, Manhattan Chamber Players. They have some trios that I'll be doing at our own hall, Amber Hall, where our office is, and so we'll have one trio at ten am, We'll have one trio at noon, and then we'll have our final trio at

two pm. And then on Sunday. Our first event is going to be at Amber Hall once again. Twelve We're going to have a harpist and then at four pm we're gonna have vocal students and staff from Oklahoma State University performing at the Johnson Star Building. Wow, this is gonna be great. And that's all free. Our showcases are all free. So make sure you come out. Yes, Now, what I want everybody to do the way if you're going to the the showcase events and if the office is open, just

stick in there and go to the the sugar Plum Shop. Yes, absolutely, come visit. That's at the sugar Plumb Shop. Got to grab some merch wearing one of them mostly I liked it mostly Mozart's, so you gotta get that one. We have our other one. The it's got okay, I'm on the front and a silhouete of him on the back and it comes into colors white and blue. Uh huh, white and blue. Okay,

So this is gonna be cool. This is really gonna be great. And then of course we've got the big show coming up out of wool Rock. That's gonna be a fun one. Yeah. So Friday night at wool Rock we've got a local uh, actually an intern with us. Jiselle will be opening up for the Manhattan Chamber Players, which is the same some of the same players in the Manhattan Chamber Players will be performing Sunday afternoon or Sunday night with the Esher Quartet. And then on Saturday, we've got uh the Tulsa

Baroque Orchestra and Jenny Lynn and Adam Tindler who are both pianists. Jenny Lynn as a Steinway pianist, and then Adam Tindler is a Grammy nominated Yamaha pianist. Okay, that's gonna be Cash Hall in Tulsa, Yes, sounds at Kesha Hall. Yeah, and then Sunday is at the Johnson Sair Building. Yeah, the refinery now setting up sound for this has got to be an incredible piece of work here, because first of all, you you're out doors on the first one. But this is no this is no nothing for a

master like you. Right. Well, so we do have a company coming in from Tulsa to help with the Willerock stage because it is such a large stage, large performance. Yeah. Any of the like any of the Ambler Hall, any of that is on me and then I don't are they coming for Kesha Hall okay? But it might be me. But it's gonna be a lot of fun. Though. How much are you learning from your experience?

You're an okam, It's been good. It's a lot of it's helping me with a lot of the event planning too, because I also, like, apart from sound, I go to school for also some music business stuff and so this is more of that side of it, and so it's it's a good experience for that, all right. And so Van, what about you? What are you learning the what what's your biggest takeaway from being an

intern in? So, I'm a political science major, so you know, I am just like very much like person community and so I definitely learned a lot about just speaking like I'm on this radio right now, which is something I'll probably be doing a lot in the future. And I'm also just learning how to like go out and plan events in the community and kind of get people involved in like something I believe in deeply. Well that's great. Passion

is a big ingredient and all that. Absolutely. And Jacob, what about you? Yeah, So I'm a music ed major, So all these all the kids events and such are we're helping me with like experience with the younger kids and planning events, like Haley said, which is something I'll be doing in the future too. Now you said the younger kids. Yeah, it's always been you've been to youth here. Now all of a sudden, quickly, just like that, you're the adult. Yeah, you got to turn

it around. That's gonna be a little bit of an interesting series of events. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And no, Mary Lynn and and and of course Rose, everybody there at the office. They've been doing this for a while, and this is the fortieth anniversary. This is really something for the folks who've been in Bartlesville for a long time, and some of them actually remember the very first festival. But this throwback, we're going back to

three days like it originally started. And there's there's a lot of nostalgia going on here. But for young people, what do you take away from this nostalgia? I mean that some of the things that you know, we're using the term throwback an awful lot and what have you. But you're so young, there's nothing really for you to throw back, right, we do we never experienced what it was before. Yeah, so are you kind of getting an idea, so looking forward maybe when you take on projects, what that

kind of sentimentality means for the audience. Yeah, it's it's definitely important to see how the community connects with it and how they interact a lot of our people who have been around a long time are very excited that we've gone back to this. They missed it. They prefer all the mostly mozart stuff. It's just also really nice that we have something here that we've kept on for forty years. I think that's something that we're not really seeing so much,

and so in such a small community. The fact that like we've been able to sustain this for forty years with community support, it's just really amazing. I'll tell you that right now, because I've lived a lot of places in the United States in my sixty years, age is that communities like this don't have anything remotely like Okam and they just don't. And if they had something like this, it might have been sustainable for four, maybe five years.

But forty that's incredible, Jacob, what are you learning on that? Yeah, it just we've got like lots of people coming to the office talking about how excited they are for just the classical music and how excited they are for warrock with the Manhattan Chamber of Players, and just being able to show, like the younger people like us, what they experienced forty years ago and thirty years ago. It's just it's really unique. Well, this is great.

I'm glad. This is a great to wait for you to kind of see the music business from this angle and to be kind of closely connected with something that's so important to this Bartlesville community, which is okay, am now with the kids things going on, that's got to be a blast. Yeah. I haven't been too much. I've been doing the recitals. We had to Lisa Steele and a colleague of Verse. They have all their students come in

and do two recitals. We had the younger kids on Sunday and we had the older kids last night, and it's great to see that a lot of them are coming to the same events. We had one little girl come in and play on Sunday and then her father played last night. They both played two different pieces and they were just amazing. Oh man, yeah, what

are you taking away on this? I also really haven't met at the kids events, but it's just been so amazing to like have all of the interns come back and just share stories like these kids who have never played music before, who are like now playing keyboard or playing ukulele. And it's just like so amazing to see like this younger generation because like I'm a band kid as hard as well I played, and so it's just adorable to see them like

starting so much younger than I ever got the chance to. And what about Jacob, Yeah, I think it's been it's been really cool to see because we were given like we gave violins away ukuleles. And then something I'm really excited for is tomorrow we have the ice cream Social rock and Roll ice cream Social with Yes Bomb's ice cream. Yes, and that'll be really that'll be

really cool. Of John von who was one of our biggest sponsors. Yeah, and he loved both rock and roll and ice cream and saying what was done for one? And what was number two? But having fun? I think it was number one. Yeah, but this is great, This is really great. And again stop by the office right there on doing right and we got the did we get that the buffalo back their job? One of the got nailed in the storm. But anyway, drop by there get your

tickets in person. If you can, you're gonna see some friendly people there if you If you can't, you can go online at okmmusic dot org. That's okmmusic dot org and to take a look at the showcase shows that are there, you know, for absolutely free and also for the paid shows, which are absolutely wonderful and worth every darn penny that you're gonna put toward it.

And like I said, if you go into the office itself, you can shop the sugar Plum Shop, get some really cool swaggeroo and then you know, you got to show up in some of this I mean mostly Mozart any prox. I'm sorry, you know, because people are gonna come up and say, well, what's that mean? Then you show them a little thing on the step of OKAM music. Oh well, now I know it's talking about There we go. So once again, the tickets are available.

We do have some tickets for the finale, I understand. But they're going fast. They're going fast. We're going fast, very very fast. And that's the shirt court. Yes, that's going to be at the Refinery, which is john Stone's Sair. And of course you can get those online or at the office as well. One thing is I don't think we take them at the gate, do we do? We? I think we can, we can't. Probably, okay, good. I want to make sure on

that because I'm asking for a friend. I always get going. I'm pretty prepared, but I know some folks just say, hey, let's let's go. It's like oh now, yes, okay, great planning. So I don't want anybody to be left out in case you're want of to the impulsive

times who may or may not be a relative of mine. I hope I'm not getting into too deep a trouble here, but anyway, enjoy the big main stage events, the showcases, and if the kids are interested or if you think your kids should be interested, and yes, they should check out these, especially for kids. I want to thank you here for being here,

Haley King, Jacob Douhunt, and also Savannah Wooten. Appreciate you coming by, and appreciate Mary Lynn and John for letting you get out of the office and about debt and you know, see the town for a brief period of time. And if folks, once again you have been watching us and listening to us right here on K one, the one you trust and on k onetv dot com,