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Spencer Aurand, Dixon Historic Theatre · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
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  Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty w
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  Speaker 1: I x N. It is now eight thirty three on
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  Speaker 1: your Thursday, December eighteenth morning, and I am joined in
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  Speaker 1: the booth by my good friend from the Dixon Historic Theater, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: Iran Spencer. How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: Doing fine? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I've been safe and warm here in
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  Speaker 1: the booth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been enjoying the foggy, wet weather. It's been great.
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  Speaker 1: Is something out of a Stephen King movie. The way
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  Speaker 1: that it descended upon us. I was waiting to see
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  Speaker 1: creatures walking on.
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  Speaker 2: The way on the drive here, I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't see the water tower. Well there it is.
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  Speaker 2: I had to get shockingly close before I could see that.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, and hopefully not moving at a high
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  Speaker 1: rate of travel by the time these sis pop up
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  Speaker 1: at you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know.
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  Speaker 1: In speaking of shows, you guys have got quite the
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  Speaker 1: lineup coming up next year in twenty twenty six, right right.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot. We've got a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: shows coming up. We have at least one show every
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  Speaker 2: weekend coming up next year. Some highlights. In February, we
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  Speaker 2: have Ray Scott, who is a really fantastic country singer
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  Speaker 2: out of Nashville. He's coming up to do a show.
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  Speaker 2: We have we should be getting kind of a local
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  Speaker 2: opener to open for his show, which should be really fun.
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  Speaker 2: Then in March, we've got two things I wanted to highlight.
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  Speaker 2: We have Riley coming to perform on what day was that.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be here on March fourteenth. They are
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  Speaker 2: an Irish rock band. We're actually cool. Yeah, they're super fun.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually partnering with the socc Valley Shamrock Club, so
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  Speaker 2: they normally that weekend will always do kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a big Saint Patrick's Day thing at the Knights of
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  Speaker 2: Columbus Hall. So Riley's actually going to come in early
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to be doing kind of like an
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  Speaker 2: acoustic like back music set for a couple hours there
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  Speaker 2: at the Nights of Columbus Hall. And then as that
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  Speaker 2: event is wrapping up, they're gonna pack up all their stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna head over to the Dixon Theater. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: set up for their full like rock show. So it'll
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  Speaker 2: be that'll be a really fun it'll be a really
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  Speaker 2: busy day for them, but it'll be really really fun. Then.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing we have in March is a really
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  Speaker 2: cool band called Nikki d and the Sisters of Thunder.
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  Speaker 2: They're like an electric rock gospel band. They're super super fun,
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  Speaker 2: super cool. They are out of Ohio and they've done
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  Speaker 2: they've done a lot of like radio, radio and TV
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  Speaker 2: interviews and stuff where they've highlighted a lot of their music,
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  Speaker 2: so you can actually find a lot of their stuff
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  Speaker 2: online on YouTube and things. But they got they have
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  Speaker 2: a really really cool sound, they're really fun, they're really
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  Speaker 2: cool to work with. They've been fantastic just getting them
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  Speaker 2: kind of like lined up and on schedule. So they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of fun too, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for them because they're gonna be adding a
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  Speaker 2: really interesting, uh genre to our lineup that we haven't
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  Speaker 2: had before.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's like throwing taco pizza on the menu, right,
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  Speaker 1: super cool. What else you guys got.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see then in April, obviously we've got our really
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  Speaker 2: big show Tony Danza, so we've we've talked about that
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  Speaker 2: at length quite a lot. But kicking off April on
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  Speaker 2: April fourth, we have a band coming in. They are
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  Speaker 2: a Beatles tribute band called Penny Lane. They're actually an
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  Speaker 2: all female band. One of their musicians actually from the area.
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  Speaker 2: They've performed at Petunia US previously, so we reached out
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  Speaker 2: to them and got them set up so that we
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  Speaker 2: could have them come to a full concert at the
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  Speaker 2: Dixon Theater. And it's they're They're super fun. The premise, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they and it's it's all they do all the classic
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  Speaker 2: bet Beatles music. They sound fantastic, but they just have
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  Speaker 2: kind of a slight twist on everything that they do,
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  Speaker 2: so it's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I cannot wait to see that. That is super cool.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see then. The last thing I wanted to highlight
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  Speaker 2: today is our kids show in May. May second, we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a kid show called click Clack MoU. If you
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  Speaker 2: have kids and have ever read them the book of
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  Speaker 2: the same name, Click Clack MoU. It's very, very fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very funny story about cows that find the
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  Speaker 2: farmer's old typewriter and start sending him ransom notes and
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  Speaker 2: go on strike, and eventually they get the chickens in
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  Speaker 2: on it. The chickens go on striking the farmer is
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  Speaker 2: super upset that the cows have his old typewriter, and
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  Speaker 2: he gets his own typewriter out starts sending them letters back.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very very funny book in the show is
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  Speaker 2: also extremely funny.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love that. It reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: the what was it, Welcome to the Barnyard or yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the cartoon my kids used to watch. That's super cool.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love that. Love stuff for kids.
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  Speaker 2: So we're excited for that one. That one's going to
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  Speaker 2: be That one's going to be good. Those aren't like
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  Speaker 2: the only tribute shows or events or kids shows we
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  Speaker 2: have coming up. We have a lot of different shows.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we have probably one one to two
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  Speaker 2: events every weekend next year, with a few exceptions of
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  Speaker 2: weekends that we kind of kept clear, either for holidays
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  Speaker 2: or because the staff needs to like go on vacation
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: People need to have lives too.
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  Speaker 2: I mostly I need to give my my theater manager
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  Speaker 2: and my technical di director break. I'm like you guys,
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  Speaker 2: haven't you haven't had a day off in three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm making you leave. I'm not scheduling these shows because
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  Speaker 2: then you can't work if there's no events happening. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so almost every weekend's got one show, if not too
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  Speaker 2: events that we have on the schedule, and then we
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of filling in in the with movies.
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  Speaker 2: So our movie committee actually just met last week and
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  Speaker 2: they had a bunch of ideas of different movies that
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to bring into the theater. I know the
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  Speaker 2: one that they confirmed because they were like, immediately apply
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  Speaker 2: for these rights because we might not be able to
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  Speaker 2: give them get them forever is Top Gun. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be showing the original Top Gun next year
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  Speaker 2: at some point, not sure when, but eventually, but probably
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  Speaker 2: in mid January, we'll probably release the full movie schedule
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  Speaker 2: that we plan to bring in.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely love that. Great movie, perfect for the big screen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a ton of fun. I'm super excited
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  Speaker 2: to have that one there. Also just the that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a fantastic movie for just kind of really
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  Speaker 2: highlighting the new PA system in the theater because it'll
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  Speaker 2: just it'll sound amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, Absolutely love this. Where can can people get
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  Speaker 1: tickets for.
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  Speaker 2: All these You can get tickets on our website at
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  Speaker 2: Dixontheater dot com. That'll reroute you to our ticks website
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  Speaker 2: where you can buy all tickets for any of our movies,
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  Speaker 2: upcoming shows, and it'll also have calendars on there for
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  Speaker 2: any upcoming events that we have, whether it be a
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  Speaker 2: public event or a private event, just to kind of
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  Speaker 2: let everyone know when things are happening and where's that going. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and you can also if you're interested in donating to
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  Speaker 2: the theater, you can also find more information about just
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  Speaker 2: donating in general to the theater, or learn more about
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  Speaker 2: our capital campaign at Dixontheater dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Spencer, I'm going to be learning the banjo over
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  Speaker 1: Christmas break. Where can I apply for your country opener.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to apply actually for especially for local
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  Speaker 2: any kind of local musicians or local bands that are
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  Speaker 2: interested in being openers or interested in being part of
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  Speaker 2: any of our local band nights, which we have one
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  Speaker 2: of those scheduled next year. I'm hoping to get two
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  Speaker 2: or three scale. You can also go to the Dicksontheater
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Uh, there is a link i think under
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  Speaker 2: contact us that is like band registration, and you can
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  Speaker 2: go there. There's just some basic information about like the
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  Speaker 2: main contact for the band, name of the band, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how much music you have, the kind of music you play,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a cover band, you know, all that that
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  Speaker 2: stuff will collect all the information, it will go into
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  Speaker 2: our database and then probably I will reach out to
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  Speaker 2: you and be like, Hi, how are you doing? I see,
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  Speaker 2: I see have a band there? Would you like to
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  Speaker 2: lay at the Dixon Theater?
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I know there's plenty of talented musicians
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  Speaker 1: out here in Dixon, in the Greater Suck Valley. So folks,
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  Speaker 1: there you have it. You know how to apply uh
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  Speaker 1: chance to play on this historic venue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we love our local musicians and we
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  Speaker 2: definitely want we want to highlight them. And it also
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a benefit for us as well, being
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  Speaker 2: able to like have that local feel, especially when we're
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  Speaker 2: bringing in an artist from out of town that people
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  Speaker 2: might not be super familiar with. So it kind of
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  Speaker 2: gives you a local feel and also gives you something
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  Speaker 2: new that you might not have seen before.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely anything else you want to share, Spencer, Nope, that's it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in the booth and
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  Speaker 1: sharing all this information, for making sure that there is
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  Speaker 1: no excuse to say you don't have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty six weekend because the Dixon Historic
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  Speaker 1: Theater has you covered. Spencer, thank you so much and
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have a happy merry Christmas and holiday season.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, thank you very much. You have a merry
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  Speaker 2: Christmas too,