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CAR TALK with Brad Doenges and OKM's Mary Lynn Mihm · One on One With a Professional

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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Speaker 1: It is a time now for car Talk with Brad
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Speaker 1: Dungeons and the Dungeons family of Toyota. And by golly,
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Speaker 1: we've got guests coming into the studio today too, because
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Speaker 1: we've got an action packed show here today. First of all, Brad,
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Speaker 1: how's the world treat you these days?
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Speaker 2: If we've been busy as usual and sort of overloaded,
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Speaker 2: what stuff to do as usual around town? I bet
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Speaker 2: you're gonna sympathize with that.
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Speaker 3: I can sympathize that that's a little crazy. I had
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Speaker 3: people texting what airlines are artists coming in? And I'm like,
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Speaker 3: I'm going on radio.
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Speaker 1: I told him you had three phones going in, probably
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Speaker 1: a tax You're not even I hadn't thought.
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Speaker 2: About to pick up at the airport process in a while.
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Speaker 2: We used to be more involved in that because we
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Speaker 2: back in the day, of course, we lend all the
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Speaker 2: musicians from New York's the vehicles and that that took
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Speaker 2: a lot of coordination. Now it's like collecting of documents
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Speaker 2: and insurance and then.
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Speaker 3: They fly in and fly out, and after COVID we
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Speaker 3: can't rent them. We can't get I mean that's to
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Speaker 3: do it. But fortunately one of our other artists who
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Speaker 3: is performing with these guys is picking them up. He
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Speaker 3: being our chauffeur.
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Speaker 1: Oh good grady.
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Speaker 2: That's a thing. Find a way, find a way now
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Speaker 2: for how many years is it now? Ok?
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Speaker 3: Is forty two?
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Speaker 2: Forty two years here in Barceloil. What a great event
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Speaker 2: and it is Thank you to you for putting the
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Speaker 2: energy in it to keep it going.
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Speaker 3: Books like you guys, like the radio station, and of
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Speaker 3: course your auto group that keeps us going. Without the
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Speaker 3: support and the sponsorship, it wouldn't happen. So thank you
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Speaker 3: for coming, thank you for sponsoring, Thanks for letting me
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Speaker 3: come on your show today.
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Speaker 2: Of course, we want to make sure, make sure we
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Speaker 2: have a crowd at it all out at all the events.
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Speaker 2: Of course it's been going on for a week or.
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Speaker 3: So now we've had the kids stuff kicked off and
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Speaker 3: oh my goodness, tonight we have our finale in twenty
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Speaker 3: seven minutes and they're going to have another art immersion
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Speaker 3: and so it's going to be pretty spectacular. I think
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Speaker 3: this is one of the ones that at least the staff,
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Speaker 3: the older members of the staff, are really looking forward to.
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Speaker 3: We're going to do a tribute to Elvis, to Dolly
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Speaker 3: Parton and jazz. So they are going to have fun.
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Speaker 3: They're going to do some craft, they're going to learn
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Speaker 3: about these famous artists, very special Americana music extraordinaries, and
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Speaker 3: they're going to do some dancing and I think they're
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Speaker 3: gonna have fun. And then tonight we have our finale
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Speaker 3: and it kicks off out at the Unity Square and
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Speaker 3: it's going to be amazing. It looks like the weather
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Speaker 3: is going to cooperate. So, oh my goodness, it looks
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Speaker 3: like the weather's going to cooperate tomorrow night for Balsam Range.
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Speaker 3: Now we're all just praying for the yacht Rock. So
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Speaker 3: it's the odds are going down for thunderstorms, which is amazing.
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Speaker 3: Looks like showers.
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Speaker 2: Now, and so I'm like, if you outside too.
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Speaker 3: It's outside at Post Oak Lodge, which is kind of
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Speaker 3: I call it the Tulsa wool Rock. Although it doesn't
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Speaker 3: have a museum and the wildlife that are I guess captured,
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Speaker 3: but it has. It's not for wildlife, but it's a
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Speaker 3: beautiful venue. And so the show will gone no matter what.
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Speaker 3: It'll either be out at Post Oak Lodge or it'll
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Speaker 3: be back here at the Community Center. So we have
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Speaker 3: a contingency. We don't cancel, we will go, We move forward.
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Speaker 2: Resilience is important. Yeah, yes, that's going on for forty
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Speaker 2: two years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you always got to have a backup plan. But no,
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Speaker 3: I think it's it's going to be beautiful. So tonight,
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Speaker 3: hopefully if remember, if you signed up, come on out.
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Speaker 3: If you didn't sign up, you're welcome to come out.
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Speaker 3: You may not get a hot dog because it was
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Speaker 3: first come, first serve and it was the first two
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty guest and we were at I guess
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Speaker 3: a waiting list already as of last Monday, so it
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Speaker 3: was insane. But we have kids games. If you kind
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Speaker 3: of think of a life forth picnic, maybe back in
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Speaker 3: the sixties where you had three legged races, gunny sack races.
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Speaker 3: We'll have some bingo. We've got all kinds of lawn games, bubbles,
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Speaker 3: you name it, we have it. It's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 3: The troop from Saint John's is coming out to cook
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Speaker 3: hot dogs for us, so we're gonna have hot dogs,
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Speaker 3: ice cream sandwiches. You have to come out, Brad. You
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Speaker 3: can get a Mickey Mouse one on a stick. So
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be super fun. So yeah, so no, so
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be really nice. And then tomorrow night we
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Speaker 3: open up with our showcase with the bell ringers. That's
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Speaker 3: always a wonderful thing. I love it. It's like you
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Speaker 3: have all these bells and then they like exactly know
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Speaker 3: what to do. I love it with Susan Mueller and
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Speaker 3: all of her her group. And so they'll be at
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Speaker 3: First Press Church at ten. Those are free events, so
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Speaker 3: come out. And then we have we were on the
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Speaker 3: radio yesterday with Tom talking in detail with doctor Baker
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Speaker 3: about the Liberty and the Bar the Shakespeare. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be really cool. We have these folios that are
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Speaker 3: extremely rare that showcase. They're these really thick books that
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Speaker 3: each one has a different set of Shakespeare's works and
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Speaker 3: they span from sixteen thirty two to sixteen eighty five.
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Speaker 3: I hope I get that right. Wow, And they are
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Speaker 3: amazing and they really preserved his works and a lot
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Speaker 3: of plays that might never have been released and works
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Speaker 3: that are contained in these.
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Speaker 2: They are there's more than the ones we all know about.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and these are very rare, very very valuable, and
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Speaker 3: they're going to actually be at our little showcase event
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Speaker 3: at Woollar Rock, and so you can come see those,
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Speaker 3: maybe not touch them, but see them. And then we're
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Speaker 3: going to have two professors coming in to lecture about
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Speaker 3: them and to lecture about Shakespeare's actually profound significant impact
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Speaker 3: on American culture, politics, ideological sort of governance, and just
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Speaker 3: you know how he had a role on America actually.
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Speaker 3: And then we have Manhattan Chamber Players who are also
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Speaker 3: going to be performing as a quartet for that event.
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Speaker 3: So it's about a two our event, so you kind
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Speaker 3: of get two for one for this one that happened.
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Speaker 3: And it's tomorrow at two o'clock out at the Welcome
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Speaker 3: Center for wool Rock. You don't have to pay the gate.
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Speaker 3: Admission to get in the event is free. And in
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Speaker 3: between our two concerts and lecture, we're gonna have a
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Speaker 3: little tea just to have some humor, some English tea
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Speaker 3: with our Americana theme. And then tomorrow night we kick
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Speaker 3: off with children's musical theater. Gates open up will of
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Speaker 3: Rock at five thirty. They'll be performing about six thirty,
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Speaker 3: and then Balsam Range goes on at eight. Super excited
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Speaker 3: for them. If you don't know who Balsam ranges. They
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Speaker 3: are an amazing bluegrass Grammy Award winning toast stomping, just
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Speaker 3: fabulous set of guys, talented musicians and it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: super fun. And then we end with the fireworks, So
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Speaker 3: the famous fireworks. So yeah, the guys in from Oklahoma
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Speaker 3: City have been doing those for us for I think
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Speaker 3: forty two years. However long we've been out at what.
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Speaker 2: Maybe forty one years out.
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Speaker 3: At will Rock Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now at the end of the concert, yeah.
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Speaker 3: And we'll food trucks if people want to eat out there.
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Speaker 3: They can also grab a glass of wine. You know.
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Speaker 3: If you want to get more details, just go to
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Speaker 3: our website, okayomusic dot org and you can see what
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Speaker 3: the venues look like, what all the times are, where
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Speaker 3: to get your tickets and or come by the office
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Speaker 3: and we'll show it all to you. We have nice
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Speaker 3: pressures and things we can hand out. So tickets are
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Speaker 3: available at the gates.
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Speaker 2: Still have tickets.
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Speaker 3: We still have tickets. It's hard to fill. It is
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Speaker 3: kind of hard to fill up Will Rock. We do
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Speaker 3: have VIP, those tend to be limited just because we
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Speaker 3: only have so much room right in front of the stage,
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Speaker 3: you know, Will of Rock being outdoors, you kind of
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Speaker 3: spread out, but it's beautiful and for our VIAP it's
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Speaker 3: kind of an immersive experience where they get to come
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Speaker 3: meet the artists. But also we give you a chair
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Speaker 3: so you don't have to haul your lawn chair out.
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Speaker 3: But we always tell people like, if you're not that
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Speaker 3: front row locked into your section, we'll let you take
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Speaker 3: your chair and you can go put it somewhere else.
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Speaker 3: So we want you to have a great experience. And
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Speaker 3: I think, I mean, you can't go wrong out at
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Speaker 3: Willarock now, and you sort ofly can't go wrong adding
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Speaker 3: some amazing music. So yeah, so it's I think it's
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Speaker 3: going to be pretty cool. Are you coming?
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Speaker 2: I don't. I know. We have tickets I think to
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Speaker 2: several events and there's a lot going on. My mom's
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Speaker 2: in town.
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Speaker 3: Oh nice, she was like, balsom Range, I did see
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Speaker 3: your wife. She actually bought tickets. So and hopefully Tom,
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Speaker 3: are you going to get to come this year? Nice?
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Speaker 2: Excellent, Tom, You're excited. It's always so much fun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it is. And we also have kids, so
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Speaker 3: if you want to bring your kids out to that,
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Speaker 3: we have all kinds of games we have Again, just
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Speaker 3: if the weather cooperates and it's not going to be
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Speaker 3: windy or wet, and I don't think it's going to
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Speaker 3: be tomorrow night. We have these really fun flag crafts
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Speaker 3: that they get to make an American flag and then
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Speaker 3: they'll be able to sort of wave out about and
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Speaker 3: then celebrate and use it for Fourth of July and
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Speaker 3: and so I think it's going to be really fun.
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Speaker 3: Our kids are excited. We have six interns, a new
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Speaker 3: staff member, and so everybody is good to go, and
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be pretty fantasmic.
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Speaker 2: It takes a literal army to pull all this off.
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Speaker 2: Any months of planning, Yes, talk about that a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Were out to the Yeah, the sponsors and all that.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I support this throughout the year.
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Speaker 3: So we have our interns, we have our main staff,
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Speaker 3: then we have two Boy Scout troops, we have the
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Speaker 3: wool Rock of course staff and so yeah, when you
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Speaker 3: add everyone up with volunteers and staff, it's over one
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty people. So it does take a lot
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Speaker 3: of people to put this on. A lot of people
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Speaker 3: you never see. They're behind the scenes. Of course, we
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Speaker 3: have Integrity coming. They have a huge group to do
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Speaker 3: the sound and the light. And then we have our wonderful,
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Speaker 3: wonderful sponsors such as yourself with Dungeons Auto Group. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's just amazing for you guys to help us do pretty.
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Speaker 2: Much every year. I mean, I just give us a
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Speaker 2: little bit of a shot.
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Speaker 3: I think I can remember you haven't.
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Speaker 2: My uncle Bob started it back back in the day,
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Speaker 2: and my wife Kimberly served on the board for a
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Speaker 2: while us and you know, it's been through so many transitions.
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Speaker 3: And your son that was in the jazz choir has performed.
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Speaker 3: It's a whole family thing.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, well, it's a community thing. It is
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Speaker 2: a community right by that. Yeah, it has been around
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Speaker 2: all these years and knows what it is and has
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Speaker 2: been involved, right, and it's so unique in a community
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Speaker 2: are size to have an event.
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Speaker 3: Like this well, and to go on for forty two
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Speaker 3: years is it's hard. It's you know, when COVID happened,
10:30
Speaker 3: that took this the wind out of a lot of
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Speaker 3: people's sales, and so you know, it's just but it
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Speaker 3: is Bartlesville, it is northeastern Oklahoma. We are so proud
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Speaker 3: to be able to help, you know. We always get
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Speaker 3: so excited when the artists who've come through that are
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Speaker 3: maybe beginning their careers, like Parker McCollum as an example,
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Speaker 3: and then for them to go on several years later
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Speaker 3: and start really becoming huge headliners, winning CMT Awards or
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Speaker 3: winning Grammys or whatever they're winning. It's just really cool that,
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Speaker 3: you know, we were able to be a part of
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Speaker 3: the beginning, and of course that meets our mission. And
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Speaker 3: then of course you bring very famous people that are
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Speaker 3: already huge headliners like Welsham Range to a very small
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Speaker 3: part of America, and you know, so for some of
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Speaker 3: our patrons, they may never get to go see some
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Speaker 3: of these groups because maybe they wouldn't necessarily perform outside
11:24
Speaker 3: of you know, like MCP these guys are all mostly
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Speaker 3: from the East Coast, and to go hear them, if
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Speaker 3: you wanted to hear them on a regular basis, you're
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Speaker 3: going to have to go, like to the Boston Pops,
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Speaker 3: or you're going to have to go see a symphony
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Speaker 3: concert in New York or San Francisco. Here, we're able
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Speaker 3: to bring them here and you can come right in
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Speaker 3: your own backyard, and I think that's really special, and of.
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Speaker 2: Course it brings people into Barlowsville.
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Speaker 3: It does. The region, it does. We have people coming
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Speaker 3: in from the East coast, we have people coming in
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Speaker 3: from the West coast. Sometimes we have people. We've had
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Speaker 3: guests from Russia, We've had guys from Canada. We have
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Speaker 3: guests really from all over, you know. And it's nice
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Speaker 3: because Rose as an example, Rose moved to Bartlesville because
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Speaker 3: of Okemo's art. She came to a concert or came
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Speaker 3: to the festival, i should say, and fell in love
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Speaker 3: with it and decided this is where we want to retire.
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Speaker 3: And now she's worked for us for over ten years.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, it does really bring everyone together. It's
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Speaker 3: a small world. We've had kids who have performed for
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Speaker 3: us maybe when they're little through CMT or the Bartleswell
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Speaker 3: High School ensembles, and then maybe they come back and
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Speaker 3: work for us, and then they go on to do
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Speaker 3: bigger and better things, and so you know, it's it
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Speaker 3: is just the cycle and the circle of life, as
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Speaker 3: you will. And it's definitely all community, yeah, I know
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Speaker 3: it is.
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Speaker 2: And all these years and through all the transitions, it
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Speaker 2: is kind of it's been reimagined in recent years from
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Speaker 2: being up primarily classical music and with a film Arnic
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Speaker 2: coming from New York City, right and performing you know,
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Speaker 2: more classical to really being more maybe more accessible. I
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Speaker 2: mean that is you describe the transition.
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Speaker 3: So that is part of the mission is to make
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Speaker 3: music accessible to all. So it's really important to you know,
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Speaker 3: if anyone wants to come, we don't want to turn
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Speaker 3: them away based on any circumstance, whether it's a handicap,
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Speaker 3: whether it's economics. We try very hard to make music
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Speaker 3: accessible for all. And you know, we consider classical music
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Speaker 3: the grandparent of all music, and then all music stems
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Speaker 3: one is still there, and it's still there, and it's
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Speaker 3: still a very important you know, when we'll get folks
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Speaker 3: calling and go, oh, I'm so sad that you're not
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Speaker 3: having most I remember it was all classical, we're like,
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Speaker 3: did you see the showcase lineup? You know, there's a
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Speaker 3: ton of classical. We just flip it. And then sometimes,
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Speaker 3: you know, for our fortieth anniversary, it was all classical
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Speaker 3: because we took it back to the roots. But you know,
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Speaker 3: early on in two thousand and four to like say nine,
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Speaker 3: the need and the outreach for having crossovers just emerged.
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Speaker 3: People were asking for it, and then you could see
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Speaker 3: like when you had ten days of all classical, some
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Speaker 3: concerts would be filled, some concerts would be less, but
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Speaker 3: then you'd get these crossovers. You might have jazz, or
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Speaker 3: you might have bluegrass or something coming in, and those
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Speaker 3: would be sold out because people were so excited maybe
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Speaker 3: for something different and something they hadn't seen before. So
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Speaker 3: I think it started out in that regard, and then
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Speaker 3: just over time it's just where we went. So they
14:34
Speaker 3: kind of nicknamed us OKM, and then it just grew
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Speaker 3: from there, and then in twenty seventeen we made it
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Speaker 3: permanent where we are absolutely going to always have crossover
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Speaker 3: And people say, well, why didn't you just keep it OKM,
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Speaker 3: And I say, well, unfortunately, there was a German company
14:51
Speaker 3: that was named OKM, and so when we went to
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Speaker 3: brand it and get all of the social media and
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Speaker 3: all of the websites and all that, we couldn't we
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Speaker 3: just said, okay, okay is the music is for Mozart,
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Speaker 3: So OKAM We kept that and we added music. I
15:07
Speaker 3: don't think that was a bad thing because not everyone
15:09
Speaker 3: knows what OKM is. When you add the music, you
15:12
Speaker 3: can kind of go okay, I don't know what okams
15:14
Speaker 3: but I know what music is, and so I think
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Speaker 3: it made a logical transition.
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Speaker 2: So no, I think it carries on the tradition back
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Speaker 2: to the beginning absolutely and ties into the transition for
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Speaker 2: all the new crossover musicians. And I think it was appropriate.
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Speaker 3: And not everyone. I don't want to pick on my
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Speaker 3: friends Regina and Ryan Brian Kennedy, but I'll use them
15:37
Speaker 3: as an example. So back in the day I Gotsha,
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Speaker 3: I guess it was like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, we
15:42
Speaker 3: brought in Wilton Phillips. They had never been to Okay
15:45
Speaker 3: Mozart because classical maybe it wasn't their thing. But Regina
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Speaker 3: came from Wilson Phillips, So you know, I'm like, I
15:52
Speaker 3: think that's what our goal is. I mean, our goal
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Speaker 3: is to free music to everyone and make it accessible
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Speaker 3: to everyone. So when you could reach out, you know,
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Speaker 3: not every child is going to want to play a violin,
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Speaker 3: and maybe some children are going to want to pay
16:04
Speaker 3: a ukulele or a saxophone. And so when we can
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Speaker 3: showcase all of these different instruments, all these different genres,
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Speaker 3: I think that just provides an amazing future for these kids,
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Speaker 3: and it opens doors that maybe they didn't know about.
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Speaker 3: And then not only the music side of it, but
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Speaker 3: you have the production side of it, you have the
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Speaker 3: marketing side of it, you have the development side, right,
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Speaker 3: you have the child you know, children's programming side of it.
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Speaker 3: There's just so much that goes into what we do.
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Speaker 3: It's not just about a concert. It's it's much much more.
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Speaker 3: And it takes a lot more to get to the concert.
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Speaker 3: And so you know, for these kids, especially like our
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Speaker 3: interns coming in, they get to see all the facets
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Speaker 3: and they say, oh, wow, I didn't know about development.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know. I didn't I never thought about that,
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Speaker 3: or maybe graphic design or you know, just doing box
16:50
Speaker 3: office sales. I mean, there's just so many aspects of it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and it goes on all year.
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Speaker 3: It does go on that.
16:56
Speaker 2: You don't just do the summer festival. Yeah no, you
16:59
Speaker 2: guys have have October Fest.
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Speaker 3: We do. We have Chris Kendall Marsh, we have our
17:04
Speaker 3: hashtag Giving Tuesday, which of course is a national philanthropic day,
17:08
Speaker 3: but we kind of stretch ours. It's not always on
17:10
Speaker 3: that Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It might be a month before,
17:13
Speaker 3: it could be a week later, but it's a concert
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Speaker 3: that we give and we sort of get back to
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Speaker 3: our patrons to showcase other artists, but then just to
17:21
Speaker 3: give a nice concert to sort of end the year.
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Speaker 3: We have Saint Nicholas Day, which is all about philanthropy.
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Speaker 3: It's about teaching kids that Saint Nicholas was a real
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Speaker 3: person who gave and it's important. It's not all just
17:33
Speaker 3: about me, that it's important to give back, and so
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Speaker 3: we try to bring Saint Nicholas in, tell kids the
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Speaker 3: story about Saint Nicholas and then you know, sort of
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Speaker 3: teach them what all that means. And so yeah, I
17:44
Speaker 3: mean it's it's great. We do have year round programming.
17:47
Speaker 3: It's it's I think we don't ever have any downtime busy.
17:52
Speaker 3: So it's crazy, but it's fun and we love it
17:57
Speaker 3: our staff. I mean, the more we do, the more
17:59
Speaker 3: er I think we all get. We'll probably take a
18:02
Speaker 3: couple of days off after this festival and then we'll
18:04
Speaker 3: start all over again.
18:05
Speaker 2: And October Day organized the schedule for the summer festival.
18:11
Speaker 3: I mean, so we start like I'm already working on
18:14
Speaker 3: next year and the year after, and so you know,
18:17
Speaker 3: we just sort of start thinking about themes. I one
18:20
Speaker 3: to two years out kind of depends on what's going.
18:22
Speaker 3: I mean, so like this year was very easy. It's
18:24
Speaker 3: the America is two hundred fiftieth birthday. It was very
18:27
Speaker 3: easy for our fortieth because it's our anniversary. It'll be
18:29
Speaker 3: easy for our forty fifth and so on. But so
18:32
Speaker 3: you know, we try, we try to find Last year,
18:35
Speaker 3: I guess I sort of made it about myself for
18:38
Speaker 3: just a tiny smidge. I grew up in Norway, and
18:41
Speaker 3: so I thought, you know, we have had a Edvard
18:43
Speaker 3: Greek here and a really long time. We should bring
18:45
Speaker 3: we should make it all about Edward Greek. And we
18:48
Speaker 3: did a lot of things for the kids with trolls
18:50
Speaker 3: and it was really fun. So you know, I kind
18:53
Speaker 3: of took something I grew up with, it was near
18:55
Speaker 3: and dear to my heart, and brought it to the festival.
18:57
Speaker 3: But I think everyone had a really good time with it.
18:59
Speaker 3: And we have other things, of course that we threw
19:01
Speaker 3: in there. But and so next year we haven't announced
19:04
Speaker 3: with the Themas yet, but I think it's going to
19:06
Speaker 3: be really fun. We did announce that our tea for
19:10
Speaker 3: the children that has become hugely successful and popular. It
19:13
Speaker 3: sells out like within the first couple of days every
19:15
Speaker 3: year it's Paddington, So we are going to do a
19:19
Speaker 3: Paddington Tea. So I think that's going to be really fun.
19:23
Speaker 3: I think Rose is really excited about that one, and
19:26
Speaker 3: the kids, I mean when she announced it, they all cheered,
19:28
Speaker 3: and so I think, yeah, I think it'll be really good.
19:31
Speaker 3: So and again shout out to Saint Luke's. We're always
19:33
Speaker 3: hosting us for that. Uh, they are amazing partner and
19:36
Speaker 3: first prez. Also they host all of our keyboards, they
19:41
Speaker 3: store them for us, They let the kids come practice
19:43
Speaker 3: there and let us have our concerts there. And you
19:46
Speaker 3: know that also is an amazing thing that we've added
19:50
Speaker 3: going into our children's music educational programming is our keyboard orchestra.
19:54
Speaker 3: And so if you haven't come to one of those concerts, Brad,
19:57
Speaker 3: you really need to come. So you take these beautiful
20:01
Speaker 3: Yamaha keyboards that are not just a keyboard, they magically
20:05
Speaker 3: become an entire orchestra. They can play over one hundred
20:08
Speaker 3: and something instruments. And so these kids are taught, most
20:13
Speaker 3: of them are piano students, and they are in different
20:16
Speaker 3: studios with different piano teachers. They all come together for
20:19
Speaker 3: summer camp and our winter camp and then they come
20:22
Speaker 3: together to form this orchestra and it's beautiful and they
20:26
Speaker 3: have the little guys. They'll perform some pieces, and then
20:29
Speaker 3: the older kids will perform some pieces, and then they
20:31
Speaker 3: all come together at the end and it's amazing. These
20:35
Speaker 3: Klavanova's are very expensive, beautiful instruments, and these kids do
20:40
Speaker 3: an amazing job.
20:42
Speaker 2: Happen.
20:42
Speaker 3: So we just had our concert for the summer. It
20:45
Speaker 3: was actually one of our opening on mage Way ninth,
20:48
Speaker 3: and then we'll have another one in December. It's usually
20:51
Speaker 3: like the second Friday in December, somewhere around the twelve thirteenth.
20:55
Speaker 3: It's on our website. But it's amazing. Lisa Steele does
20:59
Speaker 3: a great job, a lot of amazing teachers, and Mark
21:02
Speaker 3: beckw With helps her conduct Ben Paul's and then we
21:05
Speaker 3: even have one of our students who also is a conductor.
21:09
Speaker 3: It's just truly remarkable when you come hear it, and
21:12
Speaker 3: you know when they did Harry Potter last summer, I
21:15
Speaker 3: got goosebumps. It was like if you had closed your
21:17
Speaker 3: eyes and you didn't know you were watching these kids
21:20
Speaker 3: play on keyboards, you would have thought you were at
21:23
Speaker 3: a Symphony. I mean it was just it was beautiful.
21:26
Speaker 3: So it is remarkable what these kids can do. So
21:28
Speaker 3: you got to come to a concert.
21:29
Speaker 2: I really liked it. That sounds really neat so at others,
21:33
Speaker 2: you know, the tickets for the ongoing stuff having people
21:37
Speaker 2: if this is interesting to them, they want to go
21:40
Speaker 2: to tickets.
21:41
Speaker 3: So again, showcase are free. You do have to pay
21:44
Speaker 3: for the three main concerts, but please go to okmmusic
21:48
Speaker 3: dot org. Okmmusic dot org or come down to four
21:53
Speaker 3: fifteen south of Dewey. We're in Sweet one hundred Rose. Myself, Katie,
21:58
Speaker 3: one of our six interns. My dad will not sell tickets,
22:01
Speaker 3: he doesn't know how, but everyone else will.
22:03
Speaker 2: He does everything else.
22:04
Speaker 3: He does everything. He will hit you up for money.
22:08
Speaker 2: I always give him props for that. He is such
22:11
Speaker 2: a gentleman. And I you know, that's a hard thing
22:15
Speaker 2: to do so consistently through all the years. And you
22:18
Speaker 2: know it's a I know because I've been a fundraiser
22:21
Speaker 2: and worked with many organizations. And his passion for not
22:26
Speaker 2: but for the community as a whole, and and you know,
22:30
Speaker 2: the Scouts and everything else he supports. It's it is.
22:34
Speaker 3: He is our longest serving board member. He was formerly
22:37
Speaker 3: chairman of the board. And he's just the sweetest little
22:40
Speaker 3: guy you've ever met. And everyone sees him coming, they're like, hey, John,
22:45
Speaker 3: I said, Dad, just for fun, you should go around
22:47
Speaker 3: this summer and just go in and see hi to
22:49
Speaker 3: everybody that you normally hit up, and just go I'm
22:51
Speaker 3: just here to say hi. I'm not asking for anything.
22:54
Speaker 3: See what they do. Take him a donut or something,
22:58
Speaker 3: But no, he works really really hard. He and Katie
23:01
Speaker 3: both spend hours and hours. But he's not good with electronics.
23:05
Speaker 3: So I invite everyone to come see his office. I
23:08
Speaker 3: love it because when you go in there, he has
23:10
Speaker 3: two screens, just like everyone else, and on his screens
23:14
Speaker 3: are sticky notes. I don't think he's ever turned them on,
23:18
Speaker 3: but you know, he's masterully successful. He's the sweetest guy ever,
23:22
Speaker 3: and so I just love it. I'm like, that is awesome, Dad.
23:26
Speaker 3: I kind of wish I could do the same thing.
23:28
Speaker 3: I'd try to give my phone away, but people people
23:30
Speaker 3: won't take it. Yeah, so no, but please come down
23:34
Speaker 3: going back to ticket sales. Come down to the office
23:35
Speaker 3: four fifteen South Dewey. See my dad's sticky notes, buy
23:38
Speaker 3: your tickets and then you're also welcome to come to
23:41
Speaker 3: the events and get them at the gate as we
23:44
Speaker 3: call them. Or when we get to oak Woo with
23:46
Speaker 3: Chris Man, who again is a remarkable talent. He's an
23:49
Speaker 3: amazing voice. That's on Sunday night at the Wesleyan Chapel
23:53
Speaker 3: and so we'll sell tickets at the door there, so
23:55
Speaker 3: you can get him at the office, you can get
23:57
Speaker 3: him online. You can call us at nine one eight
24:00
Speaker 3: three six nine nine zero zero and one of us
24:03
Speaker 3: will answer and sell you tickets.
24:04
Speaker 2: So awesome, firtle schedule there because there's.
24:07
Speaker 3: A lot of keys.
24:08
Speaker 2: Keep yes, drop of mind going that's going on this
24:11
Speaker 2: week and yes, and you know, but definitely you want
24:15
Speaker 2: to get out and go to one of these concerts
24:17
Speaker 2: or all of them if.
24:18
Speaker 3: You Yeah, the showcase are all free, so you know
24:22
Speaker 3: you should definitely. We've got Manhattan Chamber Players are playing
24:25
Speaker 3: three days in a rows Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so please
24:28
Speaker 3: go on there and see that. They're playing, like I said,
24:31
Speaker 3: the Shakespeare one, so it's English composers and American composers.
24:35
Speaker 3: Then they're playing a cinematic concert. So I think that's
24:37
Speaker 3: going to be really pretty they're going to play songs
24:40
Speaker 3: like Et the Patriots songs that everyone knows. It's good,
24:43
Speaker 3: it's going to beautiful, and then they're going to end
24:46
Speaker 3: it with a good old patriotic quartet tribute to America.
24:50
Speaker 3: So I think that's going to be fantastic. On Sunday,
24:53
Speaker 3: we have our very own Bartlesville Wade Daniels. If you've
24:55
Speaker 3: never heard Wade Daniels perform, you will want to go
24:58
Speaker 3: hear him. He's amazing. He is going to play from
25:01
Speaker 3: Copeland to gershwin to. He was doing Sweet Caroline for
25:06
Speaker 3: us the other day in the office. He was singing.
25:08
Speaker 3: It was he's a great voice, he's very energetic, and
25:12
Speaker 3: he is, you know, a great pianist. So please come
25:15
Speaker 3: see him. He's at First Baptist Church on two o'clock
25:17
Speaker 3: on Saturday. And then you know, if that wasn't enough,
25:22
Speaker 3: then please come to the paid concerts at night. We
25:25
Speaker 3: again Balsham arranged you're going to have on Friday Saturday,
25:28
Speaker 3: you're going to have yacht rock orchestrated and that one
25:31
Speaker 3: we didn't talk about. It's going to be fantastic. We're
25:33
Speaker 3: bringing five remarkable musicians together who don't normally play together,
25:38
Speaker 3: but occasionally play together. And then you're bringing a bunch
25:41
Speaker 3: of other musicians for a total of thirty seven, So
25:44
Speaker 3: thirty seven musicians, twenty piece string section, and they are
25:48
Speaker 3: doing yacht rock. What is yacht rock? It's like rock,
25:50
Speaker 3: it's Christopher Cross sailing, it's and we're going to throw
25:53
Speaker 3: some app in there, which is probably technically not yacht rock,
25:56
Speaker 3: but I asked him to play it. So they're going
25:58
Speaker 3: to and they're going to play Steely Dan. I mean,
26:02
Speaker 3: just a lot of the songs from the seventies and
26:04
Speaker 3: eighties that if you think about, or more maybe more
26:06
Speaker 3: the chill songs that you just want to grab a
26:09
Speaker 3: nice glass of wine, grab some chiputeri and just sit
26:12
Speaker 3: back and unwind and just have fun and dance. And
26:15
Speaker 3: it's going to be great. So we have that one
26:17
Speaker 3: and then Chris Man coming Sunday night. And so if
26:20
Speaker 3: you love Broadway, if you love Frank Sinatra type music,
26:23
Speaker 3: you need to come out and hear Chris. He has
26:25
Speaker 3: a beautiful, beautiful voice. He's amazingly talented. His range of
26:30
Speaker 3: vocals is insane. He's just so talented. So come out.
26:34
Speaker 3: That's a Oaklou, That's that's.
26:36
Speaker 2: An incredible range of performers and different types of music
26:39
Speaker 2: than you thought this year and as always, and thank
26:44
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26:47
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26:51
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26:54
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26:56
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26:59
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