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From YouTube: Mayor's Magazine - April 2015
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00:00 Co-Chairs Betsy Brunsteter and Louis Price discuss the 2015 Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts
10:04 Local author Lou Berney discusses his new novel "The Long and Faraway Gone"
19:54 Local musicians Graham Colton and Matt Stansberry
A
Hello
there
and
welcome
once
again
to
the
mayor's
magazine,
I'm
Mick,
Cornett,
the
mayor
of
Oklahoma
City
and
the
host
of
the
mayor's
magazine,
and
this
is
our
show
for
April
2015.
Well,
if
it's
April
and
Oklahoma
City,
you
know
the
arts
festival
is
coming
along
and
today
we're
going
to
talk
to
about
the
arts
festival
with
the
two
co-chairs,
lois
pryce
and
betsy
bronsted
ergo.
Welcome
to
the
mayor's
magazine
thanks
Mick.
This
is
exciting.
Thank.
A
A
A
A
This
is
grown
to
epic
proportions.
Lois
I
got
a
I
got
to
think
that
this
is
one
of
those
assignments
when
you,
when
you're
asked
to
do
it,
you
take
a
big
gulp,
because
you've
had
some
there's
been
some
great
predecessors
and
some
great
arts
festivals,
but
there
at
the
end
of
the
day,
it's
a
lot
of
work
well,.
B
It
is
but
it's
been,
it's
been
a
real
pleasure
to
work
on
the
festival.
I
know
a
couple
of
years
ago
we
were
asked
to
chair
this
year's
event.
It's
about
a
two
year
project
and
yeah.
It's
there's
a
big
gulp
there
and
you
think
about
it
for
a
while
and
then
really
pleased
to
have
the
opportunity
to
spend
our
time,
giving
something
back
to
the
city
and
participating
in
such
an
outstanding
cultural
event.
It's
it's
been
a
lot
of
fun.
Give.
B
A
C
Have
about
140
for
artists
and
those
artists
and
our
juried
by
professional
artists
that
that
we
bring
in
from
generally
a
couple
from
out
of
state
in
some
from
local
and
they
go
through.
We
get
about
500
applications
and
we
have
to
call
those
down
to
about
144,
and
there
is
as
far
as
the
144
artists,
we
have
sculpture.
We
have,
we
have
paintings,
we
have
all
the
types
of
even
clothing
and
jewelry
and
it's
a
wonderful
selection,
a
lot
of
different
price
points
and.
A
C
A
D
B
Applicants-
and
so
then,
you
spend
next
six
months
in
the
gym,
getting
ready
for
the
week
of
the
festival,
but
that
we
had
a
large
number
of
applicants
and
there's
a
juried
process
where
the
food
vendors
are
selected.
We
have
21
vendors
who
occupy
the
international
food
court
and
then
a
number
of
other
smaller
booths
around
there
selling
ice
cream,
desert
sand
and
smoothies
and
various
things
like
that.
But
the
we
have
some
new
vendors
this
year,
some
new
food
vendors.
B
We
have
kaisers,
everybody
knows
kaisers
ice
cream,
they'll
be
one
of
the
vendors
at
the
festival
and
new
Cajun
food
vendor.
So
we
try
to
provide
a
real
variety
of
international
and
ethnic
food
people
like
that.
We
always
have
the
most
popular
Indian
tacos
and
the
strawberries
Newport
that
everybody
enjoys
and.
A
I
think
people
are
also
impressed
at
how
the
outreach
for
children
to
be
a
part
because
for
a
lot
of
kids,
this
might
be
their
first
experience.
You
know
with
art
at
this
scale,
I
mean
they
might
have
colored.
You
know
at
home
on
a
piece
of
paper,
but
to
actually
have
something,
that's
coordinated
and
being
exposed
to
arts
of
grandeur
stages.
This
might
be
the
first
time,
so
you
all
take
that
very
seriously.
Oh.
C
Absolutely
we
have
a
lot
of
venues
for
children.
We
have
the
young
at
art
mart
where
the
the
children
are
exclusively
admitted
and
their
parents
have
to
wait
outside
and
they
select
art,
and
we
also
have.
We
have
a
youth
art
sale
where
young
artists
it's
on
Saturday
and
young
artists
will
display
and
sell
their
their
works.
We
also
have
face
painting,
you
know
a
standard
and
we
have
balloons
and
flowers,
and
we
also
have
a
stage
that's
exclusively
for
children's
performances,
so
dancing
singing.
What
have
you
yeah.
A
The
face
painting
is
relatively
new:
to
must
be
this
generations
thing,
because
when
I
go
to
a
thunder
game,
I'm
amazed
at
how
long
the
line
is
of
kids
that
want
to
have
their
face
painted
some
particular
color
or
particular
design.
It's
like
the
most
popular
thing
that
there
is
to
do
Lois
talk
about
the
music
because
I
know.
Music
is
a
certain
part
of
the
Arts
Festival
too
well.
B
We
have
three
stages
for
performing
arts
as
best
bets
he
mentioned.
We've
got
a
stage,
that's
exclusively
for
young
people's
Performing
Arts
and
we
have
a
cafe
stage
and
a
water
stage,
and
those
stages
are
active
from
11
in
the
morning
until
the
festival
closes
in
the
evening.
We
have
about
200
musical
performances,
they
run
about
an
hour
in
length.
So
it's
a
great
break.
B
You
can
either
be
there
for
the
music
and
sit
all
day
and
listen
to
music
or
you
can
wander
from
art
to
music
and
back
again,
you
know
a
lot
of
local
groups
that
are
popular
people.
You
know
sort
of
know
and
come
out
for
groups
like
the
wiseguys
and
loose
change
and
and
lots
of
different
kinds
of
Performing
Arts
I
think
we
even
have
a
hypnotist
this
year.
One
of
the
stages
so.
A
A
B
B
Sounds
too
good
to
be
true,
but
it
is
it's
it's
free.
In
fact
we
were.
We
were
out
of
town
a
couple
weeks
ago
at
a
festival
out
in
Arizona,
where
cost
ten
dollars
just
to
walk
in
the
door
and
I
looked
around
and
I
thought.
Well,
that's
certainly
reflected
in
the
in
the
number
of
people
that
are
here,
but
in
our
festival.
D
B
A
An
amazing
run
and
I
what
I
see
is
a
lot
of
people
that
work
downtown
they'll
spend
their
lunch
hour
over
at
the
arts
festival
you
know
just
because
they
got
to
eat
somewhere
and
absolutely
it's
hard
to
beat
the
food
over
over
at
the
arts
festival.
What
can
people
watching
the
show?
What
can
they
do?
Lois
look
people.
B
Who
all
dat,
yet
our
call
to
action?
Is
you
heard
that
I
said
we
have
5,000
volunteers?
We
can
always
use
volunteers.
The
Arts
Council
is
a
wonderful
organization.
It
provides
a
great,
a
great
variety
of
art
venues
and
opportunities
to
the
community,
and
that
only
happens
through
the
success
of
the
Arts
Festival,
which
is
the
primary
fundraiser
for
the
Arts
Council.
So
if
anyone
would
like
to
volunteer,
you
can
do
it
a
couple
of
different
ways.
A
A
A
Lewis,
thank
you
so
much
for
your
commitment
to
making
this
so
successful
and
I
know
the
people
in
Oklahoma
City
enjoy
going
to
the
arts
festival
every
year.
This
year
is
going
to
be
no
exception.
Let's
see
if
we
can't
get
out
and
break
some
attendance
records,
we'll
have
more
on
the
mayor's
magazine
right
after
this
I.
F
C
A
One
of
our
favorite
things
to
do
in
the
mayor's
magazine
is
to
talk
to
local
authors
about
their
books,
and
one
of
our
most
frequent
visitors
is
Lou
Bernie
and
Lewis.
A
new
book
in
has
been
kind
enough
to
come
by
and
talk
to
us
about
it,
but
it's
called
the
long
and
far
away
gone
and
I'll
hold
up
the
book,
so
you
can
recognize
it
when
you
see
it
in
your
local
bookstore,
but
it
is
set
in
Oklahoma,
City
and
blue.
For
that
we
appreciate
the
expertise
that
you
put
behind.
It
appreciate.
D
A
We'll
talk
about
you
know
when
there's
there's
a
lot
of
formulas
to
writing
books,
but
when
you're
talking
about
the
setting
and
and
and
in
making
sure
that
the
reader
understands
the
setting
of
the
story,
how
do
you
go
about
setting
up
the
store
just
in
general?
Not
just
this
one
but
anytime?
Well,.
D
I
think
it's
about
capturing
details
of
a
place
that
make
the
place
come
alive
and
for
me,
that's
sort
of
the
small
things
the
smells
like,
for
example,
the
state
fair
of
Oklahoma
I
think
there
are
certain
smells
that
bring
it
to
live.
You
know
Britt's
life
for
people
and
so
I
wanted
to
capture
that
and
I've
got
a
national
readership.
A
lot
of
them
who've
never
been
to
Oklahoma
City.
So
it
felt
important
to
me
to
really
capture
the
city.
You
know
in
all
its
various
all
the
various
facets
of
the
city.
Well,.
A
Did
you
scummer
something
about
the
city
or
yourself,
as
you
were
trying
to
describe
the
city,
because
you
know
when
you
live
in
a
place
you
might
not
prospectively
think
about.
You
know
what
the
city
was
like
back
then,
and
no.
This
is
certain.
There's
there
a
certain
time
period
for
this
for
this
novel.
But
but
did
you
discover
anything
about
the
city
when
you
tried
to
look
at
it
from
from
an
objective
point
of
view?
Well,.
D
I
grew
up
in
Oklahoma
City,
then
moved
away
for
many
years
and
then
moved
back.
So
when
I,
when
I
go
anywhere
in
the
city,
I'm
seeing
it
in
almost
two
parallel
universes
I
see
it
the
way
it
was
when
I
left
and
see
how
it
is
now,
and
it's
such
a
dramatic
difference
in
so
many
ways
in
so
many
places
for
me
that
that
was
a
really
interesting
way
to
approach
it.
So
I
had
the
character.
Do
the
same
thing
is.
D
D
One
isn't
one
a
professional,
private,
investigator
and
one's
just
a
nurse,
and
they
don't
know
each
other
when
the
book
starts,
and
both
crimes
are
kind
of
inspired
by
things.
When
I
was
a
kid
affected
me
deeply.
The
steakhouse
massacre
in
1978
I
was
13
years
old
and
I
was
working
out
of
brahms
on
hefner,
that's
gone
now
and
I.
D
Other
the
other
event
was
to
two
girls
disappear
from
the
state,
fair
of
Oklahoma
in
1981
and,
as
coincidence,
would
have
it.
I
was
working
at
a
movie
theater,
the
French
market,
twin
theater,
the
old
French
market
twin
and
the
mother.
One
of
the
girls
worked
at
that
theater
to
checking
numbers
for
the
for
the
studios
and
I.
Remember
looking
across
the
lobby
at
her
and
just
trying
to
imagine
the
grief
she
must
be
going
through
that
her
daughter
gone
missing
and
again
that
stayed
with
me
for
so
many
years
and
kind
of
informed.
D
For
me,
I
have
to
think
I
know
how
it
ends,
but
it
always
changes,
but
I
have
to
have
a
sense
like
I
did
tons
of
outlines
for
this
book.
I
thought
I
know,
I
knew
who
did
it,
but
that
changed
over
the
course
of
the
book.
A
lot
of
things
change,
but
I
can't
start
out
without
some
kind
of
map.
Interesting.
A
It
you
know
in
my
kind
of
television
career
and
then
video
production,
career
I've.
You
know
you
put
together
stories,
there's
a
beginning,
a
middle
and
in
and
sometimes
from
a
storytelling
standpoint.
Everything
just
falls
right
into
place.
It
was
like
boom,
it
just
meshes
together
and
then
other
times
you're
just
trying
to
force
different
things
in
here
and
it's
just
not
working.
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
It
yeah
it's
true,
it's
almost
always
different,
like
the
stuff,
I
think
is
good,
turns
out
to
be
bad.
The
stuff
I
things
bad
turns
out
to
be
better
than
I
thought.
That's
why
you
needed
the
perspective
of
time
and
distance,
sometimes
with
anything
creative
like
you
need
to
let
it
sit
for
a
while
do.
D
D
D
A
You
know
the
kind
of
the
traditional
way
to
sell
a
book
would
be
to
get
a
big
publisher
like
you
have
and
have
it
distributed
as
widely
as
you
could
and
hope
people
buy
it
now,
with
with
with
social
media
and
people
are
able
to.
You
know
to
isolate
their
audience
to
you.
Do
you
write
to
a
target
audience?
D
That's
a
good
point:
I
spend
a
lot
of
time
on
social
media
now,
where
writers
didn't
used
to
do
that
so
I,
you
know
with
with
Twitter
and
Facebook
and
Goodreads,
and
you
know
social
media
like
that.
There
is
a
way
to
kind
of
connect
with
specific
groups
or
people
who
are
interested
in
what
you're.
Specifically
writing.
A
D
Doesn't
affect
me
as
a
writer,
I,
think,
I
sell
about
half
and
half
now,
I
think
that's
the
breakdown,
a
half,
electronic
and
half
sort
of
physical
books
and
to
me
the
more
people
buy
it
in
any
form,
the
better
and
so
as
a
reader.
I
read
a
ton
of
e-books
now
because
they're
so
easily
accessed.
So
I
think
it's
a
good
development
for
everybody
and.
A
D
A
D
Yeah
I
definitely
again.
I
wanted
I
wanted
to
give
a
broad
picture
of
Oklahoma
City.
So
that's
it's
about
the
northwest
side.
It's
about
the
south
side,
it's
about
the
northeast
side.
It's
about!
You
know
people
with
a
lot
of
money,
people
without
a
lot
of
money.
It's
about
you
know
the
politics
of
the
city
maps
is
in
here
it's
about
the
sports
franchise.
It's
about!
Oh
you,
football
Norman's
in
it,
I
try
to
like
give
a
kind
of
a
cross
section
of
a
town,
I,
really
loved
Lou.
A
Bernie,
let
me
hold
up
the
book
one
more
time
Lou.
This
is
what
the
book
looks
like
the
long
and
far
away
gone,
his
fourth
novel
and
this
one
is
set
in
Oklahoma
city
I'm,
sure
it's
a
good
read
for
it
for
you
yourself,
but
also
a
great
gift
for
those
that
you
care
and
we're
always
trying
to
push
people
into
reading
more
and
more
more,
especially
when
it's
about
Oklahoma
City,
so
Lou,
congratulations
on
your
career
and
this
particular
book
I'm
sure
is
going
to
be
a
success
and
I
hope.
A
F
A
Back
to
the
mayor's
magazine
in
this
segment,
we're
going
to
talk
to
a
couple
of
young
musical
artists
who
call
Oklahoma
City
home
Grand,
Colton
and
Matt
Stansberry.
Welcome
to
the
mayor's
magazine
now,
I
just
learned
just
moments
ago
that
you
guys
knew
each
other
way
back
in
high
school.
So
talk
about
you
were
at
Heritage
Hall
right,
you
were
at
Santa
Fe
High
School
in
edmond
and
I
could
actually
in
Oklahoma
City,
but
the
Edmond
school
district
and
talk
about
that
that
chance
meeting
that
you
all
had
many
many
years
ago.
E
E
G
A
E
A
E
Booking
platform
called
fan
swell.com
and
it
basically
takes
the
existing
house
concert
model
which
a
lot
of
artists
these
days
are
to
be
honest
kind
of
avoiding
traditional
clubs
and
bars,
and
venues
and
they're
going
directly
to
their
fans
living
rooms,
backyards
basements,
but
there
hasn't
really
been
a
way
to
do
that,
efficiently
and
kind
of
in
a
cool
way.
So
I've
played
a
lot
of
those
events
and
I
love
playing
those
kind
of
intimate
spaces,
and
so
I
thought
man.
E
We
there
needs
to
be
a
better
way
for
an
artist
to
kind
of,
say,
I'm
passing
through
Oklahoma
City
on
April
fifteenth,
who
wants
to
host
me
who
wants
to
have
a
party?
How
does
that
happen?
How
do
those
people
get
together?
Where
do
the
fans
come
from
so
I?
I
co-founded
the
platform
with
another
Oklahoma
and
John
Cooper
and
had
been
really
excited
about
the
progress
and.
G
I
have
still
do
my
own
music,
with
mass
teens,
bring
the
romance
a
ten-piece
thing
and,
and
that's
been
a
lot
of
fun,
get
the
travel
a
little
bit
so
we're
doing
stuff
throughout
the
region.
So
we're
hitting
st.
Louis
and
Kansas
City
quite
regularly,
which
has
been
great
kind
of
building
a
fan
base
there
and
then
I
have
a
design,
business
called
nominee,
design,
studio
and
working
with
a
lot
of
different
music
projects,
and
that's
actually
where
we
kind
of
reconvened.
A
Our
last
segment,
you
may
have
heard
we
talked
to
Lou,
Bernie,
who's,
a
local
author,
and
he
talked
about
developing
his
own
fan
base
in
using
social
media
to
kind
of
directly
market
to
your
to
your
customers
to
your
fans
at
you
know
the
people
that
consume
your
your
art.
Do
you
guys
do
that
same
sort
of
thing?
Grant
yeah.
E
I
mean
I'll,
be
honest,
I
was
I.
Think
both
of
us
it's
fair
to
say
that
we
we
started
from
kind
of
the
old
model
and
now
exist
in
the
new
model.
I
mean
when
I
started.
Really
when
I
started
out
of
high
school,
it
was
I
mean
it
was
so
new
and
it
was.
My
big
break
was
Napster
when
songs
were
being
downloaded
illegally.
I
benefited
from
that
more
than
people
were
harmed
by
it
is.
A
E
Yeah
yeah,
you
were
in
control
and
I
didn't
even
know
who
had
my
music
I
didn't
care
if
they
weren't
paying
for
it.
So
that
was
really
where
how
it
started
for
me.
So
now
you
know,
I
I
feel
a
little
bit
like
I
still
have
to
play
catch-up
with
how,
because
there's
all
that
is
always
in
something
new.
Even
with
what
I've
built
fans
well,
I
mean
it's
a
new
thing
that
I
think
helps
artists
and
I
think
nowadays
an
artist
has
to
be
their
own
kind
of
CEO.
G
So
you
know
and
there's
different
audiences
on
different
platforms,
so
some
of
the
users
that
use
Facebook
they're,
not
on
my
Instagram
and
out
on
the
Twitter
or
vice
versa,
so
I
just
try
to
you,
know
I've
kind
of
gotten
where
I
try
to
like
speak
to
that
audience
on
that
platform
a
specific
way-
and
it's
worked
really
well
for
you
know
getting
the
word
out
for
a
different
show,
especially
we're
out
of
town
right,
because
you
know
it's
a
solid
son,
that's
a
different
tone.
Different
mark.
G
A
E
Think
it's
a
songwriter
first
for
sure,
I've
never
really
considered
myself
a
singer.
It's
just
kind
of
I,
don't
know
I,
just
always
would
prefer
to
be
a
songwriter
first
in
a
singer.
Second-
and
that's
that's
I
mean
with
with
now
having
kids
and
a
little
bit
less
time
on
the
road
waking
up
every
day
and
and
writing
a
new
piece
of
music
is
what
I'd
like
to
do.
G
That
I
would
say,
is
you
know
it's
probably
in
the
guitar,
so
being
a
guitar,
slinger
kind
of
guy?
What
I
used
to
want
to
be
and
now
I'd
say
I'm.
You
know
I,
probably
write
a
song
idea
of
a
start
of
it
almost
every
day
if
I
don't
fit
I,
don't
probably
finish
the
song
every
day,
but
I
at
least
start
on
something.
So
I
kind
of
consider
myself
a
writer
too
I.
E
Think
there's
so
much
it's
so
different.
Now,
with
all
these
new
channels
to
not
only
release
music
but
just
content,
it
I
think
for
me
it's
helped
my
creativity
just
to
kind
of
know
that
I
might
have
just
released
an
album
of
12
songs
six
months
ago.
But
if
the
song
pops
up
I,
don't
have
to
wait
two
years
it
can
just
it
can
I
can
with
a
push
of
a
button.
E
They
can
go
out
there
and
it
can
do
something,
maybe
bigger
than
the
formal
album
that
I
just
released
six
months
ago
and
that's
challenging
for
me
at
times
to
to
kind
of
like
unlearn
the
old
way
that
it
has
to
be
one
album
every
two
years,
twelve
songs
and
all
the
rest
of
the
stuff.
Where
does
it
go?
Is
it
just
end
up
in
my
itunes
folder?
A
G
A
G
Going
like
this
is
cool,
but
where?
Why
is
this
this
big
of
a
stable
in
the
middle
of
nowhere
yeah?
You
know
cuz
when
I
came
from
the
middle
of
nowhere,
we
had
small
schools
yeah,
so
you
know,
but
it
would,
you
know
definitely
everything's
built
up
around
that,
especially
you
know
the
Edmond
area,
so
things
have
just
really
really
developed
and
you
know
the
music
side
of
things,
and
we
were
chatting
about
this
earlier.
G
You
know
used
to
be
there's
a
lot
of
cover
bands
and
that's
and
that's
great
I
love
people
doing,
but
the
original
music
scene
is
really
started
to
develop
and
thrive
to
the
point
with
you
know,
hard
on
heard
music
festival,
which
we
both
got
to
work
on
this
seat.
We're
working
on
this
season.
That's
they're,
wanting
to
book
a
rich
music
and
small.
G
A
E
I
mean
for
me,
it
just
always
comes
down
to
the
people.
I
get
asked
a
lot
of
why
why
I
haven't
moved
to
Nashville
or
why
I
haven't
moved
to
LA
or
why
I
moved
back
years
ago,
and
a
lot
of
it
is
just
the
people
that
I
choose
to
surround
myself
with
which
I
do
think
define
this
community,
and
you
know
what
I
was
coming
up.
E
I
didn't
really
have
time
to
be
an
Oklahoma
City
musician
I
didn't
build
a
following
in
Oklahoma
beyond
my
high
school
friends,
I
left
to
go
to
school
in
Dallas
and
because
of
Napster
songs
got
out
there
and
I
went
on
the
road.
So
when
it
finally
came
time
to
come
back
thanks
to
the
basketball
team
and
all
the
great
stuff
that
you're
doing
it's
like
I
was
just
like
whoa.
E
There's
all
this
talent
here
and
a
lot
of
I
mean
people
that
I'd
never
even
knew
existed,
and
so
I've
kind
of
come
into
this
season.
Now
of
feeling
like
I,
get
to
finally
exist
and
coexist
in
this
local
scene,
and
it's
just
been
really
cool
because
you
just
uncover
all
this
talent.
Every
single
day,
well.
A
No
question
the
music
industry
is
starting
to
mature
here
in
Oklahoma
City
and
you
guys
are
at
the
forefront
of
that.
So
thank
you
for
being
sensitive
it'll
players
in
a
little
sure
you've
that
that's
going
to
do
it
for
this
edition
of
the
mayor's
magazine.
I
want
to
thank
graham
and
matt
for
coming
on
in
the
rest
of
our
guests
and,
as
for
you
hope,
you'll
join
us
next
month
in
our
may
edition,
but
for
right
now,
I'm
Mick
Cornett,
the
mayor
of
Oklahoma,
City
and
I'll,
see
you
next
time
on
the
mayor's
magazine.