Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame To Add Exhibit
MAKING MUSIC: The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame recently held a luncheon for sponsors, board members and statewide leaders as a thank you for their continued support. A red caboose was also recently donated to house a future children’s interactive gallery. In the photo are Jermaine Mondaine, Justin O’Neal, Mayor John Tyler Hammons, Max Boydston, Phillis Copeland, Darrell Russell, Tara Standridge and Lynn Hewitt.
KYLIE MCMAINS for GTR Newspapers
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame formally received delivery of a vintage red caboose, which will be renovated into a state of the art children’s music exhibit.
Funding for the exhibit, expected to be completed in the fall of 2011, is made possible through contributions raised by the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board and an additional $100,000 grant from the City of Muskogee Foundation.
The caboose was donated by War Memorial Park and was transported to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, where it now sits. The train car’s interior will be constructed into a hands-on music exhibit targeting the imaginations of the young and young at heart.
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame hosted a luncheon recently for sponsors, Board members and statewide leaders as a thank you for their continued support.
“We can’t thank our sponsors, donors and the City of Muskogee Foundation enough for their generosity,” says Penny Kampf, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame executive director. “Thanks to them, our children will benefit greatly from this exhibit for years to come.”
Frank Merrick, executive director for the City of Muskogee Foundation, says the foundation is “proud to be a partner with the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on the Children’s Exhibit.”
“And we are thrilled that the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame worked with the Governor’s office and the Legislature to have musician and performer Roy Clark named the state’s Ambassador for Children’s Music,” he adds. “We look forward to a long relationship with the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.”
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame is a 501©(3) nonprofit created by the state Legislature in 1999 to honor, preserve and promote Oklahoma music. For more information, visit www.omhof.com or call 918-687-0800.
On an annual basis since 1997, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame has been honoring the world’s most notable talents whose gifts and musical styles are as breathtaking and diverse as the Oklahoma landscape. Friends of Oklahoma Music championed this cause throughout Oklahoma, enlisting the business and industrial communities, higher education institutions, and local and state governments for support and embraced the concept of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame & Museum in continues to upgrade the facility that educates visitors today and into the future about those innovators and industry icons from the Sooner State who shape music all over the world.
Updated 06-18-2011
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