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Jazz in June headliners Huntertones BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES THROUGH MUSIC

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he album cover for New York-by-way-of-Ohio jazz-funk six-piece Huntertones’ upcoming LP “Passport” makes a clear nod at an effort to use music for uniting people around the world. With a handful of international tours behind them, they say their experiences abroad have led to a more intentional approach to writing music with meaning. Before the band heads to Europe for its next international tour, Huntertones closes the 2018 Jazz in June series. The Daily Nebraskan chatted with the band’s saxophone player and one of its principal songwriters Dan White about the trials of touring, recording “Passport” and the inspiration behind the band’s unifying message.

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The Daily Nebraskan: Can you just tell me about yourself and your role in the band?

The DN: How has it been keeping the six members in the band in good spirits on tour?

DW: I’m one of the co-leaders of the band. I play saxophone and write music for Huntertones. We’re on tour right now. This is about a three-and-a-half week domestic tour, playing jazz festivals and summer series. Gonna be playing in Nebraska for the first time here, so that’s pretty cool. We’re hitting a lot of states that we haven’t really played. The band started in Ohio. We all went to school together, so, yeah, we’re always getting to the Midwest whenever we tour the States, and we’re getting ready to head out to do a European tour for about six weeks in the beginning of July.

DW: I think it’s a job, the touring portion of it. The shows become kind of the constant source of inspiration and the constant in your day where you feel comfortable, onstage performing. You’re playing your instrument so much, so consistently in a performance setting. The set gets tighter. The band, we’re all in the same place mentally when we’re performing, so everything gets tighter, and you get closer to the music in that way. But the work aspect of it, being van time and loading and being in airports and all that, that’s a grueling thing that can wear on you. We’ve been touring quite a bit since we moved to New York about four years ago, and I think the thing we’ve all learned is that touring is kind of an opportunity to reset some stuff and to really try to make some goals, musically and personally. We all are aware of the challenges on the road, but I think it takes a group of people who can be selfless and that can work as a team, but also have a sense of humor; I think that’s pretty necessary. Inevitably, you’re going to run into some issues, or you’re gonna hit some rain, and you just gotta deal with it. It’s just part of the deal. And it’s kinda like that musically. You listen and you react and you deal with it. Communication is everything. Even though you’re in the same van and following the same schedule,

The DN: So how has tour been so far?

DW: It’s a combination of playing for unexpecting audiences and some really great concert series. I think one of the things for this band that we love to do is win people over who don’t necessarily listen to instrumental music or jazz music. They don’t know what to call it. Our favorite thing to hear from people is “Wow, I didn’t expect that. I don’t know what to call it, but I liked it.” There have been a couple shows like that on the tour.

everybody is living their own life, and you may feel you’re on the same page as somebody without saying something or without sharing something, but a lot of times you’re not. Endless communication is hugely important.

The DN: You guys started as a DIY band of sorts, playing shows in your house in Columbus. How do you think those roots contributed to the band’s future?

DW: Honestly, we still are very much self-contained as a unit in the band. Today we’re talking about what we’re releasing and stuff coming up, but we’re still not working with a label or anything. We’re a very content-driven band, and that’s how we like it. The art is the focus. It’s not other things. I think that’s because we started that way, where we had this thing in common — that we were all friends, and we all like to have a good time and share music with people. So when we started having these house shows in the apartment, which was on Hunter Avenue — that’s where the band name comes from — that was like, “This is awesome. This is like the coolest thing ever. Let’s write some new music. Let’s make the show even better.” So it kind of creates this challenge to ourselves. It’s like, “Man, this is really sweet. What if we did this? What if we tried this too?”

Then we all just kind of try and collaborate and make it different from the last one. That was initially the driving force for new music

with the band. We wanted an outlet outside of school to write music and arrange music by other people, and doing it in a setting that was social totally added fuel to the fire for all of us.

The DN: You talk about the collaboration between members to write the songs. In the context of having so many members, how do you balance everyone’s ideas into one cohesive song?

DW: It starts off from one idea or one person. We’ve tried collaborating in the process of writing, and what ends up happening is people start judging other people’s works too early on, and it kind of shuts down the whole creative process. It becomes like too many cooks in the kitchen. So usually, the idea comes from one of us.

The primary writers in the band are myself, Chris (Ott) and Jon (Lampley), so the horn players. We bring the idea in, and immediately we try to get it off the sheet of music so we’re talking about the music like a rock band. In terms of a fast and organized delivery method, we write it out, and we’re able to work on a lot of new music in a short amount of time because of that. And from that point, we all are part of the composition process. We’re like, “Okay, this line’s cool, but, like, what about this?” We all kind of tweak sections and work out the human parts of the music that can’t be notated. There SEE HUNTERTONES: PAGE 4

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HUNTERTONES: FROM PAGE 3 are certain songs we’ve been playing for seven years, and they’re so different from when we first started playing them. We get bored with them, and we want to try other things. But everybody writes in the band. We write for the people in the band, the individual personalities, because we know how they play, and we hear their voice in our heads. When we try to write for a trumpet player, it’s Jon Lampley, and when we write for a beatboxer, it’s the way that Chris beatboxes, which is not really like how anyone else beatboxes, and so on and so forth. Josh Hill is the guitar player for the band, and he plays this weird cross section of country meets rock meets jazz, classically trained. It’s awesome, and it’s become its own identity.

It’s not necessarily like, “Okay, this is just a guitar part.” That’s how it’s kind of evolved as we’ve written and learned from the music we all try and write.

The DN: Improvisation is fundamental in jazz, and instrumental music as a whole. How much of your live performance is spent recreating your recordings and how much is spent improvising?

DW: I think the recording process has definitely helped us internalize the big picture of some songs, but all the music that we’re playing, there’s space for improvisation. The goal is to make each performance and each tune form fit and different for each night.

That’s more of the intent of the band. I think there’s a real staleness that ends up happening, especially when you’re on a tour like what we’re doing. If we felt that we couldn’t actually express ourselves differently, I feel like certain pop musicians start to feel that way when there’s one band leader who makes them play to re-create the record or they’re playing to a click track. It could be fun because you’re playing for tens of thousands of people, but once you start grinding out a tour, that’s kind of like golden shackles. We’re always trying to swing for the fences, so when there’s a great audience feeding us energy, basically, the sky is the limit. Even during the shows, sometimes we change it up, and we’re like, “No, stay here.

We’re gonna open this up even more. Let’s try this.” There’s a lot of audibles. We write a setlist because there’s six people on stage and there needs to be some sort of organization, but we try to deviate from just re-creating something as much as we can.

The DN: You’ve got the new album, “Passport,” coming out in August, but in what ways was this go-round different than working on your debut? How has the music matured?

DW: In almost every way. I think the inspiration for the album is all the international traveling the band has done and all the collaboration with musicians from West Africa to Zimbabwe to Egypt to Ecuador to Eastern Europe and Georgia. What that does to us is it forces us out of our typical comfort zone, and it forces us to really react to something without thinking. And you learn more about yourself the more that that happens. We’re recording all these experiences there and learning from them. The process of traveling and going on these adventures together as a band has created much stronger bonds between us at a human level and at a musical level. We’re still trying to come from an honest place with the music, like we were from the onset, but we’ve just experienced more. So those experiences have created much more inspired and varied music.

It’s entering more into the world music genre, where it’s all-encompassing. It’s improvisation, it’s jazz, but there’s inspiration from everything. So we definitely have a stronger identity. It’s maybe not as easy to pigeonhole it into one genre, but we certainly have a much stronger intent when we step onto the stage or when we go into the studio, because that emotional intent or that deeper meaning behind songs and melodies and stories that we’ve all experienced is a stronger thread now. Before, it may have been chasing something that we didn’t necessarily know what it was.

The DN: The album cover is pretty indicative of a unifying message.

What does it mean to you to connect people through music? Why should music have a unifying message?

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DW: I think it brings out the similarities and differences in humanity when we’ve been in places where we don’t speak the language at all, we can’t even say “Thank you” when we arrive. Yet, the moment that we step on stage or we try to bring music to people from an honest place, I think the way you make music for other people, that determines the way it resonates with other human beings. If you’re willing to mess up and not be perfect, but to be human, I think that’s a soulfulness that people everywhere can relate to and can laugh at or feel something. At the end of the day, we’re trying to make people feel something. Hopefully, they feel better than when they walked into that concert or when they stepped into that festival stage area. We want to share something that’s real. I think music totally has the power to do something positive that a lot of times… maybe you couldn’t say something eloquently through words, but music can say it seamlessly and perfectly. I may step off mic trying to bumble through some Spanish or Italian, but the confidence to try to say those words comes from the set of music that we’re playing.

When we’re just six guys sitting in a room trying to talk to people, there’s not really a lot of power, but the music can make us feel like

Superman, and that’s something we all have felt as we’ve played for different cultures, different religions. Especially in the current political state of certain people feeling separated from others, there’s a lot of strong feelings happening, I feel like there’s a stronger need for that unifying force in our culture and in the world, and we’ve certainly felt that. Earlier on this tour, on one of the stops, we played at a juvenile detention center where there were 25 kids, and we performed and talked about our music. We didn’t know anyone in the room, and we were coming from such different backgrounds and different geographic locations, but by the end of this thing, we were talking like we were good friends about music, about life, about all these different things, and the unifying thing here was the music.

There was no reason we should have gotten to that point of common interest, but we did very quickly, and it was really cool.

The DN: What comes next after the tour and the album?

DW: I think what comes after that is even more music. I think we’ve definitely caught the bug of collaboration. On the album, we have a

track where we’re collaborating with vocalists, and that will be the first vocal track that Huntertones has released. Trying to collaborate more with vocalists, doing more international collaborations. I think just trying to embrace more of that collaboration and more of the unknown that comes along with that, because the whole process of making this record has been really eye-opening for us. It’s given us more ideas and inspiration to do more of it and to share more of it. I think just continuing to do it bigger and better and continuing to do more of what we’re already doing, that’s totally the gameplan and the hustle. We’ve been forced to put our money where our mouths are many times, and when we find ourselves fronting tens of thousands of dollars to record this thing independently, it makes you question “Why?” So there better be some deep reasons to why you’re writing music and sharing music.

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JAZZ IN JUNE LOOKS TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY, RECYCLING EFFORTS THANK YOU TO THE JAZZ IN JUNE ADVISORY BOARD

FAITH IDACHABA STAFF WRITER

For the past 25 years, Jazz in June has attracted hundreds of Lincoln residents to displays of live music on the lawn near the Sheldon Museum of Art. The desire to preserve the area and keep it clean prompted the Sheldon Art Association to make Jazz in June a green event, according to Jazz in June coordinator Spencer Munson.

“It’s one of the most beautiful areas on campus,” he said.

“The consequence of keeping it clean and trying not to collect a ton of landfill was something thought about very early by the Sheldon Art Association.”

For over 10 years, the Jazz in June staff have been committed to making the event as eco-friendly as possible, with the aid of recycling and waste management crews, according to Munson.

“We have multiple different trash cans stationed through-

out the area,” he said. “People are encouraged to dispose of plastic, cardboard, and general waste.”

Munson said vendors are also encouraged to use compostable products and cited environmental issues with styrofoam and plastic.

“Styrofoam and plastic are stacking up and not decomposing,” he said. “The use of styrofoam in fast food is very common and very bad.”

Munson praised the idea of to-go containers and cardboard pizza boxes, but mentioned financial concerns.

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“The prices can be high,” he said. “We just ask them to do what they can.”

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nebraskarep.org | 402.472.4747 UNL recycling bin stationed in one of the corners of the Nebraska Union, on June 22, 2018, in Lincoln Nebraska. There are recycling bins throughout UNL’s Campus help to sustain events such as Jazz in June.

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Sustainability is about making choices that will affect future generations.

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are hoping to find some funding and sponsors in the near future to help offset those costs.

said. “It’s healthier for the person and for the environment.”

Jazz in June also partners with the bike-sharing service BikeLNK and Bike Valet to offer people with an alternative to driving a car.

According to Sustain UNL President Brittni McGuire, sustainability is not solely focused on environmental concerns.

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Bike Valet is a free service offered by the Outdoor Adventures Center on UNL’s City Campus. The goal of the program is to provide bicyclists with a dependable and safe place to store their bikes, if needed.

“Sustainability is about making choices that will impact and affect future generations,” the sophomore fisheries and wildlife major said. “It can also help build a better community.”

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The services are available from 5 p.m. to an hour after each Jazz in June concert and can be found near the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Munson said he hopes that through their event, people can be better educated about sustainability, and believes Jazz in June can be a catalyst for environmental change throughout Lincoln.

Kylie Tucker, a senior biological sciences major and staff member at the Outdoor Adventures Center, said she hopes Bike Valet encourages people around the city of Lincoln to ride their bikes carefree.

“We’re just trying to promote biking around the city,” she

“We just want to be a positive influence around the community,” he said. “My hope is that [Jazz in June] can help lead the way.”

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LINCOLN RESIDENT OPENS YOGA STUDIO CENTERED AROUND COMMUNITY ERICA COURTNEY STAFF WRITER

For Jeremy Buethe, it was no question that he wanted to achieve his career goals and open his own business. In the early part of spring 2018, when he was weeks away from being a certified yoga instructor, Buethe decided he was ready to open up his own studio. Once the bassist in the Lincoln-based indie rock band Oketo, Buethe said he always wanted to open a DIY space for artists too, so he decided he needed to make the studio compatible for both.

In May 2018, Buethe opened his first yoga studio, Confluence, in the Near South neighborhood. As the studio’s name would suggest, Buethe decided to incorporate art and music into the space, as well.

“I always wanted to open up a DIY space for local artists, whether that would be having art events or music events there,” Buethe said. “I always planned on having First Friday art shows and musical performances.”

“I want to make it accessible to everyone because it is in a neighborhood that is lower income, and oftentimes yoga can be something that’s just for wealthy people who can afford $15 a day for a class,” Buethe said. “It’s a lot more affordable than other studios in town.”

But yoga is not the only way Buethe hopes to bring the community together. Since he opened his studio, Buethe said he has opened the space to display art from local artists, and he has held a few concerts from local and traveling musicians as well.

“A couple of weeks ago we had a touring musician who was coming through from North Carolina, and they were looking for a space to perform. They usually perform in gallery settings, and it was really cool,” Buethe said. “I’m definitely open to national artists or even international.”

For First Fridays, Buethe has allowed artists to use Confluence to display their artwork on the walls of the studio.

Though the space is also used for DIY, Buethe said since the opening two months ago, Confluence has mainly been used as a yoga studio.

According to Vesely, once an art show ends, some of the pieces remain up on the walls in Confluence, which she feels is important in their community.

Teaching 10 classes himself a week, Buethe said Confluence offers yoga classes in several different styles, such as yin yoga, slow-flow yoga and candlelight yoga. In addition to Buethe’s classes, four other local yoga instructors teach at Confluence each week.

“With art classes being really trimmed from public schools, I think it’s awesome when art is displayed and appreciated in areas accessible to a wide variety of people who may not get much exposure to it,” Vesely said.

Among those four is Nichole Vesely, who said her favorite aspect of the studio is how Confluence is a place where everyone in the community can come and feel welcomed.

As of now, Buethe said there is not a set structure on how the concerts are set up. He said Confluence has only hosted one band each night of music performances, and he lets them decide when they would like to perform.

“My favorite thing about Confluence is the potential a space like this has to make a meaningful impact in a neighborhood of Lincoln underserved insofar as yoga,” Vesely said. “The fact that [Buethe] allowed me to bring a body positive donation-based class to Confluence demonstrates a commitment to making yoga physically and financially accessible to as many people as possible.”

That’s all Buethe aims for financially with the studio.

Though he charges $10 per class, some of his classes, along with Vesely’s Monday evening hip-hop and yoga class, are entirely donation-based. Buethe said he wants everyone to feel welcomed and to be given the opportunity to take a class if they would like.

“It’s kind of like a house show venue where you just kind of wait until it feels like the right time to perform,” Buethe said. “It would be cool to do multiple shows in a night, but right now it’s still just starting out.

While Confluence is a new space that is still coming together, Buethe said he would like to expand what he offers at the studio in the future to make room for more art shows and concerts, and he wants people to know Confluence is open to people coming in and showing off their hard work and talent.

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Jeremy Buethe, owner and director of Confluence, poses for a portrait inside the yoga and art space on June 23, 2018, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Even though Confluence is expanding itself, instructor Christina Hatcher said she can already feel the sense of community within the studio.

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His passion shows in all he does, and I know the community feels the love and support, because people are flocking to the studio. I’m happy to see a space where people can get more connected with each other, their community, and themselves.

“It would be really cool to have it be every weekend or once a week having an event there, whether it’s art or a musical performance,” Buethe said. “If people are interested in showing their art or having an event, Confluence can be a place for that.”

“The love for community is felt in every corner of the space, and in every conversation with [Buethe],” Hatcher said. “His passion shows in all he does, and I know the community feels that love and support, because people are flocking to the studio. I’m happy to see a space where people can get more connected with each other, their

community, and themselves.”

Now, two months after opening, Buethe is living out his dream of owning a place where people within his community can work on creating healthier lifestyles for themselves, and where they can express themselves in a welcoming environment.

“The space has an emphasis on expression and creativity, and how yoga can help encourage that, like a healthy and creative life,” Buethe said. “Incorporating these practices so we can all come together; people can come and take care of themselves, but also show art. I always wanted to open a space to people for that.”

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Local coffee shop shares an unlikely space with a gas station RILEY TOLAN STAFF WRITER

Dawson Schrader hands a tall glass of iced coffee to a customer as they sit down. A jazz record plays in the background, and magazines are displayed in the corner for customers to peruse. Outside a large window, people pump gas into their vehicles.

“We’re in a gas station that’s over 23 years old. And I think it has been difficult to overcome just more mentally for us than for other people,” said Schrader, one of the owners of Vena Amoris. “We have a specialty coffee bar, and we’re serving amazing espresso and good drinks, but it’s hard just getting people through the gas station doors and realizing we’re here.”

Schrader, who owns the coffee shop with his fiancée, Analise Langer, said the coffee shop shares a space with his father’s gas station, Rhino Stop.

I really love the environment of a coffee shop. I love that people sit down and study for have their first date or have business meetings. There are so many things that happen in a coffee shop.

“The amount of business [Rhino Stop] had dropped dramatically, so we had to look at what our other options could be,” he said. “I really love the environment of a coffee shop. I love that people sit down and study or have their first date or have business meetings. There are so many things that happen in a coffee shop.”

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Despite the difficulty of sharing a space with a gas station, Schrader said he and Langer embrace the obstacles.

“It’s a clash of two worlds,” Schrader said, “but it’s also been a blessing, because we get customers from the gas station who realize there’s a coffee shop inside.”

The name Vena Amoris, which means ‘vein of love’ in Latin, stems from the belief that the vein runs directly from the ring finger to the heart. Shrader said he and Langer thought of the name of their coffee shop before they were engaged.

“Hopefully, I marry her, because the business is named after that idea,” Schrader said jokingly.

The couple share a love for connecting with people and coffee. However, Shrader said he did not even like coffee two years ago.

Vena Amoris workers, Dawson and Analise, stand in the coffee shop located on West O Street, on June 15, 2018, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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“My first date with [Langer] was two years ago at The Mill, and I had an iced vanilla latte, and I remember drinking less than half of it,” Schrader said.

He said he developed a love for coffee after drinking a cappuccino in South Africa during a visit to the country.

Schrader said after he returned to America, he tried cappuccinos and found that they just were not the same. So, one of his goals was to recreate what he discovered in South Africa.

Now, the couple run Vena Amoris together, despite their young ages. Schrader is 20 while Langer is just 18.

“One of the hardest things has been moving forward as a business, and then watching my friends go out and have fun and have a little bit more free time,” Langer said. “It’s been a huge part of my story. A lot of people don’t realize how old I am, but it’s been a lot of fun.”

Despite the obstacles they face, such as sharing a space with a gas station and their young age, the couple wants to keep moving forward as a business and do what they

love: connect with people and make great coffee.

“We wanted to create a space that is available for anyone and for anyone to come,” Langer said. “[Schrader] and I are people who are really driven to continue learning, and we want to offer that to other people.”

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SEWING NEBRASKA’S MUSICAL FUTURE:

UNL students launch on-campus music education business ALEXIS NYHOLM STAFF WRITER

A s college students joining the workplace after graduation becomes a more concrete fact instead of a far-off idea, the high school summers full of sleeping and days at the pool are replaced with finding ways to take skills learned in classes to use them in real-world situations.

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Each of the three instructors went into the opening of the studio wanting to teach more students in Lincoln. ”One of the main sources of income for music performance majors is teaching private lessons,” Stanley said. “In order to get some experience doing this, we decided to co-found a music studio.”

As young as the trio is, they still have plenty of music knowledge to share with students.

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“Our long-term goal is to add other teachers and expand the studio in order to offer more and more instrument areas,” Stanley said.

According to Collins, music has played an important role in her life in many ways, and she wants others to experience music’s potential impact.

“Committing my life to music has taught me far more than just how to play the violin,” Collins said. “It has taught me patience, discipline, time management, how to have a strong work ethic and how to communicate when words are not enough.”

Committing my life to music has taught me far more than just how to play the violin. It has taught me patience, discipline, time management, how to have a strong work ethic and how to communicate when words are not enough.

Hammans said it has been a goal of hers to teach violin since she was in seventh grade and has taught a few students each year since she was in ninth grade. Collins taught at the Prairie Hill Learning Center Suzuki Violin Camp in Roca, Nebraska, for the past six years, and Stanley has taught cello at Prairie Hill for three.

Both Collins and Hammans said they have known for a long time that they wanted to teach others how to play an instrument. Stanley said much of his motivation for teaching comes from his desire to make money doing something that doesn’t feel like work. .

“I wanted to get relevant experience in my field of study and create a source of income that I enjoy earning,” Stanley said.

All three of the instructors are in some way affiliated with The Suzuki Association of the Americas, a Coloradobased coalition of teachers, parents and educators who want to make music education available to all students. With their backgrounds in The Suzuki Association, which teaches through encouragement and repetition, Collins, Stanley and Hammans strive to make lessons at Goldenrod affordable to most.

Lessons range from $30-60 and from 30 minutes to an hour.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore music performance majors Emily Hammans, Lucy Collins and Sam Stanley recently began giving Lincolnites private instrument lessons through their on-campus music education company, Goldenrod Music Studios.

As of now, Goldenrod offers lessons for cellists, violinists and violists, and Stanley said they plan to add piano lessons to their course offerings this fall.

“Music is an incredible gift, and we’re really fortunate to be able to share it with others,” Hammans said To get into contact with Goldenrod Music Studios, email them at lessons@goldenrodmusicstudios.com or call or text at 402-802-7133.

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New jazz concert series continues summer-long community event A jazz series will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, every Tuesday night in July and August. James Terry, a coordinator for the series, said Tower Jazz, located at Tower Square on 13th and P streets, improves every year.

Terry said the series started in 2015 because Lincoln mayor Chris Beutler wanted a space downtown for groups to perform. For Terry, being a part of Tower Jazz has given him the chance to meet and book regional jazz bands over the years.

“I wanted to expose people to new jazz from the region,” he said.

Abigail Siedell, a senior music composition major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will perform at Tower Jazz on August 7, the last performance of the summer.

Terry said Siedell and other UNL students were eager to collaborate with Tower Jazz.

“They said, ‘We want to start our careers so we need some exposure,’ and I said, ‘Well, I can do that for you,’” he said.

For Siedell, who has sung at only a handful of gigs before, the Tower Jazz performance will be both nerve-wracking and rewarding.

“I have really bad stage fright,” she said. “But this will be a

great opportunity to get my name out there.”

Siedell said her goal is to follow in the tracks of such jazz greats like John Coltrane by balancing her career between jazz composition and performance. To be successful in a field as demanding and competitive as jazz, Siedell said she will need to continue building a network of friends and acquaintances—something the performance may go a long way in doing.

In the future, Terry said he wants Tower Jazz to host national, as well as regional, acts, including musicians from Colorado, Kansas City and St. Louis. Additionally, Terry said he wants to go to schools with jazz bands to talk about how jazz can influence students’ lives and future careers.

Terry said Tower Jazz is not competing with Jazz in June, because the former series takes place throughout July and August. He said Tower Jazz is somewhat a copycat of Jazz in June, imitating the vendor setup and educational programs.

For UNL students like Siedell, Tower Jazz is a chance to break the barriers surrounding their comfort zones and make new connections.

“This is a big deal for me,” she said. “I’m grateful to have this opportunity.”

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LONG STANDING TRADITIONS BRING UNITY TO A FRACTURED FANBASE AUSTIN OREMAN STAFF WRITER

C ollege football is a game that places paramount importance on traditions for both fans and players.

Ohio State dotting the “i.” Clemson touching Howard’s Rock. Friday Night Lights at Texas A&M. “Enter Sandman” at Virginia Tech. Ralphie’s run at Colorado.

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Many such traditions arise from humble origins but come to take important places in the hearts and minds of fans and players. These traditions have the power to unify fans and contribute to bonding among teammates.

Unity is a topic on the mind of new Nebraska head coach Scott Frost. In various press conferences, he mentioned a “unity of purpose,” stretching from university leaders and coaches to athletes and fans.

“Everybody in the building was pulling in the same direction. Everybody, when I was there, loved Nebraska and did everything they could to try to make it as successful as they could,” he said.

“That’s not quite what I’m finding when I’m coming back in there.”

Traditions are a way to unify people, and Nebraska fans and players have a plethora of traditions they partake in every game day.

Fans join players in celebrating touchdowns, releasing red balloons, rising to their feet in the stands and waving their arms side to side as the band blares “Hail Varsity.”

Nebraska has all these traditions, among others, but one has come under fire recently, proving to be slightly divisive. This tradition? The team’s walk-out song.

Back in April of this year, “Sirius” was eschewed during the spring game’s Tunnel Walk. Played in its place was a Gary Clark Jr. cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together.”

With Frost preaching unity, the decision was made to switch up the walk-out song to one that mirrors that message.

In an Omaha World-Herald article, Shot Kleen, the head of HuskerVision, said his department made the decision to change things up for the spring game. HuskerVision is in charge of the videos played at Husker sporting events.

Damian Jackson (38) and Avery Anderson (4) lead the team during the tunnel walk before the game against Ohio State at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska on Oct. 14, 2017.

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He also said that his department would take a look at the song and other choices over the summer and make a decision as the summer progresses.

might have about moving on from the classic song on “Sports Nightly.” According to Moos, “Sirius” appears to be safe for now.

It turned out that preaching unity and tradition would’ve been received better by fans had it not been at the cost of a long-running tradition, despite the message of unity the new song provided.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln once said. For Nebraska, much of the foundation of the program has stood strong for decades. The numerous traditions at the school have given fans commonality, actions to do together and things to believe in as a community. Some of those traditions are beginning to falter and fans are growing divided on issues ranging from the traditions to play style and coaching decisions.

Fans fretted about the change in the days that followed, but a majority of fans in an online poll voted to show just how serious “Sirius” is to them. In a poll run by the WorldHerald, 61 percent of respondents, about 2,400 of them, responded said they wanted “Sirius” to stay.

Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos assuaged fears fans

Maybe all it would take to restore the order and strengthen the foundations would be a statement from Frost or Moos telling people what is going to happen. A statement

telling fans how things will be, without ambiguity.

Nebraska needs to start repairing the small issues, both the players on the field and the fans off it. Maybe, just maybe, unifying fans on the small issues would bring back not just hope, but a real sense of trust that would lead to full support of the program.

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Summer intramurals offer UNL students a place to build friendships

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snap of the net. A hail mary catch. Serving up an ace.

For UNL students wanting to experience these sports moments, the university’s summer intramural basketball, soccer, football, volleyball and tennis leagues offer such opportunities.

In addition, these sports help students connect with each other, assistant director of intramural sports Zac Brost said.

“The whole goal of intramural sports, what we promote, is really about social interaction,” Brost said.

An intramural flag football game at Vine Street Fields in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Oct. 23, 2017.

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Summer intramural sports are available to UNL students enrolled in summer or fall classes. Though the sign up date to add new teams has passed for all sports and

leagues, students may still be able to find a team to join until August 1, a day before regular seasons wrap up.

Playoffs begin shortly after where brackets may be split up according to skill and competitive levels of teams.

“The goal is to find similar competition for all teams,” Brost said.

UNL’s intramural sports program also offers varied league structures to help students find the right activity and competitive level for them. The two most popular sports by count of total teams and participants, basketball and volleyball, participate in open leagues where teams consist of men, women or a combination of both. Soccer teams also participate in an open league structure, while SEE INTRAMURALS: PAGE 14

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To UNL mathematics graduate student Nicole Buczkowski, who is the captain of “Mathletes,” a 4-on-4 sand volleyball team, participation in intramural sports is a win-win.

“I participate in intramural sports because I value trying to stay in shape, and this is a good way to mix things up and hang out with friends,” she said.

For UNL senior Alex Fernando, playing in summer intramurals with his friends gives him the opportunity to create inside jokes, such as those related to his team’s name. He is the captain of the 3-on-3 outdoor basketball team ironically named “That Really Tall Team.”

“I came up with the idea as an intimidation tactic,” Fernando said. “None of my friends and I are very tall, but the opponent sees our name on the schedule, and they’re going to get in their heads and start saying stuff like ‘dang, we’re screwed already.’”

Participation in intramural sports also offers students the opportunity to relax and get away from the stresses of life.

“I love having a break from all the craziness of life and just being able to hang with my friends doing what I love,” Fernando said.

Summer leagues will wrap up by the start of fall classes, and any student who wants to continue playing or wasn’t able to play intramural sports during the summer can choose from over 70 activities the intramural sports program begins offering during the school year. Activities include student-favorites such as bubble soccer where students can climb inside a giant rubber ball and bounce into each other.

Flashing a grin, Brost said, “Who doesn’t want to jump in a bubble and beat each other around a little bit?”

Whether it’s running into each other with giant balls or providing summer activities for students around the campus area, Zac Brost said UNL’s intramural sports program is committed to bringing students together.

“For a lot of people this is their community. This is their attachment to campus. It’s their involvement in a lot of cases,” Brost said. “This is the thing that makes them feel like they’re really a part of campus, they’re really a part of this university.”

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