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Festival brings blues to Denton

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ewelry always seems to become tangled or lost. This idea for a homemade jewelry tree will cut down on time spent searching for a lost bracelet or untangling a favorite necklace each morning.

All of the items needed can be found at Michaels or a similar craft store for about $10.

Materials: Decorative glass gems Fake tree branches (or spray paint a real one to spend less) Small glass vase

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PHOTO BY ASHLEY PADILLA/INTERN Instructions: 1. Take the branches – decorative or real – and place them in the vase.

2. Pour the glass gems in the vase. Hold the branches in the desired position in the vase while doing this so that they don’t move around while the gems are poured.

3. Now that the branches are in place, spread the smaller stems out so as to make room for the jewelry.

4. The jewelry tree is done, and necklaces and other jewelry can be hung on it.

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Denton Blues Festival brings together legends, young artists

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Texas Slim leads his band of the same name for a crowd of blues lovers during the Denton Bluess Festival, held at Quakertown Park last year. The main stage they played on was home to other festival performers, such as Shemekia Copeland.

The crowd at the 13th annual Denton Blues Festival, held last year at Quakertown Park, enjoys blues music from several bands and artists and burgers, nachos and corn on the cob from local vendors.

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guitarist and vocalist. “It puts us in a position we’ve never been in before, and people of significance will be there. It’s the premiere place to be seen.”

The decision to host a blues festival was about more than bringing recognition to local musicians, Goree said.

When the festival began, the Chamber of Commerce saw a need to diversify the city’s social calendar by adding a fall music event. They hoped that it would bring in more revenue and start a new trend.

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ide-eyed and fresh-faced, three

Wlanky teenagers bend strings

and croon about life’s hardships while mixing basic blues chords with punk rock and hip hop influences.

Blue Jay Soul, a trio of 18-yearold recent high school graduates, is gaining traction in the local music scene.

With more than 1,100 likes on their Facebook page and past shows at the House of Blues in Dallas, the up-and-coming blues group was

recently invited to play Denton’s annual blues festival.

Now in its 14th year, the Denton Blues Festival, produced by the Denton Black Chamber of Commerce, brings local and bigname blues artists to the stage every third weekend in September.

The free event will take place at Quakertown Park on Saturday and Sunday. Shows begin at noon each day.

“Blues is not just for adults,” said Kerry Goree, Denton Black Chamber of Commerce Chairman. “This event

encompasses different cultures, and blues is not just black music. It’s not just for old people. It brings together all nationalities and people, because at sometime in somebody’s life, they’ve experienced the blues.”

There will be two different stages and 11 artists performing at this year’s festival. One stage will include major headliners and blues legends, while the other will promote rising artists, community groups and mixed-genre music.

“I know the festival will help us,” said Marcus Seaton, Blue Jay Soul

“We want Denton to not just be known for arts and jazz,” Goree said. “Blues is one of the true American music genres, and we want to keep blues alive. There also weren’t many cities doing blues festivals, and we saw an opportunity to do something to draw in the whole community.”

Keeping the blues alive and delivering those emotions in a modern way is important to Blue Jay Soul, who has only been an official band for 10 months.

Seaton began playing five years

ago after connecting with the music his grandfather had always listened to.

“The chances of me growing up liking the blues without hearing it frequently is pretty small,” Seaton said. “But playing it is an outlet for anything on my mind. I don’t think about anything else. Music in general has been proven to have an effect on people’s minds, but I think blues is one of the most expressive forms.”

Seaton and bandmates drummer Kevin Rivera and bassist Michael

Hatton began jamming together their junior year of high school.

They started booking shows less than a year ago.

As a band, they hope to continue to play professionally and make a living creating music.

“We can be modern with what we play, and I think people can identify with us better,” Seaton said. “I have a definite respect for the headliners people come out to see, but the intensity will be higher among the up-andcomers because we need to step up.”

Historically, many modern genres

of music originated in the AfricanAmerican communities of the late 19th century and early 20th century when blues music was born, said blues enthusiast Mike Steinel, a UNT jazz studies professor.

This period helped inspire the bigband jazz music of the ’20s and artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan in the ’80s.

“Most American music has its origins in the African-American community,” Steinel said. “There is the racial component of an oppressed race, and it’s amazing. It’s a fascinating thing how all cultures assimilated the

blues into their music. And any good jazz musician has to know the blues.”

Steinel has composed several blues pieces and studies it as a hobby. In an analogy comparing jazz and the blues, he refers to the blues as a tinged and scorched roux, the flour and butter mixture that holds gumbo together.

“Blues is tinged with a lot of feelings,” Steinel said. “Real blues is rough, and some people can’t handle that. At the same time, it’s challenging to play something fresh and new.

People want you to sound like you know what you’re doing, but it has

to sound personal.”

When all is said and done Goree hopes the weather is hot enough for people to drink and the music good enough for everyone to dance.

“You plan to go hear the blues,” Goree said. “We get some who are true blues connoisseurs who like a specific type, but we want people to think they got their money’s worth. And time is money. We try to get as many top names as possible so people can put on their bucket list to come to the Denton Blues Festival.”

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Cast, makers give insight on “The Cabin in the Woods” PRESTON BARTA Intern

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he Cabin in the Woods” is a thrill ride into the minds of all things terrible.

Genre-bending geniuses Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon begin the film like any generic horror film might — a group of friends take a getaway trip to a remote cabin in the woods.

After they arrive at their destination, they find themselves facing their worst nightmares.

“Cabin” has all the ingredients of a classic horror flick plus more.

“The Cabin in the Woods” is available on Video On Demand and digital download now, and will be available on Bluray/DVD on Tuesday.

The North Texas Daily recently had the chance to sit down and talk with the cast and filmmakers of the film.

Q&A – Part I Joss Whedon (“The Avengers”) cowrote and produced “The Cabin in the Woods” with Drew Goddard (“Lost”) who directed the film.

How do you go about telling people about the film without giving anything away?

Drew Goddard: I think we sort of talk about the fact that we love horror movies and we just set out to make a fun horror movie — that’s what “The Cabin in the Woods” is. That was our goal.

Joss Whedon: It’s not a secret in the movie or in the ad campaigns that there is more going on than the people who

go to the cabin in the woods. There is this other layer to it. We wanted to make a horror movie for people who love horror movies and a horror movie for people that don’t. It’s got this weird schizophrenia about it in that sense, but it’s all part of the real, yet very bizarre, world we create.

What made you decide to make this a horror and a comedy?

DG: We just love to switch it up, you know. It’s fun to get to be multiple genres. We get to straddle many fences.

I don’t like when filmmakers think the audience can only handle one thing. I feel like we can do that, and it’s exciting.

It brings energy to the movie.

JW: When I first started seeing Hong Kong movies in the ’80s, I was blown away by the fact that they relentlessly refused to decide on a genre. It gives you that thrill that actually the horror gives you.

Do you guys have a count on how many creatures you made? Are there any that didn’t make it in the film?

DG: That’s a tough question to answer because we really get to spoiler territory.

JW: We will just say we love all horror movies, and at some point in the movie

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Q&A – Part II Anna Hutchison (“Go Girls”), Jesse Williams (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Kristen Connolly (“As the World Turns”) play Dana, Holden and Jules — three of five friends who venture into the woods.

At what point did you realize that you were working on a special project?

Kristen Connolly: Reading the script, you knew it was something really special. The script didn’t change much from what we read to what we shot.

It’s great to read something where you really want to keep reading, and where you really don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s how I felt when I was reading it, […] and it’s amazing to see it all put together and to see how the stories compliment each other. The editing is brilliant. It really brings out so much of the comedy. [Whedon and Goddard] are just so fantastic.

Jesse Williams: That’s what attracted us — it was so special. Our job is to read scripts all week, every week to find work, and we see a lot of horror films.

This one was unique, and that’s why I want to be a part of it. The fact that it was so genre-bending from the very beginning, that made it stand out. What is happening with this other world?

Why do we keep going back to these people? What is this control room? That made it stand out to me. Also you get to do a comedy, you get to do a horror, an action movie and a little bit of a psychological thriller.

Anna, how was the audition process for you?

Anna Hutchison: I was in Australia at the time. I was doing a show called “Underbelly,” which was kind of a drama.

I just had my appendix taken out so I had like a week off work, and my agency asked me if I wanted to audition for stuff so I had a look at this thing that was a Jacuzzi scene. I had to scream in it a bit so I did that, and then a day later they called and asked, “Can you come to Vancouver?” I was like, “Heck yeah I can! Can I get out of ‘Underbelly?’” So I hop over there, meet these guys, and it was just awesome.

Horror movies are notorious for having stereotypes – wouldn’t you say?

JW: One of the things that was daring about the film is to try to take these oldage structures and find a way to redefine them— make them new and make the audience kind of relate to them and root for them instead of mock them.

KC: I think instead of shrinking from those stereotypes they sort of exploded them, and it’s part of what makes the movie so much fun— to see these people doing these things that everybody knows that they’re probably going to do, but the twist of it is to know why they’re doing those things.

AH: I liked the stereotype that I got. We just totally exploded it.

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MUSIC

Dave Matthews Group delivers solid sound in “Away From the World” TRENT JOHNSON Intern

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ith a mix of funk, rock and bluegrass, Dave Matthews Band has returned, delivering a powerful album with numerous tempos and differing sounds.

“Away from the World,” the band’s eighth studio album and first album since 2009, hit stores Sept. 11, bringing the band’s creative take on music back to pop culture.

Dave Matthews formed the band donning his name in Charlottesville,

Va., in 1991. The group released their first studio album, “Under the Table and Dreaming,” in 1994, spawning five singles.

Though the latest album is not much different from its previous work, Dave Matthews Band put together 11 killer tracks touching on subjects of hope, fear and of course, love.

The album gets rolling with the song “Broken Things,” a fast-paced tune that delivers lyrics concerning a couple struggling in a relationship.

The highlight of the track is how lead vocalist and guitarist Matthews begins with an electric guitar riff that eventually eases off, making way for a beautiful violin solo.

This moment in particular showcases the band’s creative ability to use multiple instruments in various roles.

“Mercy,” the album’s single released in July, delivers a more melancholy tune than that of the first track.

The song offers motivational words as it starts slowly and builds to a plateau of electric sounds in the middle, finally settling down before the end.

The track peaked at #95 on the Billboard Top 100.

The best music on “Away from the

World” is offered in the song “Sweet.” It features Matthews and his ukulele, and provides a gorgeous singular sound that continues for over half the song.

The song is also the most different on the album and delivers a special feel when compared to the rest of the tracks.

The album ends with the song “Drunken Soldier.” It is easily the longest song on the album and clocks in at more than nine minutes.

Though the song does begin to drag on at the five-minute mark, it offers numerous changes of pace coupled with an abundance of sounds contributing to the song’s underlying message of being yourself.

Though some of the songs sound similar to their predecessors, most of “Away from the World” offers fans of the world-renowned band exactly what they want: classic Dave Matthews Band.

The boottom line is, fans of the band should follow their instincts and pick the album up.

If people are late to the Dave Matthews party and are looking for a smooth sound with some notoriety, they should also snag the album and give it a shot.

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