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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 38
Sisters of electro-swing
Singers turned pandemic into opportunity with Blush Fox Trio
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
Like many performers in the entertainment industry, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdowns stalled the careers of actor/singers Carly Marie Corey, Savannah Lynn and Noel Christine. Rather than wait for the theaters to open back up, however, the three performers decided to take charge of their careers by forming the electro-swing band, Fox Blush Trio. Corey and Lynn, both Queen Anne residents, initially started the band in May of 2020. The two friends agreed they wanted to do something positive with their musical theater backgrounds while they couldn’t perform on stage by recording songs, making music videos and releasing music. Corey said she and Lynn have been friends for more than three years, and they met Noel Christine during the pandemic during a search for an alto singer. “We thought it was a great opportunity to start creating and launching our own work,” Corey said. The result was harmonious, and the trio launched their band under the name Blush Fox Trio.
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Photo courtesy Blush Fox Trio Members of Blush Fox Trio, from left, Noel Christine, Carly Marie Corey and Savannah Lynn sing at a performance for Aspire Repertory Theatre’s opening gala earlier this month. “It was kind of crazy because none of us had jobs, so we could really put all of that energy that we were putting into other things into creating this,” Corey said. An added bonus, she said, was their friends were also in the same situation, so they invited friends who were free to collaborate. They hired friends to dance in their videos and another to design their
costumes. “Although the pandemic was horrible, it kind of opened up some opportunity for us to really get a head start,” Corey said. Corey is the songwriter and arranges the vocals and produces the music with her husband. They meet once or twice a week in Corey’s Queen Anne apartment to practice and rent space when
they want to record or practice choreography. “I think we all, we’re at this point where we’re kind of taking control of our careers and building our own thing, which feels really fantastic,” Corey said. She said not only is the trio’s chemistry and “vocal blend” great,
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UW prof shares the dangers of disinformation By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor In the aftermath of this year’s Hurricane Henri, a tweet Aug. 22 featuring a picture of a shark swimming in flood waters made its round on Twitter. That shark certainly gets around, as the same picture was shared following numerous hurricanes, all the way back to Hurricane Irene in 2011, according to UW professor Kate Starbird who
gave a presentation on how easily misinformation and disinformation spreads through social media during the September Initiative on Community Engagement presentation. Starbird, an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, specializes in how social media and communication technologies are used in crisis events. Her most recent work focuses on the direction and spread of online
rumors through misinformation and disinformation in the context of crisis events. Why do people share information that is false, such as the tweet with the hardest-working shark in the ocean? “Well, often it’s to get engagements, to get retweets, to get likes, to get attention, to grow their audiences,” Starbird said. When the same tweet was shared in 2017 following Hurricane Harvey, the tweet got
150,000 engagements by sharing the fake photo. Misinformation and disinformation, are pervasive in online spaces, Starbird said. Starbird said when she started her work in 2008 or 2009, misinformation was a small part of what she and her team saw during crisis events. Now, misinformation has become a larger piece of crisis events and the discourse sur-
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