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Innings Festival offers baseball-centric fun BY CHRISTOPHER BOAN Progress Staff Writer
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lineup of baseball and rock music descends upon Tempe Town Lake for the third iteration of Innings Festival next weekend. Slated for Saturday, Feb. 29, and Sunday, March 1, the Innings Festival features acts like Dave Matthews Band, Weezer, Portugal, The Man, Death Cab for Cutie, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and more. Atlanta-based festival director Tim Sweetwood long envisioned an event that combined the hoopla of the Cactus League with the glitz and glamor of a music festival. Sweetwood and C3 Presents set out to create the festival several years ago, assembling a roster of players and bands to take the stage at the first event in 2018. Fast-forward three years and Sweetwood believes the festival has become a mainstay for Arizonans and baseball nuts.
DeeAn Gillespie and Peter Strub are the owners of The Marshall Gallery of Fine Art, located in Old Town in the Scottsdale Arts District. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer)
“We have a really good round of artists coming in, led by Dave Matthews and Weezer, to go with having even more player in-
volvement than we’ve had before,” Sweetwood said. “So, it kind of brings together the full vision of the festival.”
An avid baseball fan, Sweetwood said his team was surprised by the enthusiasm for Spring Training in Arizona. That love inspired Sweetwood and his team to create a unique festival that incorporates the best elements of both pastimes. The result is a convergence of the two, with batting cages and a virtual home run derby interwoven into the stages and incredible voltage that such festivals require. “I realized how many hundreds of thousands of people come to town to watch this, and I thought one of the things missing was entertainment,” Sweetwood said. “So, that’s kind of where the vision for the event came from, was, let’s give those fans that are coming to town some entertainment to go along with (Spring Training) and then local residents can come as well.” Innings Fest is unlike other large music events in that the sets do not overlap.
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Scottsdale teen embraces role of ‘Frankenstein’ author PROGRESS NEWS STAFF
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he’s only 13 but Teagan Dinyes of Scottsdale has already piled up a lot of credits on her acting resume. She’s appeared in 15 plays and musicals at various Valley theaters in such works as her favorites – “Lion King Jr,” “Scarlet Pimpernel,” Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and “Cinderella.” Next weekend, though, Teagan is taking on what may be her most challenging role yet – and one she thinks might be her favorite one so far. The daughter of JC and Will Dinyes, Teagan will be appearing in “Frankenstein, An Original Musical” in one of the lead roles as Mary Shelley, who authored the classic horror story more than 200 years ago.
Teagan Dinyes, playing author Mary Shelley, meets the creature her imagination created when she wrote “Frankenstein” over 200 years ago. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer)
Teagan will take the stage at 7 p.m. Feb. 26-28, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 29, 7 p.m. March 4-6 and 3 p.m. March 7 at The Fuse Box at State 48 Theatre Company, 943 S. Gilbert Road, Suite 202, Mesa. Tickets are $14 and can be purchased at state48theatre.com/tickets. She’s embraced the role to the point where she found her toughest challenge to be “getting the physicality right for some scenes.” “For example, there is a tender moment where Mary expresses care for the creature and brushes his face with her hand. That felt a little awkward at first,” Teagan explained. For those who wonder how the author gets involved, State 48 Director Andrea K.
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