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By Christian McPhate Staff Writer

They come en masse, falling into the rhythm of the music as soon as they arrive at Quakertown Park. Some sit in front of the stage, others linger among the scores of vendors selling art, funnel cakes and beer. But they all move with the jazz erupting from the seven stages located across the park.

Some would say it’s a feeling, almost primal, instinctual in a sense, that connects the audience with the musicians improvising on the stage. For decades this connection has been bringing people from all over the world to the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival to get lost in three days of music from aspiring artists to Grammy-winning pros.

To hear the sounds of bands like the One O’clock Lab Band, or Brave Combo playing its annual Sunday night show on the Jazz Stage, has become a family tradition for many North Texans.

And this year will mark the 25th anniversary of Denton Arts & Jazz Festival, the 35th of the jazz foundation.

“The community sees itself as the festival,” said Ray Hair, president of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, an organization that’s been providing acts for the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival since the event’s early beginnings.

But Hair hasn’t just been providing artists; he’s also one of the original founders of the festival.

In 1984, Hair was running a program called Concerts on the

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Square in downtown Denton when the parks and recreation department officials approached him about hosting a day of jazz in the park.

“I said, ‘Absolutely,’” Hair recalled.

A year later, Hair had pulled together some of the most popular bands from North Texas to play what was then known as the Denton Jazz Festival. Brave Combo was there, as well as the One O’clock Lab Band and a faculty ensemble from the jazz department at the University of North Texas. All playing from the back of a flatbed trailer in what was then Civic Center Park.

More than 800 people showed up to listen to jazz from noon to 8 p.m. on a Saturday.

They spread out blankets in front of the flatbed trailer and enjoyed the jazz artistry occurring onstage.

“We knew then that we had something,” Hair said.

Five years later, the festival had become a musical mecca with more than 10,000 people showing up to enjoy a weekend of jazz.

In 1990, Hair joined forces with Spring Fling, another city festival, to provide festivalgoers not only with great music but also good art, food and beer. Carol Short, executive director, was brought on board to help manage the growing festival now known as the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

“Carol was able to get the community involved,” Hair said.

“She really promoted the deal.”

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Ray Hair is the president of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, which has provided artists for the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival since its start.

Short not only promoted the festival but also nurtured it by adding more stages and art from local, regional and nationally recognized artists. She also brought in more sponsors who helped grow the festival, creating something special, an event that would become more than just a memory but part of the community.

Ben E. Keith was one of the sponsors that helped kick-start the festival into overdrive when the company donated $15,000.

The donation allowed Hair and Short to hire more musical talent, setup more staging and keep the festival free of charge.

“Of all the places, I really

haven’t seen anything like this with a group that is passionate about arts and jazz,” said Don Fischer, general manager of Ben E. Keith. “It’s been very attractive.”

Over the years, the group behind Denton Arts & Jazz Festival has grown to more than 400 “Top Hands” who sacrifice more than 2,000 volunteer hours to put the festival together.

Proceeds from the Denton Festival Foundation Inc.-sponsored food and drink booths benefit continuing arts facilities and preservation projects. Over the last 35 years, the foundation has contributed a total of $102,000 to Denton’s Center for

Endowment ($40,000+)

Presenting ($50,000+)

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the Visual Arts and Campus Theatre renovation projects.

More than $37,000 has been donated to the improvement of Quakertown Park.

“Throughout its 35 years, the Denton Festival Foundation has remained true to its original mission to provide the highest quality professional music and art to people who might not ordinarily be able to experience it,” according to the foundation’s history.

“The Denton Arts & Jazz Festival is a celebration of life and continues to cross all social and ethnic barriers not only in the entertainment offered but also in attendance.”

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Frontman Carl Finch performs with Brave Combo last summer in Arlington. As tradition dictates, the Denton “nuclear polka” band will be the last act of a music-filled weekend for the Arts & Jazz Festival.

They’ll play on the Jazz Stage at 7 p.m. Sunday.

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Ever-evolving Brave Combo to close out fest Sunday

By Stanton Brasher For the Denton Record-Chronicle

Carl Finch has won two Grammys, sings for a critically acclaimed polka-rock band that travels the world, has been a character on The Simpsons, and has been a part of some of the most successful music produced in Denton.

Finch, frontman for Brave Combo, fails to see how that makes him interesting.

“When you live inside yourself, you know, I don’t see myself as very interesting at all,” Finch joked. “My day-to-day is built around, as much, my animals as it is music or career.”

The humble yet charismatic founder of the Denton musical staple is a bona fide animal lover.

He has what he refers to as “a little farm” at his house. Finch also donates to various animal causes and has spent the last few decades avoiding meat.

He won’t even kill cockroaches at the group’s rehearsal studio. Rather, he chooses to give them monikers like “Roachy” and “Buggy.” Finch developed such a rapport with these roaches that they don’t even scurry away when he enters the room.

Brave Combo closes out yet another year of the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival on Sunday night at Quakertown Park. The marriage between the band and the 25-year-old festival has been going strong for decades and shows no signs of divorce.

Finch and company are not just married to the festival; they are married to Denton.

In their extensive career, Brave Combo’s members have debated moving away to places with more opportunity like New York. Denton, however, has not only proven to be a strategic location for touring, but a home for their weird style of music.

“Let’s face it, this is a great town where we can just do our thing and be us and not feel pressure to be anything except us,” Finch said. “And then to have a community that supports us? This has been almost like a little protective nest for us and we have no real inclination to leave.”

Longtime woodwind player Jeffrey Barnes recently announced his departure from the group. This has caused some social circles in Denton to speculate about the band’s demise.

Finch, however, points out that the band has always had a revolving door of musicians.

Most of them never really left; rather, they just retired from the touring life or went to pursue other opportunities. Accordionist Ginny Mac, for instance, still appears with the band regularly even though she officially departed the group in 2013.

As far as the breakup rumors are concerned, Finch is quick to quell those worries.

“Yeah — no,” Finch laughed.

“There is almost this living, breathing core thing that exists.

So if anybody within the Brave Combo structure wants to reach into it and make something from this core thing — it’s right there. As long as there is this vacuum in space that the idea of Brave Combo can fill, because there is nothing exactly like it out there, then I don’t even see how it can break up.”

Finch believes that the flexibility of the Brave Combo structure is responsible for the band’s longevity. Barnes played saxophone for 30 years with the outfit. One might assume that the band would find a replacement

in another sax player. Instead, Finch found another guitarist.

Finch feels like this approach will prevent comparisons because he believes in the individuality of the Brave Combo family. While this tends to be the mode of operation for Brave Combo, Finch does recognize that it can affect the sound.

“It pulls the band in ways you wouldn’t expect, and every time, we had to really think about it,” Finch said. “How do we transition as seamlessly as possible?”

While Finch’s excitement for new sonic soundscape opportunities sits at the front of his mind, there is also the nagging feeling that some avid followers might have a hard time adjusting. But he is optimistic about the band’s direction and hopes Brave Combo fans feel the same.

Barnes’ last album with Brave Combo is the recently released The Liminal Zone. Finch says the album has only one real polka song on it. The rest is filled with sambas, cha chas, waltzes, and “about as much of a rock song as we’ve ever done,” according to Finch.

Finch said the album procures its sound from a wide

range of influences, including David Lynch and game show theme music.

“It’s a pretty odd collection of songs,” Finch said. “There is a song on her called ‘The Everything.’ It’s about tension and release. I wanted to do a video that was about tension and release.”

Finch’s vision became a reality recently as he gathered a large, costumed group of friends and squeezed them into the back of his rehearsal space with a camera crew and obscene quantities of glitter.

The video for “The Everything” is currently in the editing process, but Finch is thrilled with the footage. He is also quite proud of his new glitter collection — which remains on the floor after multiple sweeps with the vacuum.

“Visually, it has two distinctive parts. What’s going on in the tension is not going on in the release.”

Brave Combo will be closing out the Arts & Jazz Festival on Sunday at 7 p.m. on the Jazz Stage. The Liminal Zone can be found at Brave.com, Amazon. com and on iTunes.

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The University of North Texas One O’clock Lab Band, directed by Jay Saunders, will perform at Arts & Jazz Festival.

Big-time jazz: One O’clock Lab Band spearheads fest

By Nicholas Friedman Staff Writer

Every day, just after noon, faint tunes can be heard just outside of the University of North Texas Bruce Hall practice rooms.

At 1 p.m. on the dime, the One O’clock Lab Band unpacks its instruments and jams in sync, with drummers, pianists and others bringing their unique sounds together.

On Saturday night at 9, the six-time Grammy-nominated group will perform on UNT’s Showcase Stage at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

“We’ve been a part of the festival since it was called Spring Fling,” One O’clock director Jay Saunders said. “Now that the University of North Texas has its own stage, they’ll play for two whole days.”

Making jazz festive For the three-day festival, UNT’s other lab bands as well as

singers, songwriters and ensembles will join the One O’clock.

“There will be a lot of different varieties of jazz,” Saunders said. “It’s a great way to wrap up the year, and all of the groups really do shine because they’ve been at it for a full academic year.”

On the opening night of the festival, the One O’clock will serve as a headlining act on the Jazz Stage, and will then join the other bands Saturday for the UNT lab band series.

“I’ve played the festival twice,” band trombone player Joakim Toftgaard said. “I enjoy the fact that people who may not be jazz fanatics still take the time to come and listen.”

Drummer Connor Kent is in his third semester with the One O’clock and said he is looking forward to headlining the festival.

“You’re playing with such talented people from all over the place,” Kent said. “A lot of the

Kent said. “It’s our last really big performance in front of everyone.”

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Jay Saunders music we’ve prepared for other concerts — we’ll be using our favorite charts from all year for the festival.”

Kent said while the band hasn’t specifically prepared for the festival, everything comes together and they’re able to put on a good show.

“We’ve had a lot of concerts that have been more pressing,”

The lab bands started in 1947, Saunders said, and they laid the groundwork for what the UNT jazz program is known as today.

“The lab band was one of the first draws to get students from all over the world,” Saunders said. “Our alumni are among the most heavily used professionals in the industry.”

Every academic year, the bands produce and record their own album, which is then made available for purchase. Saunders said this has been a staple of the program since its inception, and he has been working for years to make it more and more about the students.

“I like for the CDs to be written by the students in the band themselves,” Saunders said.

“Part of what a professional mu-

sician does is make a written chart come to life.”

Toftgaard said he has played trombone with the One O’clock since fall 2013.

“My interest piqued when I first heard the band play live in the fall of 2011,” he said. “Besides being a career stepping-stone that looks good on a resume, playing with the same group so much really helps hone the ensemble playing and sight reading of a player.”

Toftgaard said the band practices Monday through Thursday from 1 to 1:50 p.m., with extra rehearsals for guest artists and special projects. An average month will see them practicing close to 20 hours.

“The musical bar is set very high, which challenges me to never lose focus or settle for mediocrity in my playing,” he said.

“It also simulates a professional band in regards to limited rehearsal time and high-profile engagements.”

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Ping Irvin works on a painting recently in her studio in Montgomery. She and her husband, Craig, also a painter, have set up a booth at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival for about eight years now.

By Sydney Wilburn For the Denton Record-Chronicle

Down the winding road of Sam Houston National Forest, nestled behind the towering, green trees, sits a small one-story house. The tranquility of the woods is seldom interrupted by the bustle of big city life and loud cars. It seems the perfect atmosphere to let your creative spirit flourish — and that’s exactly what painters Craig and Ping Irvin have done.

Craig and Ping have lived in this house in Montgomery for about 10 years. But every year, they make the four-hour journey to Denton to participate in the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

“It’s a well-managed show,” Craig said. “Denton is a nice place, and it’s got a good feeling

to it. People come from everywhere.”

They have been attending the Denton festival for about eight years now. For the first two or three years, it was only Ping selling her artwork. Eventually, Craig joined her and began selling his own works.

“We sell better together than we would alone,” Craig said.

A self-taught artist, Craig draws inspiration from a variety of artists and painters. Shelves in their home are filled with books on art history, ranging from ancient to modern. Many of his paintings are inspired by Marc Chagall, a RussianFrench early modernist artist known for his use of color and shapes.

“He’s very colorful and naive,” Craig said. “Originally,

when I saw Ping’s work, it reminded me of Marc Chagall. So, in a way, he is a little bit involved in our meeting each other.”

When Craig discovered Ping’s artwork on an Australian website, he emailed her to tell her how much he admired it.

He mentioned to her the similarities he saw between her work and Chagall’s.

At the time, Ping was living in Yunnan, China, where she had attended the Yunnan Art College. Because there were few artistic job opportunities in post-Cultural Revolution China, Ping was working as a reporter at a TV station.

Ping’s life in China made it difficult for her to be exposed to artwork. The Cultural Revolution of China in the 1960s and 1970s shut down the Yunnan

Art School for years, and there were no art museums to visit.

“When I was young, my brother brought me a book where I saw some classical paintings,” Ping said. “I was influenced by that.”

Ping’s line of horse paintings is especially symbolic of the situation in China. She sees the horse as a beautiful, free animal, but they are used mainly for work in China.

In one of her paintings, Fishbone, a mechanicallooking horse stands by a dry riverbed filled with fish bones.

Behind it, buildings loom, slowly overtaking the trees.

“Already in China, there aren’t many trees — everything has become concrete building and there’s nothing — no water, no fish,” Ping said. “I want to use

the horse’s eyes to see the world.”

Other subjects in Ping’s artwork include a pair of sisters, mermaids and a fairy-like girl.

Her paintings have been purchased and displayed in Thailand, Germany, Japan, Mexico and China.

“She can paint anything,” Craig said admiringly. “She really can.”

In 2005, Ping came to the U.S., and they married. Since then, they have been living in Montgomery and attending art shows all across the South and Southwest U.S. The couple have converted the small barn next to their house into an art studio. They share a cozy room on the second See IRVIN on 9

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A new kind of computer space opened at the North Branch Library in Denton on Monday, one that provides various tools to high-end users, including a 3-D printer.

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A new kind of computer space opened at the North Branch Library in Denton on Monday, one that provides various tools to high-end users, including a 3-D printer.

Library officials have been planning and providing for The Forge since they got City Council approval last year for the new “maker space” as part of an ad-

ditional allocation to the budget.

Early Monday, before officially opening the doors at 3 p.m., City Council members got a small tour of the room now outfitted with high-powered computers, software and peripherals for use by more sophisticated users.

Technology librarian Trey Ford likened the 3-D printer to a hot-glue gun as the loop of special plant-based, purple plastic squirted onto a platform into the shape of small comb, one of several objects he’s “printed” as he has set up the new maker space for the community.

Branch manager Kimberly Wells said that after all the planning and work trying to anticipate what people need,

the next phase for The Forge is what’s most exciting for the library.

“Next, we see where people are going to drive it,” Wells said. “We know they’ll come tell us what they want.”

The new space includes the equipment needed to make sound, music and podcasts, edit video and create digital art as well as work with computer hardware and software design.

Some creative work requires expensive technology that many individuals can’t afford. A few Texas cities have membership-based maker spaces, but the library staff found little of such resources available in Denton.

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A new kind of computer space opened at the North Branch Library in Denton on Monday, one that provides various tools to high-end users, including a 3-D printer.

Library officials have been planning and providing for The Forge since they got City Council approval last year for the new “maker space” as part of an ad-

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ditional allocation to the budget.

Early Monday, before officially opening the doors at 3 p.m., City Council members got a small tour of the room now outfitted with high-powered computers, software and peripherals for use by more sophisticated users.

Technology librarian Trey Ford likened the 3-D printer to a hot-glue gun as the loop of special plant-based, purple plastic squirted onto a platform into the shape of small comb, one of several objects he’s “printed” as he has set up the new maker space for the community.

Branch manager Kimberly Wells said that after all the planning and work trying to anticipate what people need,

the next phase for The Forge is what’s most exciting for the library.

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“There’s a lot of bond elections this time,” said Frank Phillips, Denton County elections administrator. “It’s a good opportunity to get out and vote on the things that will affect your taxes and pocketbook.”

As of Friday afternoon, 6,245 people had cast early ballots, compared to 4,044 people after the first five full days of voting in 2012, Phillips said.

In Denton, this year’s turnout appears to be on pace with the 2012 election, the last time the city had a mayoral race. As of Friday, 1,133 people had voted in the city’s election. At the end of the fifth day in 2012, 1,135 had cast ballots.

The May 10 elections are separate from the runoff elections coming out of the March 4 primaries. Voters will head to the polls May 27 for partisan local and state runoffs. Early voting for the primary runoffs begins May 19 with a ballot that will include incumbent District Attorney Paul Johnson facing a challenge from Karen Alexander and justice of the peace races for Precincts 4 and 5.

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The developer of Rayzor Ranch Town Center is asking the Denton City Council to relax design standards and boost financial incentives to help the project gain momentum.

The design standards set by the city — which were meant to attract a higher quality commercial and residential development than might come to the city otherwise — were ultimately a barrier for Dillard’s moving into the proposed center as planned, Mayor Mark Burroughs said.

“The difference is subtle to us, but huge to the developer,” Burroughs said.

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The ceremony will be conducted in the Texas Capitol’s Senate Chamber, where Gov. Rick Perry will serve as host. Stuart

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Common areas of recognition include arts, athletics, business, education, health and leadership.

Stuart is being honored for work in education in the state, as she has led TWU since 1999. Highlights of her tenure include increasing enrollment by 85 percent, overseeing the new construcStuart

By Jenna Duncan Staff Writer jduncan@dentonrc.com

For the first time, a male student has been elected as student body president at Texas Woman’s University.

Landon Dickerson, 21, said he was unaware he would be the first man elected to the position, since another male student had been appointed to complete a term in spring 2005.

“There’s a lot of possibilities for it to

the next phase for The Forge is what’s most exciting for the library.

“Next, we see where people are going to drive it,” Wells said. “We know they’ll come tell us what they want.”

The new space includes the equipment needed to make sound, music and podcasts, edit video and create digital art as well as work with computer hardware and software design.

Some creative work requires expensive technology that many individuals can’t afford. A few Texas cities have membership-based maker spaces, but the library staff found little of such resources available in Denton.

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A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more diverse.

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ditional allocation to the budget.

Early Monday, before officially opening the doors at 3 p.m., City Council members got a small tour of the room now outfitted with high-powered computers, software and peripherals for use by more sophisticated users.

Technology librarian Trey Ford likened the 3-D printer to a hot-glue gun as the loop of special plant-based, purple plastic squirted onto a platform into the shape of small comb, one of several objects he’s “printed” as he has set up the new maker space for the community.

Branch manager Kimberly Wells said that after all the planning and work trying to anticipate what people need,

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Voters in Denton and a dozen other Denton County cities have at least one council seat up for grabs. Voters in Bartonville, Denton and Trophy Club have a mayor’s race, although Sanger and Pilot Point have uncontested mayoral races.

“There’s a lot of bond elections this time,” said Frank Phillips, Denton County elections administrator. “It’s a good opportunity to get out and vote on the things that will affect your taxes and pocketbook.”

As of Friday afternoon, 6,245 people had cast early ballots, compared to 4, 44 people after the first five full days of voting in 2012, Phillips said.

In Denton, this year’s turnout appears to be on pace with the 2012 election, the last time the city had a mayoral race. As of Friday, 1,133 people had voted in the city’s election. At the end of the fifth day in 2012, 1,135 had cast ballots.

The May 10 elections are separate from the runoff elections coming out of the March 4 primaries. Voters will head to the polls May 27 for partisan local and state runoffs. Early voting for the primary runoffs begins May 19 with a ballot that will include incumbent District Attorney Paul Johnson facing a challenge from Karen Alexander and justice of the peace races for Precincts 4 and 5.

Polls will be open until 7 p.m. today.

Voters who don’t cast early ballots may vote on Saturday, when the polls will also be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters who

mulls project deal Council eyes request for changes to Rayzor Ranch Town Center

By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Staff Writer pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com

The developer of Rayzor Ranch Town Center is asking the Denton City Council to relax design standards and boost financial incentives to help the project gain momentum.

The design standards set by the city — which were meant to attract a higher quality commercial and residential development than might come to the city otherwise — were ultimately a barrier for Dillard’s moving into the proposed center as planned, Mayor Mark Burroughs said.

“The difference is subtle to us, but huge to the developer,” Burroughs said.

On the eve of considering creation of a special taxing district for the Town Center project just south of Rayzor Ranch Marketplace, the City Council is now considering a host of possible changes to the nearly eight-year-old deal between the city and the current developer of the massive, mixed-use development.

The developer’s many-faceted request to the city comes shortly after Dillard’s an-

11.2 percent of the university’s enrollment of 12,422 in Denton.

Monica MendezGrant, interim vice president for student life, said Dickerson will bring a new perspective to the Student Senate in addition to his skills at collaboration and his ability to gather information from other students.

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Both Craig and Ping have participated in several art shows and festivals across the country, including some in New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas — and, of course, the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

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I feel at peace,” Craig said. “It’s like a world away from everything. It’s a very comforting world that you’re creating yourself.”

Lately, Ping has begun painting more birds, ranging from owls to peacocks.

She uses bright colors and signs her name in the bottom right corner in both English and Chinese.

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Heather Gregory is the director of SCRAP Denton, a nonprofit shop that sells recycled and repurposed craft materials.

Denton native Heather Gregory counts the 13 projects SCRAP Denton is putting together for this year’s Children’s Art Tent at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

One box, labeled “Calder Mobile” after the famous American sculptor known for his kinetic art mobiles, is stacked on a shelf with manila folders inside. Next to that box is one filled with a pile of sticks, pruned like a wizard’s wands. On the other side of the room, electrical cords and ropes and some jumbled rainbow wires are piled on a cart with tin cans.

Gregory, the director of SCRAP Denton, reaches for one of the wires on the cart and explains the tin can robot project for kids to make out of the assorted wires and cans.

“It’s huge to be able to show

people that you can make art out of materials that they might see as trash or that they might not see as art supplies,” she said.

Gregory and SCRAP Denton have gathered enough recycled trash and materials for the 13 arts and craft stations — almost enough to spread out across the 32-acre Quakertown Park lawn — in preparation for the largest event they’ve put together since SCRAP opened its doors to Denton almost three years ago: the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

“The size of the event we’re doing is by and large greater than anything we’ve even come close to doing before,” she said.

Gregory said SCRAP Denton will inspire and educate an estimated 2,000 children at this weekend’s 25th anniversary festival.

For this year’s Arts & Jazz Festival, SCRAP has gathered more than 100 volunteers to run

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and operate the Children’s Art Tent. It’s an artist community that weaves together an eclectic array of artists, volunteers and staff from all over the area to put together this year’s projects and operate the tent at the annual three-day festival.

The projects include everything from sculpture building to weaving to painting and more.

Also included in this year’s unveiling: a bicycle-powered spin wheel where children can create artwork.

Querencia, another nonprofit in Denton, designed and constructed the refitted bicycle for the project. Each child will get a chance to turn the handle to create the spinning action for their painting, Gregory said.

“It might not be exactly what you thought you needed, but how can you get creative and resourceful and solve those problems with the materials that you have around you?” Gregory asked. “Art doesn’t have to cost a lot of money.”

The Children’s Art Tent is located on the north side of Quakertown Park near Withers Street. The interactive Percussion Petting Zoo is next door for kids to get their musical beats grooving, too.

In addition to running the Children’s Art Tent, SCRAP is keeping its doors open at 420 S. Bell Ave. in Denton during regular store hours, from noon to 6 p.m.

“There’s no shutting SCRAP down,” Gregory said.

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These roving musicians will begin their performances on the Roving River Stage and will perform at 2 other locations in the north park.

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Johnny Red & The Roosters Jazzcats

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Kyle Redd

Texas Gypsies Ricki Derek

Kyle Bellaire Jazz Small Group Mariachi Águilas Zebras Contemporary Jazz Ensemble Latin Jazz Lab Band Tim Moore Jazz Small Group

Mase & The Sidemen Bonnie and Nick Norris

Toshi Clinch Jazz Small Group

Razzmajazz Charley Lee

U-Tubes Jazz Trombone Ensemble Nine O’Clock Lab Band

Rhythm Tribe

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Yancey Stevens Eric Bailey Joe Tucker The Others

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Poo Live Crew Gypsy Playboys Bubba Hernandez Beyond the Pale The Industrial Street Jug Band

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Drew Zaremba Jazz Small Group

Dale Morris, Jr. Electric Bedouin Band

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Quakertown Park 321 E. McKinney Denton, Texas FREE ADMISSION! • Jazz, R & B and Culturally Diverse Music • Community/University/School Performances • Fine Arts & Crafts • Children’s Art Tent • Information & Game Booths • Roving Musicians, Clowns & Jugglers • Food, Drink and MUCH MORE!!!

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Jim Huckaby of Small House Pottery displays some of his work at his shop in Sanger.

Huckaby’s wife, Susan, is also an important part of the team.

While Jim throws the clay, Susan is the color-minded part of the pair who is responsible for the exterior designs — often staying up into the late hours painting flowers and other designs onto Jim’s work.

While the Huckabys are masters of their profession, the two also like to engage in per-

“We’ve had so many cats that showed up.”

Jim admits that, other than pottery, cats and dancing, his real life’s passion is his wife. He’s a romantic and a potter, and one can’t help but to draw comparisons to a memorable scene from the Patrick Swayze film Ghost.

“Clay is cold and gritty,” Huckaby laughed. “It’s not as sensual as it looks.”

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They also love to rescue neighborhood cats, including Charlie, a little black cat with a tuxedo fur coat.

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Gazing upon the beautiful earth and pastel tones of Jim Huckaby’s pottery, one might have the inclination to call him an artist. Huckaby, however, will not hear it.

“Every potter has their own particular style and I mainly focus on functional ware,” Huckaby said. “I don’t do art.”

The functional ware that Huckaby makes includes salsa bowls with miniature ladles, storage containers for common kitchen ingredients, chicken bakers and the occasional vase — all adorned with elegant hand-painted designs and colors.

Huckaby, who owns Small House Pottery with his wife, Susan, is a regular at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival. Although he can’t quite pinpoint an exact number, he estimates that their operation has participated in the festival for roughly 20 years.

Aside from the Arts & Jazz Festival, Huckaby frequently takes his work on the road. Over his 40-year career, Small House Pottery has been featured in more than 850 art shows across

the country. That equates to over 80 tons of clay and 130,000 pieces sold.

For the Huckabys, the traveling art-show lifestyle doesn’t come without its perks.

“We tend to travel when the weather is bad here,” Huckaby said. “We were in sunny Florida when it was icing and snowing here.”

For someone who claims to not be an artist, Huckaby displays some of the common traits of someone who is passionate about creating. When he was 21 years old, he had the choice between a new car or a kiln and wheel. He chose to continue driving his junker for a few more years.

“I took one semester of college that I dropped,” Huckaby laughed. “I decided that I don’t need to go to school for this. All I have to do is just go do it.”

When the Huckabys started Small House Pottery, they did it from a small house. Even though they have since upgraded and moved the business into an old mechanic’s garage, Huckaby didn’t think a name change to “Large Garage Pottery” would sound as eloquent.

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Dr. John transports the sounds of New Orleans to Denton

By Christian McPhate Staff Writer

His music has been called, “a hallucinatory experience,” as if he were channeling the voodoo lore of the Big Easy.

Six-time Grammy winner Dr. John and his band, the Nite Trippers, brew up a mixture of New Orleans’ R&B, boogie-woogie and rock ’n’ roll rolled into “Mardi Gras madness.”

The New York Times called Dr. John’s music, “physical and spiritual, earthly and supernatural, a memento mori and a promise of transcendence — all are aspects of Dr. John’s music.”

Dressed in stylish suits, black sunglasses and a bluesman hat with feathers protruding from its hatband, the 74-year-old musician personifies the New Orleans’ music culture. He’s known as “the Voodoo King of New Orleans,” a blues and boogie pianist who’s contributed his talents to the recordings of other music legends, including Aretha Franklin, Sonny & Cher and the Rolling Stones.

Now Dr. John is bringing his “irresistibly funky ‘voodoo’ music” to the 25th anniversary of

the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival, where he and his band will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday on the Wells Fargo/Budweiser Jazz Stage.

Dr. John’s Nite Trippers include Sarah Morrow, trombone; David Yoke, guitar; Bobby Floyd, organ; Dwight Bailey, bass; and Reggie Jackson, drums.

Dr. John’s career began in 1950s when he began playing guitar and writing songs for Professor Longhair, Art Neville, Joe Tex and Frankie Ford, some of the greatest recordings to come out of Crescent City Records in New Orleans. At the time, he was known by his birth name — Mac Rebennack.

In the 1960s, Rebennack headed west and played with the likes of Sonny & Cher, Van Morrison and the Rolling Stones, who wanted him to contribute to their legendary album Exile on Main Street.

The Rolling Stones experience led him to create his charismatic persona of Dr. John the Nite Tripper.

Dr. John released his breakthrough album Gris-Gris in

1968, introducing the world to his supernatural mix of music that blended voodoo mysticism, funk, rhythm & blues, psychedelic rock and Creole roots.

Dr. John continued to release hits throughout the 1970s, including Sun, Moon and Herbs (1971), an album that included a cameo by Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger; and In the Right Place (1973), an album that produced

the chart hits “Right Place Wrong Time” and “Such a Night.”

At the Arts & Jazz Festival, Dr. John and the Nite Trippers will be supporting his 2014 release, Ske-Dat-De Dat ... The Spirit of Satch, an album that pays homage to Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, another largerthan-life New Orleans legend.

Dr. John honors Armstrong’s

musical genius with 13 classic numbers, including “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “I’ve Got the World on a String.”

If you’re a fan of New Orleans’ rich musical heritage, be sure to catch Dr. John and the Nite Trippers on Saturday evening at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

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20 Grammy Award winner Randy Brecker set to perform

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Grammy-winning trumpeter Randy Brecker will perform on Friday.

Randy Brecker is known as the godfather of fusion jazz.

He’s an artist whose skill with the trumpet has earned him four Grammy Awards and thousands of devotees who studied the “funk bottom with jazz top” that he and his brother, Michael, a saxophonist, were creating as the Brecker Brothers in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.

“Everybody who went to school to study jazz [at the University of North Texas] studied what the Brecker Brothers were doing,” said Ray Hair, the president of the American Federation of Musicians. “Herbie Hancock came out with his disco and Miles Davis’, but the Brecker Brothers really nailed it.

“Their influence is everywhere.”

Brecker’s trumpet performances have graced hundreds of albums, including records by legendary artists James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa.

On Friday, the 70-year-old Brecker will be bringing his fusion jazz to the 25th anniversary of the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival as part of the Randy Brecker Band.

“This is kind of a Brecker family band reunion,” said Brecker, who will be joined onstage by his wife, Ada Rovatti, on saxophone since his brother passed away in 2007 after losing his battle with a rare form of leukemia known as MDS. Born into a musical family in 1945, Randy Brecker nurtured his musical talent with the trumpet as a child and later enhanced it by studying under legendary musicians such as Bill Adam, David Baker and Jerry Coker.

Brecker played in several contemporary jazz bands in the late ’60s and early ’70s, including Blood, Sweat and Tears, Horace Silver Quintet and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, before he and his brother Michael See BRECKER on 21

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Between 1975 and 1981, the Brecker Brothers garnered seven Grammy nominations with their unique combination of rhythm, funk, rock and jazz.

And they traveled across the globe performing their music.

“Jazz is universal,” Brecker said.

Although this year will be his first appearance at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival, Brecker has a long tie with one of the nation’s top jazz schools at UNT. He’s visited the university’s College of Music frequently to perform and participate in workshops and clinics.

At this year’s festival, Brecker will perform original classics as well as newer work that he’s composed with the top musicians who are part of Randy Brecker Band ensemble, including guitarist Barry Finnerty, keyboardist and vocalist Ollie Rockberger and drummer Rodney Holmes.

“People [in Denton] are really open-minded and love excitement and love good music,” Brecker explained. “So we’re really looking forward to it.”

Be sure to catch the Randy Brecker Band on Friday at the Jazz Stage.

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The past, the present and the future are ideas that are often talked about, but rarely ever put into physical form. But artist Mark Jimenez shares this beauty of ideas through his handmade jewelry, inspired by his own past and background.

“The past, present and the future — that’s the basis of everything, you know?” Jimenez said. “I want to create pieces that all people can relate to.”

Jimenez will be sharing his award-winning jewelry that people can relate to during the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

Jimenez has been making the trip from New Mexico to Denton to attend the festival every year for about 10 years.

He enjoys stopping by El Guapo’s restaurant between selling his artwork and listening to the festival’s jazz artist lineup.

“I don’t think people realize what gem the festival is,” Jimenez said. “I mean, for free? Are you kidding me? That’s nonexis-

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Artists’ booths can be found inside the Denton Civic Center, as well as around Quakertown Park. tent anywhere else in the United States!”

Now in his 42nd year of making jewelry, Jimenez has had ample time to perfect his trade. He has shown his work at art festivals in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and elsewhere.

During his travels, Jimenez has won several awards for his work in jewelry making, includ-

ing Best in Jewelry at the Tempe Festival of the Arts in Tempe, Arizona; Best in Jewelry from the Contemporary Hispanic Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Best in Show at Mayfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“I’ve done over 450 art shows in my career,” Jimenez said.

“And there’s only one Denton. It has its own character, its own flavor.”

Jimenez credits the friendly community and the draw that the festival gets from the jazz performers as the main reason for his success selling in the past. “[Denton] embraces the arts, they embrace the music,” Jimenez said. “It’s a very unique atmosphere.”

Like any successful artist’s work, Jimenez’s pieces hold meaning. His jewelry manages

to combine the culture of his ancestors, symbolized as the use of turquoise and silver, with his own unique contemporary flair by using gold or interesting designs.

He puts great thought into the design of each piece so that it can relate to each individual wearer. In this way, each piece that he creates embodies the wearer’s personal past, present and future.

“I put symbolism in every single piece that honors the efforts of all of our relations in life,” Jimenez said. “It’s a reminder that we’re the continuation of the life of all the generations that came before us.”

This belief is one that Jimenez has learned from his Native American roots, but he insists that the idea is one that can be shared by “all of mankind.”

“It’s about creating something that relates to you and your family,” Jimenez said.

“Something that, when worn, reminds us of who we are and where we’re from.”

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“Best day ever.”

Getting out with our family and friends can mean so much more than just a welcome break. These are the days we remember forever. Little by little we can do a lot.

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