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APRIL 4-10, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 3 Park And Party Concert series builds community identity JOCELYN MURPHY NWA Democrat-Gazette A s live music returns to downtown Springdale, a new partnership between the Downtown Springdale Alliance and Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) has the Live at Turnbow music series poised to reflect the fruits of a collaborative effort to grow diversity, as well as communal ties. Maximiliano Perez is the program coordinator at 214, the Springdale creative hub that houses CACHE, the arts service organization arm of the Northwest Arkansas Council. As a Springdale native, Perez has been a community organizer in the arts and music scenes in the town for years and views this new position with CACHE as an opportunity to expand those relationships he's spent years cultivating. "This is a really great opportunity for us to support a local organization that's been planning cool shows, but has needed some additional support, and then also a great way for us to plug in local artists and programmers, producers — just connecting these two entities that haven't really had that chance before," Perez says of the joint effort between DSA and CACHE. The returning dates for the monthly series were just announced, so only the first lineup has been set. But Perez says he is looking forward to mining his colleagues' varied musical tastes to curate programming that exhibits the richness of the region's music — not only between styles, but within them as well. Beginning April 29, the last Thursday of the month will offer a blend of country, folk, bluegrass, mariachi, funk and more music performances through September. That first concert features Jess Harp — a group who blends shoegaze and honkytonk that lands somewhere in the realm of self- described "boot-gaze" — Oklahoma- bred singer-songwriter Kalyn Fay, and post-country/Western troubadour Dylan Earl. "The mission for the first show was really showing the diversity of country and folk music from Northwest Arkansas," Perez demonstrates. The lineup showcases, "for one thing, that Northwest Arkansas and Arkansas in general isn't just a single-faceted entity. And even within this single 'genre' of music, that people don't give a lot of credit to [the genre] for being diverse. They don't give a lot of credit to it being challenging to the social norms. They don't give a lot of credit to the artists as progressive people. "If you look at a lot of singers and writers here, you would see that it's not that simple. My goal with every show, but especially as I've been giving a lot of thought to the series, is just showing the nuance of the talent here, and showing that Arkansas is a really interesting place with diverse and SPRINGDALE See Turnbow Page 4 Members of the local band Dandelion Heart perform in the fall as part of the Live at Turnbow Park concert series in Walter Turnbow Park at Shiloh Square in downtown Springdale. The free concert series returns for the last Thursday of every month, beginning April 29. (NWA Democrat-Gazette File Photo/Andy Shupe) FAQ Live at Turnbow With Jess Harp, Kalyn Fay & Dylan Earl WHEN — 6 p.m. April 29 WHERE — Turnbow Park in Springdale COST — Free INFO — downtownspringdale. org