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Blue Tom Records, a student-run record label at the University of Memphis, is holding its first annual Rhythm and Greens Music Festival Saturday.

Blue Tom Records, which was

established early last semester, is the result of a split between members of Delta Vibe, a regis-tered student organization des-ignated for students with interest in the music and entertainment industry.

“We brought the organiza-tion back to where it once was and started to actually record

and help artists again,” Spencer Turney, senior journalism major and public relations for Blue Tom Records, said. “We decided to work with a couple of artists this year, those artists being hip-hop outfit PreauXX and Mason Jar Fireflies who can be classified under Americana acoustic-pop.”

Mason Jar Fireflies, an acous-

tic three-member outfit, will be leading the show, which is in honor of their debut self-titled release. Their CD will be offi-cially released on April 29.

“We’re working with Mason Jar Fireflies, which is a group made up of some University of Memphis students,” Turney said. “We made a partnership between

them and Blue Tom Records last year, and it eventually led us to create the Rhythm and Green festival.”

The partnership between the two initially started when Mason Jar Fireflies’ lead female vocalist Kyndle McMahan met one of the

U of M label to feature student performers at music festival

University of Memphis student-led band Mason Jar Fireflies will be leading Blue Tom Records first annual Rhythm and Greens music festival.

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Student-run coffee shop on Echles opens

A blackboard waiting to be filled with signatures lines one side of a small lemon-colored building in

the Normal Station neighborhood. Posters advertising a grand opening are dispersed across the room, and a menu filled with multiple coffee and tea options adorns the top half of the front wall.

It is all preparation for the grand

opening of Avenue Coffee, a first for the Normal Station district. The grand opening is scheduled for April 25 and 26 from 7 a.m. to midnight both days.

A group of students transformed the once-vacant building at 786

Echles St. into a college-friendly environment where students can study, hang out and enjoy a cup of coffee.

“We are all about creativity and are focused on promoting good con-versations,” owner Nick Griffin said.

Griffin, along with four other students who attend Mid-South Christian College, first envisioned the non-profit coffee shop two years ago. Part of the mission of the col-lege is to teach students how to be

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leaders and how to be proactive on their dreams.

Larry Griffin (no relation to Nick Griffin) has been president of the college for the past 12 years.

“The students who are running the shop are all seniors and basi-cally did it all by themselves,” he said. “They found the building and raised the money all by themselves.”

The coffee shop offers a variety of handmade pastries along with hand-poured coffees and teas for a reason-able price. A personal favorite among the employees is the strawberry tea latte, which can be served in a teapot or as a traditional latte.

The shop will feature live music and is in the process of setting up a room where people can watch mov-ies. There also is an option to sit outside on the back porch for a more scenic view.

Ten percent of every purchase will be donated to the organization or charity the coffee shop partnered with for the month, according to Nick Griffin.

“We just want to give back to these organizations in that way and hopefully some of the issues we are supporting will spark some conver-sations about issues that matter,” he said.

Avenue Coffee, located on the corner of Echles Street and Douglas Avenue, opens at 7 a.m. Ten percent of the shop’s gross income will go to a different non-profit organization every month.

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Everything is beginning to come together for the men and wom-en’s track and field teams at the University of Memphis, and with the American Athletic Conference Championships beginning on May 1, the timing couldn’t be better for the Tigers.

Hot off several impressive indi-vidual showings at the War Eagle Invitation last weekend at Auburn, the Blue and Gray will compete one final time before heading to Tampa, Fla., for the conference championship.

Memphis head coach Kevin Robinson said this weekend’s meet in Jonesboro, Ark., is all about preparing for the American meet.

“This is what we consider to be our final tune up,” Robinson said. “We fly out to Tampa next Thursday for the conference cham-pionship, so we’re utilizing this event to clean up the edges, make sure the guys are sharp, make sure the women’s team is ready to rock and roll, clean up some things technically, make sure were moti-vated and focused and get out of there with some great performanc-es to springboard us into the cham-

pionship next week.”Robinson called last weekend’s

meet in Auburn, Ala., “the high-light of the spring schedule outside of the conference meet and cham-pionships.” The Tigers managed to post some impressive individual finishes in the meet, which was not a team-scored event.

On the men’s side, Memphis took the top spot in three events. Sophomore Luis Hanssler finished first in the long jump, leaping 7.55 meters. Junior Pauls Pujats cleared 5.2 meters in the pole vault for a first-place finish, and Hassnler, junior La’Quintin Garner, sopho-more Fabian Fiege and freshman LaForrest Church snagged a first place finish in the 4 x 400 meter relay with a time of 3:12.51.

The women had a record-set-ting meet, but they failed to take first in any of their events.

Junior Sabrina Hochreuther and sophomore Carolina Carmichael both set a program record for the pole vault, clearing 4.15 meters. Hochreuther cleared the mark on her first try, giving her the third-place finish and Carmichael fourth.

Hochreuther’s performance garnered recognition from the American, which named her its Female Field Athlete of the Week.

The mark puts both Tigers in a tie for 19th in NCAA Division I and 12th in the NCAA East Division. Both vaulters have set themselves up for a berth in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field East Preliminary.

Robinson said the pole vaulters have been great all season long.

“That group of girls is doing a great job,” the eighth-year coach said. “They’re awesome, awesome kids fun to coach fun to be around. They work hard, and when its time to get after it, they know how to get after it. This weekend got them catapulted into the top of the con-ference and one of the best jumps in the region, so it assures them a place to jump in the postseason and it puts them in a good position going into the conference cham-pionship. It couldn’t happen to a better group of kids.”

At Auburn, senior Laura Toldy took third in the high jump, clear-ing 1.7 meters. In the triple jump, freshman Chardae Greenlee leaped her way into fourth with a 12.18-meter jump.

Junior thrower Vivian Brandhoff took third in the shot put with a 14.95-meter throw, and she took sixth in the discus with a 42.44-

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Junior Sabrina Hochreuther set a program record in the pole vault last weekend at the War Eagle Invitational.

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meter toss.Junior runner Maya Williamson

stood out for the U of M in the running events with a second-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles.

With last weekend’s meet in the rear view, all of the Tigers’ attention shifts to the American Championship. Memphis will com-pete in Jonesboro this weekend, but Robinson called the meet a “glorified practice,” and several of the best long-distance runners on the Memphis team won’t make the trip.

Robinson is emphasizing men-tal fortitude and focus with the athletes, as they move toward the end of the outdoor season.

“Physically, we’re not going to get better physically at this point,” he said. “The work is done. Now, it’s a matter of making sure the mind is sharp, making sure we’re focused and motivated, stay healthy, do the little things, be mindful of our nutrition, be mindful of our sleep and our rest patterns, which is dif-ficult with finals coming up.”

This weekend’s A-State Red Wolves Open begins on Friday at 3 p.m., and the meet will continue on Saturday at 11 a.m.

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label’s sound engineers at Sound Fusion, a student ensemble made up of vocalists, musicians and sound engineers.

Upon meeting the sound engi-neer, McMahan said her and the rest of the band were invited to come to one of the music industry classes to present themselves as possibly being the class’s guinea pig by letting the class help prep, record and promote the band.

“We went to the class and we were blown away at the oppor-tunity,” McMahan, 20-year-old sophomore music business major, said. “We would have been idiots

to not jump at it. We’ll forever be grateful for Blue Tom, because they gave us a direction to go in and the means to do it.”

Turney noted that this pro-gram is great not only for the musicians that get free help and guidance, but it also gives music industry majors first-hand expe-rience within their field.

“A lot of big and prestigious schools have student-run record labels and it’s an incredibly help-ful tool for people who want to work in the music industry and the students who want to be pro-fessional musicians,” Turney said. “To be able to have this idea, build on it, put in all the hard work and then putting out the release provides so much more

real-world experience than just reading about it in a text book.”

The name of the festival, Rhythm and Greens, comes from the band’s description of their genre, which they note is the product of their different influ-ences and inspirations.

“At first we had a hard time describing the music because we all have different musical back-grounds, so our combined tastes ended up birthing something dif-ferent,” McMahan said. “We call it Rhythm and Greens, which incor-porates country, soul and rhythm and blues.“

Along with McMahan, the band also features McMahan’s boyfriend of three years and lead male vocalist Adam Gowdy. The

outfit is complete with guitarist Greg Carmack.

“This album is our history put to music,” McMahan said. “As far as song writing, I’d say our main inspiration is love,”

The group’s music is made up of duets that howl melodies of southern love and reminisces of long star-lit nights, compliment-ed with powerful harmonious riffs that provide a solid founda-tion for the singers’ strong vocals.

“We are beyond excited for the show on Saturday, this will be by far the biggest thing we’ve ever done,” McMahan said. “There has been so much momentum since we first partnered with Blue Tom Records, and the wheels have continued to turn ever since.

We’ve come to this spot where all this work, energy and sleepless nights have culminated into this one fantastic night.”

The doors open at 7 p.m. and the show will be held at the New Daisy, located at 330 Beale St. Tickets are available for $6 on www.zvents.com, and there is also a $35 V.I.P. bundle that includes a ticket and a copy of the CD.

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