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Sisters of electro-swing
Singers turned pandemic into opportunity with Blush Fox Trio
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.
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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.
“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,
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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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.
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In 2003, Belaynesh left her family and her homeland of Ethiopia. She moved in with relatives here in Seattle, where she soon joined our staff. Belaynesh — known as Bela to one and all — has become a beloved fixture at Bayview, our proudly independent nonprofit life plan community in lower Queen Anne.
She and I recently chatted, and I was struck by how inspired Bela made me feel — and I realized that she is a perfect example of a person with a “servant heart,” the kind of worker our industry attracts and depends on.
From nursing to hospitality, workforce pressures have hit senior living hard. Hiring and retaining quality employees has become even more challenging
Festival features all things Italian this weekend
Seattle Center presents Seattle Center Festál: Italian Festival in partnership with the Festa Italiana and its volunteers from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Seattle Center Armory and Fisher Pavilion and Green.
The event features art, music, food, dance and activities. It is the largest Italian American event in the Northwest. Entry for the event is free and open to the public. Highlights include: The “Great Italian Chefs”
with the pandemic.
But at Bayview these challenges are mitigated by our core of devoted and dedicated staff. Our staff tenure ranges from new hires to 43 years. Bela, at nearly 16 years, is one of the veteran staff.
Our hardworking and diverse crew reflects the world we live in, representing all the continents save Antarctica.
(Although the dearly departed resident Clayton Danner, for whom our assisted living program is named, visited back in the day.)
Bela, for example, comes in early and leaves late. She’d work ‘round the clock, if needed. She preps food, cooks food and delivers food, often during the same shift. And all the while, an enthusiastic Bela is quick to laugh.
Cooking Stage, featuring outdoor cooking demonstrations with Seattle’s best Italian chefs and the inside scope on local culinary secrets.
Italian music all day, both days, on the Moretti Mainstage in Fisher Pavilion, along with strolling musicians in the big outdoor Wine & Beer Garden.
Festa Grape Stomp competition with free t-shirts for each competitor.
Festa Bocce Tournament in Seattle Center Armory Food & Events Hall including a Masters and Recreational divisions.
Tino’s Cortile presenting traditional children’s activities and an Italian dog show.
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Sure, all the work can wear her out. But as she told me, “Nancy, sometimes things are hard. But that’s OK. The residents are my family, and I love them.”
I squinted a bit and thought I could make out her angel wings.
And our industry — and Bayview itself — is full of heroes like Bela. Heroes who come to work every day, no matter the risk. COVID hasn’t stopped them. The heat wave didn’t stop them. Heck, not even the traffic stops them.
When I feel disheartened or discouraged, I look no further than our own staff and draw inspiration from Bela and all of our workplace heroes. The pandemic may rise and fall, but the dedication and heart of our staff is constant.
Thank you, Bela. You make me a better leader and a better person.
With gratitude and love,
Nancy
is the CEO of Bayview
An Italian car show, “34 Years of Festa Posters” art show and a historical photo exhibit about Seattle’s earliest Italians.
Booths of Italian organizations, crafts, imported housewares and merchandise for purchase. Pizza, pasta, Italian sausage, salami, meatballs, focaccia, gelato, beer, wine, Prosecco, Limoncello, cannoli, espresso, Italian sodas and three wine and beer gardens. View festival program details at: http://www.seattlecenter.com/ events/event-calendar/the-italianfestival. Masks must be worn inside Seattle Center Armory and Fisher Pavilion. For more information, visit www.seattlecenter. com/festal or call 206-684-7200.
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Belaynesh, an employee at Bayview, left her family in Ethiopia to move to Seattle in 2003. She is a 16-year veteran at the independent nonprofit life plan community
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How do human hearts beat?
You have a heart that beats every single day — even when you aren’t thinking about it. It likely beats about 60 to 100 times per minute. That adds up to more than a billion beats in a lifetime.
To find out how exactly how it all works, I talked to my friend Garry Smith, a researcher at Washington State University.
Smith told me the heart has its own electrical system which helps it beat. We can find the source of electrical signals in the upper right part of the heart called the sinus node.
Now, let’s imagine your fist is a heart. Squeeze your fist and let your muscles contract. Now stop squeezing and the hand will relax. The heart also contracts and relaxes in a similar way.
Before the heart contracts, the upper part of the heart fills with blood. The electrical signals from the sinus node make their way down into the top chambers of the heart. When this happens, the heart contracts, or beats.
This movement can also help squeeze the blood down into the bottom chambers of the heart. Next, the bottom part of the heart contracts, or beats. It brings blood down from the top of the heart and pumps it out to the rest of the body.
Smith said that when your heart contracts, that also means every individual cell, or building block, that makes up the heart also pulls in on itself and gets smaller.
“All of those cells doing that together is what creates the whole contraction in the heart,” Smith said.
One way we can measure how well a heart beats is with a machine that can sense those electrical signals. These machines are called electrocardiograms, or EKGs.
The number of waves per minute that show up on the graph tells us a person’s heart rate.
The distance between those waves is the rhythm. EKGs can also let us know if there might be some damage inside the heart. You know, there is still a lot to learn about how human hearts work. Smith’s research is helping us improve human health and learn new things about the innerworkings of this important organ.
By getting a better look at certain cells and molecules in the heart, Smith and the team at WSU are improving our understanding of how the human body works. Their research could one day help treat heart conditions that are passed down through generations.
Perhaps, you can do a little research into
your own heartbeat. Place two fingers on the right side of your wrist down below the thumb. Count the number of beats you feel in 15 seconds. Now, multiply that number by four and calculate how many times your heart beats a minute.
As you go about your day, think about all the electrical signals that help make your heart beat. Yes, it’s true our hearts keep beating even when we aren’t thinking about it, but when you do stop to think about it, you sure can learn a lot.
Sincerely, Dr. Universe
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The Magnolia Chamber of Commerce is seeking community donations to support its annual Illuminate Magnolia Village, where 75 trees in the village are decorated with festive lights between late October and early 2022. The lights will be professionally installed and maintained to help illuminate the village.
While people can donate any amount, the chamber is seeking $200 to sponsor one tree.
To donate, go to http://www. DiscoverMagnolia.org and click on “About.” Scroll to the bottom of the page to the donate box. Type in the amount of the donation, and then select “Holiday Lights” in the drop-down window. Finally, add a comment and type in the name to be printed on a card for the tree. People can pick up cards for trees at Modele’s and then hang it on their tree of choice. People will receive further directions by email in the coming weeks. Call 206-618-1589 or email jason@ discovermagnolia.org with questions.
pivoting away from theater allows them more freedom. She said, as actors, a lot of their careers are decided by other people, starting with the theater auditioning and being “given permission to do our craft,” Corey said.
“This way, we get to take the reins a little bit and creative control,” she added.
Lynn said electro swing is an emerging genre of music that has been pretty niche for a while but has been gaining more of a mainstream sound recently.
Corey said the electro-swing genre can be broad but essentially takes Big Band-era swing that has a nostalgic feel and layering pop beats and bass on top.
“I feel like right now people are really craving nostalgia and going back to a simpler time,” Lynn said about the music’s appeal. “Electroswing is a good way to bring the old and the new together.”
Corey said, when deciding on a direction for their music, they drew on their shared love for old Hollywood vintage music, The Andrews Sisters and the 1940s’ sound in general, while adding their own sound and making it more modern and exciting.
“We wanted something to make us stand out, too, so when we got to the electro sound, we got really excited,” Corey said.
In addition to their original songs, Blush Fox Trio also performs covers of remixed pop songs with a vintage twist and jazz standards that are familiar to
everyone, Corey said.
The band members also put their artistic flair on display in performances. Their look incorporates vintage Hollywood and features dresses from that era, the popular victory hair rolls of the day and a bold red lip.
Blush Fox Trio is beginning to attract more notice in Seattle, as well. They had a performance a few weeks ago, one lined up on Nov. 5 at the Jewel Box Rendezvous and have inquiries pouring in for the Christmas season and next spring, Corey said.
Also, as of Wednesday, Blush Fox Trio was also still in contention in the world’s largest online music competition, Opening Act 2021, where the winner receives $10,000 and gets to perform at Audacy’s annual concert at the Hollywood Bowl. To advance, the band is counting on community members to cast votes for them by going to https://theopenact. com/2021/blush-fox-trio. The deadline to vote in the next round of competition is Thursday.
The trio is also excited about an album they are featured on with other female electro-swing artists from around the world called “Swing Sisters,” which will be released Friday. To preorder the album, go to smarturl.it/swingsisters1.
People can follow Blush Fox Trio on their website, blushfoxtrio.com, which has links to their music videos, or visit the Blush Fox Trio YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCXjLrfnh2gvZ35_ e4UFJ37Q.
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rounding those events. It has especially gotten bad the past 18 months with the country experiencing the long-term crisis event of the pandemic.
“We’ve seen it continue to escalate just in terms of the amount of content that’s out there that’s false or misleading, and even in some cases intentionally misleading, including content with the potential to do much more harm than a fake shark in the flood waters,” Starbird said, referencing false claims about COVID treatments and conspiracy theories about the pandemic and the disease’s origins.
She said one of the interesting things in online spaces about COVID-19 is that “misinformation gets more engagement than factual information.” Starbird said, according to a research study this month, misinformation about COVID gets six times more engagement, which includes liking or commenting or sharing a post.
“That’s the stuff that kind of makes the whole thing churn,” she said. “And so, a lot of us are addicted to these platforms, and it’s hard to get off of them, and when we do go to them, we’re more likely to engage with, spend more time with and pass along things that aren’t true than things that are true, and that is part of why there’s toxicities there.”
Starbird clarified that misinformation is information that is false, but not necessarily intentionally false, whereas disinformation is false or misleading information “purposefully seeded and/or spread for a specific objective.” One of the problems in identifying disinformation is that it’s often built around a “true or plausible core and then layered with distortions and exaggerations intending to shape how others perceive reality,” Starbird said.
Fact checking isn’t even always a solution because, Starbird said, in many cases, disinformation is resistant to fact checking because the false claims are sent out as part of a campaign using multiple pieces of content.
Another problem with disinformation campaigns is that while they intentionally mislead,
many participants are “unwitting agents.”
“They’re unaware that the information they’re spreading is false or of their role in the larger campaign,” Starbird said.
While disinformation is difficult to pinpoint, and many people may accidentally contribute to its spread by engaging or sharing social media posts, Starbird said disinformation campaigns are dangerous because they are often designed to confuse people, rather than convince them. Disinformation also erodes trust in information, in institutions — such as media, science, government, and in each other. It also destabilizes common ground that citizens in democratic countries need to stand upon to govern themselves, such as faith that election results are accurate.
Starbird stated that, while disinformation is a serious problem and difficult to eliminate altogether, people can take some steps to recognize and stop spreading it. People should first slow down when filtering through information and begin to think critically about the message and the source before automatically sharing. Starbird also recommends people tune into their emotions before sharing information online.
“Misinformation manipulates us through our emotion,” Starbird said. ... “So just, when you really feel self righteous about something, that’s the best time to go double check or even triple check and maybe even wait a couple hours for that to resolve before passing it along.”
Starbird said people should also take responsibility when spreading information, correct themselves when necessary and correct other people with empathy rather than animosity. She also said people should try to be patient with people who disagree with them.
“I’m not goinh to tell everybody that they have to keep the connections, but I do think if we want to move forward as a country, we have to somehow keep some of the connections to have something to build back on because we’re in a bad place with soem of this,” Starbird said.
To listen to the whole presentation, including Starbird’s research on election disinformation, go to https://youtu.be/esalocr66he.
