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Show C-4 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 18-21, 2020 The Park Record PARK CITY FILM.ORG CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM JOJO RABBIT Singer-songwriter will perform solo show on Jan. 24 Rated PG-13 JAN 17 JAN 18 JAN 19 Songwriter Festival and S The Cabin tap J.J. Grey t Fri 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 6pm Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture! Underwritten by Ed Orschel, Premiere Builders, Inc. JIM SANTY AUDITORIUM 1255 PARK AVE PARK CITY • 435.615.8291 STATE OF CONFUSION SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The Cabin and the Park City Songwriter Festival want to offer something unique during film festival week, so they partnered with singer-songwriter J.J. Grey of Mofro to produce a solo, acoustic storytelling performance. The concert is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 23, at The Cabin, 427 Main St. Doors open at 8 p.m. Junior Richard, The Cabin’s general manager, wanted to work with the Park City Songwriter Festival, owned and created by Ben Anderson, Aaron Benward and Scott “Scooter” Thompson, after the festival’s successful debut last fall. “The Park City Songwriter Festival did such a great thing that I wanted to open up an opportunity for them to let people know what their program is all about, and give them some exposure during Sundance,” he said. “Sundance is a global market, and while the Park City Songwriter Festival is fairly new, it has the potential to become something huge in the future.” The Park City Songwriter Festival, which will be held this year from Sept. 10-13, blossomed from Benward’s project, Nashville Unplugged, which he started nearly 11 years ago in Las Vegas. During each performance, songwriters of the hits recorded by artists such as Keith Urban, Garth Brooks and Kathy Mattea, to name a few, talk about where the ideas for the songs came from and the writing process. “It was about bringing my friends who are the people behind country hits,” Benward said. “It’s about creating moments people will not forget. It’s about the stories behind the songs, and the reasons why songs are born.” The format for J.J. Grey’s Jan. 23 performance follows the Songwriter Festival format, according to Benward. “To showcase J.J. Grey in an all-acoustic storyteller format, is exactly what we do in eight to 10 venues along Main Street in September,” he said. “So to be able to do something like this during Sundance is perfect. The Sundance Film Festival is about 1 2 3 4 5 6 M d o PHOTO BY BEN PIEPER AT POINT PRODUCTIONS Park City Songwriter Festival owners and creators, from left, Ben Anderson, Aaron Benward and Scott “Scooter” Thompson, have partnered with The Cabin general manager Junior Richard to present J.J. Grey of Mofro in an acoustic, storytelling setting on Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Cabin. telling stories through motion pictures, and the Songwriter Festival tells stories through live song. And we feel these two worlds should be married.” Presenting Grey also brings the Songwriter Festival full circle, because last fall’s event featured musicians who performed with Grey in the Southern Soul Assembly super group, Benward said. “We presented Luther Dickinson, Anders Osborne and Marc Broussard,” he said. “All we were missing was J.J, and now we have him.” Booking big names like Grey during film festival week is something Richard enjoys. “We try to make sure these show are ones you might not be able to see anywhere else in the country,” he said. “I’m constantly trying to bring in new people during Sundance. J.J. has been on my list for a long time. I had been banging on that door and they finally let me in.” Richard approached the Park City Songwriter Festival creators and pitched the partnership idea, which was a no-brainer because The Cabin is a festival venue, according to Anderson. “We’re grateful for this opportunity, because the Songwriter Festival is an annual event, and we will be able to announce our first headliner at the Cabin during J.J.’s show,” Anderson said. “We can also give people the dates and tell people what we do at the festival, and let them know why we are unique compared to other festivals around the country to generate more interested in our band.” Benward said Junior’s call was serendipitous. “Ben and I had been talking 7 8 9 10 11 12 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The Cabin general manager Junior Richard reached out to the Park City Songwriter Festival to present J.J. Grey during film festival week. An Evening with J.J. Grey When: 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23 Where: The Cabin, 427 Main St. Cost: $75 about doing something during Sundance to garner more awareness about our festival and reach potential fans who may want to attend,” he said. While Anderson has seen Grey with his band Mofro, the Jan. 23 show will be the first time he’ll see the songwriter play solo. “We are all superfans, and we can wait to see him alone and hear about how these songs came about,” Anderson said. “That makes this night so special and unique, and that’s why we’re thrilled to be a part of this.” 13 14 15 16 17 18 45 46 47 76 77 109 110 BY EVAN MAHNKEN AND DAVID STEINBERG / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ 19 Evan Mahnken is a high school chemistry teacher in Amherst, Mass. David Steinberg is a puzzles-and-games editor for Andrews McMeel Universal syndicate in Kansas City, Mo. They’re each 23. They met at a crossword tournament two years ago. Evan originally sent a daily-size version of this puzzle to David, who proposed Sunday-sizing it with more theme examples. They collaborated on the grid by sending each other screen shots by email. — W.S. ACR OSS 53 Whom a warrant officer might report 1 Some Japanese cars to, informally 7 Judean king, in 54 “____ Lang Syne” Matthew 55 Letters on an 12 Medical-insurance ambulance grp. 56 Times before the 15 Freedom of the ____ present? 19 Like a short play 58 Revealer of the Wizard 20 Brick material 21 Sushi fish that’s never 59 Following, as a detective might served raw 63 Gave up the ghost 22 School with its own 66 It’s condensed ZIP code — 90095 67 Editorialist’s skill 23 Voice box? [Mountain State] [Wolverine State] 72 Banned pollutant, for 26 33-Across’s sound short 27 “Dang!” 74 West Coast birthplace 28 Like a soufflé of John Steinbeck 29 ____ Kea 75 Like some candles 78 “No way, José!” 30 2014 film with the tagline “One dream 80 Fairy-tale prince, perhaps can change the world” 81 “There it is!” 31 Losers 84 Big Island city 85 Events for socialites 33 Safari sighting [Golden State] 87 Knight’s accouterments 35 Captain of science [Ocean State] fiction 92 Brother or sister 36 Spleen 95 School 38 Wiggle room 96 ____ Schwarz (toy 39 Rehearsed company) 42 Device that keeps fish 97 Like some wallpaper alive patterns 44 Pay a brief visit 100 In which a single raised pinkie is an 48 Stashed for later “i”: Abbr. [Blue Hen State] 101 Wilbur’s partner in Online subscriptions: Today’s an old sitcom puzzle and more 103 Sushi-bar offering than 4,000 past puzzles, [Centennial State] nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 107 Cockney and others 111 Pilots’ flights just after training is finished 112 Face-planted 113 Detach slowly (from) 114 Hit playfully on the nose, slangily 115 Rights-defending org. 116 Has been around the block [Evergreen State] 119 What locks are made of 120 Hawaiian word that’s also a common Chinese surname 121 Layers 122 Ready for publication, say 123 “Like that’ll ever happen” 124 Lead-in to Brown or Robinson in No.1 song titles 125 Sport on a range 126 Not for ____ (sign) 14 Cry with an accent 15 Emphatic rejection 16 Food inspectors test for it 17 Thrifty competitor 18 Sticky roll 24 Snub 25 Let fly 30 One leaving a trail 32 What scared horses do 34 “That’s so sweet!” 36 Article 37 40 make up a furlong 39 Exam for the collegebound 40 ____ fortis (another name for nitric acid) 41 Noted export from Holland 43 Something North Carolina’s Alcohol Law Enforcement regulates, aptly 45 Charlie Brown catchphrase 46 Ask the obvious question, so to speak DOWN 47 “Ouch!” 1 Disney heroine of 2016 49 Indolent 2 Invalidate 50 “____ here!” 3 Cocktail garnishes 51 Maintain 4 ____ City, Yukon 52 Reading on the Territory dashboard of the 5 Nail DeLorean in “Back 6 Bit of party decoration to the Future” 7 Puts up 57 Improv offering 8 Pushing the envelope 60 Fed. agency that 9 Letters after CD helped take down Al Capone 10 Most of the 2010s 61 Secretive org. 11 Insomniac’s order 62 Wide gap 12 Tush 63 Walgreens rival 13 Poses a danger to 20 23 24 27 48 36 42 44 50 55 60 61 69 64 65 70 86 81 87 93 84 89 90 91 99 96 100 101 106 111 83 95 98 105 82 88 94 97 102 107 112 108 113 114 115 116 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 64 Symbol for viscosity, in chemistry 65 Short swim 68 What phonies put on 69 Word before cap or shoe 70 Shakespearean schemer 71 Classic pop brand 72 Flat-faced dogs 73 Kind of tea 76 “____ Minnow Pea,” 2001 novel with an alphabetically punny title 66 71 80 92 58 75 79 85 53 57 74 78 104 52 63 68 73 51 56 62 67 103 38 43 54 72 34 37 49 59 30 33 35 41 26 29 32 40 22 25 28 31 39 21 117 77 Dummy 79 Setting for some pickup basketball 81 Uses sigma notation, in calculus 82 Tow 83 Nelson Mandela’s org. 86 George Eliot’s “____ Marner” 88 It’s no bull 89 Musician Marley, son of Bob 90 Outlander 91 Command to a dog 118 93 Go-ahead 94 Many a dad joke 98 Stella ____ (imported beer) 99 Big name in theaters 102 Flotsam and jetsam 103 Japan’s largest brewer 104 English class quiz subject, informally 105 Skateboard jump 106 Imitates Daffy Duck, in a way 107 Many a founding father, religiously 108 Terra ____ 109 Dry (off) 110 Fine china 113 “This is fun!” 116 Airline with a crown in its logo 117 1-1, for one 118 Something that might accompany a dedication |