The Four O'Clock Lab Band, directed by master's student Dan Foster, entertains the crowd. (Photo by Jonathan Reynolds)Denton’s Quakertown Park was host  to more than 2,700 musicians, artists and performers and about 220,000 visitors during this year’s Denton Arts & Jazz Festival April 23-25.

The festival’s new UNT-sponsored stage showcased the diversity of the renowned College of Music, with everything from fusion/funk, African drumming, Latin jazz and mariachi music to keyboard, trombone and guitar ensembles, jazz singers and all nine lab bands — almost 30 UNT groups in all.