VHS held its fourth annual Relay for Life event last Friday featuring all kinds of festivities including pie-eating contests, face-painting, giant Jenga, and live music. One of the local performers, Argyle Cactus, a band of Cedar Park juniors, made their way to VHS to share their music and support for cancer awareness with the community.

Juniors Nick Jacobson, Blake Rice, Carter Seuthe and Devan Pitts formed Argyle Cactus just over a year ago and have been practicing and writing music together ever since. Bonded by their mutual passion for music and their joking personalities, the band is close knit, they even finish each others sentences.

“We have been friends for 5 years now and we started the band about a year ago and it’s been going strong,” lead singer Devan Pitts said.

At the event, the band performed a mixture of both covers and original songs that they have written together during their practices at drummer Nick Jacobson’s house.

“We have practice days and we go in there and we get a lot of jamming done, sometimes we come up with something, sometimes we don’t,” guitarist Carter Suethe said.

As far as writing style goes, Argyle Cactus prefers to write their music separately and then bring it all together as one cohesive piece.

“He writes the lyrics, I write my guitar parts, he writes his guitar parts, he writes the drum parts, and then we collaborate–like improv gods,” Pitts and bassist Blake Rice said.

Although they admitted how much they enjoy performing, the band’s practice sessions are really special to the group, not only as band-mates, but as friends sharing their passion for creating music together.

“I love performing, but I think when it’s the most fun is when we’re working on a brand new song and we’re all really feeling it, it’s just the funnest thing,–and then we look at each other and it’s like damn, this is sweet and we get like really into it and get in that pocket , oh man, it’s so fun,” Rice and Pitts said.