Main Street Farmer's Market opens

The Main Street Farmer's Market is open again. Besides offering a range of locally produced goods, the Market (which operates on Thursday afternoons) features musical acts. The inaugural performer this year was Dan Baker who, with an assortment of other talented artists, played several jazz tunes for shoppers.

The O-R has decided to start a new video feature; the Main Street Artists Series. We will be featuring as many of the various artists that play at the Market as we can on our website in an ongoing series of videos. For our first week, I recorded Dan playing a couple of lighthearted numbers early in the afternoon.

The first is 'Summertime'. Dan is the guy with the awesome red dreads. Accompanying him were two tenor saxs (Bill Shadel and Sam Kearney), an alto sax (Mark Higgins), two drum sets (Curran McDowell and Joel Panian) and a trombone (Jim Cope). The same ensemble performed 'Black Orpheus'. Look for a new artist to be featured as often as every week.

Better late than ...

The computer makes editing video a lot easier than the days of working with tape. But the files tend to get rather large, and it doesn't take long to fill up a half-terabyte hard drive.

While clearing some space off my drive today, I found an iMovie file labeled "SAILAWAY." I couldn't remember what it was, so I opened it. Here I'd started editing a musical performance I shot in February, and I'd neglected to finish it.

The performance is of saxophonist Josh Dunlevy and guitarist Dan Baker playing Tom Harrell's "Sail Away" at event held by the Washington (PA) Jazz Society. Click here to check it out, a month and a half later.

Also watch two other performances by the duo:

• "Red's Blues"


• 'Ornithology'