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The interior of the aforementioned Frau Kemmling Schoolhaus in Jacksonville is nice, nicer still when it is full of people having a good time. The books on the wall are leftovers from when this was the Jacksonville School House on Bigham’s Knoll.
You’ll be able to catch Hamfist again at the Green Show on September 7.
I really wish I had captured a video of their cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” No joke. They covered Hendrix in bluegrass style.
Hamfist played a couple nights back at the Green Show. I’m not a huge bluegrass music fan myself, but live it is pretty fun stuff.
Sequoia Pearson
The band members all work (or worked) for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Many years ago I played on the OSF softball team. Ezra (EZ on the right of the above photo) was also on the team at the time.
I have a bunch more photos, but only three videos, so this will wrap up On Ensemble at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show for now. The guys seemed to be having a really good time performing. Shoji Kameda, above, was laughing while playing at this point in the show.
This last video I took with my new 50mm lens. Hence, there is no zooming in and out. I don’t see any improvement in quality vs. my 18-200mm lens, but if the lighting wasn’t as good this lens may have been a better a choice. Actually, with the VR (vibration reduction) on the 18-200mm lens (since these were hand held videos) I think the 18-200mm VR provides a better image (in addition to the versatility) for video in good lighting.
The video below has better sound quality than yesterday’s. I was experimenting with sound settings on my D7000, and this one is obviously better. The OSF sound system near the end of the “On Ensemble” performance (which is yesterday’s video) was having problems as well.
The On Ensemble played at the Green Show on Friday night. This was my second time seeing them, and third time seeing one of their members, pictured above, Kelvin Underwood. Unfortunately, this is their only appearance in Ashland this year (that I know of). Hopefully they will be back next year.
Way back in 2002 or 2003 I was home alone one warm summer evening so I went for a walk. I ended up in the Bullseye Bistro (now called Larks) in downtown Ashland. Allison & Victor were playing and something about their performance that evening was magic to me. I have probably seen them a half dozen times since then, most recently at the Lithia Artisans Market a couple weeks ago.
In three weeks they are opening for Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn on the new Table Rock City Stage at Britt. I won’t get to see that performance as I’ll be on a plane headed for Copenhagen at the time.
Here is a portion of one of the songs they played a couple weeks ago, “La Seine” off of her first CD, “Allison St.”
Wenjun Qi is a music major at SOU from China. She gave me pointers on my trip to China last year before we had even met. It was a friend of a friend kind of thing. But now I see her on campus all the time. I look forward to our meetings as she always has such a big smile on her face. On May 22 she performed her senior recital in the Music Recital Hall on campus.
Here is a video of her performing “Libra Sonatine” by Roland Dyens in three movements, India, Largo, and Fuoco.
More from last week’s Floater show today…
I took a few shots and one video (below) from the balcony. I’ve come to the conclusion that my lens (AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II lens) is simply not great for low light photography. I’m thinking about picking up a Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for low light situations.
Floater covered Rush’s “Working Man” and then immediately went into their own song “Seventeen” at about 1:40. Rather than cut the video into two I just left it as is. The sound is a bit better on this one as I’m closer to the mixing board, but the audio for the bass is still not handled well in the D7000’s auto sensitivity mode.
It’s Day 3 (of 7) for Floater week.
Today’s video is “Ghost in the Making” in which my D7000 thoroughly messed up the bass line. The internal microphone on the D7000 picks up too much in quiet (focusing sounds) or loud (concert) settings. I have it set to the auto sensitivity setting but will try low sensitivity the next time I use it at a concert.