Street Festival '19 / Pops

We also had two Rapidan Pops performances at the street festival - one following the Fun Band under the tent and another at the end of the afternoon inside the Music Room. The Pops books contain things I've been working on going back to the '90s - tunes from Handel's Water Music that have just three or four voices. Since then I've added some early Americana put together for a performance over at Montpelier years ago, along with some movie and TV themes from the 60's and 70's.

The performance under the tent was limited to just ten players because that's all we could comfortably fit. Here's a pic of that group from behind me looking down towards the railroad tracks. You can see all the mics and the mixer I'd set up. The idea was to test using sound equipment to try making outdoor performance by strings feasible, and it worked pretty well

And here's a pic looking from the other direction

Heather, Lynn, Caroline, and Joe

Lynn, Caroline, Joe, and Barbara

Jenny, Pam, and Don

Barbara and Darlene

Hank and me

For the indoor performance (which was really just an open rehearsal) Benjamin conducted and we played exactly the same tunes as earlier, but with more musicians.

Here you can see Lynn, me, Heather, Barbara (with Caroline hidden), Steve, Hank and Joe

Jenny, Don, Pam, Charles, Lynn and me

Jenny, Pam, Brian, Benjamin

Madelyn, Caroline, Joe, and Barbara