Another Thursday, another Sounds & Sights.

The Clocktower Gazebo hosted the North Creek Fiddlers:

The top of the clocktower is visible at the top right of the photo.  Of course, I say that for the benefit of those who haven’t been to downtown Chelsea: if you’ve been to downtown Chelsea, you’re familiar with the clocktower.

The North Creek Fiddlers feature one local citizen who has made several prior appearances on this blog:

The fiddler in the middle is the one to whom I refer.  But in previous pictures, rather than making beautiful music, he was committing beautiful acts of violence on the football field (he’s #9).  And beautiful acts of graduation.

Not far from the gazebo, the Mister Laurence Experience was entertaining the kids.  Mister Laurence likes the color green.

The Experience includes a self-proclaimed princess and a bear drummer.

Seriously: the bear actually played the drums.  It’s a marvel of modern engineering, for sure.

On the other side of the clocktower complex, A Soft Serve Symphony was entertaining the crowd.

Much to my dismay, A Soft Serve Symphony didn’t offer free ice cream as part of its performance.

Letha Allen & the Benders had a spot by the police station.

That’s Letha on the left.  It stands to reason the gentleman on the right would be one of the Benders.  The other Bender was on her other side:

As usual, the pleasant weather brought plenty of people to Chelsea.

One more block south was the Dorkestra.  Yes, the Dorkestra.  They were every bit as entertaining as their name.

A band featuring a highly-bearded man playing a washboard has to be entertaining.  That’s just how it is.

They had a selection of balloon animals, one of which found its way onto a band member’s head:

Is that a balloon elephant?  That’s what it looks like to me.

The highly-bearded man played more than just the washboard:

As I recall, they were playing the Can Can when I took that photo.  They encouraged the crowd to get up and dance, but nobody obeyed.

See?!

The library, having exhausted its supply of comedians, featured the music of Annie & Rod Capps.

You probably don’t recognize the mandolin player on the right, but to my great surprise, I did: that’s none other than the fabulously talented Jason Dennie.  More recently Jason has been playing with the Capps and in another bluegrass band, but I know him from his superb solo guitar recordings of years past.  I hadn’t seen him in at least a couple years, so I was pleasantly surprised to see him in Chelsea.

You can hear a sample of one of his solo guitar songs here, you can find out more about him and buy his solo guitar albums here, and you can find out more about his bluegrass band and hear some of their music here.

And yes, I’m a big Jason Dennie fan.  If you enjoy solo guitar or bluegrass, go buy the music.  Now.  NOW.

Finally, on my way back to my car, I encountered Anna Elizabeth playing in the alley next to the barber shop.

Was she smiling because I was taking her picture, or was she smiling because I look strange?  The world may never know.