I returned to my tripod, another family was sitting w/ 2 small children behind my camera. I told the Dad that I would be sitting there, I could move if I was blocking his kids. He said it was OK, his daughter could see around me. Then we started talking about Casey and Haley. There was a black gentleman on stage who Casey was talking with. The Dad said he has lived here all his life, come every year to the festival, and that gentleman Casey was talking to was
Marshall Hawkins.... a celebrated musician, played w/ many famous people and bands and a teacher at Idyllwild, was actually one of Casey's teacher. He said Marshall was a neighbor, so he was excited to see Marshall perform with Casey.
I told him what I was hoping to do, that it was sort of my hobby to post videos to promote young talent while giving me the opportunity to be creative. I told him what I'd planned to do, use the DSLR for the stage view, close ups w/ my smaller camera. Then an idea came to me. I asked the Dad if it was OK if he could watch my DSLR, turn it back to recording if it turned off....
For some reason, many cameras, including Canon, turns off automatically after 20 or so minutes if unattended, they don't stay on. So if I was down in the Pit, I could not scale up the hill to check if my camera needed to be turned on again, especially it was a steep incline. He was happy to help, I described the basic functions, to look for the orange dot which would denote that it was recording, which button to press to start it recording again. His kids were paying strict attention. They happily agreed to help. That being taken care of, I grabbed my monopod w/ my point and shoot and headed to the pit.
There were 3 photographers down there with big lenses, I think there'll probably some good photos coming out.
This is where I end the retelling for now. I have to get to the airport in 2 hours so gotta pack, probably no time for a nap now
I'll review the vid I got to remind me of hightlights of Caley on stage. By the way, Ira said it might take a week before he can get his video to me and Casey said if the video came out good, He would like to post it to his channel.
One bummer... there was no audio on my mic
This makes it TWO audio engineers who recorded nothing on my mic...so the only conclusion I can make is that maybe my mic is defective when plugging into the board. At Durty Nellies in Chicago, I thought it was the sound engineer's fault that I didn't get board audio. Hard for me to believe that Dale, who offered to plug it in free no charge "It's easy" didn't know what he was doing. So I'm going to have to look up the mic's warantee to get it checked out.... I really haven't had a chance to look or hear the media I got, how the sound came out, there was talking, but even so, I have to wait for Ira's video before I can post anything. From the two cameras, I hope the audio will be good enough
Idylwild, CA -- August 21, 2016 -- Haley back w/ Casey at Jazz in the Pines
