Wednesday, August 9, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
ECLIPSE: Wear glasses
for entirety of eclipse
in Sisters
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Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams will close out the Sisters Folk Festival’s free Summer Concert Series at Fir
Street Park on Thursday evening.
Honky Tonk band to play Sisters
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Old-style honky tonk band
Halden Wofford and the Hi
Beams are returning to play the
Sisters Folk Festival Summer
Concert Series. Wofford and
the band have been playing
music together for 14 years
with all the same people
touring, playing old-school
country music. Wofford calls
it “Rocky Mountain Honky
Tonk Music.”
Wofford started playing
music in college on the side as
a hobby.
“I was actually in art
school at the time, I wanted
to become a painter,” said
Wofford. “I just got sucked
into the music world; I
couldn’t get enough of it.”
Wofford grew up in Texas
and listened to honky tonk,
bluegrass and country music
— and it just sunk into his
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“I was of course forced to
listen to the classic rock and
roll stuff, AC/DC, Lynyrd
Skynyrd, but I really enjoyed
listening to Hank Williams
especially,” Wofford told The
Nugget.
His web site describes his
music this way: “Equal parts
Hank Williams and Johnny
Depp, front man Halden
Wofford pours forth a potent
mix of rocked-up honky tonk,
Western swing, Dylanesque
originals and Spaghetti
Western epics. There is no
creative limit to the song-
writer, illustrator, author, sto-
ryteller and singer. But Halden
has met his match in the Hi
Beams. Each outrageous tale
he spins is met by the whine
and wail of the steel guitar, the
furious double-neck electric
guitar and mandolin, and the
relentless thump of the upright
bass and drums.”
Halden Wofford and the Hi
Beams have been to Sisters
before. They were asked to
play the Sisters Folk Festival
for the 20th anniversary show
in 2015. They are looking for-
ward to returning to Sisters for
the summer concert.
The band just put out a new
album called Missing Link.
They have been touring the
music in southern Colorado.
With Wofford as the front
man, he writes most of the
songs and gets the sparks of
inspiration from what he lis-
tened to as a child. This album
contains more cover songs,
some of Wofford’s favorite
old-time tunes. The album
will be available for purchase
when they play in Sisters.
Halden Wofford and the
Hi Beams will be playing
Fir Street Park as part of the
free Summer Concert Series
on Thursday, August 10, at
6:30 p.m.
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• Stand still and cover
your eyes with your eclipse
glasses or solar viewer before
looking up at the bright sun.
After looking at the sun, turn
away and remove your filter
— do not remove it while
looking at the sun.
• Do not look at the une-
clipsed or partially eclipsed
sun through an unfiltered
camera, telescope, bin-
oculars, or other optical
device.
• Similarly, do not look at
the sun through a camera, a
telescope, binoculars, or any
other optical device while
using your eclipse glasses
or hand-held solar viewer —
the concentrated solar rays
will damage the filter and
enter your eyes, causing seri-
ous injury.
• Seek expert advice from
an astronomer before using a
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solar filter with a camera, a
telescope, binoculars, or any
other optical device. Note
that solar filters must be
attached to the front of any
telescope, binoculars, camera
lens, or other optics.
An alternative method
for safe viewing of the par-
tially eclipsed sun is pinhole
projection.
For example, NASA rec-
ommends, cross the out-
stretched, slightly open fin-
gers of one hand over the
outstretched, slightly open
fingers of the other, creat-
ing a waffle pattern. With
your back to the sun, look
at your hands’ shadow
on the ground. The little
spaces between your fingers
will project a grid of small
images on the ground, show-
ing the sun as a crescent dur-
ing the partial phases of the
eclipse. Or just look at the
shadow of a leafy tree dur-
ing the partial eclipse; you’ll
see the ground dappled with
crescent suns projected by
the tiny spaces between the
leaves.