Transit Garden concerts being held Wednesdays
By Michael Molitoris

Phoenix members (from left) Glenn Cochran, Don Cochran and Ron Shoup entertained dozens of concert-goers Wednesday afternoon during Oil City's first Music in the Transit Garden concert.

The free Wednesday-afternoon concerts run from noon to 1 p.m. in the lush Victorian garden situated behind the National Transit Building's yellow annex downtown off Seneca Street. The series has become the first implemented component of the city's downtown arts revitalization project, and the weekly concerts are scheduled through the end of August.

This week's offering drew nearly 70 people during the lunch hour as Phoenix played easy-listening arrangements of some classic pop tunes, American standards and country songs.

The casual creekside setting allows patrons to come and go as they please, take lunches and sit among the spot's layout of herbs, perennials and annuals while performers play on a newly constructed brick and concrete stage.

Other performances this month will include Rex Mitchell and his daughter, Karen Wilson, on Aug. 9, and singer, songwriter and multi-talented musician Ken Hall playing his concertina Aug. 23. Other concerts are yet to be announced.