Franklin Farmers Market Featuring Thumbs The Professor

The Franklin Farmers’ Market is pleased to welcome Thumbs & The Professor to the Music at the Market stage on Sunday, October 3rd, 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The duo includes Tim Iversen and Will Walker who will be playing a wide variety of traditional and original blues. 

Tim Iversen, piano-voice, currently teaches instrumental music at Cooperstown C.S., is church organist at the First Baptist Church in Cooperstown and serves as a frequent music director for theatrical productions at Orpheus Theatre and SUCO, Oneonta. In addition, he performs in numerous small jazz combos such as The Native Sons Jazz Trio, The Other Guys Jazz Ensemble, Thumbs and Rancor, and The Old Masters.

Will Walker is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter based in Cooperstown, NY. He writes poetic and melodic songs of family, memory, love, and resilience. He is a regular performer at venues across the region, both solo and with his band, Bourbon & Branch.

The Market is open 10am to 2pm in the Village of Franklin on Institute Street and includes vendors from Franklin and surrounding towns. Selling breads & rolls, beef, chicken & eggs, doggy treats, herbs, honey, jams & jellies, jewelry, maple candies and syrup, mushrooms, plant seedlings, pork & lamb, preserves, a variety of produce, relishes, Scandinavian baked goods, sunflower oil, fresh & smoked trout, and home décor.

Music at the Market is made possible with funds from the Delaware County Arts Grants, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group, the A. Lindsay & Olive B. O'Connor Foundation, and Delaware County Economic Development, New York.