People know Dave King. A lot of people know Dave from the music he plays around the area as a 20-plus year sideline. Other people know him, because of his 20-plus year career running Comcast's public access channel 23.

King is now getting known for his music video, "Danbury Fair."

Writing the song, singing the song, and then putting together a nostalgic look at the Great Danbury Fair took King a year to finish, roughly the time for one fair week to end and the next year's fair to begin. The video begins with a night shot, and it just continues through one image after another until even someone who never attended wishes he could.

King was talking to friends about a year ago in October 2009, and they were reminiscing about the Danbury Fair. It was that time of year 28 years ago, going back for more than 100 years, that people would head to the fair.

First, Dave decided to write a song about the fair. Then he decided on a music video.

"It was one of those things that took on a life of its own," King said.

Armed with his experience as a musician, plus his experience at Comcast running Channel 23, King decided to do it all. He wrote the song. He played the guitar. He sang the song. He found a former Nashville fiddle player, Kurt Baumer, who gave up his life as an itinerant fiddle player and settled out west. Baumer agreed to give the song a fiddle track that would put people in a fair-like mood. The pair collaborated over the Internet, and once the music and song was right, King went to work on the video.

He couldn't film at the Danbury Fair, because it closed in 1982, so he filmed part of his performance and some fair scenes at the Bridgewater Fair. That footage was interspersed with footage that survives from the Great Danbury Fair. The video is full of images of the Racearena, from the midway, Paul Bunyan, from many places at the fair that people will remember from the old days.

Once place to see the video clip is at Fans of the Great Danbury Fair on Facebook. That site is located at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Danbury-Patch/150286268333882#!/group.php?gid=167842996193.

You can reach Dave King at dave@davekingmusic.com
www.davekingmusic.com
860 350-2650. He is selling is CD for $5.

For more information about the Great Danbury Fair, contact Fans of the Great Danbury Fair on Facebook.