A Silver Spring native once featured in a classic short documentary about heavy metal fandom has reinvented himself as a luthier.

About 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening, passersby and shoppers exiting the Harris Teeter supermarket at 1631 Kalorama Road NW stopped to gawk at an unexpected musical performance—a rooftop violinist.

Last night was one big mess, but at least it wasn’t a total loss for one group of people who headed out to see violinist Joshua Bell play at Strathmore. According to DCist reader Dakota Korth, when his group arrived at the venue, they were informed that the show was canceled due to a power outage. We’ll let Korth take it from there.