The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49848   Message #754459
Posted By: alanabit
25-Jul-02 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: Help: Doctoral Day Dreams
Subject: RE: Help: Doctoral Day Dreams
I'd find out about the last of a generation of street performers. Klaus der Geiger still does it occasionally, but he is now sixty-one and the electric energy of his performances is not likely to remain unabated for long. Phil Free, to whom every working street comedian I have ever seen owes something, is also in his sixties. I use the word "genius" sparingly, but I'm willing to defend it robustly in this case. Also it's worth mentioning Don Partridge, whom most people only think of as having had a couple of oddball hits in the sixties. He pioneered a true folk lifestyle at a time when many others either only sought fame or talked about the things he was actually doing. These guys are getting older now. Unless someone interviews them soon and finds out about this disappearing way of life, an important link in folk music history will be lost forever.