The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3858   Message #20271
Posted By: Bob Landry
30-Jan-98 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Street Musicians, Buskers?
Subject: RE: Street Musicians, Buskers?
Every year, during the K-Days Exhibition in Edmonton, I work a shift selling Dream Home tickets for my Lions' club. In July/96, after finishing my shift at 11:pm, I walked into to subway station and encountered a Cape Breton-style fiddler accompanied by a banjo player. They had a spare guitar on the ground and I got permission to use it and join them. Cape Breton rhythms are in my blood and pretty soon we had people dancing down the hall on their way to the train. They threw fistfuls of coins into the open guitar case. We played until the last train had left and the security guards had to lock up. What a fun time! I have no idea how much money they made but I sure had fun and I'd do it again at the drop of a pick.