New Digest 5
Aug 20th, 2009 | By Nick | Category: News
Okay, deep breath…
Chicago street performers are getting a bad rap, according to Chicago Now, thanks to stricter regulations, higher permit prices and fewer locations.
12 Year Old jazz prodigy, Alexander Bone, has taken to busking to buy a new instrument. By my calculations, he’ll have one by the end of the year (if not before). The little guy got his London College of Music Diploma in jazz at the age of eleven, apparently. See the kid play with legend Stan Tracey here:
There’s a $10 a day rule to playing in the ByWard Market in Ottawa – or face the consequences. And you only get 1 hour slots!
I have no idea why, but I’ve been reading the weirdos writing for canada.com. Well, now you get to hear the responses. The debate on street performers has really been heating up there. Are buskers just panhandlers? (top few entries)
NYC tickets a ten year old girl $200 for selling lemonade. Perhaps she sold it as a form of protest?
More to come. I’m off home.
