Last year I was filmed for ‘Meet Me at the Corner’ – a website for kids. The taping took place immediately after my lecture/demonstration about the musical saw at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. In this video I was interviewed by a nice kid named Peter: (Please turn off the player...
Read more »
Tags: kids, Lincoln Center, musical saw
Posted in musical saw | 1 Comment »
There was nobody playing at the usual busking spots at the Times Square subway station when I got there. As I was setting up to play by the Mosaics, a guy named Charlie told me that he saw me on TV, and he asked if I play at cafes. His friend is opening a...
Read more »
Tags: blind, busking, doowop, dulcimer, flute, gospel, homeless, Lincoln Center, living statue, Music Under New York, musical instrument, musical saw, singer, subway, Times Square Subway Station, Trinidad
Posted in Times Square Subway Station | 1 Comment »
I was invited to give a lecture/demonstration about the musical saw at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. My lecture was part of a series about unusual musical instruments (the other instruments in the series were the theremin and the glass armonica). Alexander Calder’s statue ‘Le Guichet’ (The Ticket Window), 1963, sits...
Read more »
Tags: baritone, Flarf Festival, Library, Lincoln Center, Margrit Zimmermann, Mitch Highfill, musical saw, painist, poetry, Scott Munson, Seth Gilman
Posted in musical saw | 3 Comments »
There was nobody at the Music Under New York spot at the Union Square subway station when I got there. A man was sleeping on the bench and another man was reading. On the opposite bench a lady was counting change. The homeless guy with a hook hand asked me to play the theme...
Read more »
Tags: acapella, accordion, Andy, erhu, guitar, homeless, Ilie Radu, J. Keith, Lincoln Center, Music Under New York, musical saw, musician, Norteño, NY Express, singer, Star Trek, station, steel drums, subway, Times Square Subway Station, Union Square Subway Station, What's my line
Posted in Union Square Subway Station | 1 Comment »
It was raining as I made my way to playing in the subway today. At the Music Under New York spot at the Union Square subway station Louis and a friend were playing Andean music. They were there since 8am. It was almost noon, and they said, as they gave the spot over to...
Read more »
Tags: 34th street, Alex, Andean, Ave Maria, balloon, blackwolf, Central Park, Delta Dave, Geovanni Suquillo, Inca, Lincoln Center, Michael Jackson, music, Music Under New York, musical saw, Norteño, permit, subway, Thoth, Times Square Subway Station, Union Square Subway Station
Posted in Union Square Subway Station | No Comments »