Sneak Preview — Busking Unleashed: Trade Secrets of the Ancient Craft
<p>“I now took fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces. My brother… put me on composing two occasional ballads… wretched stuff, in the grub-street ballad style, and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them. The first sold wonderfully…my father discourag’d me. Verse-makers were always beggars; so I escap’d being a poet, most probably a very bad one.”</p>
<p><strong><em>Benjamin Franklin, from his Autobiography</em></strong></p>
<p>“Busking is a very humble and brave act that takes courage to do well. It’s also about the energy of music being alive outside in a city… You’re able to gauge who you live with on earth.”</p>
<p><strong><em>Ketch Secor, </em>Old Crow Medicine Show</strong></p>
<p>“I’ve played in every venue imaginable over the last fifteen years, in fancy old theaters and shitty sports bars, in secret underground piano bars with capacities of forty people, to crowds of thousands in sports arenas… What is possible on the sidewalk is unique.”</p>
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