The best of busking around the world

[ByTheNorthernSea]

I've seen so many great performances from street musicians & singers down through the years, both live & online, I though it'd be great to showcase the performances of these (largely) unsung street heroes.

And it's tough, if not impossible, for many of these artists to practice their craft at the moment, so I think it'd be good to make a record of the pleasure they gave us (hopefully to return one day).

What got me thinking about this was a clip my partner sent me today...which I loved

Enjoy

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Please post your most loved, the best, most moving, the most talented, etc etc...

[Bill Ryan]

This absolutely has to belong here. :sun:

(153 million views. Highly recommended, trust me!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

[pueblo]

Allie Sherlock on Dublin's Grafton Street..

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[ByTheNorthernSea]

This absolutely has to belong here. :sun:

(153 million views. Highly recommended, trust me!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM


Fabulous Bill, thx...

So many talented people around. These caught just around the corner from me...

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Glasgow...

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And in Dublin...

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Glasgow again...

Stick with this one until the end... :) RscQnEGM2Qc

[sunwings]

A great version by some random bloke just walking by a busker!

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[ByTheNorthernSea]

A great version by some random bloke just walking by a busker!

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Wow....this was something! :)

[sunwings]

With 41 million views, this incredible video shows three random strangers jamming together. At the end one of them says "I needed that one man, I appreciate that"

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[pueblo]

Minnie the Moocher, with some nice kazoo playing :)

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[ByTheNorthernSea]

With 41 million views, this incredible video shows three random strangers jamming together. At the end one of them says "I needed that one man, I appreciate that"

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Very special...this is how music should be made :)

[AriG]

Beautiful voices


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uecFirb4T4

[Mercedes]

Thank you all! Great way to start my morning! Have a great one to you all, my beautiful avalonians!:clapping:

[Sadieblue]

Wow!!!! What an uplifting thread, thank you all.

[Ewan]

Well done ByTheNorthernSea, great thread.

Nothing brings a smile to my face faster than seeing people genuinely and spontaneously enjoying themselves.

Over the years I've wistfully wished for dozens of things but one persists more stongly than any other. I wish I could sing.

[Hym]

Cab Calloway would love the version of Minnie The Moocher those brothers sang. So Good!!!
Tell me these boys aren't reincarnated brothers from another time .....

The ONLY time I go on yt is to listen to great music, musicians and singers like this. Any other time is an accident.

The new songs of freedom will be sung on new platforms, long lost from the oppression of those horribly censored commercial, internet bandstands like yt, whose musical signature is just a dirge.

Ah, the irony of possibly hearing those songs first being posted on the yt's and the fb's, until they are set free without the possibilities of big brother censorship AND rewarded with the new monetization that doesn't lie, cheat and steal the artist's expression thru algorithms.


It is the amazing thing about the power of song, to touch us so deeply and completely give us new perspectives.
I see many of the other details in living as insignificant when compared to these arts.


Its gotta be said that some areas, some cities, look down on this beautiful form of music.
Many towns do not allow buskers to use electronic equipment, like the closest, larger town nearby.

One good way around this is singing and playing in stairwells and places with natural, even unintended, echo chambers, if the uppity, stuck up and lifeless store owners don't complain. Bless those builders, owners and architects who provide space for the music to live in, when they look at the life cycles of their businesses and design the space to attract customers.

In the arts of placement, geomancy, fung schway, vastu shaastruh, et al. it is common to leave the center of a room or a building open. There are many reasons for this, however.... I see it as a good place for music and the voice to live, to elevate and reverberate back to us, our true nature.

Also, as a builder I am struck by the fact that most bandstands aren't built for acoustic music and the voice. A bandstand should never just be a cover from the weather. It's a piece of architecture, art if you want. As such it should also serve a higher purpose, like amplifying the voice, naturally.


When we sing and play with that almost instant reflection of our voices coming back to us, we recognize that echo is beautiful to play with.

Almost all adepts from way back when, until forever, choose these stairways, those halls and barren caves to heal themselves with the power of the prayers, alive in their songs. Often the words don't even matter when the sounds come back to us.

These videos remind me that the absolute best and most beautiful songs are those sung together. As a singer I feel so blessed when I get to sing with anyone who can carry a tune. There is no comparison when the best singer sings with us and that voice is lost in the company of the song itself. I love singing with good singers whose skills elevate my singing voice.

(I was sitting next to a very famous singer once who, upon hearing me sing, started doing scales around my voice, riffing, scatting. He embarrassed himself to the group there. For someone who had so much more skill and quality to his voice than mine, showing off did't help Us sing better. That was a waste of his talent. I moved away from him and sang well with others. I learned nothing. If he thought my voicing was good, instead of him ego-ing out, I would have appreciated a lesson or two. You know, Harmony...the purpose of hearing the voice we make together, the voice that no one can make alone. )

There is nothing better than hearing people gathered around joining in once and singing together. And who knows how many people don't know how beautiful their voices are?

The entire energy, the sound and the feeling is far beyond one voice alone. I always listen to what even the greatest singers could sound like when they sing with others. Sometimes we only get to hear that when someone is joined by a stranger, like in those songs here on this thread.

If Avalon, in its great Projection to serve humanity, didn't post videos like these I would be a very different kind of informed and inspired. All that Avalon wants to track is our humanity and our growth, our support of each other. Watching the intel/commercial nature of the internet as it grew, though open to progress and honesty, I never even projected such a thing myself. So, I do have enormous appreciation of the songs sung here, the pictures painted and the imagery shared.

[Hym]

Well done ByTheNorthernSea, great thread.

Nothing brings a smile to my face faster than seeing people genuinely and spontaneously enjoying themselves.

Over the years I've wistfully wished for dozens of things but one persists more stongly than any other. I wish I could sing.

You sure can, Ewan.
I've heard people who can't sing well, turn it on.
I've heard what I never thought possible, come from the voice of someone who no one thought could sing, except that 'tone-deaf'(?) one themself, which was painful to listen to before the transformation.
Incredible transformation, but I don't know how it was done.
There have to be tutorials out there somewhere.

I do know that one thing that helps me is chanting in rhythmic form.

[angelfire]

One of my all time favourites - truly inspired playing.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI

[chocolate milk]

One of my all time favourites - truly inspired playing.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI

Mine too, I was going to post this one.

I’ll post this instead, not busking exactly but the happiness it brought them is too beautiful not to post.

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[sunwings]

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[ByTheNorthernSea]

One of my all time favourites - truly inspired playing.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI

Mesmirizing...I'd not heard this before. Thx...


This just for the raw vocal talent on show... ArvCMAumpeQ

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You won't hear many better versions of this....

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[Ewan]

This one will bring a lump to your throat..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7e5Npw8Oc

[Sadieblue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1iUYc1Y_fk&ab_channel=AllieSherlock

[pueblo]

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[rgray222]

SHIBUYA CROSSING - Shibuya Japan
At peak times, two and a half thousand people can cross the road every time the lights change. On the four corners, pedestrians assemble in their hundreds. Once those crowds are moving, they look like four advancing armies, charging forth in all directions. Somehow they manage to avoid each other, a feat of judgment that watching it makes one proud to be human.


https://vimeo.com/29511527
THE FRENCH QUARTER OF NEW ORLEANS - Louisana
Bourbon Street is a highly sexualised drinker’s paradise. Bars lining the roads, strip clubs, fast-food joints and a state of permanent hangover from Mardi Gras entice revellers out every night of the week. Jackson Square is a National Historic Landmark park inside a pedestrianized square, lined by 19th century red-brick buildings.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHlV-XyxnY

[kudzy]

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[GMB1961]

I didn't have any people to play to except some cows that were saved from being killed on a farm up behind Mullumbimby Northern NSW.
They were so serious and seemed to really like the music. Hope you like this. Faithfully Glenn in Australia. :happythumbsup:
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[ByTheNorthernSea]

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H**y c**p this is something else..I could listen to this guy all day...! :)


His YT channel is here... https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCamCole/videos

[ByTheNorthernSea]

I didn't have any people to play to except some cows that were saved from being killed on a farm up behind Mullumbimby Northern NSW.
They were so serious and seemed to really like the music. Hope you like this. Faithfully Glenn in Australia. :happythumbsup:
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Absolutely beautiful, thanks Glenn...

[pueblo]

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H**y c**p this is something else..I could listen to this guy all day...! :)


His YT channel is here... https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCamCole/videos

He can really belt out some good blues! If we were doing labels...he's a white Rasta Blues man :)

His name is Cam Cole, his YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4msr97D-J8lwPYP3s4FxpA

This is really good too, sort of 'high production value' busking!

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More busking in London

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[ByTheNorthernSea]

This cheered me up today... :bigsmile:

Gotta admit little Oliver at the beginning really got me smiling and my feet tapping under my work desk...

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[Ewan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vli5KBNLKU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbvn7p_O9Y

The Dualers are street performing brothers Si and Tyber.

[DeDukshyn]

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[Ewan]

Kind of a shame interest in this thread died away, everyone needs a little break now and then. :)


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