Times Square Subway Station

I remember exactly where I was on 9/11 six years ago – I was on my way to a gig when the first airplane hit the towers. We could see the smoke all the way to my house. In 2002 on the first anniversary of 9/11 the ‘September Concert’ was first organized. Basically on this…

Today I was back in the New York City subway, after a whole month of being away. Boy, did I miss it! I just got back from a tour with the show Confess/Confuse. It’s an opera constructed of four micro-music theater works. Each section tells a different story. There is an extensive musical saw part…

As I took the subway train this morning, heading to my permitted spot at Times Square, a gentleman sitting across from me recognized me and moved to sit next to me. He told me he had seen me play in the subway many times at Times Square and he was excited to know that I…

Juan Castillo was playing at the Times Square Music Under New York spot when I got there. He told me it was very slow today. Bow & Chill, the two brothers who sing on the trains, came to say ‘hi’ and they, too, said it was very slow today. Now for them that is very…

A homeless lady in a red shirt took the elevator from the train platform to the mezzanine of the Times Square subway station. She told me that she will starve tonight. She passed the morning sitting on the platform with a sign hanging from her neck, hoping for donations, but, she told me that people…

My amp battery died… so today I had to use the old ‘Mouse’ amplifier which has a muffled sound… When I got to the Music Under New York spot at Times Square an Andean group was playing there. The pan flute player from the group gave me the info of a good place in China…

I got to the Music Under New York spot at the Times Square subway station at about 11:30AM, and found 2 Andean musicians playing there. I also found a film crew waiting for me! Monique, a sensitive, intelligent young lady studying film at the Barnard school came to film a short documentary about me. With…

This morning I walked to the subway station, lugged my gear up two stair cases, and took the train to Times Square. Fortunately the elevator was working at the Times Square subway station. It was very hot (89 degrees outside). As I came out of the elevator at 11:30AM I heard no music. The ‘Music…

Don Witter, the guitar player, was playing at the ‘Music Under New York‘ spot when I got there. It was raining outside, and usually it would also rain INSIDE at this station, but today there was only one little puddle inside, and Don said it actually didn’t rain by the spot today. Could it be…

When I got to the ‘Music Under New York’ spot at Times Square Juan Castillo was playing the mandolin there. He is a very dedicated and gifted musician who plays classical music as well as popular tunes on the mandolin. As I waited for him to finish I noticed Lydia from ‘Arts For Transit’ (the…