Union Square Subway Station

On my way to the subway I was joined by the Canadian sax player of ‘Sax in the City’ – a quartet of saxophones that played in the subway. He told me the quartet is no longer together – the guy who ran it is moving to Florida to be a bar-tender, and my friend…

When I got to the spot Scout – the man with the gorgous voice, was singing there. It was raining this morning and the wall behind our spot was completely wet. Me: Good thing it stopped raining Scout: No – rain is a good thing – when it’s raining there are more people inside the…

When I got to the spot the South American flutes player was there with his friend who sells CDs for him – really nice guys. The flutes player told me it was slow for him today. I asked him if he thinks it’s because of the 2 guys wearing suits standing behind a table a…

I haven’t busked for so long now that it almost felt like I might have forgotten how… 😉 For 10 days I was out of the country, doing a TV show in Israel and starting to organize the first ever gathering of musical saw players there. Then when I got back to New York the…

A gentleman told me how when he was a kid, between 1940 and 1950, he witnessed many clergymen playing the musical saw in Puerto-Rico. His father was a priest for the Baptist Church in Puerto-Rico. The church sent over priests from the USA to a seminary in Puerto-Rico. These men all played the saw and…