1rst annual Lawrence Busker Festival

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Greetings!
Sometimes your that bat...& sometimes your the ball, as my friend Pewamo likes to say.

This weekend I get to participate in the first annual Lawrence Busker Festival. Along with my band, Zydeco Tougeau, we did not have to travel a long ways to participate, but it was fun & Educational.

The thing I really like about performing on the street is the close contact with the "audience", who often become part, or the main attraction, of the show. This is really true of little kids...
When we can get one or more cute little kids dancing on the sidewalk, they become the "main attraction" & we become the accompanyment,,,,, which is fine with me.

Also, it's fun to get people who are on their way somewhere else, to stop, & listen & sometime dance, or smile or laugh.

We like to play every Friday evening, weather permitting, but this weekend we got to be part of a much larger event. Here's some photos & story....

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Photos

Zydeco Tougeau
...opens busker festival at 8th & Mass St.

Zydeco Tougeau playing by the stupa
This was a few weeks before the "Festival" but I like the picture, with Seaonna in the foreground

"skydancers"
in front of the Lawrence Arts Center

workshop at Lawrence Arts Center
This was a mime workshop. I did one befroe this for this group. We all sang "Rusty the truck driving dog"

Vigil to bring the troops home from Iraq
I took a walk after the workshop & took part in the vigil. These beautiful folks have been here Every Saturday at noon since W's illegal invasion.

vigil
The vigil was not a part of the festival, but I was glad to participate in it too

Jazzbo playing conch shell
I loved Jazzbo... he plays good jazz on the conch shell

Lee McBee
my friend and "harmonica hero" played at the festival.

"fire Juggler"
I did not really care for this kind of stuff...I consider it disrespectful to the fire. There was quite a bit of it goin on at the festival.

eating in the prefromers breakroom
at the lawrence arts center