A busker was an amateur performer whose stage was the sidewalk outside a cinema or theatre in London. Buskers sang, danced, played musical instruments, and recited dramatic passages of poetry, for handfuls of change. The municipal authorities, ever determined to suppress manifestations of freedom, creativity, and pluck, have long since put an end to buskerdom.
The travails of a busker are portrayed in the 1938 movie “St. Martin’s Lane” featuring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, and Tyrone Guthrie as buskers and Rex Harrison as a theatre impresario. I get misty eyed just thinking about this movie. You are warned.
To get to the point: I am an online busker, and this website is my sidewalk and my hat. The articles that I post are my songs, my tap dancing, my dramatic recitations. Feel free to fling a handful of change into my hat, by means of Paypal, if you are moved to do so.
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If you choose not to make a donation, you are still the admirable, ethical, rather charismatic person that you were before.
Now watch St. Martin’s Lane.
Thank you.
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