Busking Info for an Essay!

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[Peter Voice]

Hello Tara,
#1
The most rewarding part for me is the feedback and support, both emotional and financial. As a an artist I could work at home alone all day in the dubious hope that eventually I can sell a work (to one person for a lot of money) that few people would see. Or I can go out and do a pic that 10,000's can enjoy and I only need a few bucks each from a small portion of my audience to make a living. We also know that every cent has been willingly given.
#2
Gatherings of humans and performance events are inherent in the development of what we perceive to be civilisation. Trends always ebb and flow but the resiliant, skilled wandering performer will always survive. Regardless.
#3
The most challenging aspect is without doubt my own standards and self-expectations. They naturally become increasingly difficult to meet.

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It would be very cool if would you put your essay up here when it's finished. I'm sure we'll all learn something from your studies.

[zoobie]

1) Not having to work a straight job
2) Seems there's a trend to issue permits limiting busking now
3) Making a living

[Peter]

Hi, I'm Peter from p.net, here are my answers to help you.


"What Is the most rewarding part of being an entertainer?"

Knowing that you are helping people take their minds off the worries of the daily grind. They forget about the bills and laugh at your action.

"What do you feel the future of busking is? Is it going to be around for a long, time or fizzle out? "

It will fizzle out. Yea when hell freezes over. Busking has been her for actual centuries and will continue as long as mankind exists. Everybody want some impromptu laughs in their day.

"What do you feel is one of the most challenging parts of busking as a profession?"

Keeping the act fresh and keeping up my energy when tips are low. My routine is old hat to me because I do it so many times a day. I must never forget that each audience is new and bring them into the act and interrelate to them.

Peter "Paddy Lansing

https://www.scho-Lan.com

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[Rachel Peters]

Hi, Tara.
I'm not a performer (I act like a dork a lot, but not professionally). But in my filmic persuits I've also gone through a lot of these questions. In regards to:

"What do you feel the future of busking is? Is it going to be around for a long, time or fizzle out?"

My opinion is that it already has been around for along time and hasn't fizzled out yet. Other forms of entertainment can overshadow it from time-to-time, but the suggestion that other forms of entertainment could wipe it out, is like suggesting that photographs could wipe out the future of paintings. ...Like apples could wipe out the future of oranges. ...or something like that.
A huge part of my view is that a good performer is one who adapts with his changing circumstances. Innovation and invention are a big part of it, in my opinion.
As new and innovative as many acts seem (or any form of entertainment, really) chances are that it's an adaptation or a collage of old ideas, combined with a person touch. I stick to the wisest of quotes that says, "There is nothing new under the sun".
A film mentor once told me that he believes that failed imitation is often what results in the appearance of originality. I think that was a very poignant statement.

I'll stop now.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

I believe bannanas pose a serious threat.

I started busking because I wasn't cast at BU in the theater department, and I met a street performer in the pizza place where I worked.

Some need was there, maybe my mom didn't look the 55th time I said "look, mom", but whatever, it could only be filled by the temporary cure of hundreds of people clapping or laughing at something I did. This became its own addiction, and viola, off and running.

After a year of training, one day at a county fair, with a series of low-hat shows that added up to eighty bucks, I knew for certain I would never work again. The autonomy and the money are good, but I believe most decent performers, especially street, do it because they absolutely have to.

[Rachel Peters]

I wanted to mention also, in my rant, that I feel that this "new vaudevillian" type of performance will alway rise back to the top of entertainment everytime a new generation rolls around who hasn't experienced it. It may be in a new disguise (my previous comments about adaptation). ...this new generation might think it's new. It'll be new to them.
I think right now is one of those times. I think we're in the middle of a peak, rediscovering the classics. But that's just my humble opinion. I have nothing to back that up, except to say that I see more of it than i ever have before... but maybe that's just because I've submersed myself in it. I dunno. Maybe I'm just sticking my face deep into in a lemon meringue pie and claiming that the whole world is lemon meringue.

...and now I'm afraid of bananas wiping out paintings. Thanks, Taxi man.

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