At last a Friday morning session in Monmouth. It’s good: I haven’t been able to busk for a couple of months.
This morning on BBC R4 top violinist Tasmin Little talks of a time when a newspaper persuaded her to take to the streets: “To put yourself in that situation, you've got to come out and attract your audience's attention.”
She’d do a skip and a dance. I manage only to blow, experimenting with an arrangement of an Argentinian choral number, El Cielo Canta. ‘Fraid the soprano sax has radically altered it as you can hear below. (Background music to a dash across the allotments).
But one lady stops in a wheelchair and listens attentively. And an older lady in blue comes up close to show me her twenty pence before she drops it in my bag.
