Market for buskers

Katie on the Celtic harp

Busking and biking through Britain

The street market's an ideal place for buskers. Took time off from running a garden stall at Ludlow last Sunday to play for an hour down by the church.
Quite honestly it was a struggle. Some days the music flows like honey. Others it's more like lumpy porridge.
But I did bump into the delightful Katie Pritchard, come up from the Wye Valley to busk for a bit with her Celtic harp.
And I also met this guy (Dan? From Berwick?) briefly. He paused just long enough for a photo and to explain that he's valiantly busking and biking his way down Britain.

Geocaching the busker

My hour and a half in Ludlow lacked spontaneity. Reason? My self-recorded iPod backup tracks kept repeating. Like the needle stuck in the groove of an old 78.

Took 13-year fellow busker Michael (right) to sort it out. Thanks Michael.
He was wowing the crowds at the Foodie Fest. Twenty months on the ukulele and he's doing brilliantly.

Handed over my pitch to the delightful David and Andrea Jackman (below), that's guitar and flute. Wonder how they got on?
And wonder if, like me, they found themselves suddenly confronted by a serious audience of blokes of a certain age, staring just over my shoulder. Looks like there's a geo-cache somewhere round here.