Swingjugend

http://wizard.webquests.ch/swingpiraten.html?page=84397

Every performer is apprehensive about stepping out on to the street, sax, guitar or whatever in hand. But the boys and girls of the Swing-Jugend, the Swing Kids of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and 1940s, risked anything from an enforced haircut to imprisonment in the notorious Moringen youth concentration camp.
Enjoy jazz - enjoy freedom.    

Busking in bandstands

Given the wealth of old bandstands in our parks and gardens
(the one pictured is in Penzance), it's worth reminding readers
about this commendable website (http://bandstandbusking.com/)
and its programme of free, unplugged gigs around London.