{"id":4254,"date":"2019-05-16T08:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2019-06-16T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T08:34:43","slug":"busking-new-york-city-may-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"Busking New York City – May 16, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busking New York City \u00a0– \u00a0May 16, 2019<\/p>\n

I had the craziest experience with busker JasminFire, who was playing in the Herald Square (34th Street) subway station, which is a reliable standby for busker performances. \u00a0When I arrived at the station I could hear some suspicious sounds, so I knew something was going on. \u00a0I checked all the usual busker hot spots, but no dice. Wherever I was in the station, I was hearing sounds that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, they seemed so evanescent, not sticking around long enough for me to get a fix and home in. \u00a0I must have spent at least ten minutes trying to track down the sounds, and I couldn’t even identify the instrument that was producing them. \u00a0Somehow the routine task of finding a performing musician had become mystifyingly difficult. \u00a0Eventually I came upon violinist JasminFire and her ample chops on the BMT platform, and chalked the experience up to just randomness. \u00a0Later in the day I shared this experience with my son Jacob, who told me that there was a “sound installation” artwork at that station! \u00a0(https:\/\/www.janneysound.com\/project\/reach-new-york\/<\/a>). \u00a0And it’s been there since 1995! \u00a0So that explains that. \u00a0Witkowsi’s performance in Bryant Park was part of a regular program of piano music there; assuming the pianists are getting paid by the program, this is perhaps technically not busking, but what the hey!<\/p>\n

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JasminFire<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mylez Gittens<\/p><\/div>\n

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Deanna Witkowski<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busking New York City \u00a0– \u00a0May 16, 2019 I had the craziest experience with busker JasminFire, who was playing in the Herald Square (34th Street) subway station, which is a reliable standby for busker performances. \u00a0When I arrived at the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}