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    Streets Alive! Owen Sound’s Busker Extravaganza

    The Owen Sound busker festival committee met this past Monday and is continuing to put the pieces together for what should turn out to be one of the best little events this city has ever seen.
     
    Rather than sending you the notes from every committee meeting, we'll make sure you receive an update like this on a regular basis. Look for a new Facebook site, website etc. in the near future.
     
    Here's what's been decided so far:
     

    1.    Name of event:

     

    Streets Alive! Owen Sound’s Busker Extravaganza

     

    2.    Busker categories:

    • Children’s entertainers
    • Musicians
    • “Street shtick” i.e. jugglers, magicians, fire twirlers
    • Physical performers i.e. acrobats, mimes, dancers
    • Visual artists, i.e. caricature artists, face painters

    3.    Busking locations:

    ·         Time per location: 2 hours

    ·         Buskers can take breaks and start times in each location could be staggered

    ·         Plan schedule so that when one busker takes a break, there is always something else going on within view or earshot

    ·         Fill up downtown core area first, then along river (both sides), then waterfront: from 8th Street north as far as A&P on east side and Tourism Office on west side, including side streets

    ·         Buskers can move from one spot to another: up to 3 in total

    ·         Buskers will be fed and provided water during the day

    ·         TO DO: Final decision regarding payment of performers

    ·         TO DO: Map and list of locations finalized

     

    4.    Festival schedule:

    Friday night preview: 6 to 10 pm – central location downtown

    Saturday main event: 10 am to 4 pm

    Saturday night:

    4 to 6 pm    Free meal for buskers & 1 guest each at Farmers Market

    6 to 9 pm    “Big Hat” Jam session outside at market/city hall parking lot

                       *try to have parking lot closed and have a fire (chimnea)

     

    Contacts for further info/comments:

    Justin Skultety (committee co-chair) ecourbanshaman at hotmail.com

    Lynda Aldridge (committee co-chair) laldridge60 at yahoo.ca

    Irwin Seidman (DIA) irwin at osdia.ca

    Doug Cleverley (City) dcleverley at e-owensound.com

     
    The committee's next meeting is Monday May 25 at 1 pm at the farmers market. Feel free to attend if you want to help out, or to pass any suggestions and comments along by email to any of us listed above.
    • 22 May 2009
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    over 2 years ago Justin Skultety responded:
    A busking festival showcasing a wide variety of local and non local grassroots performers, seasoned veterans, in the age old tradition of crowd involvement and pure unadulterated exciting entertainment!
    over 2 years ago garym @teledyn responded:
    garym @teledyn
    Justin forgot to mention that this deviates from the "age old tradition" in that it is gated, pre-approved, auditioned and selected; the troubadour tradition is one quite the contrary, one of open expression, often at risk to the performers for reasons of the mores of the day, cf Calipso, the British folk tradition (eg Rudyard Kipling's pub-favourite "God Bless the Bastard King of England" or even the anti-government, anti-commercialism,anti-censorship stance of Lee Perry and Studio-One itself an outgrowth of the street-bands of Kingston.

    In my book, "unadulterated" should also mean "un-adult-rated", which the recent news of "how to audition" for this entirely staged no-stage festival is, don't you think, a little outside of the whole Buskar (lit: 'Seeker') tradition?

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