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The Life of the Road With Buskers, Bauls, Bards

By: Chai Walla

…gather ’round…

TRAVELING PERFORMERS ON FILM


Tightrope (Nuria Ibáñez, 2009)

This is a synthesis of two excellent lists, Kenji’s On the Road and Rohit Apte’s Life Is a Stage…, both of which I borrowed from shamelessly.


Highway (Sergei Dvortsevoy, 1999)

if you were an alley violinist

and they threw you money
from three windows

and the first note contained
a nickel and said:
when you play, we dance and
sing, signed
a very poor family

and the second one contained
a dime and said:
i like your playing very much,
signed
a sick old lady

and the last one contained
a dollar and said:
beat it,

would you:

stand there and play?

beat it?

walk away playing your fiddle

- Robert Lax, Alley Violinist


Yellow Sheep River (Liu Soung, 2009)

 

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Rohit

5Feb12

I had started a similar list but you are obviously more knowledgeable than me :)

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    Chai Walla

    5Feb12

    Just take my word for it, I was in the process of crediting your list when you wrote this :P

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    Rohit

    5Feb12

    lol...thank you! I was almost going to delete my insignificant effort before I read your credits :)

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