Musicians in the Subway

There's a jazz drummer named Thomas Galliano who plays on the L platform at Union Square most evenings now -- pretty sick! He usually has this tenor player with him who I like a lot. Occasionally there's this bass player who you can't hear very well (he's not very powerful and you can't use an amp on the platform). Sometimes there's an alto instead of tenor. A few times there was a jazz harmonica, which is up there with andean pan pipes and steel drums for me.

nyc has a generally high quality of buskers imo

agreed, majority of what I hear is listenable to very good.

On the fence about the guitarist on the 7 platform at Grand Central the other evening with a balaclava covering his head playing "Cosmic Slop."

Three cheers for the three tenors in the Port Authority part of the subway tonight at the end of the tunnel that leads to the Seventh Avenue end of the station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvODZf0yJZE

Was so mesmerized by the guy playing popular tunes like “Can’t By Me Love” and “Happy Together” at Times Square this morning that I went up the wrong staircase to transfer.

Left out the three most important words, “on the ocarina.”

one of the down ballot horrors that our current administration has done is eliminate the mariachi/latinx bands that used to busk on the subways

i have not noticed their elimination

In that you never noticed they were gone or that you still see them? Bc I don’t!

saw one yesterday (or maybe friday?) although it was just one dude, not a trio

Ya I’m talking about the full band dudes. I’m sure they are out there in isolation

xxxxxp Ocarina of Time(s Square)

I've noticed when I go back to Glasgow or Paisley there's buskers everywhere, I'm sure the local councils are encouraging it in some misguided attempt to make the streets seem more, I don't know, vibrant? This is more true in a shithole like Paisley. Also so many of them are Ed Sheeran/ Lewis Capaldi wannabes.

There are two older guys that always seem to be in Norwich city centre when I'm there that always seem to choose cool songs, last time I heard a lovely version of 'Harvest Moon' floating towards me, sounded great.