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Stephen H. Baird, Founder and Executive Director

PO Box 300112, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-0030

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Street and Vaudeville Artists Data Base

The Street Artists and Vaudeville Artists Data Base documents artists in the greater Cambridge-Boston area. A selected list of national and international artists is also included.

Basic listings are free. A donation of $5/year for listings of contact information and links is requested to help pay for the cost of keeping the information on-line. An individual basic web page with downloadable PDF files and flyers is $25/year donation. Email or give us a call for additional information and details.

The Street Artists Photo-Journalism Project will document street artists in Cambridge, Boston and MBTA Subway Platforms. The primary objective of this Street Artists Photo-Journalism Project is to publish the photographs with brief artists descriptions and contact information on the Street Arts and Buskers Advocates pages on the Community Arts Advocates web site.

See the Street Artists Photo-Journalism Project web page for more deails by clicking here or on the index links below. See the Street Artists Photo-Journalism Project Photo page for additional pictures and contacts by clicking here.

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Transformers -- Break Dance team from NYC. Spins, flips, mock competions, comedy acrobatics... Perform in Harvard Square, Cambridge several times a year. Pictures by Stephen Baird June 2004.

Breeze break dance team with basketball routine from the Bronx, NYC. Picture taken on Washington Street in Boston in August 2004, by Stephen Baird

These professional vaudeville organization and school sites will lead to many individual site links to noted street and vaudeville artists around the world. Addtional artists are listed on the links and location pages. The festivals also often have links to the artists that are performing or have performed at their event.

Let the folks know you found them at this site. Thanks for supporting the street arts!

Selected Greater Cambridge and Boston Area Street and Vaudeville Artists

(click on images to see larger photo link)

CATAGORY

ARTIST
CONTACT
DESCRIPTION

Juggling

Vaudeville

Comedy

Airborne Comedians

781-255-9882

http//www.airbornecomedians.com

Juggling clubs to chiars to guitars -- high rider unicycle

Vaudeville

Comedy

Alex King of Jesters

alex@alexthejester.com

http://www.alexthejester.com

Change costumes in a split second?

Look at you through the darting eyeball in his mouth?

Play three flutes simultaneously in staggered rhythms?

Squirt ridiculous quantities of water out his mouth like a sculpture in a European fountain ?

Alexander may just hold still as a gargoyle while the crowd eagerly awaits his next move.

This distinctive character keeps his audience laughing at a non-stop stream of surprises.

Connecting all these escapades is a wild sounding gibberish language called Grammelot. The humor is universal and has been his ticket to international comedy festivals in Quebec and France and frequent tours of Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.

Mime

Trent Arterberry

617-489-3652

Trentmime@aol.com

performingarts.net/Trent/

Trent is the best mime Boston has seen in a generation. Poetry in mostion.

Puppets

Back Alley Puppet Theater

617-628-2499

www.gis.net/~puppetco/who.htm

We offer giant dancing puppets, pick-up volunteer parades and instant pageants in the greater Boston area. We also run the Puppet Free Lending Library, lending puppets in the greater Boston area.

Music

guitar

mandolin

hammered dulcimer

Puppets

Stephen Baird

Community Arts Advocates

PO Box 300112

Jamaica Plain

MA 02130-0030

617-522-3407

info@communityartsadvocates.org

http://www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org/baird.html

With his legendary "bag full of surprises" of guitars, banjo, mandolin, autoharp, animal costumes, puppets, whistles and kazoos... Stephen will entertain the child in us all with lots of songs, stories and leprechaun charm. Stephen Baird is internationally known with appearances at festivals and universities including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He was featured in "Street Singer," a PBS documentary.

"Stephen Baird is the national authority on the history of busking" - Patty Campbell, Passing the Hat: Street Performers in America

 "But none has honored his roots--or his audience--as fondly as the man street players now call 'the Dean.' Good show." People Magazine

Poetry

William Barnum

19 Myrtle St.

Boston

MA 02114

617-720-4961

Street poet extrodinaire -- performs solo, with musicians and/or troup of readers. Has performed and read internationally.

Music

African Pop

Pumla Bhungane

617-259-8744

Subway performer African and pop music with recordings

Music

Reggae, Blues, Rock n' Roll, Soul

Bobby Bishop and Terelle Brown

tastybeats@yahoo.com

rellish33@hotmail.com

http://www.steppersheaven.com/

Bobby Bishop (guitar) and Terelle Brown (guitar/bass) can be found at Downtown Crossing Orange Line most Saturdays. From England.... great musicians. They were playing a tribute to Ray Charles this day... Also perform in the local clubs.

Magic

Bonaparte

617-561-9152

http://www.bonapartemagic.com

MagicianBonaparte for more than two decades. During this time, he has dazzled and delighted audiences of all ages throughout the nation as well as outside the continental United States. He continues to astound and amaze both children and adults and is widely respected artist.

Throughout his career, Bonaparte has received numerous awards, including being named Family Entertainer of the Year and hailed as the region's Best Magician by New England's leading parenting publication.

Bonaparte astounds and amazes audiences of all ages with his unique blend of Magic, Comedy, Origami, and Balloon Sculpture. Hailing from the distant purple planet of Quylar, Bonaparte is well-known for his Award-Winning Family Magic Concert. This program features the dramatic and mysterious appearance of a beautiful, fluttering white dove named "Snow" and Bonaparte's cuddly friend, "Winslow" - and adorable fuzzy bunny.

Music

Classic Rock

Folk Protest

Michael Borkson

http://mborkson.iuma.com

I started playing guitar while a student at Boston University.I have been playing in the subways of Boston and at peace/social justice demonstrations. I'm into doing classic rock covers and originals-have 4 CDs. My CDs are---"THE REVOLUTION IS COMING," "1967," "SMASH THE STATE!!," "CLASSIC ROCK UNPLUGGED." I also write protest songs against the U.S. war machine, against the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and against capitalist globalization. I'm like a late 60s-early 70s rocker. My favorite bands are the Moody Blues, the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane. I play acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar, and a little keyboards. My favorite gig was playing my song "Whose Streets? Our Streets !!" at a demonstration against the United Nations Millenium Summit in front of the UN plaza in New York City--this was in September 2000. I also performed some George Harrison and John Lennon songs at a vigil for them on Boston Common Dec. 8, 2001. In Feb. 2002 I performed at a concert in Cambridge, MA called Take Back the Music doing some of the songs banned from radio play since 9/11. In June of 2002 I played a song I wrote called We Got To Be Free at a rally for the ACLU of Mass. to save our civil liberties.In the fall of 2002 and continuing through 2003 I have been singing in the subways of Boston--- a lot of anti-war songs against US war on the Iraqi people.

Storyteller

Brother Blue

PO Box 381315

Cambridge

MA 02238-1315

617-491-8399

r_hill@radcliffe.edu

 

http://www.brotherblue.com/

Brother Blue (Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill) tells original stories, Shakespeare, and stories from many cultures. He has performed for Harvard University, Omega Institute, National Storytelling Festival, National Association of Black Storytellers, First Night Boston, Cambridge River Festival, New Age Congress in Florence, Oral History Association. He was official storyteller for United Nations Habitat Forum, and is official storyteller of Cambridge and Boston. The National Storytelling Network presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Music

Rock

Pete Cassani and The Peasants

http://www.thepeasants.net/

(617)571-3111

Pete Cassani/The Peasants

1781 Commonwealth Ave. #1

Brighton, MA 02135

petecassani@yahoo.com

Rock band often seen in Harvard Square

Circus

Juggling

Acrobat

Circus Family Sardine

John Griffiths

508-878-9318

Family circus travelers from England. Tours the US and performs at Sam Adams Park and Boston Common where this photo was taken in the summer of 2005.

Clown

Juggler

Unicycle

Davey the Clown

617-524-5191

DaveyTClown@comcast.net

http://daveytheclown.com

Davey the Clown is a physical comedian, juggler, unicyclist and accordionist. Lost of wacky antics, rousing accordion music, ballon sculptures and tons of audience participation.

David Holtzman has a Master's Degree in Elementary Education and Creative Arts in Learning. He has performed since the 1980s in First Night Boston to the Museum of Our National Heritage to Gillette Corporation events.

David Holtzman performed and toured nationally as other charactors with the Geese Theater Company and the hit school assembly program about nutrition: FoodPlay.

Clown

Balloons

Historical Charactors

Theater

Marianne Donnelly

781-438-5504

http://www.coraconnection.com/md

One of New England's favorite performing artists for corporate, civic and private events. Delightful shows for nearly every season and celebration. Marianne Donnelly has appeared on major childrens television shows, performed in museums, libraries, festivals, senior centers, schools and private and corporate functions.

  • Silver the Clown
  • Pumpkinette the Harvest Lady
  • Calamity Jane
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Janis Joplin

Music
Singer-Songwriters
Acoustic

Sweet Wednesday:
Dave Falk and Lisa Housman

http://www.lisahousman.com/
http://davefalk.com/
also MYSPACE.COM/sweetwednesday

info@sweetwednesday.com

You can often find Dave and Lisa on the subway plafforms or near the Swam Boats in the Boston Public Gardens on weekends:

Juggler

Rope Walker

Mark Farneth

6 Grafton St. #2

Dorchester, MA 02125

617-474-0551

Mark is one of the regular perfomers in Brattle Square just off of Harvard Square in Cambridge. Lots of fun and humor.

Magician

Fish the Magish

http://www.fishthemagish.net/

magic@fishthemagish.net

617-930-FISH

Matthew Fishman, also known as 'Fish the Magish,' is a street performer known as one of the best magicians in Boston. He has donated lots of time on the New Orleans Arts and Artists Releif Fund project. Info here

Dance

Break Dance

Hip Hop

Floor Lords

617-818-0604

http://www.floorlords.com/

"Floorlore" The History of Hip-Hop -- a theatrical production which involved different styles of dance including African, Capoiera, Martial Arts, Meringue, Salsa, Tap Dance and Jazz

The show was first performed and sold out in Jan. 1999 at Northeastern University's Blackman Theatre in Boston. It is now performed at sold out concerts at universities and theatres all over the country.

Magic

Escape

Jason Gardner

jason@jasonescape.com

http://www.jasonescape.com/

Come and play with Jason Escape... That's what it's all about: 45 minutes, one straight jacket, 75 feet of rope, body twisting, and a little magic if you're lucky... Jason Escape's spectacular escape show.

On the street, at a festival, is where Art meets Life unexpectedly. With over 25 years of performing experience, Jason Escape knows how to interact and have fun with a crowd, all while tied and bound, desperately trying to escape. It is the many interactions which make his show so amazing

Music

Haitain

Jazz

Gee Gifrants

http://gifrants.com/

Telephone: 754-423-0072

email: gifrants@yahoo.com

The Haitian Troubador sings in French and English.

Vaudeville

Comedy

Bobarino Gravittini

PO Box 262

Warren

RI 02885

401-338-4619

http://www.bobarino.com

Show is set to music and consists of comedy sketches of various characters such as a Ballerina and Cowboy. Audience participation is a key component, especially in the dance sequence! The danger section focuses on the "big tricks" &endash; the famous wheelbarrow balance on the rolo-bolo atop a five foot high table.

Photo by Haruka Horiuchi 2003

Juggling

Vaudeville

Magic

Comedy

Peter Gross

617-243- 0919

peter@funnymagic.com

http://www.funnymagic.com

Peter Gross has been performing magic and comedy since 1982. He has lived in the Boston area since he graduated from college with a degree in Political Theory and a minor in Philosophy.

Music

Recorders

Celtic-Jazz

Hamm Lynn

20 Jackson Way

Plum Island

MA 01951-2113

978-465-6995

http://www.hammlynn.com

Hamm performs on sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass recorders. Born John Garvey in Lawrence, Mass., during the Truman Administration, and turning into a Jack of many trades over the years to make possible his life as a Busker (i.e. street-performer) in Newburyport and Salem, Mass., and Portsmouth, N.H., he assumed the "character name" when he joined King Richard's Renaissance Faire in1999, though most everyone there calls him Toot!

Variety Act

Hurdy Gurdy, Monkey and Me

617-964-3074

Tony Lupo and his monkey Coco, is just one of the six acts in the country still preserving this historic form of street entertainment. Tony has performed at fairs, festivals, birthdays, private parties and corporate functions throughout New England. He has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, plus in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Yankee, People, and numerous other publications.

Music

Jazz

Saxophone and Voice

Jazz Insight
Michael Kolodny and Laura Pierce
1-888-909-JAZZ (5299)
P.O. Box 67, Peterborough, NH 03458
info@jazzinsight.com
http://www.jazzinsight.com
Jazz Insight

Laura Pierce holds a BA in Music Education from SUNY Potsdam. She studied voice with Maggi Scott and jazz improvisation with pianist Harvey Diamond. Laura has been singing jazz professionally since 1978, appearing at Boston's Copley Plaza and Meridian hotels and the Ryles and Regattabar jazz clubs. She has performed with the Dave McKenna All-Stars and the Winiker Swing Orchestra. Laura has taught music since 1978, including jazz workshops, piano and voice lessons.

Michael Kolodny studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music and with tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh. He has performed at The Blue Note and Carnegie Hall in his native New York City, and has appeared with Joe Hunt, Jorge Rossy, and other jazz masters. Michael has been teaching jazz since 1978, including private lessons, workshops, master classes, and middle and high school jazz band.

Laura and Michael have performed together since 1988 and were married in 1990. Their guiding principles are those of the jazz tradition: exploring new paths, being spontaneous, expressing a vision, taking chances, and having fun along the way.

NOTE: Mike played on the subways of Boston in 1987 plus fought legal battle for being arrested for performing on streets of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1997 with help of ACLU.

Juggling

Vaudeville

Comedy

The Jim Show

617-776-1111

jimshow@smirk.com

http://www.thejimshow.com

High energy Stunt Comedy

Armed with nothing more than a trunk full of props, a quick, dry wit, and a mysterious, "cat-like" agility, Jim bounds to the stage and begins his show. He performs amazing feats of skill, thrives on audience interaction, and enjoys accepting challenges. He runs, he jumps, he dances and sings! (Actually, Jim doesn't do any singing.)

Music

Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

Mary Lou Lord

http://www.maryloulord.com/

Bookings

212-253-1489

http://www.rubricrecords.com

management@maryloulord.com

Boston folksinger Mary Lou Lord has been in and out of the spotlight throughout the last decade. Coming off a publicity hiatus due to the birth of her daughter, Mary Lou got back to performance basics, spending the time busking in the street after her1998 major label release "Got No Shadow". She has recently provided the music for a Target commercial. That song, "Speeding Motorcycle," a Daniel Johnston cover. She tackles songs by legends like Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson and Bruce Springsteen as well as newer "indie" oriented artists such as Elliott Smith and the Magnetic Fields. Mary Lou will be recording her next studio album for Rubric later this year.

Music

Gerry Mack

401-253-5121

gmack1928@earthlink.net

Rhythm and Blues to Soul to Motown -- Gerry Mack will sing and make his key board rock the night a way.

Music

Violin

Classical

New Age

Healing

Colin G. Matthews

856-327-0705

Spiritprance@usadatanet.net

Colin was born in Trinidad in the West Indies. He won the National Music Festival award at the age of13. In 1988, while on a study project in Boston, he was entranced by a young violinst playing in the subway. He too began playing in the streets and subways of Boston where his music flourished. Colin has recorded numerous CDs and played extensively over Massachusetts and the Untied States.

Now performs at Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City.

Photo: Collin Matthews at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in 2003 by Stephen Baird.

Music

Guitar

Harmonica

Pop

Rock

Childrens

Kevin McNamara

781-388-1954

harmonicakev@yahoo.com

PO Box 231

Revere, MA 02151

http://www.musicalkev.com

Sing-a-longs on guitar and harmonica...

Find Kevin on the subway platforms and streets... of Boston and Cambridge

Music

Tuba

Banjo

Bill Meehan

tuberguy@netzero.net

Plays the tuba and banjo on the subway and Boston Common... marches, rags and show tunes. Catch him every Sunday providing music for the outdoor religious service and free meal by the French Fountain on Boston Common.

Music

Cajun and Country

Accordion

Butch Mindy

Butch has been playing on the street since the 1960s. Often find him on Boston Common singing his sweet country songs. Can also catch him in the area clubs. Picture taken in August 2004 by Stephen Baird.

Music

Hammered Dulcimer

David Neiman

PO Box 390012

Cambridge

MA 02139-0012

617-876-2996

dneiman@alumni.brown.edu

From the subway platforms of Boston to the Royal Palace of Japan, David Neiman, a national champion hammered dulcimer player, has charmed the most discerning audiences since 1980. David has expanded the voice of the hammered dulcimer from the familiar traditional Irish jigs and reels to Baroque and Renaissance classical music to East European folk music.

He has released numerous recordings and many live performances on radio and television.

Juggling

Vaudeville

Comedy

Peter Panic

Peter Panic

Productions

PO Box 380692

Cambridge

MA 02238

617.251.8268

PeterPanic@att.net

http://www.peterpanic.com

Peter Panic started juggling in 1981 and became a full time professional in 1987. Since then he has delighted audiences in all 50 of the United States. His international appearances have been numerous; including, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, England, Germany, Spain, France, Holland and New Zealand.

Music

 

Classical Guitar

Flugel Horn

John Patton

John can often be found at Park Street Station on the Red Line platform playing his classical guitar... istrumentals sometimes with a rhythm track. He also performs with area community orchestras.

Music

Cello

Paulo Cesar Alves Pereirs

paulocesar55@hotmail.com

206-383-1626

Paulo is new to the area. Performed in South America and Italy. Currently student at Berklee. Picture taken at Downtown Crossing on the Orange Line in August 2004 by Stephen Baird.

Music

Accordion

Rock

Renee de la Prade

rdelaprade@berklee.net

 

or

 

renee@byteheaven.net

Find Renee on Boston Common, Downtown Crossing and Berklee College

Dance

Morris

Red Herring Morris

Jeff Bigler

781-592-5802

jcb@mit.edu

http://www.mitedu/~jcb/redherring/

Morris dance team-- Cotswold style. Rehearses, Thursday, 7:30 PM, Payson Park church, 365 Belmont St., Belmont

Lots of Morris dance teams in the Boston area. Will find them on the street with their ankle bells ringing in the spring around May day. Caught these folks on Boston Common.

Folk Arts Center of New England http://www.facone.org will have a complete list of the area dance teams

Music

Piano

Soul and Jazz Standards

Andy Robinson

617-335-1064

Andy can most often be found at Downtown Crossing Station on the inbound Orange Line platform. Great showman and fine music... Passers-by will break in to a spontaneous dance.

Juggling

Vaudeville

Comedy

Roger the Jester

PO Box 628

3 Lakeside Dr.

N. Egremont

MA 01252

413-528-3623

http://www.ijest.com

Roger Reed discovered his Jester self twenty-seven years ago on the streets of Boston. In 1979, he joined with the Swiss theatre troupe, Mummenschanz. After this Broadway experience, Roger took to the road to "recreate the wandering lifestyle of a medieval fool." That decision has left a trail of laughter throughout twenty-three countries. Roger now bases his buffoonery in the Berkshires of Bassachusetts.

Music

Classical Guitar and voice

Cuban, Mexican bolero, 60s Latin.

Carlos Romero

617-625-0698

Carlos is a great musician... spirited and intricate guitar playing with romantic Latin songs. Photo taken at Harvard Square Station August 2006

Music

One Man Band

Bluegrass

Eric Royer

617-375-5586

ericroyer@msn.com

http://www.guitarmachine.com

One Man Band--Bluegrass

Royer is one crazy multi-instrumentalist... The virtuosity it must take to play all those instruments is impressive enough, but Royer plays fun, foot-stompin' bluegrass with authenticity and country-tinged pizazz. - Review from "Northeast Performer" magazine

Photo shows Royer with banjo, dobro on stand at lap, and the foot controlled Guitar Machine at his feet,Eric designed and built the dobro and machine, the banjo's a Deering.

Music
Bass
Songwriting

Gonzalo Silva

http://www.gonzalosilva.com/

http://www.myspace.com/gonzalosilva

You will often find Gonzalo at Park Street Red Line center platform, Check out his web sites with many articles, music clips and blog on public performances,

http://www.gonzalosilva.com/busker/busker/bi01.htm

Sidewalk Art

Sidewalk Sam

Art Street, Inc.

83 Church Street

Newton, MA, 02458

617.244.3171

sidewalk@sidewalksam.com

http://www.sidewalksam.com

Sidewalk Sam draws pictures on sidewalks in the midst of pedestrian traffic and delights passerbys with his friendly, inclusive creative spirit.

Music

Harvey Smith

harvey@buskers.org

buskers.org/harvey

Harvey is one of the regulars in Harvard Square. Look for his greek hat and cup of coffee. He also constructs and host sweb sites for street artists at buskers.org

Music

Juggler

Len Solomon

978-369-9951

leonardsolomon@bellowphone.com

http://www.bellowphone.com/

Leonard Solomon -- classically trained musician and inventor -- offers an irreverent one-man recital of music and comedy, featuring your favorite symphonic works arranged for such unusual instruments as Dog Whistles and Bicycle Horn.

In addition, the show includes a top-notch juggling routine, and Mr. Solomon's ingenious Majestic Bellowphone.

Clown

Balloons

Mime

Royal Sorell

PO Box 4367

Peabody

MA, 01961

978-531-7974

Royal@balloondesigns.com

http://www.balloondesigns.com

Royal Sorell has been performing for audiences of all ages in New England since 1978. A Marcel Marceau - trained mime and award-winning performer, Royal skillfully blends pantomime, clowning skills, magic, balloon art and silliness to create a performance that will amaze, and delight audiences of all ages. Whether as a whether as a mime, magician, clown, balloon artist or specialty character such as Pierrot, or Charlie Chaplin impersonation, Royal Sorell has a charater and act appropriate for all ages and any occasion. RoRo the Clown at left is dancing with his balloon broom (photo copyright F. Caccitore 1996)

Magic

Vaudeville

Peter Sosna

Peter Sosna

Magic Productions

35 Church St.

Somerville

MA 02143

617-776-1208

psosna@rcn.com

http://www.petersosna.com

Since 1977 Peter has been a full time professional magician. He has performed at hundreds of colleges, universities, night clubs, comedy clubs, cabarets, trade shows, sales meetings, special events, stage shows, and concerts. Peter Sosna has been seen in PEOPLE magazine as well as numerous television shows, traveled with the Ben and Jerry's Vaudeville Circus, performed in Japan at Nagasaki Holland Village, the Daidogei World Cup in Shizuoka, and Huis Ten Bosch, Japan's largest theme park. His delightfully offbeat presentation and his unique blend of sleight-of-hand and illusion make for an exciting show that works well before large audiences as well as small. Whether he is doing a full stage show or card tricks at a private party, Peter Sosna's magic is thrilling and astonishing fun.

Puppets


Punch and Judy

Will Stackman

Sad news -- Will passed on at age of 66 (August 2007).  He will be missed.  Will supported the arts, theater, puppet and street performing community for decades -- producing the Cambridge River Festival and supporting First Night founding years, Street Performers Festivals, Puppet Showplace Theater...  plus being an important beacon for integrity...  an honorable legacy!

http://www.puppetsbostonguild.org/profwill

Traditional 19th century Punch & Judy shows for the 21st, indoors or out.

Will also teaches puppetry (classroom or workshops), builds stages, does "Fantastic Furry Fables" for birthday parties

Music

Folk, Pop and Blues

Mare Streetpeople

PO Box 600181

Newton, MA 02460

mares02@rcn.com

http://www.marestreetpeople.com

Big voice, Big heart -- Been singing on the streets for 30 years. Folk, pop and blues

Music

Folk

Rock

Roots

Michael Sullivan

busker@buskersworld.com

617-216-0273

http://www.buskersworld.com

http://www.myspace.com/buskersworld

Michael Sullivan has performed at festivals, taverns and street corners from Boston to New Orleans to the small mill and dirt towns across the country for over three decades. The roots of the music is in his bones. Photo: Stephen Baird 1986 Cambridge Street Performers Festival.

Music

Banjo and Vocals

Traditional Jazz

Bob Sundstrom

401-828-1324

Commonwealth Jazz - Traditional American Jazz

one to seven piece band

Storytelling

Tony Toledo

PO Box 302

Beverly

MA 01915-0006

978-921-4628

toledogoat@aol.com

http://www.covearts.com/toledo.html

Tony Toledo has been a Storyteller with Young Audiences of Massachusettes, the premier non-profit Arts-in-Education organization in the Commonwealth since 1991. He has told his tales for thousands of students across New England at elementary, middle and high schools, libraries, festivals, First Nights and birthday parties; and adults at public performances, corporate and other private functions. Seeing Stories, Flying Hands Tony Toledo & Karen Rose Glickman.

Political Satire

Puppets

Uncle Scam

unclescam@buskers.org

http://www.unclescam.org

Skilled Devil's Advocate!! born 5/18/50 11:18 am Wareham, Ma. taurus

street puppetteer/ busker/political pusher son of always working mother/preacher teacher father/got 4 brothers (third of five ) two daughters (S&A )/1 grand daughter/a beautiful talented family of scammers ,especially that grand with the little scam smile that melts all resolve and the most beautiful companioness in the world today.

Music

Latin American

Guitar

Pan Pipes

Alfredo Velasquez

alfredo_jv@yahoo.com

Alfredo can be found on the streets of Boston, Cambridge and MBTA platforms. Picture taken at Orange line Downtown Crossing.

Music

Flute

Sharrhan Williamson

617-499-0920

sharrhan@verizon.net

Flute on digital delay and effects with sythesizer. Plus greeting cards and posters

Music

Hammered Dulcimer

Guitar

Voice

Beverly Woods

401 Haines Hill Rd

Wolfeboro

NH 03894

603-569-2341

beverly@sethausten.com

http://www.beverlywoods.net

Hammered dulcimer, guitar, hurdy gurdy and voice. Performing for clubs, coffeehouses, festivals and community events since 1984. See web site for recordings, concert and teaching schedule.

Selected National and International Street and Vaudeville Artists

See New Orleans Artists List HERE

See Seattle Street Artists List HERE

CATAGORY

ARTIST
CONTACT
DESCRIPTION

Music

One Man Band

One Woman Band

Anderson Briefcase

Pete O'Connell and Andrea Bonetto

#1201, 556 Laurier Ave. West,

Ottawa

ON K1R 7X2

Canada

peteandandrea@hotmail.com

http://www.onemanband.net

The Anderson Briefcase show is a visually dynamic multi-instrumental musical performance that appeals to a wide audience. In their show they play a bunch of different instruments at the same time, including: guitar, bass, drums, hi-hat, elbow wah-wah, harmonica, tambourines, and they both sing.

Several years ago a guy from Nepean, Ontario by the name of Pete was playing his guitar on a cobblestone street in Zurich, Switzerland when a girl from Argentina named Andrea happened by...Several years later, Pete and Andrea are Anderson Briefcase, the world'd first and only one-man band/one-woman band duo. Since 1991 they have been around the world, having performed in 21 countries.

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