Busking is life: Sidewalk Bunch
If you can play the guitar, sing a little, or play some other instrument, you might just be a street musician. But it is not just street music, not mere busking its the music of life. It’s ‘Sidewalk Bunch’. Three years ago in Tel Aviv which is the second most populous city in Israel I saw these local lads. They had come together making beautiful music with a bunch of instruments rarely seen but way too refined than their traditional counterparts. It began with a vague idea of Yoav Elkayam to initiate a music project that would be a one-off that will perform mostly on the streets. He had a pile of thoughts about the music he wanted to play and also about whom to play it with.
No sooner than this happened, he met Nimrod in a public garden in the off port city and began scratching some rough , some soothing s rhythms on paper. It was the magic of these rough tunes that turned into compositions that people started to gather around them looking forward to the music, many of them first timers. They started with first names, and then embarked on this journey with musical notes as companions.
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