BY PAULINE FRANCE We’ve all seen street musicians providing background music for bustling city-goers. We might’ve felt sorry for them as we hurried by, or stopped dead in our tracks to acknowledge their musical prowess. 1. Don’t Mind the Pompous Passersby Street performing is a commendable act of bravery, but some people look down on it, thinking buskers are underprivileged. Those people don’t matter, but for your own sake it’s important to know how to deal with them. Los Angeles–based guitarist and singer-songwriter Segun Oluwadele was looking for a job he could easily manage while juggling his studies at USC, and tried street performing. He soon noticed unfounded reactions from spectators. “People think that a street performer is someone down on his luck,” Oluwadele says. “It’s a weird connotation, but it’s changed in L.A. over a period of time due to the number of street performers who have made a name for themselves.” Plus, if street performing were uncool, U2 wouldn’t have agreed to a goose bump–inducing performance set up by Jimmy Fallon at New York’s 42nd Street subway station in 2015. So if you’re faced with someone aloof, remember that how a person treats you says more about them...from News Page https://ift.tt/2IMVzba https://youbrandinc.com
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