Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Concerts à Emporter

Photo courtesy of Peadar

An old friend from Paris days, a longtime Irish expatriate musician named Peadar, sent me this link from the French music blog, La Blogothèque. It's a collection of videos of mostly the current crop of Indie musicians playing in the streets of Paris. But it's also a long tradition, the street musician in Paris. Some make an intentional career of it. And I know of at least one current well-known musician who came up through playing in the Parisian streets and rather accidentally found fame and fortune, Peadar's friend and former playing partner, Madeleine Peyroux ("Maddy").

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is a blog of New York City street musicians with photos and info: www.SawLady.com/blog
I guess Indie musicians all over the world are swarming the streets :)

Anonymous said...

Helmut, here's some very interesting news from Paris:
http://www.alternet.org/story/66425/


what do you think?