Running with the Road Dogs

Backroads landed me hard on a saloon in Shelby, Montana. Had my pick of near a dozen gin joints in this Jack Johnson Championship Prizefight site. The joint that promised dancing- she’s the one. Pawn shop two blocks down had a line at the counter. Most were turning their rifles in for Fourth of July […]

The Kindness of Strangers

I am pleased to announce the gods of mirth have in mind for tonight’s entertainment a comedy…

Crumbs of cinnamon buns

She’s perfect and you’re perfect. The whole thing is perfect even though you know there is no such thing as perfect and even that’s perfect.

polishing the tile

the serendipitous business of sidewalk entertainment

Cavalcade of Concrete

Ramping up for getting out on the Beggar’s Banquet-Kindness of Strangers- Why Don’t You Do it In the Road North American International Busking Tour of 2019 This is the Ft Collins, Colorado, Edmonton, Alberta to Grand Prairie long hops and short stops itinerary. This includes stopping at Miette Hot Spring, Thermopolis, Wyoming for soaking and […]

Code of Street Performing Conduct

Love Your Audience There is no getting off the road, there are no breaks— you can’t undo what you’ve bet your life on. One of the hardest hand to mouth games ever invented in this world of hard knocks is busking full time. No contracts, no off site gigs, just pure hat and more hat […]

He Got Me and I Got Him… The Storymaker

Alan Plotkin 2014’s recipient of the Golden Finkel We are never alone. Sometimes it seems so. Some days on the road rolling from date to date- show to show, especially back in the day prior to cell phones, I could almost pretend to be in total isolation, an immaculate detached state of being in a […]

Long Hops and short stops

In the early 70’s as the counter cultural movement took to the streets the first wave of artists built shows from scratch. We had no templates to work from. By the early 80’s that was over. Acts arrived at venues derived from the first wave shows of the late 60’s to early 70’s. We felt […]