Sunday, April 19, 2009

Did You Know That . . . . . ?

My wife and I attended the Annual Indian River County Hibiscus Festival in downtown Vero Beach. Every year, a full city block is cordorned-off for the various goin's on, that included - crafts, food, music, art work, bling, photography and you name it. Favorite events included 'Street Bands', one of which was really novel and good.

If you notice closely, Ben was playing a 'cigar box' guitar, although he alternated with 4 other guitars and a fiddle. He performed kind of a blue grass-country-gospel style sound for 2 hours straight - and that included, picking, singing, playing the bass drum with his right foot and a snare drum with his left and I don't know what he was using to play the symbol. Anyway he constantly drew a large crowd and that boot on top of the bass drum took on quite a few bucks.
Check out more Street Bands at: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741

2 comments:

Karenkool said...

I see that there is a kitchen sink to the side. Did he play that too? Or was it everything BUT the kitchen sink?

YourPops said...

HAHAHA..Very clever. He was actually wedged between two legal vender tents. He used that spot to keep his overhead expenses to a minimum.