After living in New York for over four years Miles and I have become rather jaded to the strange carrying ons in the city sometimes. We have developed the armor of unimpressed and simply walk on by. Occasionally, however, there is something so odd that even our jaded selves have no choice but to stop and stare.
This was the case last week when, entering the subway, we witnessed a man performing as a one man band. He had a banjo for his main instrument, which automatically made him cool in my book. Then he had a backpack on which appeared to be adorned with almost every other possible musical device known to man. Each of these devices was connected via strings to some part of the musician so that depending on how he moved he created different sounds.
It was really quite a wonder. I don’t expect to see him selling out the Garden any time soon, but he was impressive for a subway performance. He had the right mixture of unusual and fun.
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