Busker S Holiday

From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way. Busker's Holiday is the story of McKay Chernoff, a Columbia University grad student with a harmonica in his pocket and a blues band in his background. Desolate and despairing after a disastrous romantic breakup, McKay decides to fly off to Paris and reinvent himself as a street performer. What follows is an epic summer voyage into the busking life, propelled by the mad exploits of Billy Lee Grant, a fearless young guitar shredder whose Memphis-to-Mississippi pedigree and Dylanesque surrealism make him, when he explodes into view, precisely the partner McKay has been yearning for. Burning like a latter-day Dean Moriarty, Bill goads McKay into a sun-drenched, all-night bender, stoked by wine, women, mushrooms, and trains, that careens down out of Avignon and across the French Riviera. What happens next--in Florence, Solingen, Amsterdam, Paris--is a story of purgatory, redemption, and love regained. Hope, in a word, as a modern troubadour returns from his wanderings, reborn.

A comprehensive reference guide that covers over 3,500 observances. Features both secular and religious events from many different cultures, countries, and ethnic groups. Includes contact information for events; multiple appendices with background information on world holidays; extensive bibliography; multiple indexes.

"Fun And Laughter On A Summer Holiday" continues to show Eileen's amazing observation and her keenness to learn as much as possible about each place she is to visit. Reading about each day is a joy. One day you will be crying with the emotion expressed, but then this will soon be followed with laughter. You will be laughing out loud with Eileen's unique sense of humor.

Frustrated by the indifference of the music industry and the stacks of homemade CDs gathering dust in their closets, brothers Heth and Jed Weinstein made the radical decision to bring their music directly to the masses. They began playing on street corners, in subway stations, and wherever else they could connect with a live audience. To their surprise, far from this being the terminal stop of a dead-end career, busking turned out to be just the beginning as crowds of stressed-out commuters gathered around, cheering them on, subscribing to their mailing lists, and actually buying some of those stockpiled CDs—40,000 and counting. In Buskers, Heth and Jed recount their turbulent, drug- and crime-filled adolescence in the nowhere-land of Livingston, New Jersey, their valiant attempts to achieve rock ’n’ roll success through traditional channels, and their unexpected path to circumventing the outmoded music industry. They divulge fascinating details about the technical and legal aspects of street performance, New York busking culture, and the lives of their fellow troubadours. A world of possibilities opens up when the brothers take it to the streets, proving the value of their music to themselves and anyone who’ll listen. Read their story, and your commute will never be the same.

A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.

101 Hits for Buskers is a superb resource for all buskers and street musicians that contains some of the greatest hits of all time. Every song is arranged with melody line, complete lyrics and chords, guaranteed to make your pub set, busking or party performance a hit with all. It includes: - All My Loving [The Beatles] - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo [Neil Sedaka] - Blowin’ In The Wind [Bob Dylan] - Bring Me Sunshine [Morecombe and Wise] - Can’t help Falling In love [Elvis Presley] - Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend [Marilyn Monroe] - Everybody’s Talkin’ [Harry Nilsson] - Fly Me To the Moon (In Other Words) [Julie London] - Killing Me Softly [Roberta Flack] - Morning Has Broken [Cat Stevens] - My Way [Frank Sinatra] - Please Mr. Postman [The Marvelettes] - Streets Of London [The Pogues] - Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak tree [Trad.] - Walk On By [Dione Warwick] - A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Procol harum] - Wichita Lineman [Glen Campbell] - Yellow Submarine [The Beatles] And many more.

101 No. 1 Hits for Buskers: The Red Book is a bumper instalment of the Hits for Buskers series, presenting some of the greatest No. 1’s of all time, guaranteed to rouse a crowd in every piano bar or street corner. Each song is carefully arranged with melody line, complete lyrics and guitar chords. The Setlist includes: - All Shook Up [Elvis Presley] - All You Need Is Love [The Beatles] - Country House [Blur] - Dancing Queen {ABBA] - Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes [Perry Como] - Hey Jude [The Beatles] - Keep On Running [Spencer Davis Group] - King Of The Road [Roger Miller] - Somethin’ Stupid [Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue] - Take On Me [A-Ha] - What A Wonderful World [Louis Armstrong] - You Win Again [The Bee gess] And many more!