Lafe,

Sorry that I lost track of these posts. Life gets busy.

I've been street performing in Seattle since about 1978. That's about when I arrived in the Northwest. There were street performers playing at the Pike Place Market when I first happened into the area.

I recall having seen a street scene kind of like this happening back in Chicago when I lived there. There's an interesting scene in the movie The Blues Brothers that captures some of the feel of the Maxwell Street Market. The movie scene shows John Lee Hooker singing and playing on the street with a small combo.