Hello, visitors! Something happened today that I’ve wanted to happen for years. I’ve tried a couple of times in the past to involve street musicians (including a busker playing the cello in London) in NSH, but it never worked out. Until today.
Today I ran into a street musician playing a violin outside a grocery store in Orange County, California. I whipped out my phone, thumbed through a few works of art in the NSH collection, and showed him Monique Stevens’ stark, haunting photo of an eerie-looking tree under an angry-looking sky. I asked him to improvise something inspired by the photo. He obliged immediately, whipping up an equally stark and eerie violin tune, and was well-tipped. He asked to go by the name Rainbow Hair, so I’m calling his piece Rainbow Hair’s Improv. It pairs with Monique’s photo extremely well.
See (and hear) for yourself by heading to The Thread That Somehow Includes Both Hot Weather And Penguins. You won’t be sorry.