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...target of Baird’s ire was the MBTA Subway Performers program, which, as of Dec. 1, bans amplified performances and several acoustic instruments, imposes a dress code for performers, and establishes 25 other counts of MBTA authority over the musicians. Many street musicians, like Baird, consider this an assault to their professional lives and their personal freedoms...
Squeezing into murkily lit booths at the Middle East bar, which an employee had donated to the cause, the group could be posing for an overcrowded Van Gogh canvas. Baird fusses with poster boards containing his hand-written agenda before taking the microphone...
...task ahead is quite substantial,” he says, drawing out the syllables ominously. Though frequently lamenting the brevity of the meeting—the first to be held since the proposal went public Nov. 12—Baird, who has been an advocate of street musicians since he and his audience were arrested during a 1979 performance on Boston Common, sets aside a few minutes for the guests to identify themselves...
Moving briskly through the history of Boston street performance—dwelling fondly on the halcyon days of the Music Under Boston program, which promoted subway performance until 1986—Baird began discussing the terms of the new Subway Performers Program, describing the document as “full of contradictions and slander...
...It’s not just about amplification, it’s about outright censorship,” Baird says. “It’s not just a musicians’ issue...