Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good night, Luke Hunsberger breaks at least two guitar strings during a five hour performance at Holyoke Center. Each time one pops, he stops his strumming, sometimes says a word or two and pauses for a couple of minutes to fix the string...
Several nights a week, Hunsberger sets up his guitar, microphone and amplifier a little before 7 p.m. in front of the Cambridge Trust Bank. After a short time, people watching the chess master, buying food in Au Bon Pain, or just walking along Mass. Ave. stop, listen, and sometimes begin to dance...
...There's a problem in our society that people don't intermingle well. There's a lot of inhibitions in Harvard Square. It seems to me that a little guitar playing, a little dancing, a little screaming, and people can have some...
Most performers are on the street to earn their living by collecting contributions. Despite working as a lifeguard three times a week at the Central Square YMCA, Kevin McNamara makes most of his money by playing his guitar, harmonica, and mandolin, shaking his maracas, and stomping on his tambourine in front of hundreds of delighted strangers. How well does he do? "It's very therapeutic," McNamara says. "We save a lot on shrinks...
Many performers, however, complain that the enforcement of the current rules by the police is arbitrary. "I have found the Cambridge police to be unworkable," says Hunsberger, who no longer plays his guitar on Cambridge streets. "It's up to the police to enforce the rules and it depends how they feel that day. I don't want to be under their whim...