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Leaning into the microphone in a bar crowded with street musicians yesterday, Baird, executive director of the Community Arts Advocates, railed against a new policy that will prevent many of them from claiming their subway-station stages...
...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...
Markus Nechay, a self-described “jack of all sounds,” who used to perform flute in the subway, came to Boston as a street musician from New York City...
...subway musician Michael Sullivan voices similar sensibilities. “It’s a privilege for the MBTA to have us there, and it’s a right for us to be there,” he cries, turning the conventional phrase on end. The crowd cheers...
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...