Boston Subway Artists

Sometimes it’s heartening to know that the voice of a community can be heard, and so I’m happy to post this note…r
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Back in November and December when I wasn’t posting, I still collected links that I wanted to eventually put up. One of the links was for a petition to stop the December 1st ban on street performers from practicing their art in the Boston Subway System. As a former student at Berklee College of Music, I’ve long been a fan of the amazing perfomers who practiced their trade in the T Stations in Boston. In fact, world-class musicians such as Tracy Chapman, John Mayer, Martin Sexton and Peter Mulvey cut their teeth in the T Stations.r
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There was a huge outcry on the plan to ban performance, and I’m happy to see that two days after the ban took place, a compromize was reached with the MBTA that allows performances to occur in the Boston subway system.r
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Read about the agreement.r
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Speaking of music in the Boston subway system, singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey recorded his last album in the Davis Street T station.r
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A couple of years ago, NPR interviewed Peter in the very location where Peter recorded the album. Check out the NPR interview