[Week 14] Tony, The Two-Dollar MUNY Performer.

“Hey! Hey! Give me two dollars if you want to take a photo!” 

“See, you don’t give money to black people!”

Tony “Pots and Pans”

Can you see him? I can’t. Well, at least in this photo. He was sitting against the light. But I have something to say about him. Yes, he is black. That shouldn’t matter. But I guess it mattered to him.

He is one of the performers that Music Under New York (MUNY) has and he was assigned to play at Times Square (4nd Street) subway station. He is the first MUNY performer that I found odd. He asks for money. 2 Dollars to be exact. You have to pay before you can take a photo or a video of him. I do that whenever I take photos of these subway performers but I give wholeheartedly. I felt weird giving money to Tony. For me he was rude. But I gave him two dollars, anyway.  And because there were a lot of people (some tourists) who wanted to take a photo/video of him, he ended up shouting at them and not playing music, the reason why he was on that spot.

This is him shouting:

[Week 12] The music that was never there.

Concert Ukulele

In 2012, I promised myself to try learning something new. I thought of learning how to play the ukulele. I got this concert  ukulele, which cost me more than a hundred bucks; bought some chords guide, too. Well, guess what? It’s true. Promises are made to be broken. I did that with my guitar lessons, too, when I was in high school. And my piano lessons in grade school. I would start something and I will not push through it. Saying that, I realized that it has become a bad habit that I should get rid of. Well, it is never too late.