Hey all,
As we said in our last newsletter (sign up here), The Busking Project is pretty-much the opposite of a slick marketing campaign, and the fact that we’re still here is an insult to the entire marketing profession.
Still, our dream is to become a platform where street performers (and their fans) come to digest all the latest news and entertainment in the world of busking.
Step 1 is, of course, to lessen the impact of the waffling I do here by adding new voices.
So, we’ve just hired two new writers and a community manager to help realise this dream (read: drown me out). Hooray, new team members!
Dawn Dreams, Community Manager
First up, Dawn Dreams, who has worked with us on-and-off for the last four years or so. Dawn is a street performer – a golden human statue, tennis-loving clown, and a contact juggler. She is a social media addict who will be updating all the various profiles and keeping the new writers hopping with assignments. She is currently on a European busking tour and is writing in a bi-weekly column to the Flow Arts Institute.
LeAndra Langhorne, Staff Writer
LeAndra Langhorne is a proud Brooklynite, but just embarked on a 4-month exchange program in Australia. She is a college senior studying English and communications who is writing a musical and tutoring students on the side. She plans on taking the advertising world by storm. When she’s not planning her take over she’s binge watching Friends, posting about it on Twitter, and scrambling another pair of eggs….all of which are essential to her sanity.
Sean McGowan, Staff Writer
Sean McGowan is a writer and recovering singer/songwriter from Brighton, Massachusetts. He was raised on Billy Joel albums and Stephen King novels, and remains a sucker for very sad folk songs. He’s currently pulling together a collection of short fiction, and contributes a bi-weekly column to The Heights.
Isadora Frost, Mixed Media
Isadora is a body artist; she holds degrees in theater and Performance Art in Brazil, and in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute. As a street performer herself, she knows buskers’ needs first-hand. Isadora will be creating beautiful videos for us – we’re getting back to our roots!
Let us know what kind of stuff you’d like to read about.
Thanks,
Nick
(happily no longer TBP’s only voice)