Buskerville

abouttobebanned

So..what if...every day or every other day...John Roberts square became Buskerville after 6pm. Different musicians and entertainers doing their bit to try and attract some people to the ghost town that it becomes.

Too crazy? Of something that other towns would look at with envy?

Jason Todd

On first glance it seems like a great idea... I'm sure some people will be along with reasons why it shouldn't happen, noise pollution etc.

Seriously though, it could work, maybe a buskers permit type situation so the place wasn't clogged and people weren't fighting over a particular space?


Edit: I think Killarney have something similar once a year where the place fills with buskers but the money collected goes to charity.

CardBordWindow

But is it not the reason to go busking, to try earn a bit of money. It'll be hard to encourage buskers down, when as OP said, it's ghost town. Little chance of making much money.

abouttobebanned

But if people knew that every evening after 6 there would be some activity they would head down. Soon you could have market stalls...I dunno...I think it could have potential for an may-September type of thing.

CardBordWindow

It's a great idea in fairness, but i reckon you'd need support from a lot of musicians to get a buzz going about it.
If the weather was good, it'd be great to hang around red square listening to music.

Jason Todd

abouttobebanned wrote: »

But if people knew that every evening after 6 there would be some activity they would head down. Soon you could have market stalls...I dunno...I think it could have potential for an may-September type of thing.

It'd be great in theory, but the market thing, I dunno... it's near to impossible to get a stall in Red Square on a Saturday, the council are so strict about it as it is... I'd love to see it though! Anyone have any idea of what's needed to be done to get something like this started?

abouttobebanned

And I think there are dozens of musicians that would be interested. And performers of all kinds.

Jason Todd

Would it be too late to start something for this year I wonder? What would be the relevant dept. in the Council to talk to... arts I suppose?

ziedth

I started a thread couple of years ago about turning the city centre into a mini larambla (in Barcalona) have a committee pick say even a dozen acts over Sunday evening. Could be dance,busking,mime and so on. Only top quality like. Kinda thing that might bring people into town.

membersonly

ziedth wrote: »

I started a thread couple of years ago about turning the city centre into a mini larambla (in Barcalona) have a committee pick say even a dozen acts over Sunday evening. Could be dance,busking,mime and so on. Only top quality like. Kinda thing that might bring people into town.

Bit of mime would be savage alright, bring it on I say.

deisedave

abouttobebanned wrote: »

But if people knew that every evening after 6 there would be some activity they would head down. Soon you could have market stalls...I dunno...I think it could have potential for an may-September type of thing.

If there was some traffic going through some shops might even open later.

longshanks

The Hound of the Buskervilles

cocoshovel

Only if we make them audition. Too many bad buskers in Waterford.

Psychedelic

City Council's Summer in the City Programme, all through summer, on Fridays and Saturdays anyway:
http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/WaterfordCity%20SummerProg.xls

abouttobebanned

It's a good, and expensive start...it's the midweek that's the problem tho