During the pandemic I spent a lot of time looking at YouTube and came across a variety of street musicians. Piano Boogie Woogie, in particular.
Here are 2 boogie woogie videos of Henri Herbert, a maestro of the keyboard, in a UK railway station and a French railway station.
The 3rd is of Jörg Hegemann + Stefan Ulbricht in a German bar. Toe tapping entertainment.
So many other examples of really excellent street musicians on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86nJUHrJ1E
this is glorious stuff…
@graham can you link this through to "music to lighten the mood… " please
If that’s alright with @Bonzocat
cheers
there’s no category for that I can see @Stella
That’s OK by me Sunbeam - wasn’t sure where to post it.
ah… found a topic from some time ago…
Hi Bonzocat… it’s a long-standing musical thread, that’s all… it’s somewhere I (and anyone) can find a great collection of all sorts…
@Stella @Bonzocat I changed the Category of “Music to lighten the mood” to Culture as well (from Small Talk) and the two are now linked…
The initiative to put pianos in public spaces was an inspired one! Years back I would crawl off the first Eurostar in London to get to work for the week, and every now and then there was a piano player up early and playing. It made my day.
Here are my favourite street performers. I don’t think you could find them anywhere but France!
love watching Dr K…
Just enjoyed watching the Edinburgh Tattoo 
Flawless…!
I wouldn’t be surprised if pianists get repetitive strain injuries…
That reminded me….a while back I watched the C4 series ‘The Piano’. Mika and Lang Lang, both of whom I think are great, selected street (station) piano players for a concert.
All were impressive but this little girl completely floored everyone.
And this is the concert at Royal Festival Hall
I think the full series is still available.
Down New Orlean’s way…
From New Orleans to Anglet, Biarritz, France….pity about the weather…
Boogie Woogie’s Brendan Kavanagh looks a little breathless, keeping up the pace…long session!
What an amazing thread, how come I keep finding new stuff on this site? All the piano players simply blow me away, I love boogie woogie and was once coached by a friend at school who went on to have a successful career as a rock singer. When I say ‘coached’ I mean that he tried very hard to show me how to do the rythm with the left hand. No need to say that I was rubbish but it makes me wonder how many guitar pluckers making big money have hidden talents also.
I have no words for the blind girl. Well, only one, ‘emotional’. I was speechless.
What a cracking pianist is that Brendan Kavanagh 
As for Lucy - well all I can say, if God exists, s/he did make one remarkable human being. Unfortunately s/he had an awful lot of bad days without a clue what s/he was making 