[Perform-Talk] The Exciting World of Busking and Other Performances!

Tue Feb 21 14:01:40 UTC 2023

Dear Joshua,

	Thanks for sharing your music! I need to add a few country songs to my repertoire and this might be a good one! Currently the only ones I have are crossover songs, like a couple Kenny rogers and John Denver tunes. I get a lot of requests for Johnny Cash, interestingly from the younger crowd! I like doing "B" side and deep track songs, so any suggestions would be welcome! Keep on picking!

Marion

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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 10:33 PM
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Cc: Joshua Hendrickson <louvins at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Perform-Talk] The Exciting World of Busking and Other Performances!

Hi Marion and all.  I've got a martin d18.  I have done a little busking in the past.  I made around $15 in one hour.  I only got loads of 1 dollar bills which was okay, but not great.  Here is a recording of a song I did on youtube as an entry of a talent contest.  I didn't get in to the contest, but it was cool to get a song up on youtube.
The song is called Don't Let me Cross over.  I hope you all enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQyxKwqWag

On 2/20/23, Annie Davis via Perform-Talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> These are great-thanks for sharing!
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> From: Perform-Talk <perform-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of 
> CHELA Robles via Perform-Talk
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:48 PM
> To: Performing Arts Division list <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: CHELA Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Perform-Talk] The Exciting World of Busking and Other 
> Performances!
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> I finally found the video it’s on my former bandmates page on YouTube. 
> You can make your comments in the email that would be great but this 
> is an original that he wrote and I did mouth trumpet midway through 
> it. You’ll hear it. There’s a subtle difference between the mouth, 
> trumpet and regular trumpet and that the mouth trumpet is softer.
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>  <https://youtu.be/pp7kw4qSB6w> Smooth feat Chela Robles
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>  <https://youtu.be/pp7kw4qSB6w> youtu.be
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> I did have my singing debut at the Concord Kraule, which was formally 
> called Concord. Art wine beer walk in 2017 when I sat in with this 
> guitarist name Jimmy Phelps, and there is a story about that how that 
> happened in the story goes like this:
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> I was at rehearsal with Jimmy Phelps and the organizer of the music. 
> Mary Elliot and I was trying really hard to figure out what I was 
> supposed to play on the trumpet and how I do that is I sing what I’m 
> supposed to play and I did not know that Mary heard me and she’s in 
> told me that I was gonna be singing and that’s how it happened
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> Anyway, I have a video of that as well. It has video and photos in one 
> sort of a video file kind of like a slideshow. I don’t know itself as 
> well after the music ends. Thanks to Nicholas Chase and Jamie Valladao 
> two of my awesome friends back in 2017 but there was a very loud 
> fountain so you could barely hear my vocals but I didn’t know K job. I 
> have that video if you’re interested in that as well but it is in an 
> m2t format which plays well with vlc media player and iphone.
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> On Feb 20, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Marion & Martin via Perform-Talk 
> <perform-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:perform-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:
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> BTW, I really liked these recordings. I didn’t know there were 
> different types of mouthpieces that effect the tone of the horn! Good thing to know!
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> Peace!
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> Marion
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> From: Perform-Talk <perform-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> <mailto:perform-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> > On Behalf Of CHELA Robles 
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> Cc: CHELA Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com <mailto:cdrobles693 at gmail.com> 
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> Subject: Re: [Perform-Talk] The Exciting World of Busking and Other 
> Performances!
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> For future reference my name is spelled with one l not two. C h e l a.
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> Chela Robles
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 20, 2023, at 12:56 PM, CHELA Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com 
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> I stated earlier in a message thread about Melissa‘s introduction 
> that I have been using studio recorder to record my trumpet. in fact, 
> I’ve got a Christmas album that I did just using that software. It’s 
> available on band camp. Here is the link. I also have other 
> recordings. I’ve done that I’ve done with my iPhone playing live music 
> with other people. The we’re with you gig that I also mentioned I did that with studio recorder.
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> Christmas With Chela which was done with Studio Recorder from A.P.H.
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> <https://chelarobles.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-with-chela-5> 
> Christmas With Chela, by Chela Robles
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> <https://chelarobles.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-with-chela-5>
> chelarobles.bandcamp.com
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> Here’s just my segment from the year with you benefit that several of 
> us participated in also done with studio recorder.
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> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vt4iptbf8x33d9/Blind%20With%20You%20Chela%
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> Blind With You Chela Robles Trumpet Samba De Veraó.mp3
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> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vt4iptbf8x33d9/Blind%20With%20You%20Chela%
> 20Robles%20Trumpet%20Samba%20De%20Vera%C3%B3.mp3?dl=0>
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> Here’s a cover I did of Kacey Musgraves rainbow. That’s one of the 
> songs that the president of the NFB of California chapter likes and 
> heard me play life in 2019 when it was in Northern California in person.
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> Blind With You Chela Robles Trumpet Samba De Veraó.mp3
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> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vt4iptbf8x33d9/Blind%20With%20You%20Chela%
> 20Robles%20Trumpet%20Samba%20De%20Vera%C3%B3.mp3?dl=0>
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> On Feb 20, 2023, at 5:25 AM, Marion & Martin via Perform-Talk 
> <perform-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:perform-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:
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> Dear Chella and All,
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>   I would love to hear a little of your trumpet skills. Technology 
> would allow us to work on projects no matter where one is in the 
> world. Do you have any rcording software and gear we might use to 
> collaborate if the need arises? I am starting to market the recording 
> studio I built. After my next busking cart message, I think I might 
> write a messag about how I built my recording booth!
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> Peace!
> Marion
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> <mailto:perform-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> > On Behalf Of CHELA Robles 
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> Subject: Re: [Perform-Talk] The Exciting World of Busking and Other 
> Performances!
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> I have an Enya travel acoustic guitar it is carbon fiber and looks 
> like a Less Paul one. It is all black too. I started to learn a little 
> bit during the holiday season last year. I have a Yamaha P105 keyboard 
> and a Bach trumpet. I used to have a Yamaha trumpet and I have two 
> carol brass pocket trumpet one bigger than the other and the other is a mini pocket trumpet.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 19, 2023, at 6:30 PM, Daryl Swinson via Perform-Talk 
> <perform-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:perform-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:
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> Marion,
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> Congratulations on your busking success! :) I only just started
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> playing guitar a year ago. Busking would be something cool to work
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> towards. Please continue with this conversation topic!
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> Also, what kind of Martin acoustic do you play? What other guitars do
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> you have? Could you share a website with your music? Are you on
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> youtube?
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> I'm still taking weekly guitar lessons, and will be getting back to
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> some singing lessons in March. I purchased an Orangewood guitar, the
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> least expensive solid-top model in mahogany as a starter guitar a year
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> ago. I'm looking at Taylors right now, the 517E and 614CE. But right
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> now those are aspirational purchases, once I feel like I've improved
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> enough to be worthy of such an instrument. *LOL*
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> On 2/19/23, Marion & Martin via Perform-Talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org 
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> Dear All,
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>              My life has taken an unexpected turn and, in doing so,
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> I have committed myself to doing more with my music. I have been
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> performing professionally since I was 16 years old and most of that
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> time has been as a solo entertainer. My stage name is what you see in
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> my display name - Marion & Martin. (I play a Martin acoustic guitar.)
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> I use a phrase a reporter who interviewed me once used to describe my
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> music: Acoustic rock with a beach flair!
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>              I recently began busking in Tampa, Florida. For those
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> who don't know what busking is, it is street performing.
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> When I say "recently", I mean like on January 28! Tampa has an annual
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> celebration of a mythical pirate invasion which draws more than
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> 300,000 people. It is a nod to this celebration as to why our
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> football team is called Buccaneers! In one hour of performing, I made
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> $91! My next busking experience was last Thursday! Tampa has an
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> entertainment district much like the French Quarter of New Orleans 
> called Ybor (pronounced "E-bore")City.
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> Ybor has more than 80 bars in about a 10 square block area and you
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> can find any style of music and lifestyle there. I didn't do quite as
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> well then, coming home with $31.50! I learned a few lessons from this
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> experience and want to share them with anyone who is busking or who
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> is interested in busking, too.
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>              Unsure of how I would be received or, more accurately,
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> if I was going to be told by law enforcement to move on, I kept it 
> very simple.
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> All I took was my guitar and a tip jar. My first advice is to have an
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> actual tip jar. Lots of buskers use their instrument cases but one
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> good breeze could distribute your tips along the sidewalk. I bought a
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> clear plastic food container at Dollar Tree. Use a clear, uncolored
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> container so people can see the money in it. Put a rock or some other
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> heavy object in the bottom to keep the jar from blowing away, too!
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> You can also put some flour or sand in a zip lock baggie to make it
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> bottom-heavy! I feed my tip jar with $10 - two singles folded
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> together, three singles folded together, and one $5.00 bill.
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> I face the $5.00 bill open and facing outward so it can be seen.
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> Again, this is a subtle subliminal message to your audience of the
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> type of tip to give.
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> When I perform in bars, I always have my business cards near my tip
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> jar and make a few announcements about tipping the wait staff and the
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> musician. One of the funny ways I use to solicit tips is to say, "You
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> may not know this about me but I collect pictures of dead presidents,
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> like Washington, Lincoln, and Jackson. One of my favorite presidents 
> is Benjamin franklin!"
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> (I have gotten several $100 tips in the past! I also say, "As you
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> give a tip, take a card!" One thing I have learned from my years of
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> performing is to put my cards near my tip jar. I have cut a hole in
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> the top of the plastic jar and have attached a business card holder
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> to it with Velcro. Their hands are inches from my business cards as
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> they give me tips and they are more likely to take one. The vice
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> versa is true, as well! If they want a business card, they are close
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> to the tip jar and are more likely to drop some money in as they grab
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> a card!
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>              My business cards are also ways to give tips! On the
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> back of my business cards it says, "Please consider supporting my
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> music by sending a tip via Zelle to the phone number on this card."
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> Many people do not carry cash and the electronic format is a great
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> way to facilitate their tipping.
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> In addition, tips sent by Zelle are more generous than the ones given
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> in person. Another little trick I use is to Braille my stage name on
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> the cards.
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> This minor detail gives my cards a life of their own, as people will
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> share your card with others because of the uniqueness of Braille. One
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> final word on business cards: Underneath the above invitation to tip
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> via Zelle is an invitation to subscribe to my mailing list so they
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> can find out where I will be performing. Many venues want to know if
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> we have a following and telling them I have almost 200 people on my
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> mailing list is an incentive to hire me!
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> My NFB chapter friends often come out to my gigs, as do some of my
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> church friends!
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> This has been a very long message and, if you are still reading this,
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> I appreciate your attention! My original idea was to share how I
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> built a busking cart but I will do that later this week! If you have
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> any questions or have some comments you would like to share about
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> your performances, please do so! We are here to support each other in
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> all our endeavors! I look forward to hearing from some of you!
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> Fraternally yours,
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> Marion Gwizdala
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> Marion & Martin
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