Street Musicians - Moments from「Americas」🎵🎵🎵 | 街头演奏「美洲版」

A week ago, I posted my photo collection of street musicians from Europe. Now let's take a look at some others I captured during my travels in the Americas. They are from the US, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and Cuba.

Unlike the buskers in my previous post, some of them here are not street musicians in the sense of performing in public for tips. Instead, they are simply having fun while practising for a show or playing at a festival.

In the Brazilian city of Salvador, two local vendors were playing berimbau and drums in a square while also selling the instruments. I bought a colourful wooden berimbau from them and practised a little. It was not as easy for me as it was for them. They could make beautiful music out of it, whereas I could only make random noises.XD

The berimbau is a single-string percussion bow that is popular in Brazil. It has been incorporated into the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. The capoeirista moves faster as the music gets faster. I've also seen Brazilian immigrants performing capoeira in European cities, which appears to be a fun art form.

A Peruvian pan flute was another instrument I tried my hands (and mouth) on in magical South America. If you've ever been to the Andes, you know how perfectly enchanting music like El Condor Pasa fits into the pipes and the magnificent mountains. In Peru, I saw street musicians playing pan flutes and purchased folk music CDs from them. But I can't seem to find photos of them... maybe I didn't take any at the time.

一周前发了几组欧洲街头演奏的摄影，现在继续上一些美洲的。这些照片拍自美国、阿根廷、智利、玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔、巴西和古巴。

不同于上一篇里的街头卖艺，这次中的一些只是在练习或者为节庆而演奏。其中一位厄瓜多尔的表演人还一边唱歌一边吃瓜，我还是第一次见呢。

在巴西北部城市萨尔瓦多，两个当地的乐器小贩在广场上演奏木制贝林堡琴。这种乐器只有一根弦，比二胡还少。我从他们那里买了一把，也跟着学了一点儿。他们可以弹奏出美妙的音乐，而我只能拨弄出随机的噪音XD。

贝林堡琴在巴西不难见到，常用来伴奏非裔巴西人的武术卡波耶拉。弹得越快，武术的动作就越快。在一些欧洲大城市，我也目睹过几次巴西移民表演这种武术，有着舞蹈的韵味。

在神奇的南美，我还试了另一种乐器秘鲁排箫。如果你也去过安第斯山，就会明白这种悠远迷人的乐声是多么契合那深沉苍莽的群山。记得在秘鲁街头看到过艺人吹奏这种排箫，还买了他们的民乐CD我这古老的灵魂啊。但现在却找不着相关的照片，也许那时候没有拍照吧。

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