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MAYOR GAVIN NEWSON:
"Those who are outside entertaining, doing so in a respectful manner.
They have the right to do that, and we should embrace that as a society." |
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FORMER MAYOR WILLIE BROWN: "These people are
performing artists, and their venue just happens
to be the streets, and they're doing just an excellent job of making the streets of
San Francisco interesting by sharing their art." |
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DR. JENNY MICHAEL (ethnic arts specialist):
"We don't have a lot of respect for performers on
the street as that context frames them, as a friend of mine would say, 'an odd sort of beggar.' They
see themselves as unfound. They imagine themselves on the edge. [Performing on a stage in
front of an audience] lends them legitimacy and visibility. It lets people, who would not
ordinarily see them perform on the street, discover them." |
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DAN HAL "I think I was in kindergarten;
I heard my first choir, the Elmhurst Choir came and I was listenin' and I said, 'Ooo, I gotta do that.
That's what I wanna do.'" |
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ALEX WHITE: "It's a ministerial tool that
God uses to put his message on the street.
Hey, I'm proud to be a servant of God. And that's real. That's real." |
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RICK CLARK: "People be goin' to work,
comin' from work, goin' to the theater, comin' from the theater, and they don't have time to stand there
to listen to us and appreciate, so. . . we put four songs together in a medley type of arrangement
so folks can hear a part of it." |
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LARRY GLENN: "To make an acapella group,
you have to have a certain blend, and we're just
lucky enough to have that blend; and if we do nothing else together, we can sing together.
It's just a gift, I guess, a gift from God is what it is."
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BOSCOE COLEMAN: "When I first came to San Francisco,
I was homeless, and straight up that hill there's a church with a park across the street. I was sleepin'
there with a big sleeping
bag and a blanket. I didn't have no radio, so I used to sing myself to sleep. One day, Dan walked by and
came over and he said,
"I thought that was the radio." I said, "Man, it's just me. . . and I said, If he could
get paid singin',
well I could sing . . . . I could
do harmony. I did it with my brothers, but I never sang in public." |
 | EARL
GADSDEN: "Yes, BAY CITY LUV loves you.
We try to show that love with the music that we bring.
Your listening ear is a very good reason to sing. God bless you and thank you." |
