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Show The Buskers to Perform Sunday at Pleasant Grove Community Center Buskers are known as street musicians, who perform mainly in city stairwells and subway tunnels. However, on Sunday evening, the Buskers will perform per-form in the wide open spaces of the east lawn at the Pleasant Grove Community Center, 547 S. Locust Ave. The concert begins be-gins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Whenever The Buskers perform, per-form, fun is the order of the day. Their tight, hard-driving style of folk harmony and quick-witted humor have delighted audiences audi-ences in the Utah County area for many years. If you want to remember when music was fun, The Buskers are your brand of band. The Buskers, and bassist Doc Taylor, are folk musicians whose repertoire ranges from Irish and Scottish sea chanties chan-ties of the early 1800's to folk tunes of the 1950's and 60's. Their music is drawn from that of such renowned groups as The Limeliters, The Kingston Trio, The Clancy Brothers and the Chad Mitchell Trio, among others - always with their own stamp born of many years of musicianship by each of the band's members, who have been The Buskers since 1987. Their resume includes openings for the Four Freshman, the Everly Brothers, the Kingston Trio, an appearance at the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, and several appearances at the Scera Shell. The Buskers are Scott "Feedback" Norton: Scott performs per-forms on guitar and occasionally occasion-ally banjo, and doubles as sound man - to get that squeal in the monitor just right; Lon "The Performer" Keith: Player of the tenor guitar, tambourine, and the dreaded conga drum. Lon is also an actor of some repute who has appeared in numerous local stage productions; Steve "Fingers" Hayes: Picker of the five string banjo and 12 string guitar, and keeper of the musical musi-cal keys. Steve has become truly tru-ly expert at positioning the capo at lightning speed; Doc "Doc" Taylor: Bassist and humorist extraordinaire. Doc's credits include in-clude writing and arranging for many other performance events, musicians and groups. The quality of Doc's voice has oft-times oft-times been compared to singing. He is, as are all bass players, very cool. |