A tour of the Old Town musicians

  • 1999-07-22
  • Diana Kudayarova
And he decided to run to the town of Bremen where he heard many bands playing; and he had no doubt he had musical talent and could become a street musician."There starts the tale of The Town Musicians, by the Brothers Grimm and maybe that's where our tale starts too.The phenomenon of street performers was born in Europe during the Middle Ages. Who knows, maybe the first musicians to play on the streets of Riga were the traveling bands from Bremen, right out of the famous story.Many things have changed since then. There have been wars, fires, the occupation; the walls that once seemed eterna...
 
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