Busking at the Cliffs of Moher
The Cliffs of Moher. You crawl to the edge, and your testicles crawl somewhere else. Such is the power of nature and a sheer drop of over seven hundred feet.
See paintings of the Cliffs of Moher by me:
Recently, at the Irish Festival here in Kansas City, and the week before that in Galway, Cork and Dublin, and the week before that in London and Liverpool, the Cliffs of Moher kept coming up in conversations. For many people their first visit is the one that sticks with them forever, and the sun, the wind, the rain, the mist, the crowds, all define it for them. And for some people, so do the buskers.
Clare County Council recently announced it will be inviting interested parties to submit expressions of interest for permission to busk at the site of the new Cliffs of Moher visitor centre project. Earlier this year, there was a bit of hoo-ha when the local authority sought Circuit Court injunctions on sixteen buskers for operating there for it was not simply unauthorised, but also haphazard.
The letter referred to was signed by some musicians you know and love, like Christy Moore, Liam O Maonlai, Donal Lunny, Mary Black, and Luka Bloom - buskers basically. A committment to traditional music seems to be genuine and rules out would-be Boyzone warblers or U2 clones. The ambience you feel when visiting the Cliffs will be acoustic and on a rota system.
Earlier in the week the details of the Busking Licensing Scheme were actually announced, and it seems based on the London Underground’s scheme, so perhaps we can expect Van Morrison in the way Sir Paul McCartney (Beatle himself as my mother calls him despite the other fab three) graced the Tube.
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