{"id":2678,"date":"2010-12-17T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2010-12-17T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:22:44","slug":"images-of-the-world-the-street-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/images-of-the-world-the-street-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of the World: The Street Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a fascinating collage of cultures, each with its own traditions, customs and history, which gives them a  uniqueness and sets them apart from all of the others. But the more we travel the more we find that so many things are the same and we are more united by our similarities than divided by our differences. In our series, <em>Images of the World<\/em>, we group our similarities to enjoy them and appreciate their cultural differences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Street Musicians:<\/strong> No matter where you are in the world, everyone enjoys music, and entertainment provided by street musicians is universal.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>In Iquitos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/peru\/\">Peru<\/a>, a musician plays <em>huayno<\/em> music, the traditional music of the Andes, on his mandolin.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-peru.jpg\" alt=\"A Peruvian musician plays huayno music on his mandolin.\" title=\"A Peruvian musician plays huayno music on his mandolin.\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>A Tarahumara musician, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coppercanyontours.com\/\">Mexico&#8217;s Copper Canyon<\/a>, plays guitar for visitors.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-copper-canyon.jpg\" alt=\"Tarahumara guitar player in Mexico's Copper Canyon\" title=\"Tarahumara guitar player in Mexico's Copper Canyon\" width=\"300\" height=\"414\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>In Sydney, Australia, a colorful street-musician entertains passers-by.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-australia.jpg\" alt=\"A street musician in Sydney, Australia\" title=\"A street musician in Sydney, Australia\" width=\"300\" height=\"431\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>A street violinist plays on a Budapest bridge on the Danube River.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-hungary.jpg\" alt=\"Street violinist in Budapest, Hungary.\" title=\"Street violinist in Budapest, Hungary.\" width=\"300\" height=\"406\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/patagonia\/\">Argentina<\/a>, the tango is extremely popular, and in Buenos Aires, Argentina&#8217;s capital, street music takes the form of tango dancing.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-tango.jpg\" alt=\"Street tango dancers in Buenos Aires.\" title=\"Street tango dancers in Buenos Aires.\" width=\"300\" height=\"324\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>In Chiang Mai, Thailand, a street musician entertains at the annual flower festival.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-thailand.jpg\" alt=\"Street musician at Chiang Mai flower festival\" title=\"Street musician at Chiang Mai flower festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/calnative images\/musicians-czech-combo.jpg\" alt=\"Street musicians in Prague, Czech Republic.\" title=\"Street musicians in Prague, Czech Republic.\"width=\"480\" height=\"285\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>A Street quartet plays classical music outside of the Prague Castle in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a fascinating collage of cultures, each with its own traditions, customs and history, which gives them a uniqueness and sets them apart from all of the others. But the more we travel the more we find that so many things are the same and we are more united by our similarities than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/images-of-the-world-the-street-musicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Images of the World: The Street Musicians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,44,150,93,90],"tags":[241,245,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}