Video Blog: Welcome To The Krakow Variety Hour (Krakow, Poland)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 7:00AM Not since Venice Beach (pre-kids) or Third Street Promenade (post-kids) have we seen as many good Buskers as we have in the Town Square in Krakow. Wandering the square on our first day we took in accordian duo's, pint-sized girls playing equally pint-sized violins, human statues dressed for the ball, gilded head-to-toe, opera lip syncing artists, and a puppet show featuring an eerily-realistic Michael Jackson and a truly horrifying Celine Dion (Bob thinks that's a redundant statement.) We might have just reduced Krakow to the Lawrence Welk Show -- complete with bubbles!
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Bob and I decided to sit down and relax, and see how long it would take the kids to tire of the bubble man. An hour later - just when we were about to call it three licks to the center of a Tootsie-roll pop, the Bubble Man quit, and our kids came tumbling back to us, soapy and happy.
The best break dancers on the square were wearing t-shirts that caught our eye. We told them that Bob used to work at Warner Brothers. They might have understood what we were saying. We got the picture anyway. They're called the Missionaries Of Rhythm. The act has a lot of great moments, but here's a favorite:
Among the many there are always a few that are just so good they make you bring all your equipment to the same corner of the square the next night, in the hope that they'll be there again, and that they'll let you try to capture their magic in a bottle (or an MP3) For us it's the Rzeskow Klezmer Band. Five young guys who seriously rock the Klezmer.
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Reader Comments (14)
HOORAY!!!! Video, video and more video. Hooray!
Nice work with the two cameras. Bravo. Great music video. It is really fun to be able to travel along with you...
Gerry - we truly love you. We can,t write more cause we.re at Happy hOUR in BUDAPEST AND IT.S A hUNGARIAN COMPUTER. I Can.t find the Y or the comma.
bRENNA AND bOB
Awesome! More cowbell.
Brenna, You look beautiful!
Can you please bring me the dancing-like-nobody-is-watching orange shirted boy? CUTE? YES!
Thanks for the show.
xoxoxoxo
How cool is that?!?!?!!! I love the break dancers, just amazing! I also thinks it is so cool in the timing of things because I have a friend in Krakow right now with a group of missionaries. I am gonna give him the link to this post on his FB. He will love it! Thanks for sharing.
Joie
Wow! Amazing and Wonderful!
Keep Sharing
Peace Out!!
Great stuff!
WOW! That was just great... THANKS! Looks like your all having fun, thanks for letting me tag along LOL...
SO friggin' COOL!
American kids have NO talent by comparison ... (well .. I may be overstating), But VERY cool!
Bob is right.....it is redundent. Beautiful bubbles........Owen and Ella, wish I could have seen the bubble man with you.
The red bass is my favorite.
Nana June
HOW does he do that? No one should be able to spin on their head that long. That is just Crazy, right? LOVE! I might have commented on this before, but the Logo - Oh ...It's just Meant to Be! It's a Sign, Bob ... A Sign!! I also LOVE the first woman in the Bubble Video that is Put Out because she got wet! And - I Love the Litle boy in the Music Video. I had been watching him in the corner and wanting more, and there he was - waving his way across the bricks.
OH ... I just love it all! You guys have such a way of taking us into the moment with you. MORE, MORE!!! : )
nice post. i enjoy every word written there. great performance by Rzeskow Klezmer Band anyway.