Turn on the news or pick up a paper and there’s bound to be a story about what happens when cultures collide. Usually it’s a highly emotive negative piece about how we can’t all get on. A recent sighting in Forrest Chase left me pondering about an alternate universe.
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| Multicultural Perth Buskers © The Ponder Room |
Emerging at lunchtime from a city tower block, I came across two buskers who’d set up under a shady tree in the Murray Street Mall.
It was the cultural mix which stopped me at first rather than the music … I might be naive but I can’t remember ever seeing an Asian didgeridoo player before.
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| Multicultural Perth © The Ponder Room |
The combination of guitar and didgeridoo worked really well and it wasn’t long before a small crowd formed. Included in the crowd was an Aboriginal family.
They say you can measure the success of an Asian restaurant by the number of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean people eating there. Similarly when the Aboriginal couple started filming the buskers on their phone, I knew it wasn’t just me who’d been seduced by the sounds.
As I threw some money in the hat I noticed they had CD’s for sale, so maybe we might hear them on the airways sometime, rather than just in my alternate universe.
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I saw them and thought exactly the same thing. then I stopped and remembered that you really can’t tell who is aboriginal and who isn’t, true story. I thought when I saw him, ‘bet the aboriginals won’t be happy about that’ I think they are wanting only aboriginal people (dinky dye) to be able to play the didgeyrdoody. Bit like a GVT department really!
They must be regulars if you saw them too.