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Still documenting the people of the street and this time the buskers. Most of Marseilles Street performers are doing it for living. many of them are local and there summer and winter. There is even a complete band, playing in the freezing cold of the winter as well as the humid and hot weather of the summer. Some are passer by trying to earn their penny and off they go. As Marseilles is a beach town and restaurants are everywhere full of tourists we also have the restaurant musician that if you live in the city you probably have heard them countless times.

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People of the streets busking in Marseille

its the 4th story i am releasing of the people of the street. The basking phenomenon isn't new and not unique thought a band of 8 playing...

by amit mendelsohn in France on 12/02/2010

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