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Photo: Shirtless traditional (near side) and shirted bucket drummer (circled – far side)
It might as well have been a weeknight on NBC (America’s Got Talent) when we caught these dueling downtown drummers within earshot of each other one weekend. Shirtless drummer…solid rock four-four punctuated by an occasional jazz rhythm – check. Bucket drummer…go-go beat – check. Audience…walking around on the street – check. All that was missing were Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff.
Photo: Bucket drummer (zoomed in)
Maybe U2 will set up above SpyNaco Plaza (anyone have a better name for our PQ town square?) and shoot a Where The Streets Have No Name Remix video from the National Portrait Gallery porch overlooking F Street. Heck, an impromptu Fall Out Boy, LL Cool J or Nickelback show would do just fine. Any promoters out there listening? Or at least The ‘Hoff?
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I like it #1. Maybe we can pool our lunch money & buy the naming rights:
“PQ Square brought to you by Penn Quarter Living”
Not exactly a Square, but the wide sidewalk and the way F Street sort of juts south a few feet at 9th and then back north a few feet at 7th does give it a square-like feeling, especially when they occasionally close off the street during the Holiday thing and a few other times.
Only in this sorry city can someone set up a full set of drums in a public space and noise-pollute the air. I avoid 7th street and stopped patronizing merchants there some time back because of the bucket drummers, megaphones and general mayhem. And now this. This piece should have been about what’s wrong with our little slice of the city.
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Re: SpyNaco Plaza
How about
Portrait Plaza
Spy Square
PQ Square
PQ Plaza