Street Pianos! "Play Me, I'm Yours" Art Projects Puts Pianos On Streets Of NYC.

If you want to check out a guy playing on Coney Island Boardwalk scroll to bottom link.

Play Me, I’m Yours: New York City 2010

“Play Me, I’m Yours” is an artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008.

Presented in NYC with Sing for Hope, 60 pianos were installed in public parks, streets and plazas in June 2010. Like a creative blank canvas, the pianos were there for any member of the public to play and engage with.

This website was made for you to post and share your films, photos and stories about the pianos. There have been over 1600 uploaded so far! See highlights. Whilst connecting the pianos and communities across the city the website acts as a legacy for the artwork in NYC. At its peak this site had 100,000 hits in one day! Following the installation, the majority of the pianos were donated to local schools and community groups.

http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/






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If only cities spent as much funding art centers and projects as they do sports.


Guy Playing Piano on Coney Island Boardwalk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-ygE-liCw

One more pix-

Rec

There's something about The Arts that never fails to engage people of all ages, sexes and backgrounds.

I noticed that myself when painting in public - people just stop and get lost in the strokes of a brush or pastel stick for a period of time. For a moment or 10 minutes, they can get lost in someone's creativity and let go of whatever baggage they may be carrying around. Who knows, maybe even carry a piece of that creativity with them so they can explore their own artistic side.

Coolness!

http://www.youtube.com/user/pianoweatherman#p/u/10/8AS6EIw6QGU

What a guy! My best friend for 25+ years.

on another open window- he's up to the Maple Leaf Rag :)

Thousands of women have been after him for decades. Hey, he's Italian, too!

He's a professional piano player who also is a meteorologist.

I swear this just so good of an idea! Tell your friend he's the bombdiggity!

Pardon my corniness!

user name pianoweatherman

Get in line. I can only use the line that one of Frank Sinatra's wives used: "the Mercedes of men."

Jesus.

Not many children are good enough to entertain with their playing.

And anyway, the OP says "Following the installation, the majority of the pianos were donated to local schools and community groups".

Jesus.

Denver has done this on their 16th Street Mall.

Painted Pianos Making Musical Moments on Mall

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_15213687

snip...

Community is as simple as a group of people sharing something publicly. Commerce isn't the only reason to make public spaces more beautiful. And music — or least the desire to create and share it — is universal.

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Way cool...

Music has always played a part on Denver's 16th Street Mall, that tree-lined corridor of diamond-shaped granite slabs that has acted as downtown's pedestrian spine for nearly three decades.
But between the manufactured angst blaring from garish eateries like the Hard Rock Cafe, and the acoustic anthems of gutter-punk guitarists, drummers, saxophone players and other street performers, there's a relatively new sound: the plinking of piano keys.
"We're always looking for things that really give people some spontaneous enjoyment on the 16th Street Mall," said Susan Rogers-Kark, vice president of the Downtown Denver Partnership, "something they wouldn't normally see somewhere else."
The partnership has found it in


Read more: Painted pianos making musical moments on mall - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_15213687#ixzz1Qdc2gJoJ
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