[Harp-L] Subject: Re:JOHNNY PULEO and the HARMONICA GANG on You Tube/Bud Boblink

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Nonidesign mentions Bud Boblink: (snipped) "I live in the same area  of 
Northwest Indiana as Bud Boblink, a harmonica player from that  tradition,  and 
just happened to see him at a local fair a couple of  years ago. He was set-up 
under a small canopy on the grounds away from the  main stage playing his 
harmonicas, making balloon animals for the kids,  doing magic tricks, cracking 
jokes, and giving a small crowd of maybe  fifteen people a great time. The kids (of 
the video game generation) were  enthralled. They absolutely loved it. He was 
a player, a performer, and  most importantly an entertainer. His outgoing 
personality and easy going  demeanor were so endearing as to seem unreal.  It 
wasn't.  He is  a genuinely nice person who was plying his trade with great skill 
and  working the audience "like ya read about, bubby". 
 
...Bud's still VERY much a part of SPAH.  He was immensely  popular with the 
audiences at the last couple of conventions I attended  (SPAH & the previous 
Buckeye) ...and I was quite taken with his  musicianship and the whole of his 
act, not having known much about him  beforehand...and I've never been one who 
much enjoyed overly  vaudevillian schtick.  Somehow Bud Boblink makes it 
musical and a LOT  of fun on the harmonica...while completely endearing himself to 
the  audience.  Everyone seems to love him at SPAH.
 
Elizabeth 



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