Street Music as Public Service | Gull | TEDxRVA

As an American street musician, Gull traveled to East Africa in 2012 to film “Street Muse: Kenya”-The first in a series of films that will explore street music culture around the world. In his performance and Q&A at TEDxRVA he explains how his travel influences his music and his performance on the street.
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It was filmed and edited by Tijo Media at the Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Arts Center in Richmond, VA.
#streetmusic #busking #performanceart #kenya
Musician Nathaniel Rappole’s solo project, Gull, has been active for 13 years and has recorded extensively and spent the better part of the past six years touring globally. Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts, and RNDM and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Panda Bear, and Melt Banana.
In 2012, Gull was featured in a movie about music in Mexico called Hecho en Mexico, which is available on Netflix. In 2014, he produced, hosted, and performed in Street Muse: Kenya, a documentary on street/public music and culture in Kenya. Rappole graduated from James Madison University with a BS in Psychology (2002) and presently lives in Richmond, VA.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@OurSoloSystem]

Magic to the ears!! Magic in the air!! Just pure magic!!!

[@yiruim]

This should have like a million views :(

[@tiesiss]

no question... I've followed Nate best I could considering his venues are less than published.... amazing human being....

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[@glennhunter7676]

Nathanial is amazing.

[@sexyhomeslice1370]

he’s my uncle not even joking il him so muccchh😭😭 i’m literally so proud of him

[@bassage13]

Your uncle? Nate was my friend in the late 90s back in Front Royal, Virginia. We skated together all the time and went to DC and Baltimore to see live music. I haven't spoken to him in 20 years.

[@thechemist26]

Whats the name of the song he plays after the Kenya vídeo.

[@cyrusf]

Mouth to Match, taken from the 2020 Relative Stranger LP

[@fernly2]

Music of the spheres….the company that build the Three Gorges Dam in China will build a canal from the Congo to Lake Chad…just thought everyone would like to know there is hope for the African desertification taking place.