Eli Wadley

This is Dillard. He plays on the corner of Church and Market. I see him every Tuesday around 5. Usually he plays one of those keyboards you blow into but now he has this beautiful accordian. I saw him from a block away today. Usually I just say hello but today i had my camera and asked if I could take some photos of him since the colors looked so great together. he launched into this story about how he is nervous to play because he is so out of practice and how an Italian woman once attacked him for playing badly and yelled at him for not respecting the instrument. He asked me to take a picture of him jumping because he likes to see himslef that way since he used to do acrobatics but now he has arthritis and can't move as well. We did a few shots with him jumping with his accordian but they did not really turn out so great.
for some amazing street photos and stories see flickr.com/photos/stoneth/

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