Barbara Walker & Byard Lancaster LIVE @ John Coletran Festival Philadelphia

[Randy Watson]

Down in the cold canyon of Center City , Philadelphia PA, on Chestnut Street there is often music in the midday air. Vying for interest and the passing dollar, various performers work their different styles. With luck, a passerby turned listener near 17th Street or sometimes 15th or Broad,may hear Coltrane's "Naima" played with marked facility and perhaps curiously medleyedwith "Frere Jacque", meaning Byard Lancaster's doing his 'street thing'. Author, educator,multi-instrumentalist, collaborator with many of the world's finest musicians, wheeling outhis craft in the noon day sun. Hard luck? No thanks, just working a different field today,planting new seeds, bringing on the spirit, 'everybody's talkin bout a new way of walkin'.Music is a way of life.