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Police will no longer allow Musicians to play on Granville street Friday and Saturday nights!

1 May 2010 6 Comments

Granville Street in front of The Roxy!!!

The police will no longer allow Musicians to play on Granville street Friday and Saturday nights. (The nights that artists make most of their living) They have fined artists ($250 fines!!!!!), are threatening to confiscate instruments and arrest artists. It is beyond time for us to show that the arts community will not be treated in such a way.

We will be hosting a flash mob concert at 9pm in front of The Roxy in protest of the now official “Music Police”, with some of Vancouver most talented coming to perform in support of street music, and performance.

They said stop making music on the street. I refuse. They said the people don’t want musicians on the street. Join us may 14th at 9pm, and show them how wrong they are.

check out current busking laws here

Invite all your friends, and lets gain the power of the people.

Musicians United Against Censorship/ They went too far Join the group here and invite all your friends

Our proposed amendments:

-Allow buskers to make music on Granville Street between Davie and Georgia until 3 am on Fridays and Saturdays.
-Allow musical instruments and amplification on English Bay Between the Hours of 10 AM and 9:30 PM.
-Enforce decibel levels rather than have distinctions between amplified and non amplified music, 90 decibel max From 7 AM tell 11 PM, and 88 decibel max from 11 PM tell 2 AM Fridays and Saturdays. All decibel levels are to be measured at 10 feet from the sound source.

Your rights under the Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/1.html#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_2

Invite all your friends, and lets gain the power of the people.

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  • http://twitter.com/chrisonhismac Chris McGuire

    This isnt censorship…this is noise control. “Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor”.

    This is simple. If the musicians had stayed within the rules of the law regarding noise control then

    As a resident of Granville St, i enjoy the musicians and often give money to them. There is a lot of great talent in Vancouver. I do not enjoy them when they are having bongo drum sessions at 1am with a crowd of drunk people cheering them on. I accept that due to where i live, i will have noise. But there are noise regulations to protect the people who live there and many musicial (and drunks) choose to ignore them.

    Good call i say

  • http://twitter.com/chrisonhismac Chris McGuire

    Got a better idea than a flash mob (lets face it…those rarely work any more…not since Black Eyed Peas did that thing with Oprah).

    Why not form some sort of Street Musician Association. A union if you will of street entertainers. Create a governing set of rules that members must abide by and get a group of names. Take this to the local council and show them that the musicians can be trusted and that banning them is not the answer. Policing yourselves means that the police dont have to which costs money.

    Maybe even speak to local buildings…get the Stratas involved in the discussion.

    Outrage, piss and vinegar isn't the answer…reasonable action and discussion should be the course. If making a living from entertaining on the street is someones choice and they rely on these 2 nights then they have to start thinking responsibly about it.

  • Militaryshouldbedisbanded

    Unf'ckn real….why the fuck am I in the military again? Who am I protecting rights for??? Look out everyone it's the RIOT POLICE….another government embarrassment….funny now all the people are gone from the Olympics time go back to the police state…..amazing how much they embraced the culture during the Olympics guess the cops ain't getting enough over time pay in their banks to cover the asprin they need to actually just do their damn jobs!!!

  • Miss604

    “The police will no longer allow Musicians to play on Granville street Friday and Saturday nights.”

    I'm not sure I follow here (trying to get my head around it so I can re-tweet this). The bylaws say buskers are allowed on Granville on Friday and Saturday nights until 10pm at “busk stops”. Is that a new change or what you're trying to amend?

    Link: http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/streets/retailUse/busking.htm

  • http://www.detailcommunications.com David Schmeikal

    Hi Miss604, I do believe things have changed since this post was put up. The link you have posted is correct in what buskers can and can't do.
    D.