Piper at the Gates of Dusk

I was walking down Yonge Street after work heading to the subway station. A man in full highlander regalia was playing the bagpipes in front of the Eaton Centre, a slightly different twist on the traditional busker.

I say "slightly different" because one of the coolest aspects of Toronto life is the international flavour of the buskers. I have heard Caribbean steel drum bands, eastern Europe balalaika players, south Asian sitar musicians, Andean guitar-and-pan-flute ensembles, and reggae musicans on the streets of Toronto. And that is just the musicians who readily come to mind.