BAGPIPES brought the stirring sound of Scotland to the streets of Petersfield.
Busker Shaun was in town today (December 15) – appropriately outside the Edinburgh Woollen Mills shop on the High Street playing traditional and festive tunes on his pipes.
Originally from Bristol, but now living in a motorhome outside London, he has been coming to Petersfield at Christmastime for about ten years.
“Most people like to hear the pipes, but you do get the odd one or two who don’t,” said Shaun (46), who started playing at the age of five after a family visit to Scotland.
In more than three decades of busking, he has played in 550 cities and towns in the UK and abroad, including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
A surfer too, he combines busking with following the surf.
In this country, he fares well in places in the south or around the M25, with Basingstoke, bizarrely, his top spot.
He says he has been falsely arrested six times, and has to fend off people who are aggressive. Mostly though, people appreciate the pipes.