KEITH { BALLOONATIC }

He also goes by, "THE GREAT WILSONI".

This guy is incredible he’s been out there a long time workin new york city and New Orleans.

A real veteran the old timers all know him. Good friends with sonny holliday.

His show is real new york style. He does stage stuff like passe passe bottles, linking rings and finales with a interesting finale where he ties up a man and a woman who don’t know each other and plays music to them trying to get out, it’s a sort of a puzzle thing. When they can’t get out he tells the audience he’s gonna show everybody how to get them out but before he does this finale, he hats them with a plastic grocery bag.




The guy looks and sounds like sammy davis jr. and literally reaks of class, he definatley has the royal touch, holds himself like a gentleman but there is no one on the street with more street smarts.

He is a circle show performer, but can do sidewalks. He used to get me to open his show with my show then he’d give me a cut at the end.

I watched him once build a crowd, was the coolest thing ever, he would anounce his show on an amp walking around telling his intro with vegas style music in the background then all of a sudden the music got interrupted by Chinese music and he would look like he went into a trance and using a lota bowl he would pour out water the full length of the edge saying, “water from china ladies and gentleman water from china.” the music would change back to vegas and he would go back to his show then through out the show the music would go Chinese again and he would do it again pouring water from china with a hypnotic voice and face, over and over……and that’s gotta be the best use of a lotta bowl I’d ever seen.


Here’s some clips of him doin a little sidewalk work. these are some clips I got of him off the you tube. but they in no way do him the justice he deserves.

He's right at the end of this one.





here's the tail end of his ring routine;




Keith is a good friend, a real magician, a veteran busker, and most of all the most stand up guy I know on the street.



Here's what Keith says about his teacher;

Hi there, this is for Albert Owens.
I brushed shoulders with a genius a linguistic genius of words,wits and comedy. Some considered him the king of the park(Washington Square Pk), I know I did. He was a great entertainer, a comedian with no match. Everybody copied him and his comic humor. who at a drop of a dime could play the blues , R & B, or classical music on his guitar, harmonica or piano (who knew). He was the Lenny Bruce of the 80s 90s. Washington Square Pk had a few great acts, his was tops, He loved life and hated few, always had a bad word for someone but meant no harm, I am very much indebted the the man Albert George Owens, He took me under his wings and taught the ropes I owe much to this man larger than life. God Bless