A Vancouver artist whose streetside singing led to a chance encounter with one of the world’s biggest musicians is encouraging aspiring performers to try their hand at busking.
Vancouver singer-songwriter Daniel Lew was busking outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre last September when he had an interaction with pop megastar Ed Sheeran that “was unbelievably surreal,” he said.
Sheeran was in town to perform two shows as part of his global ‘+ – = ÷ x’ Tour when Lew said he experienced an unusual feeling, a “vision or intuition” that the two would somehow connect.
“I thought, ‘I don’t know how this dude is going to see me, but maybe if I go busking by the venue where he’s going to be performing, we’ll cross paths or something.’ It seems so far-fetched, but it’s the idea that had come to my mind,” he said.
Two and a half hours before the …