Index of Street Performers
Jeffrey Sighting Antoine
Performs: Steel drum.

From: Trinidad & Tobago. Antoine arrived in New York in the 1970s, and has been playing in the subways and streets since 1990. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Favorite Spots: Broadway-Nassau Street and Franklin Avenue subway stations.

Best Day's Take: $100 and change. He plays four or five days a week, four to five hours per day.

Claim To Fame: Toured throughout Europe and the world with the BWIA Sunjet Steel Orchestra starting in the 1960s.

On Busking: "I like playing for people. Making them happy. There's a lot of sad people in the subway."

Text and photos by street photographer Joseph O. Holmes