00:00A busker is turning heads in Maidstone and it's not just the music people are
00:08intrigued by, it's actually her instrument that's catching eyes. A piano mounted on a bike.
00:14My name is Chloe Marie Aston, I'm a singer and busker from North Devon and I'm trying to busk
00:20in every town and city in the UK. Travelling across the south so far, Chloe also documents
00:26a whole journey on her various social medias including her TikTok where she is dubbed the
00:31Piano Bike Girl. I've been playing piano for the last six years since I was 15 years old and I had
00:41a few lessons to begin with but I'm mainly self-taught. I started off just busking in my
00:46hometown in North Devon but now I'm going all over the UK. I've really really loved Kent so much,
00:53everybody here is really friendly, all the local businesses and that have been really really
00:58friendly and like I've been given like drinks from cafes and stuff and offered shade and stuff so
01:04it has really been a wonderful experience here in Kent. My favourite place was Faversham,
01:09they had the market on, it was really busy, really lovely weather and it was just an amazing atmosphere.
01:17Building the piano bike with her dad, she's been riding around on it for six years creating original
01:22music and singing many covers amassing a fan base of more than 17,000 followers on TikTok.
01:28I've always loved music from a very young age, I've always been into singing and dancing and all
01:33those things. I did musical theatre for quite a few years and I just yeah now I do this and it's just
01:41evolved from there really. I'd really like to like take it to the next level and yeah maybe do my own
01:46shows and stuff and just maybe get a record contract, something really big like that.
01:52I also asked Passer buyers what they thought and all the responses I received were very positive.
01:57I was online last night and I just saw it on TikTok and I thought oh that's really good so
02:03I decided to come down and have it. She's got the voice of Karen Carpenter and you don't get that very often.
02:10I've seen her on them on the internet and everything so I was surprised that somebody that good and
02:17creative would be here in Maidstone. Hoping to return to Kent someday she's loaded the piano bike into
02:28her van and continues on her mission to spread her music across England. Kai Wei for KMTV in Maidstone.
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