I wonder if you live down the street from me :) There's a guy who occasionally plays guitar while I'm walking home from the bus. Maybe I should go say hi.
I'm a couple of blocks north of Minnehaha Park, if that's the right location. If it is and you see me, say hi!
Hi! I'm a different front porch guitar playing guy in Mpls, near Lake Harriet. It's been getting too sunny out there lately though, because we're losing all of our boulevard ash trees.
We lost seven curb lindens (including ours) on my end of the block a few years back, the summer solstice windstorm that left much of south Minneapolis without power for days. My block took it particularly hard, trees down all over the street, smashed cars. So yeah, not enough shade for us either.
I'm waiting for the emerald ash borers to finally get to the beautiful, mature ash in my backyard. :( I love living in a forest, but hate the tree maladies. Luckily, they replanted all our curb trees with diversity, rather than the monocultures of older Minneapolis streets.
In my Minneapolis neighborhood, it's all 100 year old bungalows. Some have proper porches, most have stoops, and the stoops are set back from the street. Even the proper porches tend to be three-season or four-season (hey, it gets cold here!), with screens or windows isolating from the outside.
I like sitting out on the stoop and playing guitar, but it's not an opportunity to really interact with the neighbors much. At least I'm putting myself out there, though.