This week on Artscape: a studio session with Gian Carlo Buscaglia. The Pawtucket-based singer and guitarist got his start performing Latin American ballads and songs of social justice in the streets of Harvard Square in the 1980s. “Very bohemian, a lot of jugglers, clowns, different musicians,” Buscaglia said of that time. “Tracy Chapman was around that time playing in the streets of Harvard Square. So it was a very magical time.”

