We’ve all been there — walking past Paris Baguette and the Downtown Berkeley BART station when a band starts playing. Playing in the street for money, also known as busking, is pretty popular in our ...

Walk through Covent Garden on any day of the week and you’ll see magicians, musicians and risky-looking circus acts providing free entertainment for a circle of wide-eyed spectators. “You can make a ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I recently was listening to a busker downtown and it got me thinking about the rules and regulations which I am ...

NPR's A Martinez talks with Cary Baker, author of "Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking and Street Music." JEWEL: (Singing) These foolish games are... MARTÍNEZ: B.B. King, Tracy Chapman, Ed ...

Katie Ferrara performing on the street in Switzerland Credit: (Photo by Daniel Bossart, courtesy Katie Ferrara) Performing music on a street corner to a transient audience sounds like an excruciating ...

Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell, 2023 and 2024's Americana Honors & Awards-winning Artists of the Year, share a background as street-busking musicians who played for tens to hundreds of dollars daily ...