[elcid1970]

What’s a “busker”?

[CharlesWayneCT]

A busker is a person who busks. Busking is the act of setting up a performance in a public place, in the hopes of receiving donations (or you can sell items like CDs). The key is that you are not in a specific venue.

Most of us have seen the occasional solo artist in the subway, or on a street corner. Some places have more serious busking; for example Balboa Park in San Diego, California has a strong busking tradition, and bands will show up and play, sometimes quite regularly.

Here is one example of a band who started busking, and has not managed to obtain a small nitch market:

Steam Powered Giraffe plays "Mac The Knife"