Forty years ago, singer-songwriter Jim Page was playing on the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street, his hat out for donations, when a passing police officer threatened to ticket him because he didn ...
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 ...
Benjamin Tod’s Lost Dog Street Band was born out of freedom: the idea that an artist with a guitar can go anywhere, at anytime, and earn a living singing their songs. When the Tennessee songwriter was ...
DRUMS WEEK 2025: Last year, a street busking drummer unwittingly found himself going viral when footage emerged of him ...
Daniel Bacchieri is the founder and curator of StreetMusicMap, a global research tool on street music. https://www.instagram.com/streetmusicmap/ Street musicians are ...
JAKARTA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Every day, Jakarta street musician Jamaluddin jumps on a bus and plays his guitar to earn a few coins, and hopefully one day get noticed by a recording company. Sign up ...
While performing to a small crowd in India's tech capital on Sunday afternoon, British singer Ed Sheeran was cut off by police who said he didn't have permission to be out playing on the street.