http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/06/09/playing-real-good-for-free/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper and Website Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/06/09/playing-real-good-for-free/#comment-60165 Michelle Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:59:22 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=13921#comment-60165 This is happening all over the world. There is now a terrible tendency by municipalities to get rid of buskers, or try to regulate them to the point of suffocation. This is illegal - there is, after all 'Freedom of expression' in democracy. I'm in NYC right now, where buskers are plentiful, but at Times Square only a select handful are permitted to perform. The NYC subway holds auditions for buskers, but people are still free to busk without passing the audition, too (that's a good thing). In Charleston, South Carolina - no busking is permitted and in many other places I've been to in the USA and Canada people are fighting for the right to play music in public spaces. A prominent busker in NYC tells about the audition for buskers: http://www.sawlady.com/blog/?p=349 This is happening all over the world. There is now a terrible tendency by municipalities to get rid of buskers, or try to regulate them to the point of suffocation. This is illegal – there is, after all ‘Freedom of expression’ in democracy.
I’m in NYC right now, where buskers are plentiful, but at Times Square only a select handful are permitted to perform. The NYC subway holds auditions for buskers, but people are still free to busk without passing the audition, too (that’s a good thing). In Charleston, South Carolina – no busking is permitted and in many other places I’ve been to in the USA and Canada people are fighting for the right to play music in public spaces.
A prominent busker in NYC tells about the audition for buskers: http://www.sawlady.com/blog/?p=349

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