Was busking the way you broke into performing music ... I played a friend’s party. Our band did a few original songs and I got the bug. It was hard to crack the Boston scene unless you knew ...

Among them is Susana Silva, a singer-songwriter who came to the UK in 2008 and said music changed her life after she was introduced to busking by chance. "That's when I found music is not just ...

Tuba Fats' regularly played for tips with a band in the French Quarter. Even though he toured the world, there was no place ...

Recently, the lines have also been blurred between buskers and beggars, and the reasons for busking have changed drastically. Once, a majority of the buskers used to be part-time musicians or ...