Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's common in cities around the world, and musician Ed Sheeran recently caused a stir for doing it in India. So what is busking?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Busking is all about playing to the people, interacting, and seeing them respond to the tunes chosen to play as they perform in a ...

A live performance on your bus ride, a welcome surprise or an unwanted disruption? After a New Zealand singer-songwriter, ...

JEWEL: (Singing) These foolish games are... MARTÍNEZ: B.B. King, Tracy Chapman, Ed Sheeran and Jewel all began their careers as street musicians, busking for spare change. A new book explores a ...

Street performing, or busking, is a profession that dates back to antiquity. Before recording technology and personal electronics, it was a principal form of income for many performance artists. Still ...

The ancient art of busking, performing in a public place for voluntary donations, dates back to the Romans, although the word "busking" only began pulling in a crowd in the English language in the mid ...

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 ...

Perth and Stirling are the only Scottish cities not to have introduced a code of conduct for buskers, according to one local representative.

Dash Hause sits on the sidewalk at the corner of North Tennessee and East Louisiana streets in the Historic Downtown McKinney Square. “How would you like to hear the greatest love song you’re ever ...

Footage from around 2005 shows a pre-fame Paramore hitting the street to perform some of their tunes, the Hayley Williams-led pop-rockers doing what many artists do early on in their career — busking ...