There are many musicians that can't perform during the pandemic. Luckily there are still ways you can enjoy the music and help them out. Not every busker may have an online profile or digital offerings but it's worth checking. Bandcamp Fridays ($) Bandcamp has started waiving fees on the first Friday of the month to... Continue Reading →
Like so many others, when Corona hit, I lost my main source of income. Gigs cancelled. Busking was a no go. So I needed a way to pivot. Sax walks/balcony concerts. This depends on the streets, but lots of Berlin streets have good acoustics and I walk up and down playing to people in windows.... Continue Reading →
"Are you free to play our party tomorrow? We'll give you 20 euros for an hour." While in the world of hourly wages, the idea of making 20/hr is fine, this is simply impossible to swing for a musician where your grand total is just 20 euros. The family saw me playing on the street... Continue Reading →
Thinking of doing short busking stories, maybe via Twitter and syndicating here. Something like this. https://twitter.com/klimlevene/status/1286612777667362816
Just a little note that I've started doing little Instagram stories of my busking which you can follow @thetravelingklim. Will try do them at the beginning/end of the sessions, giving a little insight into how I do it. At any rate they are likely to appear more often than blog posts here. 🙂 #BuskingDiaries
There’s a view that getting a permit for busking kind of disqualifies it from being true busking and I tend to agree. It certainly defeats the free spirit of it and limits the kind of music you will experience as it prevents the spontaneous traveling buskers. Some swear by never having bought one. But as... Continue Reading →
Some buskers believe in putting your hat out with some coins or bills to avoid it looking empty or to encourage people to drop similar cash. Some like to think it gives them some good luck. This is useful for anyone with an open case like guitarists. Sometimes people may really not know what is... Continue Reading →
I don't consider myself a writer but I love stories. And busking is a relatively undocumented space. So I thought I would share the bits of insight i have gathered in my fairly short time as a street performer coming up to three years now. And it wasn't until two years ago (summer of 2017)... Continue Reading →
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