After a year busking in Paris, playing tenor saxophone around the streets of the Latin Quarter, in 1980 Thistlethwaite moved to London and in 1981 he played saxophone on Robyn Hitchcock's Groovy Decay album as well as Nikki Sudden's Waiting on Egypt.
The 2006 music video for the Republic of Loose song The Idiots (Republic of Loose song), features Brad Prowly, as a street performer, busking the song to an audience.
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Brad Prowly aka "Super Bad Brad" born in 1962 is a New York City street performer frequently appearing in the Greenwich Village area, performing R&B classics with the aid of a Boombox and microphone.
When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café, they invited him to join the group.
O'Higgins was the busking saxophone player on the second Mr Bean episode ("The Return of Mr. Bean") - accompanying Bean as he performed a dance routine to earn money to pay the busker.
North of Eau Claire is Prince's Island Park, a large urban park on an island in the Bow River and the site of many summer festivals, including the Calgary Folk Music Festival, Carifest, Shakespeare in the Park and various busking happenings.
The fotdella was an instrument invented and constructed by Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller, an American one-man band musician, who needed an accompaniment instrument beyond the usual high-hat (foot-operated cymbal) or bass drum favored by street musicians.
“Gabby is distinctive..as much art-school as Agent Provocateur. Eastern European touches and acoustic instrumentation combine with a strong seductive voice to suggest a busking Kate Bush” MOJO (Roy Wilkinson)
In another famous instance, singer Badly Drawn Boy earned £1.60 from passersby while busking outside London's Waterloo Station for a day in 2003, going largely unrecognized by the public.
In 1987, the Hard Rock Miners could be found busking on the streets of Vancouver, particularly on the very trendy Robson Street.
They began busking in the streets of New York City in 2005 and three years later became part of the Music Under New York program.
Over the summers of 2000 and 2001, Janet earned her living busking at Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver and began work on her next album, The Girl Who Passed for Normal, produced by John Shepp, Stephan Sigerson, Jeff Dawson, Daniel Powter and Shawn McKay.
From 1997 to 1999, he lived in Morocco, working there as a musician with his band Afram doing radio, television and concerts such as the first Gnawa Festival in Essaouira in 1998, and raising money for the charity, B.A.Y.T.I. After leaving Morocco he travelled the world busking, that is, playing jazz on the street from London to Provence to Sydney.
Included with the single is a demo of "Proof" (which would be recorded for I Am Kloot) and a live version of "Twist" from a February 14, 2001 gig in Paris and features a French sung chorus too (John had spent time in France prior to I Am Kloot's formation and he busked on the streets).
She hosted a behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Trailing Tonks" for the subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release, and is credited as producer and director of the featurette, in which she also performs an original Christmas-themed blues song on guitar, which she composed while working as a busker on the London Underground.
Blue King Brown frontwoman Natalie Pa‘apa’a began her music career busking on the streets of Byron Bay, on the North Coast of NSW.
Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band.
Once he completed high school he moved to Melbourne, where he studied at Monash University for a year, before hitch hiking around Australia, busking and playing any folk club that would let him play his own songs.
As Giselle sings and dances through the park, she is joined by other people in the park including buskers, a steelband, elderly dancers, Bavarian dancers, and rollerbladers.
The band played on the BBC Two programme The Culture Show, which is co-presented by Kermode, on 19 May 2007 and took part in the same show’s ‘Busking Challenge’ on 29 March 2008.
Chris road tested a Fender standard Jazz Bass and both Sabrina and Chris challenged each other in a busking competition to see who would get the most interest out of pedestrians on Elizabeth Street in Melbourne's CBD.