var title = 'Busker Central It\'s the Law Feed';
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var time = 'Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:23:25 +0000';
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data[0]['title'] = 'San Antonio opens streets to buskers';
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(SAN ANTONIO) The city of San Antonio, Texas has opened the streets to buskers and street performers. Also under re-consideration is nearby Market Square and La Villita.sanantonio.jpg
"The main purpose is to facilitate the development of neighborhoods, cultural centers, and businesses in the downtown area to create a thriving Central Business District that fosters a warm and inviting atmosphere for residents, employees, and visitors."
The Downtown Street Performer Policy was passed last year but it took a long time for many buskers to hear about it.
Public parks are among the most encouraged places for musicians – and performers of any kind, for that matter – to share their art. Many parks across America are off-limits when it comes to performing.
Read what happens as a busker gently tries to inf...
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data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 06 Jan 2017 03:00:54 +0000';
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data[1]['title'] = 'Busker begins effort to halt deportation';
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(BOULDER) A popular Pearl Street Mall busker is fighting deportation. Contortionist Ibashi-i Brown will meet with INS officials to learn his fate.ibashi2.jpg
Full story & video';
data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:06:23 +0000';
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data[2]['title'] = 'China to open Shanghai to buskers';
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(SHANGHAI) For the first time in modern Chinese history, buskers and street-performers may be able to perform their art without being stopped.china.jpg
"We'll be the first city in China to open arms to street-side performers," said Luo Huaizhen, a playwright who for the last eight years has urged the Shanghai People's Congress to allow street performers.
Shanghai residents will be able to see artists and performers doing creative shows in public spaces for the first time since the World Expo in 2010 when it was temporarily allowed. China has forbidden buskers because crowds gather possibly leading to discussions concerning the government.
Busker Central noticed a few years ago when the Chinese government started draining the street-performer website with useless connections. It has since had to block China...
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data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:47:59 +0000';
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data[3]['title'] = 'How to be a Tube Busker in London';
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(LONDON) It seems there simply aren't enough buskers in London's tube these days to satisfy the growing masses.tube_id.jpg
Also known as the underground subway, a clear and present message to the "powers that be" is rumbling around the tube. Buskers believe many more should be permitted to display their art form in the nation's capital.
As it turns out, you can now take a quick internet lesson on How to be a Tube Busker with a recent article at the Londonist.com.
There's only one thing standing in the way - "the system". Tube busking has now been legal for 10 years. The article goes into a step-by-step process that may, in the end, prove the licensing procedure to be entirely futile.
You will be judged by a 3-person jury that may or may not be qualified to determine what is art and what...
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data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:28:13 +0000';
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data[4]['title'] = 'Buskers form the Church of the Holy Kazoo';
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(CAMDEN TOWN) Holy guacamole! Camden has banned amplified street music and now requires unplugged performers to buy licenses.camden.jpg
With the help of the Great Golden Kazoo in the sky, buskers have formed a church to sidestep the new busking laws. The Church of the Holy Kazoo has just been formed in the nick of time by buskers exercising the human right to "preach" in public.
It all started when Buskers staged a "street jam" in the heart of Camden to protest against the controversial new rules to license busking in the borough. Street performer Jonny Walker came up with the idea after Camden council's new laws required buskers to pay for licenses. He realized that street preaching is protected under freedom of expression laws so he set up the Church of the Holy Kazoo. It means Jonny...
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data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:10:53 +0000';