How To Use Busker In A Sentence
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But most of the people in Dundas Square are watching a nearby busker, especially now that he's standing on a 10-foot ladder, juggling knives.
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He sells records by the lorry load - and commuters in the capital are falling over buskers on every street corner.
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DW: I think for my new solo record, I took an idea from Live At The Pantages, actually, because I'm considering having one disk of busker versions with just one instrument and me, and then a second disk of full on band recording.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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This is a favourite haunt of buskers and artists, hanging out amid the theatres and restaurants in a manner reminiscent of Paris.
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The success of the performance depends solely on how well the busker can grab and hold a crowd's attention.
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London's trumpeting busker played the downtown streets and community for many years before giving it up this year.
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I had been touring for about two years and I did about half of my shows solo, busker style -- just with an acoustic guitar -- and I did about half my shows with a full band, which was a crew of my friends from Minneapolis.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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The busker was a tall young man, built like a linebacker.
Spirits White As Lightning
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A passer-by has taken me for a busker and thrown me 50p.
Times, Sunday Times
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He estimated a crowd of more than 1000 people who were stunned at the drummers, fire twirlers, fashion parades, dancers, puppet shows, a DJ, street performers and buskers.
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The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music.
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Galway loves live music, and you'll find a busker on almost every street corner.
The Sun
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Buskers used to be arrested for making a racket for the sake of the price of a cup of tea.
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Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the ...
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground
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I think the victim was a musician or a busker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lang says buskers add life to the atmosphere and flavour of a community, and he hopes more Busk Stops will be added.
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The busker smiles in gratitude, but he isn't doing it for the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube, but they played rock or sometimes jazz.
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We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
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The anti-begging campaign comes as York's city centre manager takes steps to identify legitimate buskers.
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Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908.
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And if somebody does demand a license, you know, and gets it, like the industrial-strength performers, I set up a non-sprinkling trust called the busker's fund.
Democracy Now!
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I'm more used to buskers in the London underground who get help from enclosed, echoey spaces.
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the streets of Dublin.
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
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Lately, however, stars have doffed their caps to what we might call 'busker chic'.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought, * Well, being a busker was a good idea. '
The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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The busker lowers his head and moves towards the oncoming crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd probably still be buskering for pence had not a large-hearted girl in a small Mary Quant mini taken pity on me and given me a job playing the tambourine in her jug band.
Daniel Krotz: The Uses of Poetry
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Portico Quartet found the young audience that put them on the 2008 Mercury prize shortlist through the unique sound they invented as buskers – hooky and danceable systems music coloured by the melodic chime of the tuned hang drum, with jazzy textures furnished by a double-bass and a sax.
Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
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They even ignored a busker who stopped to play his accordion for them.
The Sun
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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The players began as a group of buskers entertaining hippies, bikers and computer programmers in the forests of Northern California and crossed the Atlantic eight years ago.
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The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music.
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If signing policies get any more experimental and eclectic, they'll be offering contracts to buskers who play the spoons.
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The next time you pass a busker, stop and have a proper listen, as you might be missing out on the next big thing in music.
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I was the homeless, home-schooled, half-blood busker of Hell's Kitchen.
Heather Kristin: The Accidental Mentor
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Robertson - whose previous stage-name ‘Henrietta Ford’ perhaps evokes some of the blues-folk raunch she produces on stage - began as a busker on the streets of New Plymouth.
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Then I thought what if all the potty buskers and freaky street celebrities you see around town were not mad?
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A busker is a street performer that makes a living from entertaining people.
Math Buskers Juggle Numbers On English Streets
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Summer had arrived and through the open door the sound of a tin whistle-playing busker/beggar grew irksome.
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The oldest performer is 89 year - old'Busker Bill '.
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Viewed this way, all work is pretty meaningless, whether you are journalist, banker, busker or government minister.
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I just watched the fabulous Irish film Once, about a Dublin busker and his unrequited love for a Czech-Irish piano player.
Song snippett…. « Skid Roche
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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In the 100 days since one of the world's most entrenched dictatorships was toppled, Egypt has borne witness to an explosion of creative energy seeking to memorialise, critique and carry forward the country's moment of revolutionary fervour, a process which has itself revolutionised the country's long-stagnant cultural landscape; buskers can perform without police permits.
Egypt's uprising brings DIY spirit out on to the streets
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Yet nobody could doubt this souped-up busker figure's bravery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The busker's struggle extends beyond the everyday necessities to life-or-death events that overshadow his performances.
Doom and Gloom, and the Cult
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The busker was later jailed for four years.
Times, Sunday Times
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A busker offers cigarettes to passers-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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She finds it hard to pass a busker without giving them money.
Times, Sunday Times
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A busker singing on the street corner; students handing out flyers for discount meals or designer clothing sales; a juggler with a diabolo shooting up and down a string suspended between two sticks, flinging it impossibly high into the air and catching it in one smooth gesture; a guy selling watches and beads out of a suitcase.
Sepulchre
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Some Singaporeans chimed in, asking 'how can Orchard Road be a world-class shopping haven and rival other major cities such as Tokyo when it is a free-for-all zone for anyone to hawk their stuff?', perhaps in reference to the "particularly irksome", "cacophonous" strains of buskers trying to make a living amidst the noise of nearby roadshows.
The Online Citizen
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And one doesn't have to search hard to hear other Beck signatures: a bottleneck guitar and busker's harmonica here, a Latin beat there, the Bollywood-style string arrangements of his father, David Campbell.
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Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
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Street performers from the world over entertain the crowd whilst buskers provide the soundtrack.
