Entertainers who pluck guitars, dance, or juggle long knives may one day need to dip into their tip buckets to pay for a permit before performing outdoors in Boston. In a City Council meeting ...

Contortionist Mason Davis -- known professionally as Masonious Max -- isn’t scared of dying during his act, which includes target shooting with a whip, dislocating his shoulders to squeeze his upper ...

Galway city busking could come under threat if new laws are introduced. The wonderful street entertainment which draws visitors back to Galway city center every year is under threat as the city ...

The buskers of Asheville are talented performers, from musicians and magicians to aerialists and jugglers. They include ...

Under the street-performer rules imposed by Seattle Center, “a latter-day Gene Kelly cannot sing in the rain,” fretted U.S. District Judge James Robart in finding the center’s busker rules ...

It’s 6 pm on Friday evening. The clock reads 13 more minutes until the downtown F train arrives. Exhausted commuters crowd around a violinist who melodiously plays Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.

Less than three weeks have passed since the Second Avenue Subway line made its long-awaited debut, yet conflict is already brewing between the station's buskers and the NYPD. On Thursday afternoon, ...