I’m a musician, and I’ve spent more than half my life playing music on the streets.

I started playing music on the streets in 1979 and I’m still doing it today.

In fact, a few years ago when I was living in New York City, I started a blog dedicated to busking: Busking: A Musical Occupation that Pays Well.

If you’re a musician and you’d like to learn how to make money with your music, be sure to check it out.

Busking: A Musical Occupation that Pays Well

Busking as a musical occupation is rewarding, both financially and personally. It can serve as a fantastic outlet for performers who need to hone their craft and find an audience. Busking is not only a viable musical occupation for those who seek it, but can also serve as a worthy full-time career for performers of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels.

What is busking?

Busking is the act of performing in public places for voluntary donations. The word “busking” itself comes from the Spanish root word “buscar,” literally meaning “to seek.” In the simplest terms, busking is street performance. It does not necessarily require one to perform in the streets, however; any public place with traffic between points A and B can be a suitable venue for a busker to ply his trade. Famous examples of venues include subway stations, airports, shopping malls, carnivals, and festivals.

Buskers are often mistaken for panhandlers or homeless people. The key difference between these groups is that while panhandlers perform no service in exchange for money, buskers provide exceptional entertainment value in return for donations. This distinction is important because it allows buskers to separate themselves from beggars

Busking: A Musical Occupation that Pays Well

Busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers. Buskers may be professionals, amateurs, or semi-professionals who rely on income from other occupations. Busking is a form of art often seen at festivals, sporting events and other large gatherings. In many countries the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given.

Like any performance art, busking can’t be mastered overnight. It takes a lot of determination and dedication to master it to a point where you can earn enough money to pay your bills or feed your family with it. But once you reach that point it will all have been worth it. You will have the freedom to travel and make your own hours without the need to be employed by anyone else.

Busking requires talent and practice much like any other art form such as painting and sculpting. You have to get out there and perform in order to develop your talents and learn how to adapt to different audiences and situations.

There are many different types of performances that can be done as busking ranging from live music

Busking is a musical occupation that has been around for centuries. It’s an occupation that pays well and can be taken up by any age group.

Busking (also known as Street Performing) is a great way to make money. You get to express yourself in the way you want and make money out of it. All you need is talent and confidence, of which you will gain more of each time you perform.

A busker can be anything from a guitar player to a painter, but everything has to be done in public, so if you are shy then this isn’t the occupation for you.

I would like to start this blog by saying that busking is something that I am very passionate about. My love for music started at a very young age and I have always been surrounded by music as it is so important in our family. Unlike many people, my passion for music turned into a career choice rather than a hobby. After many years of training and practice, I now feel confident to call myself a professional musician.

I have been working as a street performer for nearly 6 years. I was extremely lucky to be able to do something that I loved so much for work but it wasn’t always easy! I spent the first few months travelling around the country and living off my savings whilst performing on the streets on various locations. It was hard work but totally worth it!

In this blog, I will be sharing my experiences and tips on how you can become a successful street performer.

The term busker comes from the Spanish root word buscar which means to seek. The act of busking is to seek out a crowd and entertain them with a performance.

There are many reasons why people choose to be buskers and street performers, including the fun and freedom it provides as well as being able to travel and make money at the same time. The amount you earn as a performer will vary depending on how good you are, location, time of year and the economy.

Busking is not for anyone who believes they can turn up with a guitar and sing or juggle for money. There is an art to busking, the best performers have practiced for years before they hit the streets.

The best performers are those who are passionate about what they do, most of them have started out with no experience but just a burning desire to make people smile or laugh with their performance.

It is quite a common misconception that busking is a lazy way to make money, or an easy way for musicians to make quick cash. This could not be further from the truth.

For most musicians, busking is an extremely important source of income that opens up opportunities to perform at festivals, private functions and even in their own bands.

Many full-time professional musicians earn their living purely from busking. If you think about it, it makes sense: all those bands you see at big-name music festivals get paid very well for their performances.

If this is the case for relatively unknown bands at festivals, then how much more would street performers make?

To answer this question, I decided to interview some professional buskers who are making a living solely from performing in the streets.