A blog about a magician giving free shows for patrons and saying others should do something similar. See http://buskingmagician.com for more information

If you love magic and want to share that love with people, busking is a great way to go. It’s also a good way to make money if you’re in the right area. People who live in big cities, especially big tourist cities, can probably make enough money to support themselves as professional magicians if they work at it. People who live in less-populated areas might find that they’d have to travel long distances, or work an awful lot of hours, to make enough for it to be worth the effort.

If you don’t know what busking is, it’s just going out on the street and doing your act for people who are walking by. Sometimes there are designated busking areas; often there aren’t. Some places require permits; most don’t. If you can find an area where other buskers are working and people seem happy to see them, then your best bet is just to go out there and start performing!

The key thing about doing magic for strangers on the street is that you need to be entertaining people who aren’t expecting anything special. The

Busking Magician

I’ve been a magician for a long time. I used to work in the corporate world and decided to pursue magic full time. I have done this by busking in various places. Busking is the act of performing on the street for donations from the public. I know it sounds bizarre, but this has been the best decision of my life.

I perform at various locations in the city. I perform for about 20 minutes and then pass around my hat for whatever people feel like donating. The minimum donation is $1 and the average donation is about $5. If someone can’t afford to donate, that’s fine!

My goal here is not to get rich, but to make as many people smile as possible. During the holiday season I get very busy, which allows me to pay my bills and donate some money to charity. If more people did this type of thing, there would be less poverty in this country. There would be more happiness too! So grab your guitar or other talent and hit the streets!

I’ve made a decision. I’m going to be a busking magician for the holidays. Some of you may not know what that means, so let me explain. A busking magician is a magician that performs on the street for donations from passing pedestrians. More often than not, it will be your casual audience member, who only goes to magic shows once in a while. For example, they’d go see David Copperfield or Lance Burton if they were in town, but they don’t go see local working magicians unless they’re invited by their friend and even then they might not show up.

I am giving free shows for the holiday season and hoping to inspire other magicians to do the same. Most of my performances will be at malls near you and I’ll have a little bucket for donations. The money I make will be used to buy and donate toys to Toys For Tots (or whatever your equivalent is).

I’ve done this before at malls, but never as much as I plan on doing this year.

I encourage all magicians reading this blog to take part in a similar project during the holiday season. Get out there and do some magic for your favorite charity! The benefits are numerous:

1) It’s good karma! You are

There are many different types of magic shows, but the one I choose to do is called Busking. Busking is a performance that takes place in public locations, typically for money and/or gratuities. The term busking originated from the Spanish root word buscar which means “to seek” and is later derived from the Italian word buscare which means “to seek”.

Busking is an art form where performers entertain for donations. It’s been around for centuries and has become a thriving industry over time. Some people think that busking is just another way of begging, but there are actually many benefits to doing this type of entertainment.

The first benefit is that it helps you practice your act in front of an audience without having to pay them anything upfront or charge them a fee afterwards. This allows you to work on your stage presence while also earning some extra cash!

I’ve been a professional magician for well over a decade, but the first time I saw a busker perform was about eighteen months ago. I was in the street when I noticed a crowd had gathered around someone performing magic tricks.

I’d never seen anything like it. People were laughing and smiling, and they were also looking at each other, wondering how on earth he was doing what he was doing.

He was good. Really good.

I’ve always been a fan of the idea of busking. The idea of standing on a street corner and doing magic for people who happen to walk by is an interesting one. But I never thought I would do it until recently.

I was visiting my friend Jesse in Orlando Florida and he took me out to downtown Disney. While we were there we saw this cool magician performing for a crowd of people. And although I’m not a huge fan of street magic, I was really into his presentation and the way he connected with the audience.

So I decided that while I was in Florida I would try my own hand at busking. My first performance didn’t go as well as I hoped but after a few adjustments and some help from Jesse, we managed to put together a solid routine.

And since then, we have continued to improve our act with better jokes and stronger magic. Check out the video below for my latest show:

I started busking in 2004. I had just dropped out of college, spent all my money, and decided to start performing magic on the streets as a way to support myself through the summer.

I had no idea what I was doing. For the first few weeks, if you were to walk by me while I was performing, you’d see a young man with an expression of mild panic on his face shouting “Pick a card! Pick a card!” with little conviction while staring blankly at his audience and shuffling his deck of cards awkwardly.

But somehow, this worked. In fact, it worked really well. I made back all my college tuition and more within a few months.

Over time, I learned how to really entertain people on the streets. In 2008, I quit my day job and started performing full-time for nearly two years straight. During that time, I performed over 600 shows in 42 states and 3 countries

Busking is one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. It taught me how to connect with strangers in a way that most people never get to experience. It taught me how to take risks and put myself out there without knowing what’s going to happen next. It taught me how to deal with rejection and failure in