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Announcing the 2010 Pike Place Market Buskers’ Festival
Sunday, September 19 / 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
On the Streets and Alleys of the Pike Place Market… FREE

The 9th annual Pike Place Market Buskers’ Festival is a full-day celebration of the Northwest’s finest street performers. The buskers make the streets their stage every day, rain or shine, and are a key part of the Market’s culture. These master performers have a variety of talents: a cappella singers, balloon twisters,
guitarists, mandolinists, magicians, trombonists, harmonica players, accordionists and erhu players, but they’re all united by their desire to bring art out of the concert halls and into the street. Join the Pike Place Market Performers’ Guild and 35+ street performers at the 2010 Pike Place Market Buskers’ Festival for a celebration of the Market’s culture.

At the 2010 Festival, many favorite market performers will be featured, like gospel quartet A Moment in Time and the ukulele crooning of Howlin’ Hobbit, and expect surprises from newly arrived buskers like old-timey banjo songster Gregory Paul and harmonic folk duo The Gloria Darlings. You can even some great magic tricks from Acep Hale! Enjoy witty and sentimental songs by Greg Spence Wolf, smokin’ harmonica playing from Sleepy Joe, The 1 Knight Stand One Man Band, and the wit and wisdom of Mariide. These and many more performers will be featured on stage, so come down to check out all the artistic talent the Market has to offer.

With two amplified stages on Pike St and one acoustic stage in Post Alley, over 35 performers will be featured at the festival and crowds of 5,000 are expected to visit the market for the festival. For one day, the buskers will take over the market to showcase their diverse talents. A family-friendly and FREE event, come celebrate Pike Place Market and all the buskers that make it such a unique place to visit and enjoy.

To reach the Guild for comments or questions:
Pike Place Market Performers’ Guild
pmpgbuskers@gmail.com

So far we have received support from…

• The Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority ($750)
• Lowell’s Restaurant ($500)
• Read All About It News ($250)
• Pear Deli ($200)
• Penguin Windows ($200)
• Sosio’s Produce ($100)
• The Athenian restaurant ($100)
• Lo Priore Brothers Pasta Bar ($50)
• Sound View Cafe ($50)
• Double Dorjee – Gateway to Mystical Tibet ($50)
• and our in kind sponsors Hearth Music, and KBCS.

There are still sponsorships available – conact devon@hearthmusic.com if you are interested in supporting this year’s festival.

Dear Buskers,

Pulled from a post by Reggie Miles on facebook

I don’t mind repeating myself for the sake of clarity. The NW F_ _ klife
Festival is demanding that street performers, pay them for the privilege
of performing on the grounds of the Seattle Center, a public park, during
Memorial Day weekend, a national holiday, that we have set aside to honor
those who have sacrificed their lives to secure our … See Morefreedoms.
NW F_ _ klife not only demands that street performers pay for a permit
but they also want street performers to display said permit. (like we’re
some kind of tagged beasts on display.)

These actions are absolutely illegal to enact and yet the event organizers
have done nothing to alter their tactics at trying to turn street
performers into vendors. This idea of requiring permits for street
performers on public property was already struck down and invalidated as
unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit last
June in the case Berger vs the City of Seattle.This “free” event is a
public event held on public property. 8 of 11 judges ruled that our First
Amendment rights to freedom of expression cannot be denied on public
property.