Buskers Festival

10th Annual Pike Place Market Busker’s Festival
 Sunday September 18th 2011     

The Pike Place Market Busker Festival is a one-day celebration of the Northwest’s finest street performers. Don’t miss out!    

This free event will take over the market and showcase the many great street performers who call Pike Place home.  From 11-5, on three stages, buskers from Seattle and beyond will demonstrate their guerrilla art.    

Come celebrate the spirit of the Market with us and support  your favorite Northwest street performers!
 
Founded in 1995 by Artis the Spoonman (yes the one from the Soundgarden song) and Jim Page (musical political satirist) and other buskers from the market. After 9 years the annual Pike Place Market Busker Festival is still going strong and is a fun filled day celebrating the Northwest’s finest street performers.
The Pike Place Market 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 

   

This year, the Festival will feature over 37 buskers on three stages (two amplified stages on each end of Pike Place and one acoustic stage in Post Alley). The Festival is free and all ages.     

Mackenzie of Dandelion Junk Queens :: photo by Cathleen Shattuck

 

If you like the music you’re hearing or the act you’re seeing…    Be sure to tip the artist!
 Tips are the key part of the ancient tradition of street performing that has sustained buskers for centuries.