Buskerfest is the name of a traveling festivals of buskers—street performers. Buskers in the festivals visit a series of host cities each summer. Host cities often shut down one of more blocks of a prominent downtown street for the festival.
Crowds gather to watch a busker perform on Yonge Street for Toronto's Buskerfest 2014.
^ Nadia Imafidon (2014-08-20). "The new kids on the block at the Lawrence Busker Fest". Lawrence Journal World. from the original on 2014-08-25.
^. Los Angeles Register. 2014-09-03. Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
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