Busking Day
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Ferrara
, Italy, hosts a gathering of buskers each August, with hundreds of thousands of attendees. Coffs Harbour, Australia, is home to one of Australia's largest busking celebrations each year in early October. Ireland's all Ireland busking festival has been held in Newcastle in August of each year since 2001. In Wymondham
, Norfolk, UK, a busking day is part of the annual music festival. Singapore has had an annual buskers' festival since 1996. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada holds its annual International Busker Festival every August.
In 2010, PRS for Music called on a national busking day in the UK as well as the creation of 'busk stops' to act as a designated area where buskers can play in every town across the country. The campaign is currently being supported by the member of parliament Kevin Brennan
, who raised the idea as an early day motion
.
Ferrara
Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
, Italy, hosts a gathering of buskers each August, with hundreds of thousands of attendees. Coffs Harbour, Australia, is home to one of Australia's largest busking celebrations each year in early October. Ireland's all Ireland busking festival has been held in Newcastle in August of each year since 2001. In Wymondham
Wymondham
Wymondham is a historic market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies 9.5 miles to the south west of the city of Norwich, on the A11 road to Thetford and London.- Before The Great Fire :...
, Norfolk, UK, a busking day is part of the annual music festival. Singapore has had an annual buskers' festival since 1996. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada holds its annual International Busker Festival every August.
In 2010, PRS for Music called on a national busking day in the UK as well as the creation of 'busk stops' to act as a designated area where buskers can play in every town across the country. The campaign is currently being supported by the member of parliament Kevin Brennan
Kevin Brennan (politician)
Kevin Denis Brennan is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West since 2001, and was a Minister of State at both the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children, Schools and Families before the 2010 general election...
, who raised the idea as an early day motion
Early day motion
An Early Day Motion , in the Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by Members of Parliament for debate "on an early day" . Controversial EDMs are not signed by Government Ministers, PPS or the Speaker of the House of Commons and very few are debated on the floor...
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External links
- Wymondham Music Festival (Norfolk, UK)
- Wymondham Busking Day 2005 (UK)
- Wymondham Music Festival (UK)
- Takoma Park Folk Festival (US)
- Toronto Buskerfest (Canada)
- Downtown Buskers Festival (Canada)
- Tokyo Busker Festival (Japan)
- Ferrara Buskers' Festival (Italy)
- Coffs Harbour Buskers & Comedy Festival (Australia)
- Chicago buskerfest (US)
- All Ireland Busking Festival (Ireland)
- Singapore Buskers' Festival (Singapore)
- Newburyport, MA Buskers' Festival (USA)
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada International Buskers Festival (Canada)
- Phoenix Busking Festival, Tullamore (Ireland)