A Busker on the streets of Liverpool, where they say: This is the place of songs to be heard and hopefully make a bob or two!

And with a hard face like mine?

It's hard to make a living these days...

Let me sing my new song: People already knew my face, that's when my music came and got in my way, I was able to put my face within the music...

Now I know,

Beauty is only skin deep

if one can look deep enough

to see of what's really important

of finding a balance of mind,

within a body and spirit.

Then somebody said to me not too long ago,

Until you're twenty or more

with the face, that you are born with,

may deserve to show you

and what you really are and made of?

So, heaven only knows

how did I end up getting a face like this?

So, come on you all fellow folk and drop in a good few bob or two in my cap and let in the opportunity to knock on a door, if it only presents itself when you only have to beat down on that bloody door to find it!

Cheers for your cool comments from you here, my good flickr friends !!!

Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland

Buskers Street Fair

Myriad Gardens, OKC

Myriad Gardens, OKC

He was singing the Bee Gees:

You don't know what it's like, baby

You don't know what it's like

To love somebody

To love somebody

The way I love you

This Sydney busker has a more expensive pair of jeans and shoes than I have. I wonder if I'm in the rite business.

Busker on 16th str Mall in Denver Colorado.

my first street photograph

Busker Playing in Merchants Arch lane, Temple Bar Dublin.

Buskers

Hrmm, Hello glad to see you all here. And since this is my first time bare with me but i will play a song for you.

youtu.be/T2bcUxUOUQg

Grafton Street

Street and candid photography at The Torpedo Factory Art Center, Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia

Queensway

There is a busker on The Moor,Sheffield who performs reggae and is deeply talented. He should be famous. Not only that but he is also very photogenic. Here he is.

Street musician, Portland Oregon

Grafton Street

Grafton Street

We were lucky that while we were in Bern the "buskers bern" festival took place and it was really cool. Lots of people, lots of music and performances. A very nice atmosphere.

Grafton Street

Valencia, Spain

Grafton Street

busker

Busking at Highworth market

Grafton Street

26 January. Totnes, Devon. The instrument on the left is a Swedish Nickelharpa.

Dundee busker with his harmonica

Grafton Street

Candid and Street Photography, Washington, D.C.,

Firenze, Toscana, Italia.

Day out in Cambridge with the camera.

I composed this image of a busker while visiting the remarkable city of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to antiquity.

The term busking was first noted in the English language around the middle 1860s in Great Britain. The verb to busk, from the word busker, comes from the Spanish root word buscar, with the meaning "to seek". The Spanish word buscar in turn evolved from the Indo-European word *bhudh-skō ("to win, conquer").

one of Bath's finest buskers in action - Jerri Hart