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busking on the West Coast of the United States

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The West Coast, including the Pacific Northwest, is a cultural hotbed of busking in the United States.

Hippies

The current hippie counterculture of busking on the West Coast is strong. Many of the elder buskers in America came from the Grateful Dead/Oregon Country Fair/Santa Cruz/New Vaudeville circuit where they were able to frequently interact. Every year, the Oregon Country Fair hosts a large array of well-known buskers, sometimes referred to as a family reunion of the groups. The West Coast in the U.S. bred a new population of buskers in the 1970s, often on the heels of Dead tours and Dead parking lots, and most of whom are still practicing busking.

Places

Legal battles

  • Kirsten Anderberg vs. The Pike Place Market PDA Current law suit, Kirsten Anderberg (aka Mother Zosima) vs. The PDA. City of Seattle Civil Rights Commission has charged the PDA (who runs the Market's busker enforcements) with "Public Accommodations Charges" and the case number is SOCR01PE033, filed May 2006. There is also a small claims hearing on May 24 on this issue in Seattle. And three separate assault charges on crafters for violating a busker's free speech rights are pending as well.
  • Judge rejects Seattle Center rules on buskers, April 23, 2005

Practitioners

Some of the busking legends of the last 30 years from the Pacific Northwest are:

  • Artis the Spoonman [1] - One of Seattle's First Buskers
  • Mother Zosima [2]
  • Jim Page [3] - One of Seattle's First Buskers
  • PKDwyer [4] - One of Seattle's First Buskers
  • David T. Minstrel - Oregon Area
  • Liv - Oregon Busker Woman Legend
  • Amber Tide (Thaddeus and Sandahbeth Spae) [5]
  • The Walkin' Blues Man, Earl Oliver [6] - street performer since 1970 - got his nickname from performing at parades all over Northern California. Currently appears in the summer on the Skunk Train - a Mendocino County excursion railway. Also known as the "Main Street Banjo Man" for his frequent performances on Main Street in the village of Mendocino, CA.
  • Reggie Miles - 30 year vet in Pacific NW
  • David and Rosalyn - Many decades of performing on East and West Coasts
  • Mariide Widman - Mother of the Sea Shanty Busker in Pacific NW
  • Crow
  • Swami X
  • Walker T. Ryan
  • Jim Stamm Silicon Valley's trumpet man, AKA Love The Clown . Silicon Valley's longest practicing busker, performing in public places since 1991
  • El Duce

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