We used to have a couple of regulars here in Wash DC....a black lady who played gospel guitar, and a guy who had his own battery-powered little set-up, and he was really good...they were both fixtures here for years (also saw a couple guys playing flute & violin -- classical, at a subway stop years back)...not many on the streets these days...and 25 years ago in Berkeley, CA. on campus, I saw a young woman busking on dobro!Have several pictures of her...she was good, too....

and Brian Bowers, the autoharpist, started out in bars and on street corners...has some wild stories about it form the musician's point of view...