By the way, Kirsten, the following threads may be of interest.

These two (Clicky #1) and (Clicky #2) can give you a blow-by-blow description of the busking tours of the Intrepid Marion Parsons, a young woman with the voice of an angel and the heart of a lion. This one (Clicky #3) is a discussion precipitated by the question "Is busking begging?"

Also, if you go to the "Filter" box at the top of this page, type in "busking," click the little arrow on the box to the right and crank it all the way down to "All," and click "Refresh," you'll get links to a dozen or so threads on busking.

By the way, Mudcat's server crashed severely some weeks back, and for reasons I don't understand, some of the posts in previous threads got out of sequence. So if the responses in some of the posts don't seem to follow logically from previous posts, that's why. It can be a bit confusing.

Don Firth

P. S. Hi, Marty! I knew you couldn't stay away. By the way, Kirsten, Marty didn't get banned, he just left. He's an arch-conservative who hates liberals, homosexuals, women, anyone who plays and sings anything but bluegrass, and has a seventy-five word vocabulary, half of which are old Anglo-Saxon terms for bodily parts and functions. He's one of those smart-asses and complainers that I mentioned. He also thinks anyone to the left of Karl Rove is a traitor. He is a bit like a jackal who stands well back, all set to run, and yaps at a pride of lions. Ignore.