Busking in Downtown Detroit?

[easycomeeasygo]

It should be outlawed everywhere. Creapier than clowns.

It’s just another term for a person who is an attention whore.

Wow! I guess I'm overruled but how broken is our city that we have lost appreciation for one of the purest forms of performance? Have you not been stopped dead in your tracks upon hearing some melody or voice reverberating down an alley? Whether here on the river or in another city in a subway, this experience is one of the few aspects of city life that I can't even get cynical about.

Don't get me wrong, most public music is played to appeal to the masses and according to current commercial tastes. Most buskers are forgettable, sure, but when it's good - it's really good [[and novel and temporary and arguably free).

Kinda at a loss reading these opinions. I normally see where y'all are coming from but this one got to me. Get out and find the Detroit Party Marching Band or that guy with a saxophone on the river and try to keep your dollars in your pocket! Go to Eastern Market this Sat. and tell me that short girl with a guitar is whoring for attention.

Creepy? Fine. Maybe sometimes. Fortunately they screen corporate concerts for all creepy performers and don't have teams of people scouting for teenagers the bands find attractive. Oh wait.