Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sound Transit is partnering with Seattle Parks and Recreation to create a new busking pilot program ahead of the holiday season.

Forty years ago, singer-songwriter Jim Page was playing on the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street, his hat out for donations, when a passing police officer threatened to ticket him because he didn ...

Seattle Busker WeekSeptember 14 – 20Various LocationsFREE Performances and Concerts Throughout Seattle! “The purpose of the Busker Week Celebration is to elevate and honor the centuries old tradition ...

SEATTLE — For decades performers of all kinds have transformed street corners of Pike Place Market into stages and have inspired millions of visitors from all over the world. “Pike Place is the most ...

Wherever you go around Seattle, it seems like you run into a street musician or performer, and the city is actually behind a big effort to get more of them out there. It started about seven years ago, ...

Brandi Carlile gave passers-by quite the surprise earlier this month when she joined Dave Grohl at Seattle’s Pike Place Market for an inspired busking session. The Grammy winner says the impromptu ...

Dozens of local artists are performing in parks and on street corners around the ballpark this week during the midsummer classic. With tens of thousands of baseball fans heading to Seattle, musicians ...

Some Seattle street musicians have had a fraught relationship with Sound Transit’s rules (or lack thereof) regarding where they can serenade city commuters. But there is some good news. As of Thursday ...

Not all the surprise collaborations happened at Coachella this weekend. Seattle’s foremost male and female musical exports, Brandi Carlile and Dave Grohl, teamed up for a mini-set Saturday afternoon ...

Under the street-performer rules imposed by Seattle Center, “a latter-day Gene Kelly cannot sing in the rain,” fretted U.S. District Judge James Robart in finding the center’s busker rules ...