My Experience Busking in San Francisco
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My Experience Busking in San Francisco
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Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco
#2I used to busk, playing guitar and singing in Bradford (UK) city centre in the early 1990s. I wasn't very good, but it was funny. £30 on a good day? Not bad for a couple of hours.
Re: My Experience Busking in San Francisco
#3I usually give a dollar or two to performers, especially if they look homeless, unless they are horribly out of tune, in which case sometimes I still tell them the useless advice to get in tune and give them a dollar.
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#4I busked in Covent Garden in the middle of the summer for about an hour and made something like £100. That's literally my only experience though so it's probably an anomaly.
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#5I used to busk with a friend on NYC subways. We each made $100 a day for 6 hours of singing consistently.
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#6I used to busk with a friend on NYC subways. We each made $100 a day for 6 hours of singing consistently.
That seems incredibly low, was it a while ago? Considering how much money I see people connect sitting silently with a cardboard sign, I would think performing in NYC would net a lot more.
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#7Not that I give many to any buskers or beggars, but I'd rather give money to people that are not causing noise pollution rather than to people that are.
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#8I busked in Covent Garden in the middle of the summer for about an hour and made something like £100. That's literally my only experience though so it's probably an anomaly.
What instrument and music?
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#9Not that I give many to any buskers or beggars, but I'd rather give money to people that are not causing noise pollution rather than to people that are.
There are numerous subway stops in NYC where the noise is so loud that a death metal band would be an improvement.
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#10The earnings surprised me. I know a decent software engineer whose effective hourly rate is embarrassingly close to the lower limit of Steve’s reported $15–50 range. On the other hand, that’s busking in SF.