ThirstyFish

Photography is an inadequate medium to capture the atmosphere created by this street performer. The sound drew me in from around the block, and I watched him perform for about twenty minutes.

Although restricted or outright banned in some countries, in the United States, the protection of artistic free speech extends to busking. This is understandable, considering that one of the founding fathers

"Benjamin Franklin was a street performer. He composed songs, poetry and prose about the current events and went out in public and performed them. He would then sell printed copies of them to the public. He was dissuaded from busking by his father who convinced him the stigmas that some people attach to busking were not worth it. It was this experience that helped form his beliefs in free speech, which he wrote about in his journals". *