Arts & Entertainment F Train to Become Mobile Jazz Club For New Mid-Market First Thursdays Block Party The scope of activities happening in downtown San Francisco on the first Thursday of every month just got bigger with UNSTAGED, a new Mid-Market block party being put on by Market Street Arts. And it will turn the F-line streetcar into a boistrous, mobile jazz venue.
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Rock: Golden Gate Park Legal Busking Program Starts Saturday, Signups Now Open You can hear (or perform!) live music legally at seven designated locations in Golden Gate Park starting Saturday, as the Rec and Parks’ new permitted busking system goes into effect.
Arts & Entertainment The ‘Bucket Man’ Will Be Honored With a Memorial Parade In Downtown SF Saturday There will be one last jam for Larry “The Bucket Man” Hunt this Saturday, as the legendary San Francisco busker will be honored with a memorial brass band parade that will conclude at the Union Square corner where his beat went on so many years.
Arts & Entertainment Drum-Playing Union Square Street Performer Larry ‘Bucket Man’ Hunt Has Died At Age 64 Union Square fixture Larry Hunt has been banging on buckets like they were a set of drums for decades on Market Street, but the beat won’t go on any further, as the “Bucket Man” died Thursday morning at age 64.
SF News Panhandling and Busking Ban Gets Thumbs Up From BART Staff Report A proposed ban on all panhandling and busking on BART trains appears to be moving forward as a new report from the transit agency's legal staff finds that a ban should pass muster if it's only for paid areas like platforms and trains.
SF News BART Board May Ban Panhandling, But Buskers Could Be Barred Too A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
Arts & Entertainment Watch SF Street Performer Quincy Nelson Film A Spider-Man Music Video On Market Street Quincy Nelson, one of the costumed buskers of Fisherman's Wharf who dances for tips from tourists dressed as Spider-Man, showed up on Market Street Thursday twerking atop a traffic light at the corner of 4th Street.
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SF News Meanwhile, On BART... Escalators, Buskers and Taggers Get Back To Work After four days of shut down, members of BART's two unions went back to work getting the trains moving again. They weren't the only ones getting back to work though: an even more
