Streets Alive! Owen Sound’s Busker Extravaganza

August 13, 2009

Calling all Buskers! Streets Alive! is coming to Downtown Owen Sound on August 21st and 22nd, 2009. It is a busking festival showcasing a wide variety of local and non local grassroots performers, seasoned veterans, in the age old tradition of crowd involvement and pure unadulterated exciting entertainment!

Friday, August 21, 2009 to Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday Night 8-10 pm; Saturday 10 am – 4 pm
Free Downtown & the Inner Harbour
For more information, please contact Doug Cleverley 519-376-4440 ext. 251

Friday night will be a preview that will showcase select buskers on the natural stage at Owen Sound City Hall. There will be a mix of acoustic, and electric, artisans and performance pieces. It’s bound to be an exciting evening!

Saturday will have a variety of buskers in a various key locations throughout the downtown area, as well as around the Sydenham river and spilling into the harbour area. There will be a lots of sights, sounds, and moving performances for all!

Busker categories include:
* Children’s entertainers
* Musicians of all sorts
* “Street shtick” i.e. jugglers, magicians, fire twirlers
* Physical performers i.e. acrobats, mimes, dancers
* Visual artists, i.e. caricature artists, face painters