In my opinion , busking festivals are crap , festivals are good .Why go to the place where all the buskers are if you want to busk ?
If you want to watch , then busking festivals are great , Tarrega was fantastic .
Here in northern Spain from Sping until early autumn there are festivals galore and hardly any artists , always spaces to play , music , fireworks no police , and fun . None of this politics nonsence and waiting your turn in line playing to people who have been bombarded all day with shows .
a couple of years ago I was at the neuchatel busking festival and killed every day for five days, afterwards we all went to ferrara...
very different, we made a lot of money but it was not the same.
maybe because we were invited to neuchatel and so were official buskers whereas in italy we were just gatecrashers
i haven't been there but i have got lots of friends who have... more or less i've heard this... its a great festival for partying and getting contacts for paid gigs... its mostly a musicians festival so you usually play with lots of background noise... the hats are great for some horrible for others... the organizers give you a discount on food and lodging and from what i heard its not much of a discount... i have heard lots of complaints about the organizers but the people that complain go every year... its hard to tell, italians complain alot...
mike
if ya got any questions about other festivals in italy let me know
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