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Places to Street Perform Around The World
I make no promises about any of these suggestions.
My experience is that most situations tend to change about permits and quality of pitches from one year to the next. I have played in most of these places. Some of them I have heard about and hope to try myself sometime. Others are places I have just seen on my travels and thought they might be worth a try.
This list below is by no means complete. Yes, there are lots more regularly worked pitches that I have not included. The following locations marked with an asterisk (*) are regularly worked, each with their own set of rules. You will likely meet other performers at these pitches.
Remember: You will get a lot further by being polite and helpful towards the regulars when you are the new guy on the pitch than you will by thinking that you are going to take over.
Also remember: You may not be welcome as a street performer by certain immigration officials. Always try to be very low key when entering a country if you don't have a work permit. I offer you no help, but all my condolences, if you get kicked out of any country.
Good luck and be sure to tell me about your new pitches...
(Regularly worked cities marked with *)
USA
*San Francisco, CA
*Boston, Mass.
*Cambridge, Mass.
*Key West, Florida
*Boulder, Colorado
*New Orleans, LA
*New York, NY
*Los Angeles, CA
*San Diego,CA
Chicago, Illinois
Orlando, Florida
Miami, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Omaha, Nebraska
Kansas City, Missouri
Dallas, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Denver, CO
Ft. Collins, CO
Aspen, CO
Eugene, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
CANADA
*Vancouver, BC
*Victoria, BC
*Calgary, Alberta
*Toronto,Ontario
*Ottawa, Ontario
*Montreal, Quebec
*Quebec City, Quebec
Winnipeg, Manitoba
ENGLAND
*London
*Bath
*York
*Stratford
*Chester
Brighton
Bournemouth
Plymouth
Bristol
Reading
Cambridge
Chelmsford
Colchester
Cheltenham
Gloucester
Norwich
Birmingham
Nottingham
Sheffield
Liverpool
Newcastle
SCOTLAND
Glasgow
Edinburgh
WALES
Cardiff
IRELAND
Dublin
Belfast
FRANCE
*Paris
Avignon
Annecy
Grenoble
Bordeaux
Lille
Colmar
Strasbourg
BELGIUM
Antwerp
Liege
HOLLAND
*Amsterdam
Utrecht
Delft
DENMARK
*Copenhagen
GERMANY
*Munich
Heidelberg
Freiburg
Nuremberg
Cologne
Hamburg
Berlin
CZECH REPUBLIC
*Prague
SWITZERLAND
*Zurich
*Lucerne
LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg City
MEXICO
Mexico City
AUSTRALIA
*Sydney
*Melbourne
*Adelaide
*Perth
*Brisbane
*Gold Coast
Darwin
Townsville
Hobart
NEW ZEALAND
Christchurch
Wellington
Queenstown
Auckland
OTHER COUNTRIES
*Japan
Austria
Spain
Poland
South Africa
Argentina
Morocco and India --(you won't be able to make much, if any, money here but both of these countries have long histories of their own style of street performing. Magic and snake charming in India, acrobatics in Morocco )
Rex Boyd
I make no promises about any of these suggestions.
My experience is that most situations tend to change about permits and quality of pitches from one year to the next. I have played in most of these places. Some of them I have heard about and hope to try myself sometime. Others are places I have just seen on my travels and thought they might be worth a try.
This list below is by no means complete. Yes, there are lots more regularly worked pitches that I have not included. The following locations marked with an asterisk (*) are regularly worked, each with their own set of rules. You will likely meet other performers at these pitches.
Remember: You will get a lot further by being polite and helpful towards the regulars when you are the new guy on the pitch than you will by thinking that you are going to take over.
Also remember: You may not be welcome as a street performer by certain immigration officials. Always try to be very low key when entering a country if you don't have a work permit. I offer you no help, but all my condolences, if you get kicked out of any country.
Good luck and be sure to tell me about your new pitches...
(Regularly worked cities marked with *)
USA
*San Francisco, CA
*Boston, Mass.
*Cambridge, Mass.
*Key West, Florida
*Boulder, Colorado
*New Orleans, LA
*New York, NY
*Los Angeles, CA
*San Diego,CA
Chicago, Illinois
Orlando, Florida
Miami, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Omaha, Nebraska
Kansas City, Missouri
Dallas, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Denver, CO
Ft. Collins, CO
Aspen, CO
Eugene, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
CANADA
*Vancouver, BC
*Victoria, BC
*Calgary, Alberta
*Toronto,Ontario
*Ottawa, Ontario
*Montreal, Quebec
*Quebec City, Quebec
Winnipeg, Manitoba
ENGLAND
*London
*Bath
*York
*Stratford
*Chester
Brighton
Bournemouth
Plymouth
Bristol
Reading
Cambridge
Chelmsford
Colchester
Cheltenham
Gloucester
Norwich
Birmingham
Nottingham
Sheffield
Liverpool
Newcastle
SCOTLAND
Glasgow
Edinburgh
WALES
Cardiff
IRELAND
Dublin
Belfast
FRANCE
*Paris
Avignon
Annecy
Grenoble
Bordeaux
Lille
Colmar
Strasbourg
BELGIUM
Antwerp
Liege
HOLLAND
*Amsterdam
Utrecht
Delft
DENMARK
*Copenhagen
GERMANY
*Munich
Heidelberg
Freiburg
Nuremberg
Cologne
Hamburg
Berlin
CZECH REPUBLIC
*Prague
SWITZERLAND
*Zurich
*Lucerne
LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg City
MEXICO
Mexico City
AUSTRALIA
*Sydney
*Melbourne
*Adelaide
*Perth
*Brisbane
*Gold Coast
Darwin
Townsville
Hobart
NEW ZEALAND
Christchurch
Wellington
Queenstown
Auckland
OTHER COUNTRIES
*Japan
Austria
Spain
Poland
South Africa
Argentina
Morocco and India --(you won't be able to make much, if any, money here but both of these countries have long histories of their own style of street performing. Magic and snake charming in India, acrobatics in Morocco )
Rex Boyd