a friend and i play on the streets in albuquerque NM, the cops don't care but neither do the people, don't let that whole artsshmartsy crap fool you the only way to make money in this town busking is on friday and saturday nights near where all the bars are, or at a starbucks in the morning where we've befriended the manager, in both cases people aren't in their right frame of mind (read: drunk/tired) if one is playing anywhere else no one cares, or they look at you in an agitated way, one could argue it's because were bad, but were not, we were asked to play at the african cultural tent during the state fair last year, so obviously we're not bad at what we do...