There is something about street music that gets me excited. Maybe it’s the spontaneity of the artist and the spectators. The energy seems almost palpable when music is played and heard in open space.
Last month’s trip to Europe in the summer was filled with an eclectic mix of street performers, a park concert and my first international music festival! Here are some of those cool buskers, bands and performers!

I was lucky to walk by these guys right outside Rijksmuseum. I instantly drooled over the cellist when he played a very familiar classical song. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.

Found this crew in Museumplein, Amsterdam and, at first, thought they were just setting up since all I heard was muffled sounds. The guy seated later handed me his headphones, and asked if I wanted to listen. Electronica music was playing while she was singing and the other guy doing the bass.

When I closed my eyes, I felt like I was inside a club, dancing and jumping to the beat. Electronica music, best appreciated when amplified, couldn’t be played in the conventional way here in public, so she had to find a way- this ‘silent concert’.

On a warm Sunday afternoon, I caught this local band playing some folk acoustic songs in Vondelpark, to a sizeable crowd of locals and tourists.

Young Czechs play pop songs with three violins, a cello and cahun in the middle of the Charles Bridge in Prague.

After 15 years, The Jesus and Mary Chain, plays to a huge crowd, including our group of 30something rock fans.