If you're familiar with the Ferrara Festival then you more than likely know what a busker is and will no doubt enjoy our website that is dedicated to the Ferrara Buskers Festival, which is the most popular and biggest festival dedicated to all things buskers in the world! For those of you unfamiliar with buskers and the Ferrara Buskers Festival it's a good thing you made your way to our site because we're going to fill you in on everything you need to know about buskers and the festival.

What started out as a simple street fair all the way back in 1998 with a main goal of bringing to light the role of street musicians has grown into a world-wide popular festival that brings in 800,000 unique visitors each year. The Ferrara Buskers Festival takes places each year in the quaint little Italian town known as Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

Ferrara is a charming city with a rich history of street musicians that has helped spread the message of buskers to the rest of the world through its non-competitive festival. The best of the best in street musicians from all walks of life and every corner of the world make their way to Ferrara to perform for the remarkably large number of festival attendees, many of which have come from international destinations to see these buskers perform.

One of the most magnificent things about the Ferrara Buskers Festival is how organizers help cover the traveling and accommodation costs of busking groups so that they can come to the festival to show off their skills and take in everything the street festival has to offer. Street artists and musicians are part of one big family and the generosity the event organizers gives you an idea of the warmth that emanates from this yearly festival. In past years there have been over 700 artists from dozens of countries take part in more than 1200 combined different street shows.

Busking or street performing is something that has been around for many generations and doesn't usually get much respect or recognition, which makes the Ferrara Buskers Festival cool and unique and has turned busking into an industry in Italy. Thanks in large part to the Ferrara Buskers Festival the Italian economy is provided with a large boost every year because of the festival and its success, which has lead to the creation of an Italian street art sector that now boasts over 200 initiatives.

The traveling street artists who take part in the festival are there mainly to provide spectators with a chance to see some passionate and exotic street performances through song, dance and costume and that makes the Ferrara Buskers Festival one of the most joyous events you'll find anywhere. If you get a chance to attend you must and who knows you might even get so swept up in what you see that you'll want to give busking a shot!