Portland celebrates time-honored tradition of street performing with first-ever Buskathon

Downtown Portland’s Director Park isn’t a room and doesn’t have doors.

If it did, Maeve Stier would have blown them off on Sunday while being named Favorite Busker of the Year at Portland’s first-ever Buskathon.

Busking is street performing while asking for donations. It’s a time-honored form of public performance that Portland took to heart during three days of performances, Thursday and Saturday, April 10 to 12, culminating in Sunday’s busk-off before about 100 people in Director Park…

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