Buskers Day 2025

Get ready for a vibrant afternoon of live music, movement, and creativity in every corner of our 164-acre Museum Park. Buskers Day is back and bigger than ever for 2025—celebrating the timeless art of street performance with North Carolina’s most talented buskers.

Stroll the Park and discover an eclectic lineup of musicians, dancers, and performers turning pathways into stages and open air into atmosphere. Whether you’re here to play or just soak it all in, this is the perfect day to experience art in motion.

Interested in performing?

Buskers from across the state are welcome to perform for any duration between 1 and 5 pm throughout our 164-acre Park.

No registration/permit fee is required, and while the NCMA does not pay performers, they are welcome to put out collection baskets.

By performing at this event, buskers agree to the Museum’s terms that performances not include any hate speech or illicit content (must be family-friendly). The North Carolina Museum of Art reserves the right to review all content and to terminate a performance at any time.

We have established 24 sites that are first-come, first-served during the event. If none of these spaces are suitable, buskers may choose their own space. We ask that buskers stay away from tall grass, look out for ant hills, not obstruct paths, and remain eight feet away from any artwork.

1. Water pump area
2. Willow tree
3. Volunteer Garden path
4. Ellipse Site 1
5. Ellipse Site 2
6. Upper Meadow
7. Meadow in front of Ulau
8. Welcome Center patio
9. Smokestack patio
10. Corner near Wind Machine
11. Blue Loop and Capital Area Greenway intersection
12. Blue Loop near stream
13. Blue Loop and Upper Meadow Trail intersection
14. Near No Fuss
15. Near Collapse
16. Near Gyre
17. Lowe’s Pavilion
18. Across from Wind Sculpture II
19. Blue Loop and trail intersection (other side of Gyre)
20. Across from Crossroads/Trickster I
21. Near Invasive
22. Near Mirror Labyrinth
23. In front of Union 060719
24. Near Askew