Various musical acts, artists, and performers of all kinds demonstrated their talents to a good crowd at the newly named Buskers Festival Ōtepoti in King Edward St on Saturday.
Seven-year-old Julia Knights made her busking debut.
She had spent the past year learning how to play the ukulele, recorder and violin, she said.
"I was in school, there was this very amazing violinist who was busking and I thought, ‘I'm going to do that one day’.
She said a year had been a short time to learn all the instruments, but she had a great teacher.
Catherine Schroder, from Dancers Anonymous, said the group did a routine she "threw together" the day before.
The three dancers from the troupe performed with Kadodo African Drumming.
"I just chucked a choreography at them yesterday — but we’ve done a lot with them in the past, so it’s been very fun," she said.
People travelled from as far as Christchurch for the "grassroots version of Dunedin’s Got Talent", he said.
The day was a celebration of "busking in all art forms".
There were live murals being painted, face painting and caricatures being drawn.
About 21 buskers performed between 11am and 2pm.
