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Photos: The Sight of the Sound of the Music of Our Streets

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Buskers, street performers, musicians. Sometimes they are just sharing a few tunes as they move through the town with their instruments, sometimes the hat is clearly turned up and set beside them for passers-by to fill, and sometimes--that one in a million--is the kind of unique prodigy that becomes the subject of articles, a book, and a movie.

Here, a moment of their time is captured in pictures, however, and not sound, thanks to our LAist Featured Photos pool.

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