Jared Crawford said he has entered the lottery to secure a place to perform on the Fremont Street Experience every day since the lottery system for busking was established in 2015. But Crawford, a bucket drummer, said he’s only won a spot once or twice.
“It’s broken — that’s what I’m telling you,” he said. “The system is broken.”
Crawford joined around 40 other community members on Monday afternoon for a town hall to discuss proposals to improve the lottery registration and performance circle system that currently dictates the bounds of expressive performance on the five-block pedestrian mall.
Under the current system, street performers are confined to one of roughly three dozen six-foot circles painted on the pavement.
