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New Orleans, Louisiana, street musicians David Leonard and Roselyn Lionhart have been playing music in Jackson Square for two decades. The pair met in the late 1950s and participated in the civil rights protests of the 1960s. They still dress the way they did in their hippy days.

John and Toula Pearson entertain fairgoers throughout the US with their unique bell wagon. The bell wagon is an island car decorated with various bells. It contains an organ which John plays while Toula drives the wagon. Their recent fairs were the Illinois State Fair, Iowa State Fair and the Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL. In autumn, the Pearsons will attend fairs in Texas and Louisiana and will be in Santa's Enchanted Forest in Miami, FL, for the winter., SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- John Pearson and the Traveling Bell Wagon show came about by accident. Toula Pearson had grown tired of looking at her husband's pipe organ restoration project spread [...]

Street musician Mark Di Guiseppe grew up in Chicago and then went to Europe where he made a living playing music on the streets. He has now returned to the US with his invented musical instrument, the bordellofono.