For the love ofstreet art

On Fells Point?s main square, 21 hopeful street entertainers, with musical instruments and props in hand, gathered Saturday for the opportunity to strut their stuff before a selection committee seated under a blue and white canopy, emblazoned with the Downtown Partnership logo. The organization, in tandem with the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, has taken its cue from many large U.S. cities in providing venues for street entertainers.

The committee?s purpose was to review the acts for propriety before issuing a license to perform on Baltimore?s street corners, in its plazas and parks ? all great locations for entertaining locals and visitors, while pumping an artistic vitality into a town dependent on its tourism dollar.