‘Busk-Aid’ Benefit Will See L.A. Music Scene Favorites Taking to the Sidewalks of Echo Park to Raise Fire Relief Funds

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In one of the more novel fundraisers to pop up procuring donations for L.A.-area fire relief, “Busk-Aid” has been set for go hit the streets in the city’s Echo Park district, with more than a dozen artists who are well-known among the Los Angeles music community committed to perform at stations along a bustling section of Sunset Blvd.

Among those playing in the urban great outdoors for charity March 30 will be Dustbowl Revival, Ted Russell Kamp, the Living Sisters (with two out of four members, Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark, on hand), Rick Shea, Tony Gilkyson, Carla Olson & Todd Wolfe, Ilana Katz Katz, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Fernando Perdomo and the Hollywood Highsteppers.

The event, which will see all of the musicians performing at stations near the intersection of Sunset and Lemoyne, is being presented in association with the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which will donate proceeds to musicians displaced in the fires, with the Wild Honey Foundation providing logistical support.

Busk-Aid is the brainchild of Cary Baker, a music publicist-turned-author who recently published the book “Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music,” and Liz Garo, a longtime L.A.