Meet the buskers of Busker Tour 2025 – the travelling street festival of performing arts and the new circus.
In 2025, Busker Tour will visit small and big towns across Poland. The diverse, international and interdisciplinary line-up of each leg of the tour will change.
- 10.08 Busker Tour w Żarach (as part of Międzynarodowe Spotkania Plenerowe)
- 23-24.08 Busker Tour 2025 in Krotoszyn
- 26-27.08 Busker Tour 2025 in Zielona Góra
- 30-31.08 Busker Tour 2025 in Zduńska Wola
- 05-07.09 Busker Tour 2025 in Wrocław
The original program of the Busker Tour Festival, curated by Małgorzata Węglarz, showcases a diversity of street arts. Buskers, who draw on the tradition of street theatre, use various techniques to captivate their audience, including magic routines, clowning, dance, music, acrobatic stunts, circus props, and other tried-and-true and unexpected ideas and tricks.
In the street shows, the charisma of the performers, their improvisation skills and ability to connect with the audience are as important as their mastery of props, and pushing the limits of their physical abilities.
Every few days, on www.busker.pl and social media we will reveal information on new performers joining Busker Tour 2025. Some of them will return to the festival, while others will make their debut in Poland.
Alvin Yong “Soul to Show” | Circus: diabolo, Cyr wheel | Malaysia
Alvin Yong Kin Hoe is a Malaysian circus artist. His circus journey began with a dream of becoming a diabolo performer and travelling the world. He gained his first experience as a busker in Taiwan, followed by professional training at INAC – a circus school in Portugal.
His street show, “Soul to Show,” is a story-telling act that includes circus movements and life reflections based on Alvin’s journey as an artist, from sharing his enthusiasm towards diabolo to discovering the artistic world through the Cyr wheel. The story behind Soul to Show is to search for the “lights” that connect Alvin and his apparatus, called “Cahaya” in Malay.
Alvin performed for the first time in Poland at Busker Tour 2023.
See also: An interview with Alvin.
DEANisHOME| Bulgaria | Music | live looping
Dimitar Gospodinov, better known as DEANisHOME, is a 31-year-old multi-instrumentalist, composer, lyricist and vocalist.
Dean sings catchy original songs that he mostly wrote for ex-girlfriends, about his desire to follow his artistic path, leaving home to find himself and incorporating a little bit of melancholia, all while creating a lively party atmosphere. Musically, he combines danceable live looped drum beats, with happy guitar lines mostly in major scales.
His musical journey started in the small mountain town of Vratza in Bulgaria. He is a music graduate with a degree in sound engineering and percussion. He moved to Berlin six years ago and has been a full-time busker ever since.
Dean travels, writes songs, records, and performs his music as an independent artist, pursuing his teenage dream of living like a rock star. He has released over 20 albums with original music, in both English and Bulgarian. With every new song, Dean showcases his versatility as an artist transitioning between music genres and playing multiple instruments.
GAKU The Jugglingdrummer | Japan | Circus shows, juggling and drumming
GAKU is from Japan and presents a unique combination of juggling and drumming. He uses flying drumsticks not only to create rhythms but also to showcase his circus skills, and he adds flames for an even more spectacular effect.
GAKU also creates a local orchestra during the show, inviting selected participants to take on the roles of conductor and musician.
GAKU made his debut performance in Poland at the Busker Tour 2024.
Richard Filby “Richard Filby Spectacule” | Circus: juggling, rolla bolla | Australia
Originally from Australia, now London-based, Richard Filby is a circus performer and comedian. In his shows, “Richard Filby Spectacule”, he combines high-level juggling with knives and balls, balancing on rola bola, and fire tricks.
Although Richard is a man of many talents who constantly adds new circus tricks to his repertoire, he believes that the main attraction of his show is his charm combined with Australian wit.
Juggling while balancing comes as naturally to him as public speaking, so he usually does it all on top of his rola bola.
Richard always relishes the opportunity of dressing up in a suit and a hat and entertaining a new crowd. Tested in the streets, pubs and theatres, Melbourne sun and London rain, “Richard Filby Spectacule” can be performed everywhere at any time of the year.
See also: An interview with Richard Filby.
TIMAY | Music: handpan | Austria
TIMAY (Philipp Timmelmayer) is a handpan musician, busker and songwriter from Austria.
After taking drum and guitar lessons as a teenager, Philipp began performing and recording music as a singer-songwriter in various projects. In 2022, Philipp rediscovered his passion for percussion instruments.
Under the stage name TIMAY, Philipp focuses only on the handpan instrumental music.
TIMAY made his festival debut at Busker Tour 2024. He returns to Poland to present his original melodic percussive songs from the album “Stone Museum” released in November 2024, and new show ideas.