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Locations in Paris for busking
" Busking worked well in many districts; we concentrated on the ones below.
Montmarte was a good dinner location. For us, it was cafés in the streets and alleys from the base of Sacre Coeur to the Boulevard de Rochechouart. There was an especially good spot in a small alleyway, the rue Briquet, where we could play softly and still be heard because of the acoustics of the alley.
Another dinner district was just down the hill a little further, which we called "Anvers", along the Avenue Trudaine, and included a small triangular park where Rue Turgot and Rue de Rochechouart meet.
The Rue Mouffetard is one of Paris's oldest and liveliest neighbourhoods with many restaurants, shops, cafés, and a regular open market. We found it to consistently be a great place to busk, and usually did so during the dinner meal. Situated in the fifth (cinquième) arrondissement of Paris, its one of those places where we had to perform in the street and carefully watch for traffic as we played, often playing our set to more than one restaurant's customers since the outside dining areas were so close together. This is where we found the buskers whose method we subsequently adopted as our own.
The Odeon was a great Sunday lunch/early afternoon area, and here I'll give you the path we would walk. We'd start at Le Bonaparte, across from the Eglise Saint-Germaine de Prés on Rue Guillaume Apollinaire. From there we'd walk away from the Eglise down Rue Guillaume Apollinaire, and turn right on Rue Saint Benoit, play one or two places as we continued to (and turned right onto) the Rue Jacob. We'd follow the Rue Jacob to the Rue de Furstemberg, turn right and walk until we veered left onto the Rue Cardinale, and follow it to the Rue de l'Abbaye. We almost always played to the café on the corner of the Rue de l'Abbaye and the Rue de Buci. If we were still looking for more spots, we'd cross the Rue de Buci and continue down the Rue de Bourbon le Château.
The streets bordering the east side of the Forum les Halles - the Rue Pierre Lescot and the streets between it and the Rue Saint-Denis - held a good concentration of cafés that were usually busy. The streets were predominately for pedestrians. Sometimes there were delivery vehicles, but the sidewalks are very wide and the deliveries didn't cause us much of a problem. We especially enjoyed playing for the diners at the Au Pere Tranquille - their huge outside dining area usually insured a better than average amount of tips.
And last but not least was a circuit in the Latin Quarter which started on the Ile Saint-Louis. Our favorite starting spot would be where the Rue Saint-Luis en l'ile met the Rue Jean du Bellay. From there we would cross over the Pont Saint-Louis (this bridge was a great spot for a "pitch" for amplified instruments), and continue up the Rue du Cloitre Notre Dame where we'd play a couple of cafés. We'd walk in front of the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, cross the Seine again on the Pont au Double, and maybe play a couple more places on the Rue Galande or on the Rue du Petit Pont just before it reached the Boulevard Saint-Germaine."