Well another government department is proposing to legalise this shortly when it deregulates the performance of street music.
He said the Latin and black street music sounds popular in the local neighborhoods could be heard in the music.
The music is street music, with lots of blues in it.
Parents brought their children, who skipped to the impromptu street music.
"It's a portrait of street music then and now."
Not usually thought of as a "local color" artist, he actually succeeds in giving them the character of street music.
Why does it reach us in a way that street music doesn't?
Now six o'clock is not a very favorable time for street music; citizens who do business downtown have mostly gone home to dinner.
Today, while street music is back, no organ grinders are licensed by the Parks Department.
The most successful point he made that day was, "As if people didn't have enough other problems not also to have a ban on street music."