Amsterdam street artists may soon have to audition

Buskers may soon have to audition before being allowed to perform in the streets and squares of Amsterdam. A majority of Amsterdam’s city council is in favor of such as plan if it will result in a ban on obnoxious ‘living statues’ and bad musicians, writes local daily Het Parool. [Someone complained no source was mentioned when I first posted this. 'Het Parool' -- a Dutch-language newspaper first published in Amsterdam in July 1940 -- is the source].