I hereby call the International Congress of Buskers of Palo Alto. (I.C.O.B.O.P.A., pronounced EYE co BOW PA).
Watch (and listen) for more details.
Mark Weiss
Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto
(earwopa@yahoo.com)
“Plastic Alto” blog (https://markweiss86.wordpress.com)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 8:55 a.m.
It’s sort of like Mavericks in that I am putting the buskers on notice and when the tide is right, the music will flow.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize (his first of two) for this story of Joshua Bell posing as a busker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
Maybe it’s ICOBOPA. I use IBOPA for Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto (Jamie Stewart, et al).
I just met Sue Webb and Joel Betts of the Blue Diamond jam at Lytton Plaza and hope to synergize with them for the ICOBOPA gathering of buskers. Sue says she has played at Lytton Plaza 60 times already. I am dragging my bongoes over there to sit in for three songs, although I am tempted to read Kerouac “Rimbaud” or do “Howl” despite the aforementioned cold symptoms.
http://www.meetup.com/Sue-Webbs-Blue-Diamond-Jam-Palo-Alto/
according to this jerry garcia would busk in front of swains, what recently was the apple store.
http://www.bikeroute.com/NBGBikingCities/PaloAlto/HippyMove.php
Reply from Joel Betts of Blue Diamond Jam,kingrazzjo@yahoo.com.Yes,it is true,I used to know Jerry and he used to work at Dayna Morgan’s music and helped me build my second “Bender Holicaster” guitar that I designed,built and,ultimately destroyed also,in the guitar breaking and burning days.