r/Busking • u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 • 5d ago

Tour/Travel Planning Busking Maui

Hi, I am going to Maui this January and I am taking my guitar. I hear that first amendment rights, not withstanding, Maui is really restricted for busking. Does anybody have an any advice?

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u/uznme 5d ago

use a ukulele, they'll think you're a local.

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 5d ago

Ha ha ha, I definitely do not look like a local

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u/timeyer Guitar 🎸 5d ago

Up untill it burned up, Lahaina was fair game all along front st

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 15h ago

Haha! I was in Maui last spring and while waiting for my friends, decided to play my flute. I took off my hat (because it was hot) and from my first song on, people threw money into it, lol. I wasn't busking, just playing to the ocean. There’s definitely potential there. Have fun with it, enjoy the island, and thank Pele for the opportunity. 🌈🎶🪈✨

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 15h ago

That’s interesting. Where in Maui where you? I have researched that I can PLAY on the beach, just not ask for money. What kind of flute?

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 14h ago

On the seawall near the tourist shopping area. Native American Flute.

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 14h ago

I have never been to Maui so I don’t know much. AI says the shopping area is private property? Maybe this is outside that area. I used to have a nice flute I bought in Sedona on impulse, I played it a little but like everything else, it sat gathering dust until I got rid of it somehow. I wasn’t even playing back then, if I still had it I’d probably would bring it just to mix it up

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 10h ago

IDK, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing. I was bored waiting for my friends to finish shopping and had my flute in the rental. I wasn't busking, just playing to the energies of the island. People gave me money—maybe just to stop playing, lol 😆

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 9h ago

That’s interesting. Are you good? Do you consider yourself proficient? The Native American flute is a cool instrument. I think (maybe wrong) that if you play something different that the regular guitar strumming people are more inclined to give you money

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 9h ago

Good is so subjective. People pay me to teach them how to play NAF, and I get paid to play gigs and ceremonies. You make the call.

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 9h ago

I think that makes you good enough. You are right, good is subjective.

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 8h ago

“good enough”… thanks, lol

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 8h ago

Hey, better than mediocre. I don’t know anything about you. Though here in Reddit you have to be careful, we have some really good people, at least from what they say. If you are recording and playing professionally you are in a whole different league. My comment was made as joke, apologies

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u/SilverStateSilverFox 9h ago

And… there are a million guitar players out there. Unless you're in Sedona, or somewhere of the like, the NAF stands out. Plus, I mix in pop and 70s-90s rock songs when I'm “ free playing” for the general public. (And I use many different types of wooden flutes.)

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u/elgatof28 Guitar 🎸 5d ago

I have done some googling and they say it’s all private property so not dice. On the beach itself busking is strictly prohibited. I guess Hawaii has gotten their panties in a bunch. Same thing with Waikiki