Busker Ed Alleyne-Johnson performs Don't Fear The Reaper

Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker. He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s.

He uses an electric violin that he carved with a kitchen knife, a custom pedal-board, and an amplifier which he modified to run off rechargeable batteries.



This setup has enabled him to perform on the street in almost every major city in Europe, and across the United States and Canada.

He can often be seen performing in Chester city centre, near the Grosvenor shopping precinct and the Chester Cross, and more recently on the streets of York.