Get serious with busking!

People planning on attending next year's World Buskers Festival in Christchurch can now go online and work out how to get the optimum number of laughs from the 10 day event.

The official World Buskers Festival website has been launched (www.worldbuskersfestival.com) and has details of all the performers attending the festival as well as a schedule of when they will be performing.

"The performers we've assembled for this festival are truly world class so it certainly pays to check out the schedule so you don't miss seeing any of them perform,'' says festival director Jodi Wright.