ONE of York’s best known buskers has died.
Jonny Walker regularly had a pitch in city centre streets such as Parliament Street.
In 2013 he fought a high profile campaign to be allowed to play in York again after his busking permit was suspended by City of York Council over claims he was street trading his CDs.
He launched an e-petition calling for changes to the city’s licensing scheme and later said he had been given his permit back after a “very productive” meeting with a senior official.
He later became the founding director of ASAP (Association of Street Artists and Performers) to campaign for public spaces to be open to grassroots expressions of art and culture and unnecessary restrictions to be lifted.
His family has posted on his Facebook page that he died peacefully at Leeds General Infirmary.
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