PEEL Street has come to life with music and busking talent, but crowds aren't just flocking to watch the old timers and experienced musicians.
Some of the most popular street performers at the Tamworth Country Music Festival are the young up and comers.
Among the new performers to Tamworth this year are Cairns girl Elouise Little and Tamworth local Iris Cornwell.
The 11-year-olds both play violin and met when they took lessons together at the Tamworth Conservatorium of Music.
Elouise has been playing for four years, while Iris started five-and-a-half years ago. The girls list Vivaldi and Mozart among their favourite musicians.
"We've both busked before but Elouise had been playing at Cairns and I'm here, but this is our first time busking together at Tamworth," Iris said.
Elouise said they were nervous at first.
"You get a bit worried but when you start playing it's just exciting."
Taylor Pfeiffer is one of the most well-known buskers in downtown Tamworth this week.
The 15-year-old from Adelaide, known as The Banjo Girl, gets plenty of attention for her quick picking and yodelling.
She made her first trip to Tamworth as a nine-year-old.
"I've been playing for eight years now and this is my sixth Tamworth festival," Taylor said.
"I've performed in every state expect Tasmania now.
"I'm in a few group shows and songwriter shows as well as the busking."
At just seven years of age, local lad Cooper Darlington is one of the smallest - and best dressed - buskers on Peel St.
The overall-clad fiddle player is busking alongside his older brother Jake, 13.
He got an early start on busking, when, at age three, he sang the alphabet to score a $50 note from a generous crowd member.
Since then he's got the bug for performing.
"He's been playing for two years now and this is his second time busking at the festival," his mum Tracey said.
