There are a lot of adjectives normally used to describe buskers, those street-corner musicians offering a song for a tribute to their open tip jar or instrument case: Creative. Dedicated. Determined.

“Absolutely adorable?” Not as common.

Also, they usually don’t bring their moms with them.

“Bravo! You’ll be at the Met someday!” says an enthusiastic passerby as the young members of the Palm Quartet briefly put their violin and cello bows at rest. The four musicians, ages 9-12, play everything from Bach and Mozart to the Beatles and Coldplay for the restaurant goers, happy hour stragglers and theater patrons walking past Palm Beach Dramaworks, where they set up last Friday evening.

Also notable about the Palm Quartet, whose combined musical experience comes to about 20 years: The $227.13 thrown into their open cello case will go not to iTunes gift cards or snacks, but to the dogs and cats looking for homes at the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League.

“It’s really scary (to try this), but we feel good that we’re using our talents to help the animals,” explains 11-year-old violinist Jenna Abel, who along with 9-year-old sister and cellist Ellie and friends and violinists 11-year-old Valentina and 9-year-old Annabella Paolucci, formed the quartet and decided to raise funds for Peggy Adams all on their own.

Ken Okel, Peggy Adams’ major gifts officer, says that the facility has had help from fund-raising kids in the past “doing a collection at school or raising money with their friends, but this is a rare mixture of compassion and creativity. They’re adding the beauty of music with caring for the animals.”

The Abels and Paoluccis, who all live in West Palm Beach, met as students at Palm Beach Public Elementary — Annabella and Ellie are still students there, while Valentina and Jenna go to Bak Middle School. Between them, they’ve survived years of lessons and what Jenna and Ellie’s mother Kim calls “that scratchy phase” known to all parents of beginning string students.

West Palm lawyer William Abel, Jenna and Ellie’s dad, says that the girls knew other young musicians who’d played on the street and decided to follow suit, but “to give to charity.” So since December, they’ve set up toward the east end of Clematis Street, on the first Friday of the month. The prospect both delighted and slightly scared the young musicians, but they liked the idea “of playing somewhere not in school,” Annabella explains. “And a lot of people enjoy it.”

Originally, they’d been in front of the fountain, near the waterfront, but relocated to the front of the theater thinking there might be more foot traffic there. When they asked Dramaworks staff if it was OK for them to be there, they not only agreed but suggested they stay until the theater crowd began arriving to increase their chances of more donations.

And it worked — they made $20 before moving, and almost $300 after.

So far, the Palm Quartet has raised about $900 for Peggy Adams, and expect to bring in even more when they play at the facility’s Barry Crown Walk For The Animals on Saturday, at Downtown at the Gardens. “That’s really exciting, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” says Valentina.

The quartet’s parents say they’re impressed with their daughters’ talent and initiative, and “surprised by their stamina. When they came out the first night, they played longer than we thought they would. They want to do this,” says Laura Paolucci, Annabella and Valentina’s mother.

The girls, who have a repertoire of about 12 songs, have had such fun raising money for the animals, they already have ideas for the next group they’ll volunteer for, perhaps the American Red Cross.

In the meantime, they’re glad to give to Peggy Adams. Peggy Adams has given to the girls, as well. The Paoluccis have adopted Sugy, who is probably a Chihuahua mix, and the Abels “wound up in the cat room” at the facility and brought home kitty Colton.