Tralee Circus Festival

Artists

Jack Wise

More than just a Magician, he’s a ventriloquist, a sword swallower and he even does a bit of pick pocketing! But Jack’s greatest talent – he’s laugh out loud funny! Irish Magician Jack Wise has been invited on The Late Late Show and requested to perform on three occasions for The President of Ireland ! He’s a headliner in comedy clubs all over Ireland and has amazed dozens of celebrities! Whether on stage or mingling amongst your guests, Jack’s jaw dropping magic tricks will make your party the topic of conversation for weeks and that’s guaranteed!

Daredevil Chicken Club

The Daredevil Chicken Club is a Theater Company that creates cabaret acts, clown shows, street theater and performs them around the world. Created in 2001 by Jonathan Taylor and Anne Goldmann they have entertained audiences with their innovative performances in over 34 countries. Combining comedy with absurd characters and circus skills they are modern comic Vaudevillians. Their shows have been seen in Off Broadway NY theaters, Berlin cabarets, Dubai malls, European street theater festivals, and featured on the Discovery Channel.

Grant Goldie

Brought up in the Orange fields of Norfolk UK, Grant never knew much of the outside world. At the age of nineteen he started working on two new hobbies, Juggling and Millinery. At the untrained age of thirty he combined them and created ‘That Man Show’. Since the shows conception, it has taken him around the world and back again.

Tumble Circus

Tumble Circus is a unique experience of innovative circus. Through imagination, laughter and spectacles Ken Fanning (Dublin) and Tina Segner (Sweden) reach into the hearts and the minds of the young and the old alike. Tumble Circus’s shows are highly skilled, classical circus but raw and unapologetic. Not frightened to push back the barriers of circus, they have gone to the edge of human ability, looked over and jumped.

The Fanzini Brothers

Ladies and gentlemen we are proud to present the amazing, exciting and thunderous spectacle that is the Fanzini Experience. Witness the amazing antics of these devilishely handsome west Kerry Italians as they perform their internationally renowned comedy entertainment act.

The Collector

“The Collector is this years winner for the absolute most random, pure nuts, fantastically silly and downright bonkers show. With an act that deserves to have a small shrine in your brain, this epic, improvised clown spectacle ends with a finale that quite simply shouldn’t be missed. We would explain what it is all about…but honestly we don’t have a clue.” – SPWC2010

The Twilight Players

Slick, Sharp and Dynamic! The trio perform in their own formidable style, with a heavy dose of showmanship to a hip soundtrack of Latin Jazz, Ska, Indian and Electro Funk. With their unique look inspired by everything from the glitz of Fifties Havana, classic sixties Indian cinema, right through to the Americana Soul Movement of the Seventies. ’The Twilight Players’ are a slice of British cool, forever bringing classic retro-vibes into the 21st Century. Their global appeal has taken them everywhere from Glastonbury to Mumbai, Los Angeles to Casablanca and a few ports in between on a amazing fun-filled adventure with a host of colourful characters along the way.

there are times when just one video wont cut it and this is one of those times, the video above shows some of the skills, but the vid below may explain why these guys look familiar… showing them every where from hollywood movies to music videos, remember these guys have performed with and choreographed some of the biggest names in the music industry!

Mr. Balloonatic

We are delighted this year to welcome Mr. Balloonatic, Ireland’s Premier Balloon Artist to join us at Tralee to run Balloon Modelling Workshops.

Mr.Balloonatic is an international award winning balloon artist, who has worked everywhere including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walt Disney World Paris and The Street Performance World Championships.

He has given balloon modelling workshops to people from all over the world, both amatures and professionals alike. When he’s not twisting balloons to make money you will often find him using his skills to entertain at charity fund raisers or with under privaliged children.

We’ve no video to show so here’s a magazine review

“Today’s under-tens are damn sophisticated. If balloons in the shape of sausage dogs were enough to enrapture the eldest child and friends, the same response can no longer be expected from younger siblings – and why should it be, in the age of the Wii and multifarious interactive computer games? Before lamenting loss of innocence, traditionalists should check out the work of Mr Balloonatic, whose dexterous balloon-twisting brings traditional birthday entertainment into the 21st Century. With creations ranging from Bart Simpson and Super Mario to full-size furniture, Mr B will impress even the most cynical brats.” – N. H. Dubliner Magazine 07 Aug 2008