Category: Guest Acts

The Farmer’s Daughter

Molly Keczan represented Canada as a competitive rhythmic gymnast, has her B.F.A. in Performance Dance and is a part of the Cirque Du Soleil talent pool.  She grew up as the youngest of five, on a large scale commercial poultry and soft fruit farm in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Molly performs the only milk bottle walk in the world. Her solo show The Farmer’s Daughter Show was a featured act at the 2019 Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Canada.  This show was chosen to be a part of the first ever all female busker festival in Lawrence, Kansas. Molly is also the creator of the duo female aerial show, The Silver Starlets, which has toured throughout New Zealand, Ireland, UAE, Canada and the USA.  She is co-director of Equilibrium Circus and was recently named one of the top 10 under 40 by the Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions. 

http://www.thefarmersdaughtershow.com/

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Sharon from Canada

Sharon Mahoney is an award winning comedian, actress and street performer who has travelled the globe for almost 20 years performing at world class festivals and comedy clubs. In May 2021 she was inducted into the Busker Hall of Fame for her many contributions to the street performer community throughout the world.

She has performed in Australia, NZ, USA, Europe, UK, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Africa and more! With a background in Improvisation acting from the Second City in Toronto and a degree in Theatre Arts and psychology, she is a versatile performer, who successfully provokes and pushes the boundaries of social norms. Her stand up comedy can be seen on national Tv and she headlines and hosts comedy clubs around the world.

Her most recent award winning solo show; ThunderCunt, has been touring at festivals in Australia, UK and Canada with rave reviews, sold out houses and standing ovations. She is an incredibly engaging performer who longs to make a connection with the audience while metaphorically grabbing them by the short and curlies.

The UK Times described her as a “cross between Hunter. S. Thompson and Bette Midler” and she has shared the stage with some of the most established names in the comedy industry.

http://www.sharonmahoney.com/

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Ariele Ebacher

Ariele Ebacher has toured the world dancing on the wire for the past 20 years.  She began her career in circus after receiving her BA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  She has performed circus on cruise ships, on ice, in nightclubs, variety theaters, circus tents, and in the great wide open.  In the past few years she has performed with NoFit State Circus, Zoppe Circus, Flynn Creek Circus, Circus Flora, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Midnight Circus, Circus Bella, and the Big Apple Circus.  When not on tour she coaches tight wire at the  New England Center for Circus Arts, where she lives with her husband Jan Damm and their two children Timo and Ilsa.  @arielewirewalker

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Jan Damm

Jan Damm has been touring in the U.S. and internationally as a circus artist for over 10 years. Originally from Maine, he has worked street corners, big top tents, theaters and opera houses, rural schoolyards, and on screen. He specializes in clown, juggling, acrobatics, balancing and eccentric skills. Jan enjoys collaboration and creating original work, but is also at home in classic spectacles inspired by the greats of vaudeville and circus. He has toured with ‘Clowns Without Borders’ to Haiti, Indonesia, Lebanon and Greece. Other career highlights include appearances aboard Celebrity Cruises, Cirque Mechanics’ Pedal Punk on Broadway, and Big Apple Circus’ 40th Anniversary Tour. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont with his wife Ariele and their two children.

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Kaethe Hostetter

Kaethe Hostetter, five-string violin, has pursued music and design as dual careers from a young age. Recently wrapping up a ten-year stint in Ethiopia where her projects have been thriving, she is currently involved and investigating next moves as she balances her band www.qwanqwa.net and her clothing line www.wuzzawazzee.com and various other musical collaborations.

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Pogo Fred

Pogo Fred holds multiple Guinness World Records for his extreme pogo stunts and is regarded as one of the best jumpers on the planet. Check out his incredible tricks and flips as he jumps 10 feet (3 meters) in the air on his next generation and 10-foot tall pogo sticks.

Fred is one of the original founders of the sport of extreme pogo and has progressed today to be one of the best jumpers in the world. He has inspired countless younger athletes and is a major driving force behind the growth of the sport. As a veteran and founder of the sport, Fred has been featured in numerous media pieces, from Jay Leno, America’s Got Talent, and notably a Nike commercial during the 2012 Olympics.

https://www.pogofred.com/

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Billy Kidd

Billy Kidd has been performing on stages all over the globe. She has also been featured on numerous television shows including CW’s Masters of Illusions, Syfy’s Wizard Wars with Penn & Teller, and hosted Discovery Channels Breaking Magic series just to name a few. She recently completed a residency at Pittsburghs new theatre called Liberty Magic and Marvynns Magic Theatre in Palm Springs and is a regular at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Billy Kidd also runs her own venue in Bath England called Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre.

www.billykiddshow.com

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Mike Wood

Mike Wood was born (against his will) in St. Thomas, Ontario. He paid his way through university catching a catapulted cabbage on a spike on his head.
Mike has just returned to Canada after living for almost a decade in London, England. While living in London, Mike was a regular at plenty of tiny East London comedy rooms nobody can be expected to have heard of. He was a semi­finalist in the Amused Moose UK New Comedian Of The Year, which is a big deal and you should feel bad about not having heard of it.
In the future, Mike will be trading shards of broken mirror for the physical affections of his fellow climate refugees. In the meantime, Mike plans to cram your face so full of laughter you almost forget about all the important stuff you should be doing. www.mikewood.ca

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Coventry & Kaluza

Jamie Coventry is a harmonica addict and eccentric juggler. Natasha Kaluza is The Super Duper Hula Hooper. Together they are Coventry & Kaluza! Clown school sweethearts, and graduates of both the first and second year programs of the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center, they’ve made audiences laugh in schools, festivals, nightclubs, variety houses, private houses, circus tents, churches, elder care facilities, on the street, and even in a castle! Credits include The New Pickle Circus, Pickle Circus School Tour, Circus Bella, Flynn Creek Circus, Circus of Sound, Sweet Can Productions, Teatro Zinzanni and more. Coventry & Kaluza won Best Comedy/Clown Act in the American Circus Festival two years in a row, and Best Duo in the Picklewater Free Circus Festival. They serve as co-artistic directors and producers of Sweet Can Productions in San Francisco. www.coventryandkaluza.com

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