Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Performer Spotlight - the Amazing Anastasini's
This month we are spotlighting a family of performers who are accomplished circus performers as well as show producers. This family represents eight generations of circus know how.Luciano Anastasini currently performs as "Luciano's
Pound Puppies" with an adorable and charming mix of mutts who as their name suggests came from various pounds around the country. The act is fast paced, colorful and inventive. Most recently they were featured on the PBS Series - "PBS Circus" which began airing late in 2010. Luciano also performs Diablo juggling and his wife Gladis is an aerialist.
Giovanni Anastasini is a ringmaster, Diablo juggler and aerialist. His daughter Chiara is also multi-talented, she performs a breath hand balancing, as well as hula hoops and aerials. Chiara's brothers Fabio and Guiliano are accomplished in their Risley act and have spent the last few years traveling around the world.
The Anastasini's produce and perform in a variety of venues as well as their own show. The can perform in circuses, cruise ships, fairs, festivals, corporate events and more.
Their show can be performed in a building, on a stage, outdoors or when you are ready to take your event to the next level, in their own European Big Top.
Having a Big Top Circus whether at a theme park, fair, corporate event or private party takes you to the next level. It is also a fantastic options for your guests. Did you know circus tents can be heated and air conditioned? A local vendor can be hired to climate control the big top!
Some of the venues the Amazing Anastasini's have performed at
include: The Big Apple Circus, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, Busch Gardens, Disney Land, the White House for President George Bush, Circus Conelli, Wild Adventures Theme Park, the Champlain Valley Exposition and many many more.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
February, March & April 2011 in Review
The amusement business begins to awaken as the snow melts. February sees an end to the live trade shows. Although trade shows have been dwindling in attendance and vendors for quite some time now, I believe its more of a process of natural business evolution and technology with a little bit of the slow economy thrown in. Unless trade show organizers can come up with a way 
to make these events more worthwhile & viable for all I believe we will see them disappear over the next several years.
to make these events more worthwhile & viable for all I believe we will see them disappear over the next several years.Dreamland Amusements paid its annual visit to Kings Bay Village Plaza in St. Mary's Georgia in mid-March (March 16 to 20th). The weather was quite nice and seasonable and we were all hoping this trend woul
d continue throughout the spring.
In April we had three shows open on the East Coast. Power's Great American Midways played the Randolph Mall in Asheboro, NC April 15th to the 23rd as well as the Staunton Mall in Staunton, VA. Of course that was during the major tornado outbreak in the south, fortunate the bad weather went around the shows, as tornadoes for those who have never experience them are very isolated incidents, unless of course they hit your home. However we weren't spared by the heavy rains and thunderstorm. It was school vacation in Staunton and the carnival is always welcome by parents looking for affordable nearby entertainment for their children.
Up in Massachusetts, Rockwell Amusements played the Silver City Galleria in Taunton from April 14th to the 24th and about half of the days saw rain. This year we haven't seen nearly as much warm weather as last year and it has rained in some amount nearly every day.
Spring Carnivals are really popular with the malls, retailers always see an upswing in business at the mall often as much as 20% of the weekly sales over the previous. It is a win for the carnival because they are usually set up on pavement and grass is notoriously soft in the spring.
We are really hoping the weather improves and the rest of the spring and summer events will soon be in full swing!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Alexanderia the Great
“Alexanderia the Great”
Alexanderia the Great is one of the world’s few female Escapologists in the world today. She performs and improves upon escapes first made famous by Harry Houdini.
Escapes from her own custom built Underwater Cell, straight jackets, chains, or swimming pools. Alexanderia can also custom design an escape just for your event as she did for GreenFest last summer in Boston where she was handcuffed,
chained and locked into a recycling bin filled with water.
Alexanderia the Great is also known as the Hockey Mom Houdini, she has taken her hobby of escaping chains and ropes and picking locks into a profession. She is a mother and a wife of a proud family who is supporting her 100% in her career.
She is a two time world record holder.
Recently she has been featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Fox Morning Show (national broadcast), as well as ABC Boston’s Chronicle and New England Cable News. She has done many benefit performances and is a regular performer in the bewitching city of Salem, Massachusetts.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Music Roster
The Blues Brothers
The Jake and Elwood Blues Revue is the only Blues Brothers tribute show officially sanctioned
by Dan Aykroyd and the John Belushi Estate! This interactive show boasts up to 60 minutes of non-stop energy complete with “Soul Man”, “Everybody Needs Somebody”, “Gimme Some Lovin” all of the familiar songs from the hit movie “The Blues Brothers” and “Saturday Night Live”. During “Sweet Home Chicago” one lucky guest will become an Honorary Blues Brother’! This Act is guaranteed to bring the house down Chicago Style for your Casino, Fair, Festival, Performing Arts Center, Venue, or corporate function.
Steve Augeri - (Former Lead Singer of Journey)
Steve Augeri joined legendary American rock group Journey in 1998, following on the heels of Steve Perry. Steve recorded three albums during a successful eight-year tenure that brought the world’s most accomplished melodic rock group back to the stage for multiple world tours to millions of fans.
"Seperate Ways (World's Apart)" (#1), "Open Arms" (#2), "Be Good To Yourself" (#2), "Only The Young" (#3), "Ask the Lonely" (#3), "Who's Crying Now" (#4), "Don't Stop Believin" (#7), "I'll Be Alright Without You" (#7), "Girl Can't Help It" (#9), "Faithfully" (#12), "Stone in Love" (#13), "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin" (#16), "Any Way You want It" (#23), "Send her My Love" (#23), "Wheel in the Sky", "Lights" and much, much more!
Robert Gordon Featuring Chris Spedding
Robert Gordon broke out with his hit "Red Hot" in 1977 often credited for lighting up and, knocking down disco queens, would-be punks, and new wave wannabes with his no-holds-barred take on hot-rodded rockabilly. Since then he has been like a turbo jet, and i roots-rock revival and paving the way for real rock''n''rollers to find their niche among the overblown dance music and arena rock that dominated the airwaves.Gordon's hit songs,"Fire" (a gift fromBruce Springsteen) and "Someday, Someway".
Chris Spedding is one of the most spectacular, versatile, and menacing guitar players to ever come out of the British music scene. He has lit up sessions for everyone from Dusty Springfield to Paul McCartney to Elton John, and is fully entrenched in the legend of rock''n''roll for having produced the Sex Pistols demos that launched a revolution. More recently he has been seen sharing the stage with Roxy Music.
Robert Gordon returns with his #1 Partner-in-Crime in 2011 to bring their hard-edged style of Blues, Roots-revival, and Rock-n-Roll and of course Rockabilly, to audiences around the World.
“Red Hot”, “Black Slacks”, "The Catman", “Fire”, "Walk On By", "Rock Billy Boogie”, “20-Flight Rock”,“Someday, Someway”, “Its Only Make Believe”, “Wild, Wild, Woman and many more
Jimi Jamison – (Former Lead Singer of Survivor)
Survivor achieved its greatest success in the1980s with its AOR sound, which garnered many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best known for its double platinum-certified 1982 hit "Eye of the Tiger", the theme song for the motion picture Rocky III Singles like "Burning Heart" (US #2), "The Search Is Over" (US #4), "High on You" (US #8) and "I Can't Hold Back" (US #13) continued to chart in the mid-1980s.
Bad Finger (Featuring Joey Molland)
The band was at times tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with them and partly because of their similar sound. After their initial hit song on The Beatles' record label, Apple -"Come and Get It" –(wh
ich was written and produced by Paul McCartney).
Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hit song s in 1970-71, as well as recording the original version of "Without You," a frequently covered song that became a Billboard #1 hit for Harry Nilsson and a #3 hit for Mariah Carey. Day After Day (#4), Come and Get It (#7), No Matter What (#8), Baby Blue (#14) Plus much, much more!
Gary U.S. Bonds
This Little Girl (#11), New Orleans (#6), Quarter
to 3(#1), Twist Twist Senora (#10), Schools Out (#5)
Artimus Pyle & Street Survivors
Former Member of Lynyrd Skynyrd & Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Drummer
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Drummer & original and surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd., performing the Music of Skynyrd with Street Survivors.
Sweet Home Alabama (#8), Free Bird (#19), What’s Your Name (#13), Saturday Night Special (#27), Truck Driving Man (#12), Swamp Music (#16), “Gimme Three Steps”, “That Smell”, “Simple Man”, “Gimme Back My Bullets”, “I Know Little”, “Tuesday’s Gone” and Many More Skynyrd Classics!
Danny Seraphine’s - CTA
Danny Seraphine - founding member of multi-million selling, Grammy Award-Winning band Chicago (1967-1990). Performed & Produced 18 Gold & 13 Platinum Albums; 50 Top 40 Hits, 20 Top 10 Singles & Five #1’s. Performing a set of Chicago’s Greatest Hits.
CTA includes: Marc Bonilla – David Coverdale, Whitesnake, Keith Emerson, Glenn Hughes & Larry Braggs– Tower of Power
Danny Klein’s Full House
Danny Klein, is a founding member and current bass player for one of the worlds all time hard driving rhythm and blues act, The J. Geils Band. A celebration of the music of The J. Geils Band". This is classic J Geils Band material with the unique sound that a group of veteran and talented musicians brings to it. Not your mama's cover band, for sure! Who can resist the top of the charts number one bestsellers like Freeze Frame, Centerfold, and Love Stinks, and the classics like Give It To Me, Musta Got Lost,Whammer Jammer, I Do, Houseparty, Detroit Shuffle and so many more.
Monsters of Classic Rock
The Monsters of Classic Rock is a phenomenal new band containing Original members from the groups that defined “Classic Rock” over the past Three decades. They are: Chris Slade (AC/DC, The Firm & Asia) on drums, Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band & Greg Kihn) on guitar, Mario Cippolina (Huey Lewis & the News) on bass, Terry Ilous from XYZ on vocals, and Sam McCaslin (Michael Schenker Group and Carmine Appice) on keyboards. Set includes The hits from the bands represented by the above artists.
Ernie & The Automatics
Ernie & the Automatics Feature Original Members of Platinum Selling Band Boston; Barry Goudreau (Guitar) & Sib Hashian (drums). There Boston set is Amazing!
Larry Braggs
Larry Braggs is the current lead vocalist of Tower of Power, TOP's lead vocalist. "LB" is referred to by Emilio Castillo as "Pound for pound, the baddest cat in the land". Larry's high energy vocal range allows the band to pull virtually 40 years of songs out of their "trick bag". Braggs till today remains the longest lead vocalist the band has ever had. Braggs did the lead vocals for TOP's latest album The Great American Soulbook. Laryy Braggs performs selections from Tower of Power, a Sam Cooke Set plus much much more!
Nick Gilder
Hot Child InThe City (#1), Roxy Roller (#1 Can), The Warrior (#1 Scandal),
Cowboy Troy
He is a member of the MuzikMafia, an aggregation of country music singer-songwriters whose membership also includes Big & Rich,Gretchen Wilson and James Otto. He has released four studio albums and one EP, including two releases on Warner
Bros. Records, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Cowboy Troy co-hosted, with Jewel, the fifth season of Nashville Star on the USA Network and CMTCanada
"I Play Chicken With The Train" (#48), "Hooke Em Horns", "Hick Chick", "My Last Yee Haw" and more.
TC KROSS
TC Kross is a perpetual power house. There is no doubt that that KROSS is in her element performing
with artists such as Teddy Cook (Ronnie James Dio), Al Pitrelli (Alice Cooper, Trans Siberian Orchestra & MEGADETH), Mark Edwards (Criss Angel), Gary Saint (Tangier), Teddy Rondinelli (Vanilla Fudge) and Tom Cavanaugh (Lita Ford).
TC Kross’ first single & video from her SONY/RED Debut is "Hangover"; also the Lennon & McCartney Hit “Eleanor Rigby” which Kross brings a fresh sound and arrangement to The Beatles Classic.
Royal Doggs
An All Star Band comprised of current & former members playing the hits that they played. Donny Baldwin (Starship & Jefferson Airplane), Tommy Miller (Greg Allman & Friends & Starship), Jeff Tamelier (Tower of Power), Del Burchette (Greg Kihn), Marke JellyRoll Burgstahler (Greg Allman & Friends), Randy Forrester (Eddie Money, Elvin Bishop, Steven Stills), Steve Salinas (Cold Blood), Johnny Gunn (Eddie Money). The Doggs set includes hits from Eddie Money, Allman Brothers Band, Starship, Greg Kihn, Bad Company, Greg Allman, Steven Stills, Jefferson Airplane, Elvin Bishop, Montrose & more.
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