Newark Days Day 1

The kids on the stage...noitice the banner. It's our old show banner before the Circus name came in. The event is magic focused.
Magic Dan and the girls.
We are in Newark, Ca right next to Fremont, CA for those of you who have no Idea there was even a Newark, CA. We are performing at a local event called Newark Days; a celebration of the city of Newark.

We had to leave home base at 4:30 AM so that we could get to the park where the event was being held so that we wouldn't be blocked from getting in due to a race and a parade... we had to be there before 8AM. We made it! We are sharing our stage (the stage we brought) with other acts. One act today, Magic Dan and tomorrow Tamaka and the Empress.

Dan is a local Bay Area Magician that primarily performs for schools and libraries. He's a real nice guy and the kids like him. He drew good crowds. He doesn't perform big illusions; he performs smaller parlor tricks. His routines are well thought out and he is very good and working his name into the show constantly; a great PR move...people will remember him.

We had good crowds too. We reached a broader audience and, though all three shows were packed and the audiences were responsive, the third show was the liveliest. My humor seem to to go over well.

After good shows and a fun day we packed up and headed out to dinner (the trailer and tents stayed behind). We went to the best restaurant in Fremont, The Country Way on Mowry Ave. I went here over 25 years ago as a kid. They used to serve the drinks in mason jars. The service was ultra fast and the folks there are kind. All of us ate to our fill and still had to ask for take out boxes. MMMMMMM!

Like always the girls charmed everyone. One of the vendors even gave them each a blow up frog doll. Victor got a blow up airplane. The vendor's names are Larry and Linda and they are both magic enthusiasts. Nice folks. They both are full of stories of various performers they've met. He told one story about an event he went to that Harry Blackstone Jr was supposed to be at. But Harry had died a week earlier. Then he told a story of another performer who was supposed to be at another event but it turned out he too had died shortly before the event. I just want to make sure that any event I plan on going to Larry isn't supposed to be there because I might die the week before the event.