Monica Padman

And they were this really good-natured, family-friendly, rotating cast of jugglers.

And they put on this vaudevillian classic.

circus show.

They had this calliope they would crank and that would play music and they'd bring kids up on stage and juggle around them.

So they just had this timeless, magical quality that was really fascinating to me.

And so at the festival, I was excited to watch them and like relive my childhood.

So I parked myself in the audience, kind of up this hill in the back of the audience, and they're performing down at the bottom of the hill.

The show starts and this man comes out on stage who I didn't recognize.

He had long hair.

And he starts to do this routine with his hat.

And it's just to music.

There's no words.

And he's flipping his hat and doing hat tricks.

And then he throws his hat to someone in the audience and he mimes to them to throw the hat back like a Frisbee and try and get it on his head.

Love it.

That's the point of the routine.

So he throws it to them.

They throw it back.

It doesn't work.

It goes off to the side.