Groundhog Day
Jugglers Festival 2000

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Midnight Cabaret

The Midnight Cabaret on Saturday night featured live music from the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra with four of our own AJA members -- Rodger French, Toni Shifalo, Bruce Plott and Andy Ford.  Dan Garrett entertained  with his magic, Jeff Daymont manipulated and stacked cigar boxes, Sean McKinney juggled balls,  Peter Panic provided comedy while juggling five women's water polo balls, two guys showed off their top spinning skills, and Lazer Vaudeville (team of Cindy Marvel, Jeff Daymont and Carter Brown) finished the night with a brilliant and polished club passing act.  The mouse award and three shiny new clubs were presented to Chris Purtee for his many years of service to the AJA.

Public Show on Sunday

The Public Show on Sunday opened with our own Randy Fenster teaching how to juggle three balls.  Then Matt Henry did some great numbers ball juggling with audience participation of ooh's and aah's.  He finished with 1, 2 and even 3 diabolos!  Next there was some really neat two-handed yo-yoing, then our own AJA members Keith, Carl, Charles and Rick (in cool tie-dyed shirts) showed us some intricate club-passing patterns and even threw the legendary Aloysius the Camel into the pattern.  The final act was Warren and Pam Hamilton with fun club passing and take-aways.

Here's an account of the Y2K festival written by AJA President Charles Shapiro and published in JUGGLE magazine.

Here are some great pictures of the festival taken by Madison Bryan.

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