If for some reason you haven’t heard, we’ve decided that we’ll have another Ventriloquist Central Birthday Bash for 2013.
And we’ve been hard at work, securing the Hyatt Hotel (getting the best deal possible) once again for this event, plus getting performers for the Saturday night show and workshop/lectures to speak in the after noon.
The previous Birthday Bash was a blast….in fact here’s what a couple of attendees had to say about it:
This came into us and instead of me expounding my thoughts I decided I would post it as it came in to me. I am from the Northeast and so I was exposed to a few shows in the 1950’s & 1960’s from the Boston area which included Community Opticians which featured a ventriloquist we all know and love Harold Crocker and also there was Big Brother Bob Emery although I do not remember seeing a ventriloquist on his show.
But here is the question or I should say topic and please feel free to send in your memories of shows that showcased ventriloquists.
I get asked all the time how I clean the vent figures in the Ventriloquist Central Collection. So, I thought I would do a quick video explanation.
We had an email sent to us last week asking this question: “Is there a method that can help ventriloquists create and develop genuine personalities for their figures?”
Many times in the past I have talked about the purchase of a ventriloquist figure and then trying to make such figure work for you.
Well one of the best in the ventriloquist world Ray Guyll said it best (I’m paraphrasing)…”You first have to find a character inside yourself and once you have developed that character then you start the search to find that character in a ventriloquist figure.”
Matthew Rolston is a world reknown photographer and lent his photographic talent to some very fine and unusual ventriloquist figures. I found this very interested and I thought you would too so take a look and read the article.
