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Pop Haydn and Nancy Magill will be at the World Steam Expo in Dearborn, Michigan this Memorial Day weekend. Accompanying them will be Sophie Evans, the “Little Wonder from Down Under” who will demonstrate her ability to manipulate fire, electricity and gravity through mesmeric and yogic techniques.
Pop will demonstrate some amazing phenomena using a powerful modified Tesla Coil and cutting-edge concepts in radio-magnetism and di-electric field theory.
On the Medicine Show Stage, August 21-22nd:
Pop Haydn with Professor Dave Bourne, John Reynolds and world champion gunslinger Joey Dillon.
The Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival is once again coming to Melody Ranch™ Motion Picture Studio and other venues throughout Santa Clarita. Saddle up and step back to a simpler time of chaps, saddles and old-time saloons. This year’s festival will include a mix of new attractions and returning favorites, including dutch oven peach cobbler, trick ropers, authentic gear and a show stopping musical talent lineup.
Festival guests can expect to see some of the Cowboy Festival’s most beloved returning performers. Grammy nominated singer-guitarist Don Edwards will hit the stage, as well as The Quebe Sisters Band and Waddie Mitchell. Dave Stamey and Jon Chandler will also be back at the Cowboy Festival in 2012, entertaining guests with their fantastic Western songs.
In addition to the list of musical performances, guests can expect the full Cowboy Festival experience. Fun activities are set to take place for guests of all ages, including living history exhibits and leatherworking for children. Multicultural entertainment will also make its return to the Cowboy Festival. Enjoy North American Indian performances by the Wild Horse Singers and Dancers, accurate portrayals of Civil War era music by The Band of the California Battalion, and authentic Hispanic cultural performances.
As always, the Cowboy Festival will feature the best in Western gear, food, clothing, and living history exhibits.
More info:
Pop Haydn will be appearing at the World Steam Expo in Dearborn, Michigan Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28th. Pop will be doing his mind-bending magic and his medicine spiel, but he will also be introducing Sophie Evans as Tesla Girl, who will be demonstrating her unique abilities in organic magnetism and radio-electrics.
Nancy Magill will also be there.
For more information about the World Steam Expo, go here:
Pop Haydn backstage of the Palace of Mystery
I will be performing and acting as emcee this week at the Magic Castle in the Palace of Mystery, beginning tonight!
We are back to a full week schedule at the Magic Castle, and the Hat and Hare will reopen on Monday the 6th for Burns Night.
With me in the Palace will be the wonderful puppeteer Scott Land and a two-man company from Scotland, who call themselves The Fifth Dimension.
In close-up this week, we have the incredible Paul Vigil–worth a visit just to see him.
This wonderful photo, taken backstage of the Palace of Mystery, is by Christiaan Lopez-Miro. More wonderful magician photos by Christiaan can be found here: http://www.christiaanlopez-miro.com/
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There are still free campaign kits for Election 2012 available, folks!
Get ‘em while they are free!
You get a Pop Haydn campaign button, a campaign poster Postcard, and a Greater American Confidence Party membership card.
Free shipping and Handling!
Now we can’t keep this offer up for very long (the button alone sells for $3.25 in our online store) but we want to give everyone a chance, and don’t want to put up with the whiners who come back saying, “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to quit giving stuff away free?”
So this is your chance. All you have to do is sign up on our membership list at the GACP Online Headquarters
Don’t be a loser!
Sign up for the sake of the country.
At least go look at the page to find out what this is all about.
You don’t want to be the last one to know, do you?
Help strike a blow for the thin “Sanity Fringe” of American politics.
To get you in the mood, here is Pop’s new campaign theme, by Professor Dave Bourne:
You can find Dave Bourne’s CDs and more information about him at: www.SaloonPiano.com
The Bombasto March is from the CD Dawn of the Century Ragtime Orchestra
This video is from the 2011 Cowboy Festival. I have performed at this festival since 2005. Magill and I love it and always have a great time.
I will be appearing once again at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival held this coming year on April 19 – 22, 2012 at Melody Ranch Movie Studio.
I will be performing just on Saturday and Sunday at the Medicine Show Stage, along with Professor Dave Bourne and the incredible John Reynolds. I will be doing some magic and pitching the Amazing Miracle Oil.
It is a wonderful festival, with lots to see and do. It is great for the kids, with farriers, leathersmiths, rope spinners, campfire cooks, and other demonstrations of the skills of the range, as well as cowboy poetry readings, and lots and lots of cowboy music. There is great food to eat, and the ambience is wonderful–it is the set of the HBO show Deadwood. It is a wonderful place to come dressed up in Old West duds and take photos. Steampunk is welcome.
Pop Haydn at Melody Ranch
Karin McKechnie, Pop Haydn, Jan Harness at Melody Ranch
For more information about the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, go here: http://www.cowboyfestival.org/
Pop Haydn's Teleportation Device at the FAKE Gallery
Pop Haydn entertains at the Machine of Death Variety Show last night at the FAKE Gallery
Nancy Magill and I had a wonderful time last night at the FAKE Gallery on Melrose. It was a great event to celebrate the success of the Machine of Death (MoD).
There were lots of refreshments, magic, music by Lucciana Costa, games and actual operating steampunk contraptions, all in a wonderful environment, a trove of strange and interesting art and sculpture–what a fun time!
Video of the entire event here:
http://machineofdeath.net/mod-magic-variety-show
Machine of Death is an anthology of short stories edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki !, inspired by this episode of Ryan’s Dinosaur Comics. From January 15, 2007, through April 30, 2007, Ryan, Matt, and David invited everybody in the world to submit short stories for the book, without fee or prejudice. Hundreds of writers from five continents took them up on the offer.
Ryan, Matt and David chose their favorites from the nearly 700 submissions, and invested personal funds to pay each contributor. The manuscript was shopped for several years to agents and publishers who liked it, but were unable to sell a book full of material by largely-unknown writers.
Faced with this rejection, the editors self-published the book and, on October 20, 2010, announced that October 26 — six days later — would be MOD-Day, in which they encouraged everybody to buy the book from Amazon at once in an attempt to become, for one day at least, Amazon’s #1 best-selling book.
On October 26, exactly that happened. The book shot up the charts and hit #1 in all categories, staying there for approximately 30 hours.
On October 28, the editors got wind that Glenn Beck, on his radio program, called out MOD as being part of a “liberal culture of death” — for beating his own book (which had apparently been released the same day) to #1 on Amazon. We continue to find this hilarious.
On November 2, 2010, the manuscript was placed online, in PDF form, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 license. That means you can (and should!) read, copy, and distribute all the stories for free.
There is also an ongoing audiobook version, which is being released as a free podcast.
For more info, go here:
http://machineofdeath.net/about/
About the FAKE Gallery:
http://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/comedy/venue/1%3A6253/fake-gallery
Pop Haydn
Oct 26
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“Scoundrels and Trollops” at the Monday Night Tease was a big success, and a whole lot of fun! The show is the longest-running burlesque show in Hollywood, and takes place every Monday Night at the 3 Clubs on Vine Street. It is run by the amazing Lili VonSchtupp –“the God-Mother of Hollywood Burlesque.” On this […]
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when are you performing at the Castle?
No, it was sold some years ago.
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