FAMILY FESTIVAL SHOWS. THE MOST POPULAR THEMES.

“Kids and parents had nothing but great things to say! I’m so pleased.”

—Dave Simmons, Presenter, The Columbia Festival of the Arts, Columbia, MD

 
 
 

Jedi Academy! at the Columbia Festival, MD

FESTIVAL SHOW ACTS

 

WHEN WE GATHER AGAIN: SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE.

David Engel Entertainment provides excellent acts for Children’s Stages at Festivals of all stripes: Family, Maritime, Seafood, State and County Fairs, community festivals and block parties too.

The ‘special sauce’ that David brings to each Festival show is the result of years of experience forged by performing for the notoriously fickle festival audience in open-air settings.

In his twenties and thirties, David cut his eye-teeth performing self produced street theatre tours at major festivals and on the great cobble-stone pitches of Europe: Covent Garden, London; The ‘Mound’ at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland; The Piazza Uffizi, Florence, Italy; The Dam in Amsterdam, Holland and on the public squares in front of the Pompidou Center, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France —to name a few.

Virtual or otherwise, this depth of experience is part of the excitement that builds for each new audience. The skills to gather a crowd, to build and galvanize a street-theatre audiences’ attention is the enduring legacy of this ‘school of hard-knocks.’ Within each of Mr. Engel’s current shows resonate these hard-won lessons of when, sometimes, the crowd didn’t stay.


Images of festivals past and way, way past.