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@goldencircusdays
Spring Renewal
Circusfans, I’ve just renewed my domain goldencircusdays.com for another year, so I’m committed to keeping this little site afloat and adding to it as regularly as I can! It’s approaching six months since RBBB’s Gold Unit closed, and I’m just now finally getting around to editing my images from the final performance. I’ll be sharing via Facebook as well as here, so please FOLLOW me there if we…
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Looking back: Homes-on-Wheels
Our life on the road
I started this article while sitting in our RV in the parking lot of the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas. For reasons I’ll get into in another post, Hidalgo was always one of my favorite stops on tour, and being there for probably the last time got me a little nostalgic… I think I speak for both Ben and I when I say our favorite part about that gig was the traveling. Owning a motorhome and…
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Headshots for the Gold Unit, Band Special
I’ll expand upon this later, but the saddest part of closing weekend was the dismemberment of our neighborhood-on-wheels. The same neighbors every week, merely in a different place. The band was what brought us out to run away with the circus, and they were what made the journey a truly wonderful one. I miss you all, terribly.
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Mid-August through early October.
This was usually our favorite time of tour, the time when we start pointing our rigs west and driving towards the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Ben and I love Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. Hard to believe we’ve already wrapped our last trip.
I just wanted to share a handful of images from last year’s trek west (2015 trip forthcoming). The show’s last city before the Labor Day break in 2014 was Baton Rouge, and we drove to San Diego, then to San Francisco, and then up to Portland over the course of about nine days. Truly a GLORIOUS trip in pretty much every way.
Remembering the Last Leg of Tour Mid-August through early October. This was usually our favorite time of tour, the time when we start pointing our rigs west and driving towards the Rocky Mountains and beyond.
The Lean One of the first things Kaseem said to me was, "there is nothing more beautiful than a man on his unicycle, leaning into a turn." Happy birthday my friend. I'm missing you already!
The Lean One of the first things Kaseem said to me was, "there is nothing more beautiful than a man on his unicycle, leaning into a turn." Happy birthday my friend. I'm missing you already!
People of the Gold Unit: Gabby Perry
People of the Gold Unit: Gabby Perry
At long last, the bread-and-butter of what this blog was always intended to be: an archive of stories and images of the people of the Gold Unit. We’re starting off with the lovely Gabby Perry. Golden Circus Days: What was your role with the show? Please describe your job. Gabby Perry: I worked in concessions. I made snow cones, cotton candy, etc. I also made children and co-workers laugh…
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Load Out in Bloomington, Illinois
I’m real excited about this one, dudes. Rafa’s excited, too. You know I post a lot of performer pictures. They get a lot of spotlight (and of course they are incredible to watch) but there’s more to the show than the obvious. A couple months ago I donned a hard hat and some gaff-taped steel toes in order to tag along with the crew during load out. For those who aren’t circus folks, load out is…
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A short bio about the photographer
When Ben got his job with the RBBB Gold Unit Band, I was seven months pregnant with our son Kai. Normal people might have turned it down on account of a new baby’s arrival being disruptive enough to one’s life, but we [correctly] guessed it would be a fun next step that would suit both of us. After Kai arrived and we “moved in” with the tour, I suffered from debilitating postpartum depression…
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Saturn Garcia as Temporary Ringmaster!
While the usual Ringmaster has briefly gone off tour to take care of some family matters, the multi-talented Saturn Garcia has assumed the role. Normally a motorcycle globe rider with the Garcia G-Force Riders, Saturn really seemed quite comfortable in the ring despite the short notice. I’m sorry for the blog-silence; I launched before I had too much in the way of plans to keep it consistent! I…
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Giving the crew some love from Rockford, Illinois
Hello from the midwest, friends.
I shot the show tonight from a really great vantage point on what I’d call “side two”; that is to say — if you are coming out of the portal I was sitting on your left-hand side. I have an all-access pass but I hatethe worry of knowing I could be sitting in someone’s paid seats, so I frequently shoot from a mediocre spot until all the latecomers’ butts are in…
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A quip from my latest update on Patreon..
“Golden Circus Days is a new blog that will hold portraits, candids, stories, interviews, anecdotes, travel guides, and more. It's a visual archive of the Gold Unit of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, my "home" for the past three and a half years. I've been sitting on the idea for a while; I even had the URL purchased but wasn't doing anything with it quite yet. But then...it was just announced that the Gold Unit, after a decade of touring, will be closing, leaving dozens out of work, including my husband, a trumpet player in the circus band. Now is the time to launch, and so I am.”
I'm giving away my pictures for free
Bonne Monday to you, readers & circus fans.
Part of the impetus of this Golden Circus Days project was to give my enormous backlog of performance imagery an easy-to-access home. I wanted to ensure my pictures could be easily seen and shared.
I’ve recently purchased the services of a really wonderful portfolio site called Zenfolio and have started placing pictures from past years of Ringling…
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