Hospitals
First, please read the wonderful letter from Judy Martin, the Family Life Coordinator at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital.
For Cambo, hospital visits are especially rewarding. The smiles and laughter are like bright beams of sunshine breaking through clouds. He will sometimes catch the whole family visiting a child and get to bring them all a laugh break. Oftentimes it will be an audience of one asking to see one trick after another until it’s time for Cambo to play the “Bye-Bye Song” on his harmonica.
Cambo has had the good fortune over the past 15 years of being the clown entertainment for the Dream Factory of Lexington Valentine’s Day Party at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky. Cambo joins the musical duo of Jim Richardson and Bob Goeff for a show of music and clown antics in the playroom. Then they tour the floor visiting all of the children who couldn’t attend the show.
The resulting familiarity with Cambo’s clowning brought the hospital foks to request his inclusion in a program funded by VSA arts of Kentucky that brings visiting artists to the Kentucky Children’s Hospital for several months each year. 
Combining bits of music on the pan pipes and the harmonica along with juggling, magic, and nonsense, Cambo brings an intimate entertainment full of care and humor.
A while back, a Lexington native named Angel Levas saw Cambo clowning at a restaurant. The next day he called Cambo and said that he wanted to send him a check to support a hospital visit. Cambo visited all of the children at Kentucky Children’s Hospital one day thanks to Angel’s support. Judi Martin sent Angel a letter of thanks on hospital stationary. If you’d like to be an “Angel,” please contact Cambo (email him). Cambo’s trying to find a way to make this tax deductable for anyone supporting his visits to a hospital, but that is still in the works. If you know a child in the hospital who you’d like Cambo to visit, it can be worked out so that Cambo visits your child along with the other children hospitalized at that particular children’s hospital.
Cambo the Clown has received professional development funding through the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.