Venues
Tailored to fit the needs of the event, Cambo offers a combination of walk-around with on-the-spot shows or tricks and lots of balloon animals. Sometimes a combination of a show preceeding or followed by walk-around will do it. Sometimes just a show. Sometimes just walk-around and balloon animals. Sometimes stay in one area and make lots of balloon animals, spiced-up with antic behaviour.
Public Festivities
For years Cambo has appeared at public events put on by Lexington Parks & Recreation, Richmond Parks & Recreation, and a variety of neighborhood associations, shopping centers, stores and so on. These events will be best served by a show and/or walk-around and, of course, balloon animals.
Private Festivities
(Company Picnics, Family Reunions, Employee Holiday Parties, etc.)
These events are usually best served by a show followed by balloon animals. However, some situations will be best served by walk-around.
Birthday Parties
For birthday parties Cambo starts with a really big show that lasts about 45 minutes. That’s followed with balloon animals for all the kids, featuring the wildly popular and engaging “Balloon Dance.” It all adds up to a little over an hour. The show includes juggling routines with funny business (balls, the chinese sticks and gigantic plastic baseball bats!). There’s magic that doesn’t work quite the way the clown thinks it should. And other bits and routines, some of which involve audience members. At the end of the really big show, the birthday child gets a stunningly elaborate birthday balloon hat.
Four and older recommended, though Cambo has entertained plenty of parties for younger ones when there’s a mixed age group.
Restaurants
For several years now Cambo has worked with a couple of Golden Corral family restaurants doing walk-around on their Kid’s Nights: juggling, tricks and lots of balloon animals. Cambo sees a lot of the same families returning. He’s seen kids growing up.
Hospital Visits
Some hospitals have a ban on balloon animals because of latex allergies. It gives Cambo the opportunity to strictly focus on funny business to bring some smiles and laughs to the hospital setting. Please click here for more details.
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.