KEH 127: The Magician Chef

The Magician Chef Welcome to Season 6 chapter 127 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Chad Jacobs aka Chef Banana from Missouri, USA. Today we talked about his journey and transition from a Restaurant manager to a Magician. Here are some of the important notes from this episode: Chad’s family used to own a restaurant that…

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How Many Tricks Do You Need to Be a Magician?

How Many Tricks Do You Need to Be a Magician

In my last post for this Tips for Starting Magicians series, I discussed what to keep in mind when choosing the tricks for your first magic show. Now I’ll focus on a question that many who are thinking of trying their hand at magic ask: how many tricks do you need to be a magician?…

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Rubber Chicken Nuggets – Paul Daniels

Kids entertainer Paul Daniels Rubber Chicken Nuggets Interview

Welcome to the sixth instalment of this series of interviews that originally appeared in Rubber Chicken magazine. Editor and publisher Peter Aubery has made them available for the Kids Entertainer Hub audience. In this series, Peter picks the minds of kids entertainers Charlie Frye, Jimmy Carlo, John Kimmons, Bill Abbott, Michael Diamond, and Sylvester the Jester.…

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Rubber Chicken Nuggets – Michael Diamond

Peter Aubery's Interview with Kids Entertainer and Magician Michael Diamond

Welcome to the fifth instalment of this series of interviews that originally appeared in Rubber Chicken magazine. Editor and publisher Peter Aubery has made them available for the Kids Entertainer Hub audience. In this series, Peter picks the minds of kids entertainers Charlie Frye, Jimmy Carlo, John Kimmons, Bill Abbott, Paul Daniels, and Sylvester the…

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Rubber Chicken Nuggets — John Kimmons

John Kimmons talks with Peter Aubery about magic, ventriloquism, and kids entertaining. In the image, Kimmons is gasping while looking at his blue puppet with bushy eyebrows

Welcome to the third instalment of this series of interviews that originally appeared in Rubber Chicken magazine. Editor and publisher Peter Aubery has made them available for the Kids Entertainer Hub audience. In this series, Peter Aubery picks the minds of kids entertainers Charlie Frye, Jimmy Carlo, Bill Abbott, Michael Diamond, Paul Daniels, and Sylvester…

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KEH 019: Meet a Young Entertainer – Annelise The Magnificent

Annalise the Magnificent wearing a suit and holding a wand while covering her mouth in a surpised manner.

Meet a Young Entertainer: Annelise the Magnificent A Kids Entertainer Success Story Annelise the Magnificent is a young entertainer and an aspiring 9 year old magician that has found a great joy and therapy in performing with her brother Master Benjamin. Annelise’s story is a true inspirational tale with a heartwarming lesson for performers, both…

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A Kids Entertainer Guide to Corporations

kids entertainer, Patrick Slaughter

Why would an entertainer want to “incorporate?” Man when I was first starting to earn a decent living as a performer, this topic caused me more confusion than just about any other as far as business organizations go… Everybody kept telling me that I needed to “incorporate.”   What the heck did that mean?!  Well it turns…

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How To Be Different From Other Kids Entertainers

kids entertainer, Brian Richards

In our first episode we discussed 9 benefits of creating your own routines.  In this episode, I want to briefly discuss how to differentiate yourself from the competition.  Now before you jump ahead and start guessing the answer, the most important that will tap into your creative edge is….

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Your 40 Top Tips for Kids Entertainers

We asked 40 kids entertainers one question… What is the one thing you wish you had known before becoming a children’s entertainer? In this post you will find tips, wisdom and technique from 50 kids entertainers. The answers came in from face painters, clowns, jugglers, magicians, costume characters,  balloon twisters, ventriloquists, kids musicians, circus artists…

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