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This Year's
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From the start it seemed that Vince Bruce
was careening up life’s one-way street the wrong way, blazing a trail of
contradictions. Cowboys come from America, Vince comes from England.
Cowboys are Sturdy, if Vince was to turn sideways, you’d miss him. It
was a chance meeting of Wild West rodeo star Tex McLeod that first put a
lasso in Vince’s hands and Vince’s typically British father first taught
him how to use it.
That chance meeting with Tex spawned Vince’s love for cowboys, horses,
ropes and the Vaqueros of the Old West that has consumed his whole life.
He began doing rope tricks when he was six years old. At twelve he
already had a regular spot at a local country club and by the time he
was sixteen he was an established performer in the traveling circuses of
England and France.
A list of the Countries where Vince Bruce has performed reads like the
index of a World atlas. In a showbiz career that has spanned most of his
life He has performed in a diversity of venues from Casinos, night clubs
and half time act for the Harlem globetrotters to Comedy clubs, dinner
shows and the Broadway stage in the “Will Rogers Follies.”
With his wife, singer Anne Dubats their show is a blend of dazzling rope
tricks dangerous feats of whip cracking/mastery and an offbeat British
humor that has established them as perhaps the foremost western act in
the world.
Vince also holds the World Record for “Texas Skips”, 4011 as documented
by the Guinness book of World Records.


Here are just some of
the Performance Highlights:
TV Highlights
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The Today Show |
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Late Night with David Letterman |
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Jerry Lewis Telethon |
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Paul Daniels Show – England |
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The Ron Lucas Show - England |
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Martes 13 - Santiago Chile |
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Variete Variete – Germany |
Rodeo Highlights
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Calgary Stampede |
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Fort Worth Livestock show &
Exposition |
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Cody Stampede |
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Grand National Rodeo, Cow
Palace, San Francisco |
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Dixie National – Jackson, MS |
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Live Performance Highlights
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The Will Rogers Follies –
Broadway |
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’88 Winter Olympics - Eve Gala,
Calgary |
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Casino Monte Carlo – Monacco |
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Crystal Room - Tokyo |
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Municipal Casino – Venice, Italy |
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Tiger Palast Variete –
Frankfurt, Germany |
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Carriage Room Show, at Dixie
Stampede – Branson, MO
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Big Apple Circus – N.Y. |
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Circus Conelli – Switzerland |
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Circus Sarasota. – Florida
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And the
Critics… |
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“…and there is a lariat twirler – Vince
Bruce – who is nothing short of fabulous.” Howard Kissel, Daily
News NY “… Vince Bruce, a
roper who dazzles as much as any roper can. “ Clive Barnes, NY
Post.
“Not Since Will Rogers himself walked
on a Broadway stage for Florenz Ziegfeld has anyone twirled
ropes like Vince Bruce in ‘The Will Rogers Follies’”. Tom
Poster, NY Daily News
“Vince Bruce, the trick roper from
‘The Will Rogers Follies’, gave a more considerable account of
his artistry than he’s allowed time for on the stage of the
Palace. It’s an odd. Anachronistic art, born of the need to
allow men of the pre-Fred Astaire era, when males wore more
armor, some small arena in which they could be simply graceful,
which Vince Bruce is, exquisitely.” Thomas M. Disch – The Nation
“…Bruce was funny anyway but somehow
the rope made it irresistible”. Rhein-Main Zeitung, Germany
“With his loose-limbed charm, this
cowboy held the audience in the palm of his hand.”
Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland |
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For more detailed information, check
out his website:
http://www.vincebruce.com |
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