The Clown: Jango Edwards - Here you'll find all the information about the Clown and Fool Jango Edwards, upcoming Show, Events & Clown-Workshop.

Dear Friends,

The 13th Annual Clown Master Class will take place at the ‘Performance d’Acteur Festival’ in Cannes (France) from June 2nd to the 9th 2007.

This year’s major theme will focus on the creation, production and premier of their most recent French Broadway hit “Yes You Canne Canne - the Nude Musical,” composed by Mr. E, Echo and Peskin. This EEP production is a around the world in 1 hour caravan of song and dance. A whirl wind foot and mouth swinging and singing musical stew revue of a global design. An International potpourri of music, customs, songs and dance, “Yes You Canne Canne” will be one of the feature presentations of the festival program. You will be treated to the elegance of Somenerve Nijinsky and the Romanian Splitightski National Ballet or rock to the original percussion beat poets from Tazzania “Stamp-the Mothers of Stomp”. You will be touched by the Grey Panthers Liver Dance Company of Ireland or shocked by the The Fuckawees from Bora Bora. This pigmy tribe of cannibals performs their traditional song and dance dinner ritual, “Yum, Yum, Eat Em Up.” All this and much more not to mention a special all Fool Rednose Revue to Salute James Clown The Hardest Working Fool in Show Business,

Say it loud: “I’m a clown and I’m proud” !

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Cari amici,

il tredicesimo Master Class Annuale si svolgerà nell’ambito del “Festival Performance d’Acteur” a Cannes, Francia, dal 2 al 9 Giugno 2007.
Il tema principale di questa edizione del Master Class sarà la realizzazione, produzione e presentazione in prima mondiale del famoso musical francese “Yes You Canne Canne – Un Musical al Nudo” scritto e diretto da Mr. E, Echo e Peskin. Questa EEP produzione rappresenta un giro del mondo in un ora fatto di musica e danza. Ritmi scatenati e canzoni coinvolgenti da tutto il mondo, un potpourri di musica, tradizione, folclore, canzoni e balli. Si, e’ proprio cosi’, “Yes You Canne Canne” sara’ uno degli spettacoli di punta del festival. Rimarrete sbalorditi dall’eleganza di Somenerve Nijinsky ed il balletto nazionale rumeno Romanian Splitightski oppure ballerete il rock and roll in ritmo con le originali percussioni dei poeti “beat” della Tanzania, i “Stamp-The Mothers of Stomp”. Vi commoverete alla vista del corpo di ballo irlandese the “Grey Panthers Liver Dance Company” e resterete di stucco davanti ai Fuckawees da Bora Bora, una tribu’ di cannibali pigmei che presenterà un numero rituale tradizionale di canto e danza da titolo “Yum Yum Eat Em Up”. Tutto questo e molto di piu’ incluso una grande varietà/rivista ad opera della Fool Renose Revue con un tributo al grande artista James Clown.

SAY IT LOUD : I’M CLOWN AND I’M PROUD !

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Cuore di Clown Workshop Con Peter e Giovanna, Itri (Lt) - Italy

MELKWEG AMSTERDAM DEC. 29TH AND 30TH 2006

In August of this year Jango Edwards and members of The Friends Roadshow reunited once again after 15 years the Little Big Nose Banned to performlive in concert at the Venlo Summer Park Music Festival.

The performancewas an enormous success and over 12,000 fans from the European nations attended the concert. Jango Edwards and his tribe of musicians and performers have written over 200 songs, 5 musicals, over 30 original theatre productions, numerous unique street animations and established clown ensemble units aka "The FoolsMilitia" in various nations throughout the world.

Jango was the spiritual symbol and creator of the infamous "International festival of Fools."
Interest in his professional clown career was reignited by his appearance as Boris the Clown in an acclaimed tv commercial for Pearle Optometrists.

Because of this enormous interest, the company decided to present two additional final concerts as a salute to their public and a tribute to a passing era.

December 29th and 30th they will reunite for one last time on a grander scale, over 16 musicians and 8 performers will present two distinct performances.

Each evening will be a special event. On December 29th Jango Edwards will present a musical concert featuring the Little Big Nose Band.
The greatest hits from his four albums including "Life Could be oh so Sweet if I Was A Bicycle Seat", "Six Pack", "Springtime" and more plus a selection of music from a new soon to be released CD.

The following evening, December 30th Jango and the Little Big Nose Band will be joined by his two sons and selected artists to present WFUN Radio 121.

Band & Performers Melkweg Show 29th and 30th Dec. 2006

Performers:

Jango Edwards

Micky Edwards (Performer & Vocals)

Turne Edwards (DJ & Performer)

Rick Parets (Performer &Vocals)

Peter Echo (Performer &Vocals)

Band Members

Davy Norket (Band Director, Keyboards &Vocals)

Stan Haywood (Piano & Clarinet) (Vocals)

Jimmy Sernesky (Trumpet & Vocals)

Ted Bunting (Sax & Vocals)

Sean Bergen (Sax &Vocals)

Ced Curtis (Guitar & Vocals)

Martin Baker (Bass &Vocals)

Alan ‘Gunga’ Purvis (Drums & Perc.)

Sjoerd Van Bomel (Drums)

Female Vocalist

Marie Ferini (Vocals & Performer)

Shirly Ferini (Vocals & Performer)

Grada Peskins (Vocals & Performer)

Technicians

Ron Vogel (Sound)

Tony Murchland (Lights & Stage effects)

Ottobre 2006-Giugno 2007
Arte Comica
Teatro & Cabaret

Primo Anno Base
Secondo Anno Avanzato
Terzo Anno Specializzazione

docenti
Max & Francesco Morini

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Claudio Fois
Peter Ercolano
Giovanna Bellina
Barbara Villa
Guglielmo Bartoli
Milena Frantellizzi
Michele Annunziata
Carlo Emilio Lerici
altri insegnanti

Iván Prado, representando a organización promotora do Festiclown Coper@ctiva, e os clowns Jango Edwards e Peter Ercolano botáronse a nadar na lagoa do Auditorio de Galicia para simbolizar deste xeito que “o Festiclown móllase pola risa e nunca se sabe o que pode acontecer”, en palabras do propio Iván Prado.Ás 12:00 horas da mañá do martes 1 de agosto estaba prevista a rolda de prensa para presentar, no Auditorio de Galicia, o Formaclown, unha sección das máis reclamadas dentro do Festiclown e das que máis prestixio lle dan a este. Pero cinco minutos antes do comezo do evento o escenario deixou de ser o Auditorio para cederlle o protagonismo ao parque que o rodea.

Unha banda musical de clowns seguida por un axente das ‘forzas da orde’ deu o sinal para o comezo da presentación. Nela Peter Ercolano, Jango Edwards, Pablo Trasno, Sergio Claramunt e Pablo Pudnik, acompañados do concelleiro de Cultura, Néstor Rego e de Iván Prado foron os encargados de dar a coñecer con breves intervencións o contido de cadanseu obradoiro dentro do Formaclown deste ano.

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Here you’ll find all the information about the Clown and Fool Jango Edwards and his Clown-Partner Peter Ercolano, upcoming Shows, Events & Clown-Workshops.

Jango Edwards has dedicated his life to the study of comedy and devoted himself to the art of clown; not a job but a life style, a comic religion which he calls the Church of Grin.
Eventually his vision gave birth to the internationally renowned “Festival Of Fools” which, from 1975 until 1984, became the world’s first comedy convention of the Nouveau Clowns. It set the foundation and form for a new trend in comic festivals; an annual gathering of the clown tribe, where all performed, taught and exchanged the secrets to a new direction and rebirth of an all but lost tradition.
Peter Ercolano met Jango Edwards at the age of 40, and finally decides to stop working at a shipping agency after 21 years, becoming a professional actor and clown, forming a duo with Jango. Today Peter teaches, performs, directs and writes with his partner Jango Edwards, with Giovanna Bellina and on his own. His goal in life is to fight ignorance, violence, sufferance and arrogance with the power of laughter. As a clown his aim is to help as many people as he can through his art. Together Jango and Peter, through their work, are building a global clown army to help reach these goals and aims.
His belief, experience of his own life, is: it’s never too late to be a clown !