Mid June 2007, Dublin - Ireland
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In Ireland I was booked as an act for the Street Performance World Championship to perform over ten shows. It's a festival that only brings in really fantastic acts and most of the other acts were legends and heroes of mine. This year I was proud to rub shoulders with Gamarjobat, Mario - Queen of the Circus, The Raspyni Brothers, Popeyed, Daredevil Chicken Club, El Gleno Grande and the Space Cowboy plus a couple more, all world class acts.

A 'Magic Corner" was created near the entrance of the festival park specifically for me and fellow street magician Kenneth Lightfoot and it was full to the brim from morning til evening of happy festival goers. It was some of the best audiences I've ever had and they loved every second of the show. It was so packed, at one point the festival organisers had to ask me to tell the audience they're not allowed to climb trees or lampposts to be able to see since they could fall down and hurt themselves. I recommend anyone to make it to Dublin for the festival next year as you will see some of the best shows of your life.

My other highlights of the festival includes:
The Daredevil Chickens going to the pub in clown costume since they didn't have time to change.
El Gleno Grande telling funny stories about friends in common.
The fact that despite I was not entered in the competition for world champion, the voting booths were overrun by people trying to vote for me anyway and the festival organisers showed me a box afterwards full of voting slips with words like: 'I want to vote for Charlie the magician' scrawled next to the official voting options. That warms a performers heart even more than an irish coffee.