Category Archives: Performer

Find A Knife Thrower

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Now if you were thinking that this would be a good way to get rid of your boss at this year’s Christmas party – think again as we have the most professional Knife Throwers advertised with us here at Red Masque entertainment directory.

Amaze your guests with nail-biting acts from daring knife throwers and their brave assistants. The act itself might be centuries old but the wow factor still remains and this is one form of event entertainment that’s always going to remain as compelling as ever. A great choice if you want to add something that’s both enjoyable and exciting to an event.

This act is terrifyingly dangerous and you will have one eye open when you see the Knife Thrower in action. Toe curlingly good and great entertainment for any event that you had in mind.

We have only the best and you can hire a knife thrower very simply by filling out an online booking form on our website. The booking form will go straight to your chosen act where they will be in contact with you direct to arrange finer details.

Vegas Showgirls

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Showgirls are a must to meet and greet your guests with class. There fabulous costumes and allure will definitely impress your guests no end. From meeting and greeting guests and posing for photographs on the red carpet to full scale cabaret, theatre and production shows. Showgirls can cater for all your entertainment needs.

With themes like Las Vegas, Hollywood, Moulin Rouge, Mardi Gras and James Bonde, these gorgeous girls make any event one to remember for all the right reasons. You could be organising a themed party for example: Las Vegas, Hollywood, Moulin Rouge, Mardi gras and James Bond, These gorgeous girls make any event one to remember for all the right reasons.

You will see from our Showgirls advertised in our Red Masque directory that we only have the finest performers available. They are very professional and as you contact them directly you can talk with them to discuss costumes and themes for your special event,

Just simply fill in an online booking form where you can quickly and easily hire your amazing Showgirls for your event.

Top Snake Performers

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A Snake dance no doubt will be a talking point if you decide that a snake dancer would be perfect for your event. Captivating the audience with amazement and somewhat fear, they won’t be able to take their eyes of this amazing act.

Why not interact your guests with the dancer and the snake, where the snake can be passed around (humanely of course) and let your crowd get involved. From an interactive walkabout snake dance to a dynamic staged performance. This hypnotic form of party entertainment will immediately grab the attention of your guests with performances that will create the wow factor for your event.

 

The Snake Dancers for hire are trained to handle the snakes and are always professional at all times. If you think your party could handle a snake dancer why not hire one. By filling out and online booking form located in the act of your choices profile, you can have the perfect entertainer booked for your party. 

Hire a Hypnotist

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Hypnotists are always a good way to entertain your guests providing its done in a professional manner – Remember the Paul McKenna days when he’s get people on stage to do some ‘silly things’ under hypnosis??

Take a journey into the subcioncious mind….

A stage hypnotist makes great entertainment for almost any event. Hypnotism and stage hypnotists over recent years has made a huge come back in the world of entertainment and with a comedy hypnosis show you can be sure your event will be thought provoking and mind-boggling.

Why not at your corporate event hire a Hypnotist where you could get your boss involved on stage which would make all his staff get their own back? – Maybe not – you may get the sack!! How much fun would it be when the people under hypnosis have no recollection of what just happened.

Whatever your event, these clever hypnotists will astound and entertain your guests no end. All are extremely professional in their line of work. To book simply fill out a form located within the Red Masque Website and a top Hypnotist will be at your event.

It’s all an Illusion

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Illusionists nowadays have become more and more jaw droopingly astounding with their unique illusions and breath-taking tricks.

Bringing the age old art of magic into the 21st century. Cutting edge and contemporary, don’t expect rabbits and top hats, but do expect to be mesmerised by these grand masters of magic and illusion, each with their own speciality and mind-blowing signature act.

Illusionists can mingle with your crowd and do the most impossible illusions – you can never work out how it’s done. Their routines are practiced and practiced and they have become a master of deception before your very eyes.

To book these amazing acts just click on the one that you feel will enhance your event, fill out an online form and it will go straight to your chosen illusionist. They will be in contact with you direct soon after…

Find your Latin music here

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Latin music is a whole spectrum of music which derives from Spanish speaking and Latin American countries. The sheer vibrancy of these acts are truly mesmerising with upbeat sounds that guarantee to get feet tapping. There’s passion and life in the music and hiring a Latin Music performer or band for an event is the perfect choice for a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

The most well-known being the Salsa which is a very sexy dance. Up and down the Country there are many ‘Salsa’ classes as people who love this music want to learn to dance.  Of course we have all seen ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and are familiar with the Tango, Cha Cha, Jive and Rumba.

If you would like this upbeat and beautiful music playing at your function or even if you wanted lessons you are able to book these Latin bands, performers and acts for your pleasure. Easy to book online, just fill out a form which is located in our Red Masque Directory. We have the best Latin Music Acts available on our entertainment directory. Book today, they will not disappoint.

Big Band & Swing

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Incredible solo singers and sensational bands recreating the sounds of the 1920’s and 30’s.

Enjoy the musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era. Typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians, the Big Band produces a sound and feeling unlike any other.

Here at Red Masque we offer our clients the ultimate Big Bands for hire, with only the best, highly talented and unique acts around. When it comes to Big Band and Swing acts for hire, we have it covered.

Red Masque supply the ultimate in event entertainment and to hire a Big Band & Swing act for a wedding, party or corporate event couldn’t be easier… Either find the act or acts you’re interested in on our website and fill in their booking enquiry form or simply give us a call. We’re here to help with any enquiries you might have so please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Click here to view all Big Bands for hire

Stags and Hens

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Nowadays it would be pretty unheard of to get married and not have a hen party or stag do in order to celebrate the final free moments before you tie the knot. Consequently we’ve heard of some pretty unusual hen party events along the way from perfume creation to go kart racing! But why is it called a hen party and why is it called a stag party? And where did these parties originate from?

A common misconception is that the terms ‘hen’ and ‘stag’ both originate from simple social stereotypes. In fact, it’s more likely that the word hen hasn’t always meant female chicken, in middle English, hen could mean the female of any bird and so a hen party was a party exclusively for ladies. Similarly, but going back even further, is the stag party, and you’ve guessed it, originally stag could mean the male of any animals, not just a male deer and so a stag party is one exclusively for gents.

So it turns out hen parties aren’t a creation of modern society and they actually go pretty far back. So where did the terms actually originate from? The tradition of the stag party, goes back even further certainly as far as tudor times. Just imagine how busy Henry VIII must have been with invites!

Numerous sources suggest that the very first stag party was actually held in the 5th century in Sparta, where a pre-marriage feast was held in order to toast the groom-to-be. On the other hand, hen celebrations have their roots more grounded in North African, Middle Eastern and Asian lifestyle. This is because the authentic phrase from which hens get together is believed to be henna, which is a wedding custom in all these cultures. Henna has significant importance in the East and is considered to have tendencies to be capable of purifying the bride and hold her risk-free from evil.

Here in the UK, we are somewhat on our own with our abstract names of hen and stag parties to see off the final moments of freedom. Australia is similar, but slight cultural differences mean that they call it hen party and buck party. Alternatively, America appears to be very vanilla in the naming of their pre-marital parties calling them a bachelorette party and a stag party respectively.

Whatever your background, there is no escaping the fact that marriage is possibly the most important decision of your life. So what better way to say goodbye to single life than to celebrate in style!

Music for your Irish party

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We thought we’d provide a few ideas on Irish entertainment. When thinking about the Emerald Isle and the entertainment that it has provided to the world, an obvious place to start is the harp.

It is known that the harp was revered across Celtic culture and Europe in the 1100s with various leaders having their own resident harpist who enjoyed a high status and special privileges. What did they have to do? As one might expect, they were expected to play music in accompaniment to other forms of party entertainment – poetry recitations or reading of psalms, etc. Alas, no music for the harp is written down from this period.

As any lover of history may tell you, Celtic culture wasn’t as popular as it used to be and the social status of a harp player began to lessen as the years wore on. No longer retained amongst the higher echelons, they took to the streets, performing as travelling musicians to the delight of crowds. Perhaps they were enjoyed too much; although the Irish harp was a symbol of the country and embraced around the world, it was now see as an emblem of resistance against the Crown and England. It was henceforth banned from the end of the Middle Ages and in just a few centuries, the Irish harp had all but disappeared.

…Well, almost. In 1792, a group of harpists travelled to Belfast for a traditional harp festival. A passionate musician, Edward Bunting, noted down the music they played and it is thanks to him that traditional Gaelic music lasts to this day; it had never previously been written down on paper (presumably because nobody ever saw the point or most harpists couldn’t read or write sheet music.)

There are less than a dozen Celtic harps that have survived from the medieval period. The oldest one is also the most famous – the Trinity College Harp, upon which the official emblem of Ireland is now based. It can be seen if you decide to visit Trinity College in Dublin and no doubt, you’ll learn even more about this lovely instrument.

Ventriloquism Museum

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We head over to the USA to take in a curious museum that you certainly won’t see on the streets of London. Dubbed as ‘The World’s Only Museum Dedicated to Ventriloquism’, Vent Haven in Kentucky is certainly a place that you won’t forget in a hurry.

How does one start a museum of ventriloquism? The answer of course is that you have to have a passion for the art and that was the case with William Shakespeare Berger, a businessman from Cincinnati and amateur ventriloquist. Having amassed a vast collection of memorabilia and merchandise related to ventriloquism throughout his life, he eventually set upon the idea of opening a museum in the heart of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, just five miles from where he initially made his name.

Unfortunately for Shakespeare Berger, he died in the same year that Vent Haven opened – 1973 – but that hasn’t dampened the museum’s success with numerous photographs, posters and other merchandise being donated the premises over the last 45 years. Although these items undoubtedly improve the offering of Vent Haven, the real jewel in the crown is of course the 900+ retired ventriloquist dummies in their possession that have come from more than 20 countries around the world.

To a ventriloquist, Vent Haven is guaranteed to raise a smile but for those who find even one ventriloquist’s dummy a bit creepy, over 900 of them is sure to have them running for the door. Who knows upon which stages these dummies have been used? Or do you look at these specimens and only think of films like Annabelle, a horror movie about a family being terrorised by a vintage doll?

Whichever side on which you sit, one can’t deny that the museum is of great historical importance considering the various types of ventriloquist dummies on display. Although some wouldn’t be out of place on stage today, others are profoundly darker, harking back to a time when racism was commonplace and often ignored by the masses.

Ventriloquists will absolutely love a visit to Vent Haven and the best bit is that they even hold a convention each and every year, which is brilliantly stylised as the Vent Haven ConVENTion. Over 400 ventriloquists turn up to celebrate and we can only imagine the tales they must tell!