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VentPeng Takes the Show on the Road to Florida.
VentPeng will be doing some traveling early next year with show dates in Florida. If you will be in the area, be sure to contact the appropriate locations to confirm performance times.
January 26 - Dunedin RV Resort
7:00 PM - Dunedin, FL
January 30 -
Sun-N-Fun RV Resort 7:00 PM - Sarasota, FL
January 31 -
Sun Coast Cathedral, TBD on
the time, St. Petersburg, FL
February 2 - Lakeland RV Resort - 7:00 PM
- Lakeland, FL
For all you Blackwoods fans, VentPeng will return in March!
VentPeng Entertains & Educates Ohio Students
View the video of the group at school.
Local Entertainers Receive Prestigious Award - See the Clipping from the Mountain Press
| Bob and Marty Hamill, who entertain six mornings a week at the
Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show in Pigeon Forge, TN, were presented
with the highest honor a ventriloquist can receive at the 34th
International VentHaven Ventriloquist Convention: The W.S. Berger
Distinguished Service Award. W.S. Berger was the President of the
International Brotherhood of Ventriloquists and founder of the VentHaven
Museum, the only one of its kind in the world. The museum
sponsors the annual convention. Mark Wade, the Executive Director for the convention, said, “This award is given to ventriloquists who have excelled not only in the art of ventriloquism, but in the way it is presented. Bob and Marty Hamill are overdue for this presentation.” Bob and Marty have been goodwill ambassadors for the art of ventriloquism for decades. In his teens, Bob performed free shows for local hospitals, retirement hospitals and the USO. He later became an entertainer on a cruise ship, where he met Marty – the ship’s nurse. Soon after, recognizing her talent for comedy, he made her a part of the act. When stopped at different ports of call, they would often bring their puppets into the countries they visited and entertain at orphanages or hospitals in the area. Bob and Marty have been part of the Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Group since 1998. They started at the Comedy Barn and joined the Blackwoods five years ago. “We are living the dream,” stated Bob. “We are with one of the most inspirational groups of all time, we have the greatest audiences, and we’re finished at noon.” |
 (From left, Marty Hamill, Bob Hamill and Phillip Jones with the 2010 W.S. Berger Awards from VentHaven Ventriloquist Convention. |
| Bob is about to launch the Pigeon Forge version of the Bob Hamill Variety
Show. “It will be a show case for entertainers who need a place to hone
their art,” said Bob. “It was so important in my early career to have a
place to perform; we played anywhere people needed entertainment.
Entertainers need places where they can be bad before they get good. I want
to give young and older performers the chance to be in front of the
microphone. Details of the Variety Show will be announced soon.” See the Clipping from the Mountain Press |
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Local Entertainers Big Hit At 2010 International Ventriloquists Convention Local entertainers, Bob Hamill and Phillip Jones appeared at the 2010 Ventriloquist ConVENTion, July 14-17, 2010 in Fort Mitchell, KY. They performed between acts on Wednesday night and even appeared as Laurel and Hardy! For more information about the ConVENTion.
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Local Entertainers Appeared At 2008 International Ventriloquists Convention Local entertainers, Bob and Marty Hamill appeared at the 2008 Ventriloquist in Fort Mitchell, KY. With a new type of ConVENTion performance, Bob and Marty Hamill were the first act of the ConVENTion with their tribute to Carol Burnett. Marty was able to emulate Burnett's famous cleaning lady character, and her similar appearance to the character was uncanny. Bob played the bumbling Tim Conway role. The audience was in hysterics as they appreciated something out of the ordinary. You can see Marty and Bob's act for yourself at the Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show.
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