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. 

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At nineteen he left the circus life for what he saw as the sophistication of cabaret and embarked on an eight year tour of the world’s night clubs.  A list of the countries where Vince has performed, reads like the index of a World atlas.  Since those early years he’s performed in a diversity of venues from half - time act for the “Harlem Globetrotters” to the Broadway stage - where he was “The Roper” for two and a half years in “WILL ROGERS’ FOLLIES”.   Vince is now considered to be the foremost western act in the world.

 

It was in New York that he met his wife Annie, whose own love for horses had been put aside for a singing career.  Together, they decided to pool their talents, buy a couple of horses and head out west!

Over the last seven years, audiences from the San Francisco Cow Palace to Jackson, Mississippi the Fort Worth Stock Show to the Calgary Stampede have been held spellbound by this tall lanky Englishman.  Charging out into the arena atop two galloping horses in silver mounted saddles while spinning an enormous loop of rope around them, Vince is the Consummate Showman.  In one of their routines, Annie rides out singing and Vince spins fancy loops around his horse culminating with Annie riding past him and Vince roping her.  What a sight!

Whether in the Rodeo Arena, on Stage, Corporate Functions or Dinner Shows, their performance is a mixture of dazzling rope tricks, dangerous feats of whip cracking and an offbeat British humor.

 

 

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