About Larry

Experience

Larry has been performing as Lariat Larry doing cowboy storytelling and trick roping shows since 1990. As a juggler and unicyclist, he has been performing since 1980. His audiences range in size from 10 to over 1000 people. Over the last 20 years, he has presented over 4000 fabulous shows for schools, libraries, conventions, corporate events, fairs, festivals, parties and other special venues. Previous tours have taken him to New York, South Dakota, Washington State, Montreal, Canada, and Taipei, Taiwan. Larry performed for the baseball World Series between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants and unicycled on the wing of an SST Concorde Jet (while it was on the ground of course). The International Jugglers' Association awarded him a silver medal in a juggling competition.

Past Audiences

Companies: Apple Computer, Bechtel, Broderbund, Deloitte-Touche, El Dorado Hotel (Reno), FAO Schwarz, Fireman's Fund Insurance, Firestone Tire, Ghiradelli Chocolate Co., Heublein, IBM, Levi Strauss, Macy's, Major League Baseball (World Series), Nordstom, Pacific Bell, Peoplesoft, San Francisco Newspaper Agency, San Francisco Zoo, Seiko Instrument Corp., U.S. Army (Fort Ord, CA), 3Com.

Fairs & Festivals

California State Fair, Marin County Fair (CA), Curry County Fair (OR), Oregon State Fair, Gilroy Garlic Festival (CA), Mill Valley Art Festival (CA), Livermore Children's Festival (CA), Mammoth Lakes Art Festival (CA), Walnut Festival (CA), Festival at the Lake (Oakland, CA), Children's Week Festival (Taipei, Taiwan)

Other Audiences

Over 350 schools (many of them repeated several times), over 50 libraries (most repeated several times), many recreation departments, the international convention of The Wild West Arts Club, The Oakland Magic Circle (twice, once as the opening act for Harry Blackstone, Jr.), International Jugglers' Association Festival.

Biography

Larry is a native of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, and has only spent four years away, while attending the University of California at Santa Barbara. There, he earned a bachelors degree in mathematics and a teaching credential. For 10 years, Larry enjoyed teaching high school and junior high school math in Fremont, California. In the midst of that period, about 1980, Larry began performing occasionally. In 1984, with the encouragement of his wife, Barbara, Larry made a major professional change to full-time juggler. What had been a hobby with occasional performing became a full-time career for the next eleven years. During that period, about 1990, Larry learned to do cowboy-style trick lariat spinning. He developed an additional dynamic act that combined trick roping with telling tales of the Wild West. Larry returned to teaching in 1995, and currently has a position at San Leandro High School. He continues to perform part-time, especially during the summers.