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| Cutting Edge Innertainmnet |
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Hartselle, AL |
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615-969-2568 |
| Contact: |
Dan Meyer |
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Cutting Edge Innertainment presents
Swashbuckling Sword Swallower Capn Cutless!
If you're looking for a swashbucklin' Pirate who is exciting and unforgettable, with authentic costume, REAL macaw parrot, and REAL FIRE-EATING and SWORD SWALLOWING, then you want the one and only record holding Sword Swallower - Capn Cutless!
Whether cold steel or hot fire
He's fearless and gutless
Swashbucklin Pyrate
It's Capn Cutless!
After living as a Pirate on a deserted island in the Bahamas for seven years for a cruise lines, and working several years in the music industry in Nashville Tennessee, Stockholm Sweden, and London England, Dan Meyer shifted his focus from the field of music to variety entertainment as circus clown, juggler, stilt-walker, fire-eater, and eventually, the most dangerous of all performance arts - Sword Swallower!
After being amazed while watching fire-eaters and sword swallowers, first at circus sideshows while growing up as a child in Indiana, and later witnessing Indian fakirs while serving as a missionary in India, Dan became passionate about learning the incredible feats himself.
Hearing from a sword swallower in 1998 that there were "less than a dozen sword swallowers left around the world" led Dan on his quest to locate as many of the surviving sword swallowers as possible while mastering the 4,000-year-old art. After three years of research, study, and daily practice, Dan taught himself to swallow solid steel swords up to 30 inches long while networking the remaining sword swallowers into the Sword Swallowers Association International.
Described as a "Christian David Copperfield who combines real feats with a powerful message instead of just tricks and illusions, Dan eats fire and swallows solid steel swords, blades, sabers, bayonets, and other objects from 15 to 30 inches in length, and up to 8 swords at once.
A multiple Guinness World Record holder, featured Ripleys performer, and one of only a few dozen professional sword swallowers left in the entire world, Dan is recognized as one of the premiere sword swallowers performing around the world today. Dan has been featured on programs such as CNN, MTV, ESPN, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, Discovery International, Learning Channel, Documentary Channel, Travel Channel, USA Network, Food Network, Shocked and Amazed TV, CNN Headline News, CNN Health, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CBC, NPR, CTV, CMT, PBS, WGN, MSN, USA Today, NY Post, NY Times, London Times, National Geographic, Forbes, British Medical Journal, Scientific American, Christian Activities, and hundreds of other radio, TV, magazine and newspaper interviews around the world. Dan has performed on national tour with Brooks and Dunn's Neon Circus, on international tour with the Celtic Christian band Ceili Rain, and at Ripleys Believe It or Not attractions, colleges, universities, corporate and church events, and Upward awards programs around the world.
Despite a close call resulting in a near-fatal injury while swallowing 5 swords at once, Dan continues to amaze audiences with his skills. I enjoy performing REAL feats that people think are impossible in order to demonstrate how incredible the human body really is
Dan explains. To prove his point, Dan swallowed a 30 inch sword while submerged underwater in a tank of 80 sharks and stingrays for Ripleys Believe It or Not, a feat witnessed by over 20 million viewers on more than 400 TV stations around the world.
As Executive Director of the Sword Swallowers Association Intl, an avid historical researcher and collector of sword swallowing artifacts, and author of a year-long medical study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal that won him the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dan is recognized as the foremost authority in the world on the ancient art of sword swallowing.
Dan and his wife Lisa live in Hartselle, AL where they raise Arabian horses. The Sword Swallowers Association Intl (SSAI) includes members from around the world (www.swordswallow.org) and a sister site with extensive information on sword swallowing for the general public (www.swordswallow.com). Dan is available for appearances, media interviews, talk shows, medical demonstrations, films, documentaries, conventions, festivals, artist tours, church youth events, Upward Awards shows, and other bookings through Cutting Edge Innertainment at www.cuttingedgeinnertainment.com |
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