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Sideshow Bennie is a sideshow performer based out of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. His abilities include circus skills, fire breathing, bed of nails, glass walking, human blockhead, human dartboard, stapling, swallowing 24 inch unlit glowsticks and regurgitating them completely lit up, bear traps, and comedy.
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- Biography
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He is most often booked in variety shows, vaudeville shows, burlesque shows, concerts, festivals, and theme parks.
Sideshow Bennie with irons from his nipples
Biography
In the mid to late 1960s, a young Benjamin Wade witnessed some of the last of the traveling side shows working the fair and carnival circuit and he was hooked. He developed a fascination with the working acts, the Blockheads and the Torture Kings, and over the years began to learn the secrets behind their feats. He used these feats as party tricks and to win bar bets. It was after a particularly lucrative Mardi Gras excursion to the bars of Bourbon Street in New Orleans that Bennie realized he may have the beginnings of an act.
He took on the name of SideShow Bennie, and began performing to thrill local audiences in his hometown of Nashville. He began working regionally and soon began attracted a national audience.
Bennie has performed at tattoo conventions, motorcycle events, arts festivals, colleges and nightclubs. He has shocked and amazed audiences from Miami to Seattle. He has appeared on television shows on networks such as E! Entertainment TV, VH-1, CMT, and he was the featured performer in the documentary Stomachs Of Steel, which has aired on The Discovery Channel. He has both been a headliner and has appeared as an opener for musical acts including Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Big and Rich and Alice Cooper. In the summer of 2007 he performed at Bonnaroo.
Bennie performed as a solo act for many years but in 2008 he added a partner to his act in the form of Anna Fiametta. An accomplished fire eater, she also escapes from a straitjacket and performs a human pincushion act in addition to other feats.