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Bugglers Bosque Magic
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How to Contact Buggler
Would like to have Buggler perform at your event? You can contact Buggler at (703) 491-7989 for a quote. Please note that we do not provide an e-mail address. This is due to the modern worlds evil SPAM Bots, that invade our privacy with unwanted material. Besides, to know Buggler, is to talk to him! |
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Bosque Magic Show(tm) is an entertaining
get-the-audience involved experience. Buggler's magic show
is
designed for the outdoors and wooded setting to help the patrons feel
at home in Buggler’s world. Children are asked to participate
and
become assistants to Buggler. The show incorporates colorful
silks,
mysterious productions and vanishes all in a colorful and innocent
faerie theme. During the show, Buggler performs his own music and
fanfares to accentuate the magic and provides a whole new approach to
magic entertainment. Where ever Buggler performs, he transforms the stage into his Bosque. If the performance is indoors, Buggle invites the audience to a world of make-believe and to imagine that they are in a wooded setting. Soon fun and frivolity ensues and the audiance forget their surroundings and enter Bugglers world! Quotes
from Faire Patrons About Buggler
"You're the best thing here!!" - It was a Pretty Winged Lady (PWL), so she's biased. "The Magic show was so much fun I forgot to take photos" - Probably a good thing since Buggler is a bit sloppy with his magic!! But its all about fun!! "Your wings are upside down" - Small child who doesn't understand that Buggler is sometimes not all together - Thats what makes him Buggler! "You're weird" - Small child who really understands that Buggler is sometimes not all together. |
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If you are reading this page, then you found the small link in the corner of Bugglers introduction and you want to delve into the person behind the character. This page is for the inquisitive adults who are either captivated by the Faerie genre of entertainment, or want to have Buggler entertain at an event. An
Abbreviated History of Buggler
In 2004, Scott McDonald, who portrays the Sergeant Trumpeter for the Virginia, North Carolina, and Stonetower Glenn Renaissance Faires, was invited to be the trumpeter for the Fairy Queen at the 2004 Fairies of the Gem Fantasy Festival held in Shenandoah, Virginia by Medieval Fantasies Inc. It was during this event that Scott felt a little out of place with his “mortal human” presence in and around Faerie and Fantasy characters. Upon conclusion of the Fairies of the Gem Festival that year, Scott decided that in order to continue with this type of venue he would need to conduct research into faerie characters and events. One aspect of the character that Scott was seeking was to be able to include the ability to perform magic. Scott began studying magic as a young larvae and has performed semi-professionally at various times over the past 40+ years. His interest in magic began as a Cub Scout and carried on through over 30 years of community theater experience. While in the Navy, Scott performed in Europe as part of good will tours and entertainment for orphanages, foreign dignitaries, and Navy Talent Shows. Bringing magic into this character helps to create a mystique that fits into the Faerie genre. Music was the other element that Scott needed to blend into his unique character. As a member of the Historic Brass Society, an academic society that furthers the research and education of pre-modern brass instruments, Scott has intimate knowledge into the development of the renaissance trumpet: a simple instrument of 8 feet of tubing with a bell. Scott decided that his character should be able to perform on some similar type of instrument. While conducting his research into all things within the faerie realm, Scott rediscovered the illustrations of Cicely Mary Barker. There was something familiar with these illustrations! Scott had grown up with a children’s book of nursery rhymes that was illustrated with these fanciful creatures. There before his eye was a Bugle Fairy: an illustration of a male child faerie with monarch butterfly wings who carried the flower of a Trumpet Vine as his instrument. This would be the inspiration for Scott’s character. Buggler would play a Trumpet Vine. The instrument that Buggler plays is in reality a simple reconstruction of a renaissance or “natural” trumpet. It is made of flexible plastic hose, a funnel and a mouthpiece. Referred to in brass musician circles as a “hosaphone”, this simple device is used in schools to illustrate the physics of how sound is shaped and amplified by very simple means. Scott’s hoseaphone is decorated with flowers and leaves to give the illusion that it is a piece of nature now used in the faerie realm for the pleasure of the Faerie Queen. And with this creation, Buggler became the Bugle-Fly that plays a Trumpet Vine. Buggler the Bugle-Fly made his debut at the 2005 Fairies of the Gem Festival. An impish fellow, full of mischievousness and fun, his Trumpet Vine has become a method of providing interaction with the patron by playing any song (or close resemblance) asked by the patron or having a series of patrons hold his vine high while he marches behind playing songs and creating fun impromptu parades. It is this hands-on experience that draws the patron into Buggler’s world and gives the reward of being a participant in Buggler’s mischief. |
Scott McDonald performing on the natural trumpet at the
Virginia Renaissance Faire 
The Bugle Faerie
Illustration by Cicely Mary Barker |
