Haggis and Charlie

Haggis and Charlie at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival.

Haggis and Charlie are a comedy juggling act formed in 1984 by Haggis McLeod and Charlie Dancey. They learned their skills together at the Walcot Village Hall juggling workshop in Bath, England.^{[citation needed]} Their first performance was a busking show that took place on the waterfront of Bristol Docks.^{[citation needed]} Haggis and Charlie performed regularly on the streets of Bath in their early years together.^{[citation needed]} They have been seen almost every year at Glastonbury Festival and became something of a tradition at the Winchester Hat Fair.^{[citation needed]}

They were also involved in a successful world record attempt on 26 June 1994 when 826 people, juggling at least three objects each, kept 2,478 objects in the air, at Glastonbury Festival.^[1]

For a brief time the duo became a trio, when Pippa Tee joined the act, which was renamed Haggis & Chips (short for Haggis & Charlie & Pippa).^{[citation needed]}

Haggis and Charlie are seen less frequently now, though they still, occasionally, make an appearance. Their publicity used to mention that, "it's not so much the dazzling display of devil-may-care dexterity - it's more the complete clash of personalities!"^[2]

McLeod was married to Arabella Churchill, who assisted in founding and continuing the Glastonbury Festival.^[3] Dancey is the author of a number of juggling and trick books including:

• Charlie Dancey's Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling. Butterfingers: Bath, England 1994. ISBN 1-898591-13-X.
• Compendium of Club Juggling. Butterfingers. Bath, England 1995 ISBN 978 1898 591139.
• Every Trick In The Book, The Squeeze Press, Glastonbury 2010. ISBN 978-1906069-07-0.

See also[]

• British Juggling Convention
• List of jugglers

References[]

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