Amazing Children's Community Circus Makes History This July, Comes To Nyack's Memorial Park 7/19-8/2

A charming children's circus located in Nyack, NY is making history two ways this July. 

For the first time in over 100 years, a live elephant (named Minnie) will parade down

"Soho-on-the-Hudson's" Main Street Saturday, July 25th at 10am to kick-off their two and half week celebration of dual centennial anniversaries: the 400-year Hudson River discovery and the 200-year birth of the American Circus. 

Amazing Grace Circus!, the region's only year-round children's and youth circus, will present "Circus-in-the-Park Extravaganza!" July 19 - August 2 in Memorial Park, Nyack, under their beautiful Cirque du Soleil-like tent at the foot of the Tappan Zee Bridge. 

In another first, this will be the first circus tent ever erected on the Great Lawn of Memorial Park.

Over 5,000 people are expected to fill the streets of Nyack during this two-week run, billed by the co-founders of AGC! as 'a community event like no other...an antidote to the economy... fun and entertainment for the whole family at a reasonable price.' 

The AGC! Youth Troupe, a circus company of 13 teenagers from Rockland and Bergen Counties,

will perform on the weekends and lead the Old Tyme Circus Parade Down Main Street on July 25th.

Nyack's Mayor Shields and Rockland County's Chairwoman of the Legislature, Hon. Harriet Cornell, will be co-Grand Marshall's of the Parade AND co-Guest Ringmasters in a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony in AGC!'s tent. 

For a full listing of events, go to www.amazinggracecircus.org, or find tme on Facebook.

Tickets to all circus events are on sale at Riverspace Box Office, www.riverspace.org.

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