Unique acts wow crowds at state fair

There is always a lot of interesting things to see at the fair, including an eight feet tall cowgirl.

“My basic purpose in life is to bring happiness to wherever I am, that’s my job,” said cowgirl Lucky Star.

Come down to the Eastern Idaho State Fair and you’ll see Lucky Star, the eight foot trick roping, whip cracking, shenanigan loving cowgirl. You might see her walking around the fair, where she’ll ask for a high five, or see her on stage at her Karen Quest – Cowgirl Tricks Show. This is her 21st year performing at state fairs.

“I went to the Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey Clown College,” she said. “Only 1200 of us ever graduated from there. So it’s a pretty elite club. And I learned how to stilt walk there and then I continued it on when I was in different circuses.”

Star is hard to miss in a crowd. She lets the audience participate in her shows and says it appeals to everyone.

“The reason that I keep doing this year after year after year is that it’s nothing but joy,” she said. “It’s beautiful, it’s really fun. People love it, kids love it, adults love it, teenagers love it, everybody loves it. I love them. It’s a love fest.”

Lucky Star isn’t the only performer showing off for crowds.

Thrillusionist David DaVinci wows crowds with a mix of magic and illusions. He did a rubber band trick with a $20 bill. Even though the bill was folded over just the top strand of the two rubber bands, he magically moved it to the bottom strands and all the way back to the top. DaVinci began doing magic when he was just four years old and now travels all over the world. He calls himself a thrillusionist because of how interactive his magic is.

“So a thrillusionist is somebody who takes magic and illusion and combines it with all the thrills that you would experience from skydiving to holding your breath in a tank of water and that’s kind of what I do,” DaVinci said. “So I don’t do your average magic tricks that you might see at a birthday party, we take it up another notch and add some excitement to it.”

If you want to see either of these performers, they are both at the Big Dog Satellite Stage through Saturday. Their shows are from 5 to 8 p.m.