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VINCE BRUCE
Contract Act
From the start
it seemed that Vince Bruce was going up life's one-way street the wrong
way, blazing a trail of contradictions. Cowboys come from America,
Vince comes from England. It was a Wild West rodeo star named Tex
McLeod that first put a lasso in his hands and his typically British
father first taught him how to use it.
Because of meeting Tex, Vince developed a love for cowboys, horses,
ropes and the vaqueros of the old west that has lasted his whole
life. He began doing rope tricks when he was six years old. At twelve
he already had a regular spot at a local country club and by the
time he was sixteen he was an established performer in the traveling
circuses of England and France.
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 At nineteen he left the circus life for what he saw as the sophistication of cabaret and embarked on an eight year tour of the world's night clubs. A list of countries where Vince has performed reads like the index of a World atlas. Since those early years, he's performed in a diversity of venues from half-time act for the "Harlem Globetrotters" to the Broadway stage, where he was for two and a half years in the "WILL ROGERS FOLLIES". Vince is now considered to be the foremost western act in the world.
It was in New York that he met his wife Annie, whose own love for horses had
been put aside for a singing career.  Together, they decided to pool their talents,
buy a couple of horses and head out west.
Rodeo audiences from the San Francisco Cow Palace to Jackson, Mississippi and
the Fort Worth Stock Show to the Calgary Stampede have been held spellbound by
this tall lanky Englishman charging out into the arena atop two galloping horses
in silver mounted saddles while spinning an enormous loop of rope around them.
In one of their routines, Annie rides out singing a cowboy song and Vince spins
fancy loops around his horse. She rides past him and he ropes her.
For the last two years they've performed their stage act in the Carriage Room at Dixie Stampede in Branson, Missouri. Whether in the rodeo arena or on stage in banquets, corporate functions and dinner shows, their performance is a mixture of dazzling rope tricks, dangerous feats of whip cracking and an offbeat British humor.
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Barnes PRCA Rodeo
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