‘A floating circus’: Flotsam! to host free river circuses in Western New York starting Friday

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Accordion music, mutant fish and a boat that looks like a pirate ship all mean one thing: the circus is in town, but this show is something all can see for free.

“Well, we’re a floating circus, we travel on this handmade, ramshackle raft,” Captain Jason Webley said. “’Flotsam’ is a term that means, basically, floating garbage… We hope we’re a very charming bit of floating garbage.”

Webley is leading his sixth tour aboard the Flotsam! River Circus. Previous editions of the circus have toured up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers…

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