Covering more than an acre of ground, the Cole Bros. Circus Big Top is a favorite event of the Festival. Its combination of costumed characters, acrobatics, clowns, and more draws packed crowds each year. Nonstop action fills the Big Top in this two-hour performance.

With an international cast of Circus Stars and a tent-full of educated, exotic animals, Cole Bros. Circus guarantees that families will enjoy chills, thrills, and laughter when they visit The World’s Largest Circus under the Big Top.

This year's performance features a trio of talented elephants, fearless flyers, camels, clowns, motorcycle maniacs in the Globe of Death, clever canines, teeterboard acrobats, trapeze, aerial gymnasts, the world's funniest horse, and, of course, The Human Cannonball.