Anyone who identifies as a performer or a creative in any sense has probably been challenged by the older generation to do something more “legitimate” with their time, faced with the question “What are you going to do, run away and join the circus?”

For blues master, theater actor and harmonica instructor James Dalton, the answer was “absolutely.”

OK, maybe not the circus, but circus adjacent.

Dalton has turned the concept of interactive performance into an opportunity to teach, and will bring the…