066: Midwest Magic Jubilee Day 3 Podcast

St. Charles, Missouri (a suburb of St Louis) is the headquarters for the International Brotherhood of Magicians. This final day podcast began with a conversation with the I.B.M. office secretary, Sindie Richison, and Past International President (P.I.P.), Mike Stratman who is also the I.B.M. Convention Co-Chairman. Don Wiberg, another P.I.P. as well as serving as the International Secretary, joined us for a conversation on what's happening at the Headquarters and with the 2013 convention in Phoenix.

Losander closed the Saturday evening gala show then chatted with us at his dealer booth about his show, creating new levitation effects and how to add music to your act. And to conclude the podcast and wrap up the convention, we finished with a chat with Terry Richison.

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Midwest Magic Jubilee Day 3 Photos 2012

The final day of the 56th MMJ brought even more last day registrants to the convention. Perhaps they saw and heard what they were missing by getting these daily updates! The morning opened with an excellent lecture by Chris Capehart. He spoke about working the streets and tips on the linking rings.

Scott Alexander lectured on stand-up magic with several great ideas for openers, plus some excellent close-up tricks, too.

Last but not least of the lecturers was the king of the levitation, Losander. He gave us some ideas for using invisible thread and bubbles and more.

The close-up show featured seven performers with dramatically different styles and all quite excellent.

The evening gala was a packed house with at least two-thirds of the audience being laymen. Michael Finney was the MC and the acts included Ferrell Dillon, Scott Alexander and Losander.

After the show, the registrants retired to the Dealers' Room for a Farewell Party.

Daytona Festival of Magic

We are in Daytona Beach for the 47th edition of the Florida magic convention. Although this is only the fifth (or sixth) year of combining the conventions between the Florida Magicians' Associaton (FMA) and Daytona Magic Shop's annual conflab. It ranks right up there with any other large regional convention for fun, surprises, cammaraderie and, oh yes...did I say fun? This is a really great way to see out the end of the magic convention season.

The stars came out to shine at the Daytona Festival of Magic (DFM) over the weekend of November 4-6, 2011 including John Calvert, John Ekin, Banachek, Eric Buss, Sylvester the Jester, Johnny Ace Palmer, Geoff Williams, Losander and many, many more. (Thanks to Peter Gould for the great photos above).

The beautiful view from our balcony window overlooking the crashing waves on the shoreline of the Daytona Beach Resort.

Johnny Ace Palmer holds his doves following his close-up perfomance (yes, he uses doves in a close-up show) while the original bird man, Jack Kodell, looks on.

Still performing and getting standing ovations at 100 years of age, John Calvert opened the Saturday night gala with his cigarette production routine.