661: MagiFest - Day Three Report

Saturday 22nd January 2022

110:00am - 6pm Dealers Open

10:00am - 11:00am Magifest University Session One

Choose from:
• Designing Miracles with Darwin Ortiz
• Marketing Magic with Kent
• Thoughtful Card Magic with Bernardo Sedlacek
• Gambling and Cheating with Jason England

11:15am - 12:15pm Magifest University Session Two

Choose from:
• Designing Miracles with Darwin Ortiz
• Marketing Magic with Kent
• Thoughtful Card Magic with Bernardo Sedlacek
• Gambling and Cheating with Jason England

2:30pm - 4.00pm Jeki Yoo Show and Lecture

4:30pm - 6:00pm Apollo Robbins Show and Lecture

8:00pm - 9:00pm Neils Dunker One Man Juggling Show

9:00pm - 10:00pm The Fool Us Gala Show

Featuring Stuart McDonald, Ben Seidman, Jeki Yoo, Garrett Thomas, and Amanda Nepo.

10:30pm, 11pm, 11:30pm Mike Pisciotta Bar Magic Performances

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Edmund Apperson and Jeff Kowalk review last evening’s show

00:15:43 - Steve Chezaday and John Wolfe discuss the format of this year’s convention and talk about why they came

00:35:53 - Adam Blumenthal from Tannen’s represented the dealers from the Dealers’ Room as he talked about some of the best seller tricks at their shop

00:39:27 - Nick Diffatte was a last minute fill-in for David Gerrard and he talks about his show last evening

00:44:06 - Don Wiberg has been attending the MagiFest for over 40 years and he tells us why he returns each year

00:50:14 - Carissa Hendrix (aka Lucy Darling) made an unexpected appearance in the crowd. She talks about her MasterClass which will be filmed tomorrow.

00:56:03 - Amanda Nepo opened this evening’s show and in our chat talks about her experience with fooling Penn & Teller

01:00:10 - Mike Thornton and Scott Wells give a wrap to the afternoon and evening’s activities.

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626: 2021 Abbott's Get Together - Day Two

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5TH 2021
9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant
10:00AM-10:45AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS' ROOM at Colon High School
11:00AM LECTURE at Colon High School Kevin James
12:00PM STREET PERFORMER (Jon LaChance) at Dawn's Cafe (sponsored by IBM Ring 386-Percy Abbott / Monk Watson Magic Club)
1:00PM LECTURE at Colon High School Ice McDonald
1:00PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic (with Jeffrey Alan; $5 cash at the door)
2:30PM STREET PERFORMER (Jania Taylor) at Abbott's Magic (sponsored by IBM Ring 386-Percy Abbott / Monk Watson Magic Club)
2:30PM-6PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS' ROOM at Colon High School
3:00PM DEALERS SHOW at Colon High School
3:00PM-5PM COLON HISTORICAL MUSEUM is open 3:45PM FAMOUS MAGICIANS GRAVEYARD TOUR ushered by Al The Only
4:30PM MAGIC SHOW at Abbott's Magic (with Joe Bennett; $5 cash at the door)
5:00PM-7:00PM Spaghetti Dinner at Methodist Church (230 N Blackstone Ave, Colon; $ cash dinner fee)
5:30PM STREET PERFORMER (Nick Eaton) at Curly's (sponsored by IBM Ring 386-Percy Abbott / Monk Watson Magic Club)
6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER on your own 7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk
8:00PM ABBOTT'S STAGE SHOW - (view seating chart)
Featuring Mac King, Mike Caveney, Tina Lenert, Tim Wright, Joel Hodgson
10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS at Colon High School

This is the act that David Charvet presented on the Thursday night show.

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - Jeff Jackowski, John Dudley and Mark McDermott are registrants of this year’s Get Together and we get their perspective of the first day’s show

00:06:16 - Eric Decamps was one of the performers and lecturers at this year’s event. Eric talks about this being his first Get Together. We are later joined by Randy Wakeman who joined us and gave us an update on the health of Simon Lovell.

00:17:45 - Steve Chezaday, from Naperville, Illinois, is one of the stage crew for this Get Together

00:24:56 - Louie Foxx talks about his performance for the Amish families and his experiences for this, his first, Get Together

00:32:25 - Mike Miller was the Talent Coordinator of this year’s Get Together. He chats a bit about putting this all together and the challenges of doing it during the pandemic.

617: U.K. Kid Show Magicians

Kids are kids the world over and they all love magic. But there are some subtle differences in how and where magic is presented to children in the U.S. versus how it's done in the U.K. This week we chat with family and children show entertainers from the U.K. about these differences and some of their challenges (i.e. taking the tube and/or train in London between shows) and how they brand themselves by using memorable names for their characters.

Listen this week to our chat with Martin "Mr. Biscuit" Cox, Dave "Magic Dave" Allen and Paul "Colonel Custard" Megram as we hear how it's done "across the pond."

This week’s podcast episode on YouTube.

This week, Paul Megram, Dave Allen and Martin Cox represent a small sample of the complex and multi-levels of children’s show magicians in England. Someone could easily make a podcast devoted to just the kid show industry in the U.K. by featuring a different entertainer each week, but that’s not what The Magic Word Podcast is about. So please enjoy this 35,000 foot (or 10,668 meters) overview of this lucrative industry and accept our apologies if we have left out you as a guest or topics that you think we should have discussed.