694: I.B.M. 2022 Convention - Day Three Report

Friday July 15th 2022

9 am Close-up Contestants Meet Savannah C

9 am - Noon Registration Open Chattooga Hallway

10 am Spouse Social Hour Ogeechee Room

10 am Special Event - TALK MAGIC
GWYN AUGER
BRENT BRAUN
ALYX HILSHEY Grand Salon

11 am - 6 pm Dealers Open Chattahoochee Ballroom

11 am - Noon Lance Burton Teen Seminar Rabun

11 am Board Meeting - Billy Hsueh Finish Line

12 noon Lunch Break (Cash Lunches Available) Promenade

1 pm - 5 pm Registration Open Chattooga Hallway

1 pm - 3 pm Close-up Contest Oconee, Lanier A&B, Savannah A&B, Sinclair

3:30 pm Lecture - ALEX RAMON Grand Salon

5 pm Reception & Grand Banquet
Music provided by Joe M. Turner Promenade

7 pm Grand Banquet Show
STEPHEN BARGATZE Grand Salon

8 pm. Showtime - Gold Medal Contest & Awards
MC - ALEX RAMON Grand Salon

10 pm Centennial Group Photo, Social Time & JAM Session Promenade

A sold out trick offered at the Daytona Magic booth.

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - Alan Fisher recaps the previous night’s show.

00:17:57 - Harry Allen from Daytona Magic tells us about some of the hottest selling tricks at his shop

00:29:46 - David Ginn opened this convention with his lecture and is also selling some of his books and products in the Dealers’ Room. He talks a bit about his history with kids’ shows.

00:45:03 - Magician with a Paint Brush and former member of the Le Grand David Company of performers, Rick Heath talks a bit about the Company’s history.

00:57:47 - International President, Ken Scott talks about this convention and what it’s been like coming out of COVID

01:04:40 - David Goldrake is one of the performers who will be closing the gala show with his illusion act. He talks a bit about his schedule and his observations on this convention

01:08:58 - Stuart MacDonald is another performer at this convention who will be presenting his FISM act in tonight’s show that he will compete with in Canada soon. You can hear his entire speech on the final day podcast.

01:17:25 - Alyx Hilshey is a street performer and part of the talent at this convention. She was recently on the cover of VANISH Magazine plus she talks about some of her background.

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623: James Holmes - The Cane and Silk Road

During a recent trip to Branson, Missouri, to see a couple of the magic shows in town, I was pleasantly reunited with an old friend, James Holmes. The name is probably not familiar to, well…nearly 95% of listeners here on the podcast. But for a variety of reasons, you should know who this person is and what he has contributed and continues to contribute to our magic community. James has been around for a long time and I probably made his acquaintance in the 1980’s. He is the creator of the “One Handed Cane to Silk” among other things.

This week, James talks about how he came up with the “One Handed Cane to Silk” effect and how he developed and marketed it. He talks about his close association with the late Fantasio as well as the late team of “Tom and Sherrie”. Unfortunately, piracy is a common thing in our community where unscrupulous “manufacturers” and dealers make and sell ripoffs of others’ creations. James talks a little about this and how it affected both him and Fantasio.

608- Jeff Bibik - Bar Magician Extraordinaire

Jeff Bibik is a Chicago comedian and a magician. Originally from the Detroit, Michigan, area, he regularly performed magic in local restaurants and comedy clubs until 1985 when he moved to Chicago where he continued as a comedy magician in close-up and stage for the public and corporate audiences and he also performs a hypnosis act. Over the years he developed a large repertoire of jokes and gags that serves him well today as the house magician at the Chicago Magic Lounge.

Jeff Bibik pulls no punches this week in sharing the secrets behind getting work in restaurants performing magic, plus he tells lots of stories about working in bars and restaurants with a liberal sprinkling of funny gags, jokes and puns. This was recorded using StreamYard with Jeff joining us from the bar in his basement in his Chicago home. A video of our chat was also recorded and posted to YouTube. To view that video, please click on the video link below in this blog.

694: I.B.M. 2022 Convention - Day Three Report

623: James Holmes - The Cane and Silk Road

608- Jeff Bibik - Bar Magician Extraordinaire

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