755: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Day Three Report

Friday, April 28th

8:00 Bob Little Open Golf Tournament (see Bruce Trigg to register)

10:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures, shows, and dinner)

10:30 Pat Page Memorial Workshop: Who was Eddie Fechter? (MC: Mike Powers) featuring performers Paul Gertner and Vic Trabucco with Panel Members: Harrison Carroll, Tom Craven, Dick Cook, and Paul Gertner

1:30 4th Show: Magical Moments (MC: Andost) featuring: Rubi Ferez, Satoru Furukawa, Kevin Bethea, Jafo, Daniel Mormina, Matthew Le Mottee, Darong Huang, Martin Braessas, and Francesco Fontanelli

3:30 Lecture #4: Paul Gertner

8:00 5th Show: Friday’s Frolics (MC: Shawn Farquhar) featuriing Marc DeSouza, Michael Ammar, Boris Wild, Andi Gladwin, Rick Wilcox, Will Monroe, Bernardo Sedlacek, and Chris Capehart

10:00 Hospitality Suite opens

12:00 Dealers’ Room closes

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - Marc DeSouza gives “color” as he recaps the Thursday night show with lots of details on who did what.

00:25:53 - Alexandra Duvivier is here as her second 4F convention and tells us why she loves this convention and how it is different from other events.

00:31:58 - Stephen Bargatze will be part of the closing night’s show who, along with Rick Merrill, will wrap up the convention with their topical comedy spoofing events of the weekend.

00:37:10 - Paul Gertner gives a brief recap of his lecture he presented today.

00:44:07 - Howard Hamburg talks about this convention and why he loves it although he attends conventions all over the world.

00:48:14 - This is David Parr’s first 4F convention and fooled Penn & Teller on “Fool Us” and he tells us how he is enjoying this event as a “first timer” plus his experience of being on P&T Fool Us.

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754: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Days One and Two Report

Wednesday April 26th

2:00-5:00 Registration & 4F Shop open

6:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures/shows)

7:30 1st Show: 4F Opening Gala (MC: Michael Dardant) featuring: Alan Rorrison, Jeff Eline, Clark Payne, Thomas Solomon, Billy Hsueh, Quentin Reynolds, William Watt, and Alfonso Rituerto

9:00 Lecture #1: Clemens Ilgner

10:00 Hospitality Suite opens

12:00 Dealers’ Room closes

Thursday April 27th

10:00-5:00 Registration open (closed during lectures and shows)

10:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures and shows)

10:00-10:30 4F Shop open (closed during lectures and shows)

10:30 Lecture #2: Chris Capehart Lecture

1:30 2nd Show: Mini World (MC: Keith Fields) featuring: Rune Carlsen, Ricardo Rosenkranz, John Michael Hinton, Rian Lehman, Jason Michaels, Alexander Great, Eddie McCall, Jeff Christensen, and Lodewijk de Widt

3:30 ED Talks #1 (MCs: Christian/Katalina) with David Coraro (Fooling Penn & Teller), Jason Michaels (Projecting Close Up Magic on Stage), Mark Zacharia (Using Hypnotism in Close-Up Magic) and Paul Richards (Selling Magic)

3:30 3rd Show: Friends Old & New (MC: Lucy Darling) featuring: Joseph Vidal, Sam Slebhin, Rod Chow, ICE McDonald, George Iglesias, Brian Curry, David Parr and Geoff Williams.

7:30 Lecture #3: Mark Mason

10:00 Hospitality Suite opens

12:00 Dealers’ Room closes

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - leaving Houston and getting excited for this coming trip to Buffalo as we enjoy coffee and doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts

00:04:47 - Jason Michael and Scott are awaiting our shuttle outside of the Buffalo airport as Jason tells us a bit about his upcoming talk at the 4F convention.

00:12:24 - Michael Dardant will be the emcee for the opening afternoon show and what he’s doing on Facebook with the I.B.M.

00:18:46 - Paul LeMere is the GM at the M Hotel and he tells us about the hot wings they serve at this hotel.

00:23:04 - Billy Dubu from France talks about his performance at the Magic Castle and now in Buffalo at the 4F

00:27:16 - Doug Gorman, from San Antonio, Texas, is excited to be here

00:31:04 - Marc DeSouza recaps the Wednesday evening gala show

00:49:50 - Eric DeCamps will be delivering his one-man show this week which is the first time someone has been featured as a solo act at the 4F

00:55:58 - we chat with the Guest of Honor, Mark Mason, who was the subject of Episode #557 and he chats about his magic background that brought him to being the Guest of Honor this year.

01:01:52 - Eva May Nicot talks about getting married to Roger Nicot at this convention some years ago. She also marries people at Stone Henge in England.

01:05:13 - Tom Craven talks about this being his 50th 4F convention. Tom is the only person who has attended every 4F from the beginning. He reminisces about some of his experiences.

741: Steve Aldrich - A Long Strange Trip

This episode is dedicated to those who remember the past and for those who want to learn more about our rich history. This week we travel back in time in our Grateful Dead VW bus and visit with magician and co-founder of the Foan Family Circus, Steve Aldrich. It was a simpler time when magicians were experimenting with new presentations and popular music of the time. It was at the height of Doug Henning’s popularity who was considered by some as a “Hippie Magician”.

Steve Aldrich also performed magic at the famed Tower Bar in Snowmass at a time when Doc Eason was still a waiter Steve and his band of merry men (and a woman) surprised and entertained magicians with their “tongue in cheek” original presentations of their “Foan Family Circus” at many magic conventions during the late 1970’s to early 1980’s. So what happened to the group? That and more will be the topic of discussion in this week’s episode.

If you are more of a visual person, then you will enjoy this video of our conversation recorded via Zoom.

Steve talks this week about the formation of the Foan Family Circus, their original presentations and music, their performances at magic conventions (one of which won them the Senator Crandall Comedy Award at Abbott’s Get Together), plus the origins of magic at the Tower Bar starting with Bob Sheets then passed down to Steve Aldrich and Steve Spill.

755: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Day Three Report

Friday, April 28th

754: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Days One and Two Report

Wednesday April 26th

Thursday April 27th

741: Steve Aldrich - A Long Strange Trip

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