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525: John Ferrentino - Comedy or Seance Tonight

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We caught up with John Ferrentino earlier this summer at the I.B.M. convention in Scottsdale, Arizona, where we had a chance to sit down and have a great discussion. John is best known as a comedian and a comedy magician having performed thousands of shows across the country and making multiple television appearances. Recently, John has been taking his professional performances in a completely new and different direction away from comedy. Some would say the complete opposite from the standpoint that he now conducts seances and creates spooky and serious performances that will creep out his audiences rather than leaving them in hysterical stitches.

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John talks about working in comedy clubs in the 20th century, going to Woodstock, touring with and opening for a music group (Crosby, Stills and Nash) for ten years, and now doing spooky stuff with his seances.

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502: Day Two - 2019 I.B.M. Convention

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2019 Convention Schedule - Scottsdale, Arizona

Thursday July 11th 2019

8 a.m. - 9 a.m. - I.B.M. TVP Informal Meeting

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Stage Contest Rehearsal

9 a.m. - NOON Registration Open

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. I.B.M. Magic Shops Open

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Lecture John Ferrentino

10 a.m. Spouse Event - Meet at Registration Ballroom Lobby

11 a.m.- 12 p.m. Lance Burton Teen Scene #1

11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m. Stage Contest Rehearsal

11:15 a.m. Annual Business Meeting.

1 p.m.-3 p.m. Stage Contest Part 2

1 p.m.- 5 p.m. Registration Open

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Doug Henning Exhibit with Chip Romero

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Evening Of Magic With M.C. Michael Finney, Bizzaro, and Mike Hammer

10:30 p.m. till ? Magical Evening with Joshua Jay

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00:00:17 - Ken Scott, International Vice President of the I.B.M. and co-convention chairman

00:09:20 - Tyas Frantz, Manager for Banachek

00:18:33 - John Ferrentino

00:25:22 - Ron Hudspeth, past chairman of Territorial Vice President Committee, and Tom Vojohan, co-chairman of the convention

00:31:40 - Greg Wilson talking about preserving the Allakazam archives

00:33:47 - Harry Allen, Daytona Magic Shop talks about some of the popular, new tricks offered in the Dealers’ Room

00:37:39 - David DaVinci, one of the performers/lecturers at this convention

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Posted in Convention Report and tagged with I.B.M. Convention, Scottsdale Arizona, Ken Scott, Tyas Frantz, David DaVinci, Greg Wilson, Harry Allen, Ron Hudspeth, Tom Vorjohan, John Ferrentino.

July 12, 2019 by Scott Wells.
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