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911: Connie Boyd - Magical Woman

While recently attending the Magic Collectors Expo in Las Vegas, we sat down with Connie Boyd to talk about her career as a successful magician on the Las Vegas Strip. But since semi-retiring from stage performing life, Connie has been the biggest advocate of spotlighting magical women both from our rich heritage as well as current and up and comers. During COVID she developed a YouTube channel that features performance reels of over 100 women that she has researched from our annals of history plus many whom she personally knows today.

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Today Connie consults on magic acts with some magical women. She is a caring, giving, knowledgeable magician who is willing to pass on the skills and talents she has learned through the “school of had knocks” in life. She was trained for the ballet and performed with the circus until she fell during one of her aerialist performances in Houston, Texas. She tells us how she pivoted from dance to magic and made it a successful career.

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June 26, 2025 by Scott Wells.
  • June 26, 2025
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833: Magic Collector Expo 2024 - Day Three

Thursday, May 10, 2024

9:30am-11:00am Dealer Room Open

11:00am-12:30 Session #5

12:30am-2:30pm Dealer Room Open

2:30pm-4:00pm Session #6

6:30pm-10:00pm Dinner & Show

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Timestamps for this episode:

00:00:17 – We begin the third and final day of the Expo and just finished taking a ghost tour of the Queen Mary. Brad Henderson was the curator for the Richard Garriott magic collection and tells us what Richard has been doing since he moved from Austin to New York. He also gives us his viewpoint of the Expo.

00:14:35 – Organizer, Bill Smith, welcomes us to the Queen Mary and tells us why he selected this venue for the convention.

00:21:59 – Ed Alonzo, was a Long Beach Mystic and he tells us how that changed his life.

00:28:40 – as they are setting up for the final night banquet, we chat with Lance Burton, and John Cox. John had talked about Houdini on ship voyages and how Harry was the “King of Sea Sickness.”

00:36:30 – Dianna Zimmerman has been working with the Magic Castle Juniors for decades and she tells us how it got started in 1975 and how rewarding it has been for her.

00:48:51 – Mike Michaels is a performer/creator/builder/creator who tells us how his life was influenced by Lance Burton and how he developed his robotic act.

00:53:30 – Greg Wilson talks about this convention plus his years as part of the Wilson family magic legacy.

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May 10, 2024 by Scott Wells.
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787: TAOM 2023 Convention - Day Three Report

Sunday September 3, 2023

6:00 AM until 8:00 AM Invisible Lodge

7:00 AM until 8:00 AM Religious Meeting

8:00 AM until 8:30 AM General Meeting

8:30 AM until 6:30 PM TAOM 2024 Registration

9:00 AM until 6:30 PM Registration Desk Open

9:00 AM until 11:30 AM Stage Contest

10:00 AM until 5:00 PM Dealers Room Open

10:30 AM until 12:00 PM Magical Katrina Lecture

12:00 PM until 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM until 5:00 PM Professional Close-up

* Eric Tait

* Doug Conn

* Chad Long

* Katrina

* Brent Braun

5:00 PM until 7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM until 9:00 PM Awards & Stage Show Contest Awards Transfer of Power

* Michael Finney

* Rob Lake

9:15 PM until midnight Strolling Magic

9:30 PM until 11:00 PM Steve Valentine Lecture

11:30 PM until 1:00 AM President’s Party

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September 4, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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