In addition to
Eric Leclerc
and the
Montreal Trio
(Marc Trudel, Yannick Lacroix, and Michel Hout), Magic Ben also spent some
time on France's Got Talent last season!
I tried to kick off this digital holiday special for The Official SuperDogs with some decorum but no such luck... Writing it was a blast and a phenomenal team of trainers came together to make it one of the cutest, sweetest holiday celebrations you'll ever see. If you like dogs this is a no-brainer—grab some eggnog and watch the full 17-minute special here:
You got to love advent calendars. They’re usually filled with chocolate, but I found one that is filled with… Magic! I’m going to open one every day in December. Then when it is finished, I’m going to give it to somebody as a gift in between Christmas and New Year’s day.
We couldn't find the YouTube video mentioned by Michel below, so at the bottom of this post we embedded their fantastic performance from a video on Facebook.
In September and October, I visited France twice. One of these times was
because we had been invited Marc Trudel , Yannick and I: The Montreal Trio)
to come perform an original number at France's got incredible talent.
It was a bit crazy because on August 29th in the evening, I was performing
in Prévost and had to go directly to the airport. Immediately heading to the
recording studios upon arrival. So 2 shows in 18 hours on two different
continents. Hehe. Watch 28 Nov on M6. For America, the whole thing will be
on YouTube the next day.
Several years ago I watched the show Whose Line is it Anyway and saw this principle there. I have always wanted to do something similar After the very good Chick N Swell had done some circus themed floor (excellent). We decided to get involved in magic. 🙂
I don’t ever do TV magic, I much prefer to perform live, but I was asked to do
a lil segment on CP24’s breakfast television for Halloween! 🎃 Here’s a clip
of the performance 🤗 Shout out to Richard Sanders for this awesome piece of
magic. I was a lil nervous because I don’t do this sort of thing ever, but I
think I did alright considering this is my first live TV performance 😅
Anyways enjoy everyone and come watch me perform live weekly in downtown
Toronto at
@coctoronto
I traveled to Paris to appear on the show LA FRANCE A UN INCROYABLE TALENT! What do you think of my number?!
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Eric Leclerc has been practicing his magic since the age of nine. He is often seen on television on shows like Brain Games on Netflix BIG TRICK ENERGY on TruTV and TRICKED on Disney+. Eric is a Guinness World Record holder and also the only magician to have won the title of Canadian Magic Champion twice.
I’ve been a musician for … wow … 45 years. I started out singing the hard rock that I loved from when I was a kid in the mid-70s. At some point, I started being drawn to great singers inside and outside of rock, and those singers still motivate me. Gino Vannelli, Daryl Hall, Mavis Staples, Paul Rogers, Sammy Hagar. There’s something transcendent about the sound of their voices and their emotional impact.
Fast-forwarding, I’d stopped singing for 15 years when suddenly I decided to start playing acoustic shows around Toronto. I just wanted to sing. I didn’t want to start another band or write songs. I just wanted to sing. After playing Soul covers in Toronto cafés and small clubs, mostly in Kensington & Parkdale, I decided to film a show to use as promotional material and booked a theatre. A day or two later, I called my old writing partner Dave Dunlop, and asked if we could try writing again. “Oh, by the way, Dave, I have a show in eight weeks and I need enough songs to fill the show”.
Over the next couple of years, we wrote a bunch of songs and I put together “Dan McLean Jr & Some Honey” with three really great backup singers. During lockdowns, we wrote a bunch more songs together online, and we drew on those two groups of songs for the album.
Holy smokes, making this was so exhausting! I’m so happy I finally did it. I’m
gonna go take a nap while you read this description 😆
My condition
is called ME/CFS. It is a complex, chronic, fluctuating, neurological
condition which affects the autonomic nervous system and cellular ATP energy
output…. What?!
I’ll break it down: COMPLEX = a condition
affecting multiple systems in the body. CHRONIC = it’s gonna last a long
time. FLUCTUATING = sometimes it is better, sometimes it is worse,
sometimes it’s a symptom severity mix and match. What I can do one day,
I may not be able to do another. NEUROLOGICAL = affecting the brain and
nerves. AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM = the part of your nervous system
(brain & nerves) that controls subconscious body functions, IE: all the
stuff you don’t have to think about like heart rate, breathing, digestion,
sending blood to in-use muscles, dilating pupils, etc. CELLULAR ATP
ENERGY OUTPUT = remember the mitochondria? Powerhouse of the cell. In
short, inside our cells mitochondria turn oxygen & nutrients into a
chemical called ATP, which your body uses as energy. In ME/CFS patients
this process is messed up. Our mitochondria are in rough shape and produce
HALF the energy of a healthy person. Our bodies literally cannot make
enough energy to function.
Hence, a complex, chronic, fluctuating,
neurological condition which affects the autonomic nervous system and cellular
ATP energy output. 😊
Thanks for watching and reading. Please
give this reel a “like” if you’ve come this far because I dunno where I’m
going with this all, but I imagine likes will help. 😄
Wheelchair jokes! Here’s 90 seconds of a ten minute set I’m working on
about things I’ve noticed &/or learned since becoming an ambulatory
wheelchair user.