Dai Vernon via The Double Deal

Tip of the hat to The Double Deal for posting these Dai Vernon videos:

Cards Up the Sleeve - 1974:




Slow Motion Card Vanish:

CAMaraderie 2012

Have you registered yet for CAMaraderie 2012?  From CAMmagic.org, the line-up so far:

May 3-5, 2012
Hamilton, Ontario

Lectures:
Michael Finney
Duane Laflin
Stephen Bargatze
Rick Merrill
Paul Gertner
Tom Vorjohan and Daniel Herron

Close up:
Paul Gertner
Stephen Bargatze
Rick Merrill
Daniel Garcia
Richard Turner: 1-man show

Gala Show:
MC: Michael Finney
Hyunjoon Kim
Stephen Bargatze
Neil Croswell
David & Dania

Competition:
MC: Doug Hunt

Watch the promo video Chris Weeks created for CAMaraderie 2012:
 


[h/t: Canadian Association of Magicians]

Kreskin at the West End Cultural Centre

From Uptown:

Canada loves Kreskin but that doesn’t mean Winnipeggers won’t try to stump the master mentalist and magician when he performs at the West End Cultural Centre on Dec. 13. The "cheque test" — Kreskin’s most well-known feat and the finale of every show — involves the audience hiding his payment for the performance while he’s escorted offstage. If Kreskin doesn’t find his fee, he doesn’t get paid.

Read more.

Toronto: James Alan in "Lies, Damn Lies & Magic Tricks"

From Abracadabaret.com:

• Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
• Venue: Wychwood Theatre (601 Christie St. / M6G 4C7)
• Time: 8:00pm
• Price: $25.00 w/ group discounts

Join magician James Alan at the Wychwood Theatre for the premier of his one man show. Can a magician make you a better judge of character? Make you impervious to pain? Make money for nothing? Improve your luck? Make you smarter? Or is it all just Lies, Damn Lies & Magic Tricks?

Some of it's true. Some of it's not. Which is which is… your problem, not ours!

Read more and buy tickets.

2011 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards

Canadian born Murray SawChuck is nominated in the 2011 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards for Best Magician/Illusionist.

Visit LasVegas.BroadwayWorld.com to vote or to see who else is in the running.


[h/t: Gwyn Auger]

Ryan Pilling: Shave or Grow

Watch Ryan Pilling sing "Shave or Grow - Movember Moustache Song" (complete with Mustache Solo!) on YouTube:


[h/t: Gwyn Auger]

Hamilton: Nick Wallace

From the Lyric website:

You are invited to an evening of holiday magic featuring the Canadian Champion of Magic – Nick Wallace. Nick is best described as a minimalist, who has forgone fancy props and special effects and prefers to conjure with an audiences imagination by presenting bamboozling feats of magic and mind reading in a way that is both entertaining and thought provoking. Add some great music and you have a variety holiday show not to be missed!   
 
Visit the website more information or to but tickets.

The show runs from December 20th through December 29th inclusive.
[h/t: Deborah Fallick]