Toronto: Pub night at O'Grady's

From the Pub Night @ O'Grady's Facebook page:

Saturday, 8 June 2013

Come out for a night of live music, comedy magic, drinks & door prizes, and help send a kid to Sorcerers Safari Magic & Performance Camp! To learn more about camp visit: www.sorcererssafari.ca. All proceeds go towards a camp scholarship for one lucky kid!

With performances by:

• Dan McLean Jr
• Rosemary Reid
• Bill Abbott
• Bobby Motta
• Mark Correia

and the man who started it all:

• Magic Mike Segal

Read more.

[via: Deborah Fallick]

See a photo of Emma, scholarship winner from Chris Westfall's Slice of Magic fundraiser, from Sorcerers Safari Twitter feed:

Our scholarship recipient from @westfall_magic's Slice of Magic event last night; everyone had a great time! twitter.com/SorcerersSafar…
— Sorcerers Safari (@SorcerersSafari) May 1, 2013

While you're here,  have a look at the video Justin Flom made specifically for Sorcerers Safari Magic Camp:

Welcome to Robert Carson James Hatfield

Congratulations to Teresa and Murray Hatfield on the arrival of their son!  (And happy first official Mother's Day Teresa!)

It's a BOY!!!Robert Carson James Hatfield is finally here - 7 lbs 4 oz - and Mom and Dad couldn't be more pleased! fb.me/2N1XerFVG
— Murray Hatfield (@MurrayHatfield) May 12, 2013

Murray Sawchuk interviewed by Andre’ Haynes

From the Las Vegas Informer:

Murray, Celebrity Magician may be the youngest and most accomplished entertainer to currently headline an afternoon show on the South Las Vegas strip, and that’s no magic trick. Ingenuity, vision, determination and years of hard work have taken him from his birth place in Burnaby of British Columbia – Canada to perform in concert worldwide and now to audiences at sold-out shows in the entertainment capital of the world,  Las Vegas.

Read more.

Toronto: Saying goodbye to Ring 99

The May meeting will be the last meeting of Ring 99 EVER.

Rats.  And I was hoping to get myself invited into the membership of this Ring. 

From James Alan: (with tongue, I suspect, firmly planted in cheek)

Owing to the absence of qualified leadership, the club will no longer be able to organize itself to meet... heck, most of our members don't even know how to RSVP to a Facebook event.

 

Thank you to our May sponsors!

The next time you see them, let them know you saw their sponsorship here!

 

 

 

Random thoughts about CAM-JAM 2013 Spring edition

• Whenever I drive to Greg's theatre, it always rains on at least one leg of the trip.
• I've been a CAM member for a long, long time.
• One-handed cut-a-thons are a young man's game.
• Evelyn and Phil Matlin from Perfect Magic are warm and terrific people!
• I thought that I'd learned my last mind-blowing Linking Ring move from Tina Lenert earlier in the month.  Oscar Muñoz proved me wrong.  Twice.
• Vincent Hedan tells me you can buy strawberry flavoured toothpaste.
• Michael Dardant packs his hat very efficiently.
• Thanks to Shawn Farquhar for coming up with idea and to Greg Frewin who generously offered us a meeting space and discounted tickets to his amazing show!

The CAM website has a nice write-up about this year's Magician of the Year, Mike Segal!  Congratulations Mike!

Go to the Perfect Magic blog to read Evelyn Matlin's thoughts on the weekend.

It was wonderful to meet up with so many of you!  If CAM-JAM Summer is anything like the Spring edition, it's sure to be a fantastic time!

Winners to see "The Comedy & Magic of Jean Pierre"

The contest to win tickets to see "The Comedy & Magic of Jean Pierre" in Toronto on May 10th closed last night at midnight.  Here's the list of entrants:

1.  Farley Carter
2. Ariel Frailich
3. Stephen Kirkegaard
4. David Lew
5. Magic Mike Segal
6. miiyuu

Random draw results:

Congratulations to Farley and Stephen!  I'll be sending you an e-mail with the name of the contact person.  Enjoy the show tomorrow night!

Thank you all for playing!  A special thanks to Tristan from Strut Entertainment for generously making these tickets available!