Canada's Magic

27 November 2014

Phil Matlin's ragtime tour 2014

Phil Matlin, owner of Perfect Magic, will be playing ragtime and touring through Ontario (Elmira, Kitchener, New Hamburg, and Waterloo) at the end of December.

Dec. 26 - Lanark Place 44 Lanark Place, Kitchener
Dec. 29 - Chateau Gardens 11 Herbert St., Elmira
Dec. 30 - Nithview Home 200 Boullee, New Hamburg
Dec. 31 - Parkwood Mennonite Homes, 726 New Hampshire, Waterloo
Dec. 31 - Bankside Terrace 71 Bankside Drive, Kitchener

Watch Phil play Carolina in the Morning below:

26 November 2014

Toronto: Bill Abbott at "Magic Tonight"

From Reality Based Magic:

This week on the show we have Canadian Magician of the Year Bill Abbott. He’s been on the show many times (as evidenced below). Normally you have to go all the way up to Vaughan to see his show Every Trick in the Book at Dave & Busters. But he’s here downtown Sunday, November 30!

Read more and buy tickets.

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Mark Correia: World record holder

From Mark Correia's Twitter feed:

As a fun little thing to celebrate the record set, I'd love if people could tweet something they liked about the stunt, or a question!
— Mark Correia (@Mark_Correia) November 26, 2014

From the Record Setter Twitter feed:

Canadian magician @Mark_Correia wears a straitjacket for a #worldrecord 14 DAYS, raises $ for @MichaelJFoxOrg: http://t.co/G1hNx14ABs
— RecordSetter (@RecordSetter) November 25, 2014

By my count, that puts the total of Canadian World Record holding magicians to five!

Doug The Great: Heaviest Stilts Mastered. [Guinness World Record]
Scott Hammell: Highest Suspension Straitjacket Escape. [Guinness World Record]
Lucas Wilson: Fastest Suspension Straitjacket Escape. [Guinness World Record]
Michael Francis: Most one-handed coin rolls in a minute. [Guinness World Record]

Toronto: David Regal workshop

From the Sid Lorraine Hat and Rabbit Club Facebook page:

The day before his lecture (Wednesday, December 3) David Regal is doing a performance workshop at the Browser's Den Of Magic. It's limited to a very small group - you get the chance to perform a piece you're working on and get feedback and help. An extremely rare opportunity for that kind of one-on-one attention. Information and tickets are on the club page www.ibmring17.com

25 November 2014

Happy fourth blogiversary to me!

Four years ago today, this blog was born!

Thanks to you wonderful people who have supported this project! More than 1,770 posts have been published, and well over 67,000 page loads have been served. Ninety-two of you have given us your thumbs-up on Facebook, more than 680 of you are following along on Twitter (8800 tweets and counting!), and approximately 80 of you have subscribed to this site's feed. The bulk of you are Canadian, and I'm delighted to see visitors from United States, Ireland,United Kingdom, France, Japan, Germany, and the list goes on.

There are so many of you doing such a fabulous job of making magic a priority in this great country!

A special thanks to:

All of my early supporters. Special shout outs to Ariel, Doug, James, and John for your continued encouragement.
All of you readers, Likers, RTers, submitters, guest posters, contest prize providers and all other manners of promoters of this site.
All of my sponsors, past and present. That means you: Magic Information Canada, Ryan Pilling, Clive Court, Perfect Magic, and The Browser's Den of Magic!
My family for their support of this bloggy experiment.