I had the pleasure of spending some time with Bev Bergeron this week after I finished performing at the Entertainment Designers Network Showcase in Dade City, Florida. For those of you who are not familiar with Bev, he performed magic as Rebo the Clown along side Mark and Nani Wilson on weekly running television specials which started back in the early 1960's. After the show I joined Bev and his wife Eloise for a quick bite to eat nearby and got some interesting background on all of Bev's experiences performing on television with Mark and then later entertaining at theme parks all across central Florida. It was great to hear all his stories and I look forward to seeing them both again another time.

Well I just got back from the Phoenix area performing for the Kid's At Hope Golf Tournament and I couldn't resist stopping by Keirland in Scottsdale. Although they seem to have the spelling sleightly off on "Keir" but I guess it is close enough for me. A fellow magician friend of mine from Denver had mentioned to me that this place existed so I had to stop by and check it out for myself and do some shopping and have lunch while I was in town. Overall a fantastic trip though and I had a really great time seeing many old friends at the Kid's At Hope event at the Firerock Country Club in Fountain Hills, AZ.

Today I made a guest appearance on the morning show of Channel 12 News in Wichita, KS. I was performing a show later in the day to raise money for Trees for Life (treesforlife.org) which plants fruit trees worldwide to provide food and fuel in developing countries, so our show made a really good human interest story for them. Since I grew up in Wichita I got to see many old friends at the show that I had not seen in many years and we had a standing room only crowd of almost 200 people who made the show so worthwhile with both their enthusiasm and their generous donations to a great cause! A big thanks also goes out to all the Wichita magicians from the Wizard's Of Wichita that came out and supported the show.

This weekend Shelley and I performed for Grand Lake Plumming's annual holiday party. We opened with the costume change act and included two illusions in the show as well. It was a tight sqeeze getting the whole show into the Daven Haven Lodge but we pulled it off in the end. Afterwards we stopped into a nearby watering hole where we met a local named Otis (pictured below) who was having a drink as well (although be it from a bowl on the floor). And before long we were headed back to Denver the following morning. A busy month over all for holiday parties across the midwest for us, I am looking forward to having some time off after Christmas gets here and to going to Barbados in January!

This weekend I found myself in Grand Junction, CO at the LAF Comedy Club. I did three comedy magic shows over the course of the weekend and I had a great time working with Geraldo Pazzar. Mark Mathis (pictured with me below) MC'd the show we all had a really good time. A big thanks goes out to Geraldo and Mark for inviting me to the club and also to Tom Quan (Manager/Co-Owner of the Far East Restaurant where the club is located) for putting on a great show.

I just got back from the Wyoming Arts Alliance annual booking conference in Gillette. This is a great organization that connects performing artists with theaters looking for the best entertainment to suit their community. We had a trade-show booth for two days and performed at the showcase on Saturday as well. As the only magician at the conference, I really felt like I got to offer something rather unique as most of the entertainers were performing music and dance. Organizations and entertainers ranging from locations from Billings, Montana to Littleton, Colorado were present and I look forward to working with some of the great people that I met there again in the near future.

This week I helped the Colorado Springs Magic Club with their public show that benefited the American Red Cross. Royal Blue seemed to be the color for the day for most of us and we had a good time raising some money for a great cause!

Well this week I made a side trip from my journey to Toronto toward Niagra Falls, Canada so I had to stretch my trip just far enough to catch Greg Frewin's new illusion show. Fantastic performance and the dinner was great as well. Greg is of course very hospitable and takes a few minutes to chat with fans and fellow magicians after the show, posing for pictures and signing autographs as well. I highly recommend catching Greg's act if and find yourself anywhere near Niagra Falls.

Shelley and I traveled to Westcliffe, CO (West of Pueblo) this week where we performed two shows at the historic Jones Theater. Originally this building was an old west 1880's saloon untill it was finally converted into a theater house in 1928. We had a fairly light audience for the afternoon matinee show however the evening performance was at nearly full capacity. This was the first time many people there had seen a magician performing live and they let me know that they appreciated us coming out. Great crowd that night and we really had a fantastic time bringing our show to Westcliffe!