The Salt City Magic Club March 2020 Rob Zabrecky February’s regular meeting will be: th Thursday, 19 March at 7:00 (Come eat first at 6:30) The meeting will be held at Denny’s restaurant 103 Elwood Davis Rd, Syracuse, NY 13212 (You can enter the parking lot through the Burger King en- trance on 7th North St.) Harris Solomon A monthly newsletter of the Harris A. Solomon Ring #74 International Brotherhood of Magicians (the Salt City Magic Club) President: Ken Frehm Vice President: David Jackman Secretary: David Hanselman Treasurer: Bruce Purdy Sgt. At Arms: Art Prest IBM Ring #74 meets at 7:30pm the Third Thursday of every month (Usually) Please submit material for publication in the Wandogram to: [email protected] or by Snail Mail: Bruce Purdy P.O.Box 213 Cayuga NY 13034-0213 Questions? Call (315) 256-9095 Submission deadline: 1st Thursday of the month I look forward to seeing you there! www.saltcitymagicclub.com 3 as well as helping us improve our Although my Spanish is at a grade organization. The officers will be school level, my magical repertoire is planning an initiation ceremony and much better. Since our art is an in- these men, as well as TJ and Drew ternational language, I plan of hav- will be inducted as full members of ing a ‘fiesta y una buena experiencia’ The International Brotherhood of Looking forward to seeing you Magicians. this month on the 19th . BTW, I am planning my SCU- ABRACADABRA BA adventure and will be in Mexico Ken Frehm, President. for the last two weeks in March. Hi to all Ring Members and and all of us who participated had prospective members. fun. We certainly gained worth- while experience working with such As we head into March, Spring a diverse audience. We learned a is not too far away. I’m looking for- lot and we are looking forward to a Conventions! ward to the warmer weather as I’m bigger and better time this year. All sure you are too. our club magicians as well as those from nearby cities are encouraged If you like getting together with a few fellow Magicians at our We are hard at work planning and welcome to be with us --JimmyC monthly meetings, you would LOVE sharing Magic with a much larger for our “Swap Meet” which is now has been booked ! Once again, we group of like minded folks. Imagine watching world class close-up and scheduled for the end of May. We will be doing a few stage shows and stage performers up close and in person. A room full of Magic dealers: are deciding upon a venue as well manning a table for demonstrating a pop-up version of the brick & Mortar Magic shops we used to visit. as the policies which will soon be in close-up. This is a wonderful occa- Even lecture thrown in to the mix.Od course, what I’m talking about is a place. As progress is made, Email sion for meeting and greeting the Magic convention! blasts will be coming your way. general public (of all ages). It is of There is a lot of magic to be put on course a great time for marketing our MAWNY (the Magicians’ Alliance of Western New York) is the block for new owners. If you club. So please put aside some time right around the corner, 26th April. Lucy Darling (Carisa Hendrix), have items that you would like to over that weekend to help support Darryl Rose, Ken McCreedy, Christian & Catalina Painter and Jeff sell, there will be directions coming your club and have some fun with McBride ALL will be appearing on stage, Jeff will also be presenting a out to you soon. Money from the your colleagues. lecture. The close-up show will feature slight of hand experts from the sale will go back to the seller (after UK, France, Brazil, Argentina as well as the U.S.All this is in Batavia - a our club deducts a small reason- Our sincere congratulations go short drive so don’t miss it! able fee.) to Joey Hoffman (a.k.a Joey Demon) who did his 10-minute performance The IBM International convention will be held in Pitts- TJ has invited us back to be for acceptance into Ring #74. We burgh, PA this year (8th - 11th July) so it’s pretty close. If you ar between part of this years’ ComicCon over will be treated to two more qualifying the ages of 13 and 19, there is a FREE teen seminar featuring Lance the 4th of July weekend. This was acts this month. Steve Tichy and Burton and others. If you are under 18, the entire convention is free a very successful event last year. We Alex Silver will be on stage to show with a paying adult. had some out of town visiting magi- us their short acts. All three of these cians, we acquired a new member gentlemen have expressed a sincere desire to be contributing members 4 5 A Magician you should know Introducing Next meeting: Rob Zabrecky Rob Zabrecky started of your own vision, with no Thursday, 19th March, 2020 as the front man for the punk regard for what other people band “Possum Dixon.” Be- think.” tween gigs, he ducked into a Magic shop to escape the heat In addition to being and enjoy their air condition- a musician, Song writer and ing. Once there, though, he Magician, Rob has also ap- became intrigued and made peared in numerous movies the first purchase that would and TV shows as an actor. He end up changing the direction says his training and experi- of his life! ence in acting has helped him Save the Date! to improve his Magic. Others Best known for his agree, as Zabrecky has twice unique character that resem- been voted “Stage Magician of Thu.19th March Regular meeting bles an undertaker performing the year” and twice as “Parlour Magic. Rob has described his Magician of the year” by the Thu.16th April Regular meeting character as being similar to Magic Castle. Herman Munster (of the old Sun.26th April MAWNY Convention Batavia, NY TV series “The Munsters”) After Zabrecky performed in that we see him as weird, on Penn & Teller's Penn & Sat.30th May Magic Swap Meet but he considers himself to Teller: Fool Us in August 2016, be “Normal” and sees us all Penn Jillette said "We were try- 4th &5th JULY Comic Con as being “strange.” ing to think if there's ever been a mentalist doing a mentalist 8th - 11th JULY IBM Convention Pittsburgh, PA “Embrace your inner act that was sincerely funny weirdo” is his philosophy, as and sincerely good. You may he pursues Magic with the be the first ever. same “Punk” outlook he had in music. which he describes as “a D.I.Y. single minded pursuit 6 7 Harris Solomon Ring IBM Ring #74 P.O.Box 213 Cayuga NY 13034 - 0213 www.saltcitymagicclub.com.