 |
| The Indefatigable Bruce Kalver |
The Westerly (Rhode Island) Sun notes magician Bruce Kalver?s prominent role the Tenth Annual First Night Westerly Celebration.
The festival provides a family-oriented celebration of the New Year with activities and shows throughout downtown Westerly. This year, families could check-out the tapestry quilt display, bands, a teen dance and meet The Cat in the Hat as well as Spiderman.
However, ten-year old Brittany Tassias was waiting for one act in particular, Bruce Kalver. ?It’s good, I like it,” the paper reports the young fan as gushing. “It’s interesting.”
Her mother, Connie, joined the young Miss Tassias? opinion; they enjoy the festival and magic show ?because of Mr. Kalver’s talents.?
Mr. Kalver has been performing to appreciative audiences for almost four decades. Last night he elected to reprise effects from the more than a hundred years ago. “I’m going to do some magic from the 1800s to show that even old magic tricks can fool people even today.”
Mr. Kalver?s grandfather fostered his love of our art. He told reporters that his grandfather was an assistant to Houdini and would often build props for the famous magician. He encourages other young people by performing professionally and has participated in the First Nights for the last eight of its ten years.
Mr. Kalver serves magicians outside the Rhode Island arena through…
|
| The Indefatigable Bruce Kalver |
The Westerly (Rhode Island) Sun notes magician Bruce Kalver?s prominent role the Tenth Annual First Night Westerly Celebration.
The festival provides a family-oriented celebration of the New Year with activities and shows throughout downtown Westerly. This year, families could check-out the tapestry quilt display, bands, a teen dance and meet The Cat in the Hat as well as Spiderman.
However, ten-year old Brittany Tassias was waiting for one act in particular, Bruce Kalver. ?It’s good, I like it,” the paper reports the young fan as gushing. “It’s interesting.”
Her mother, Connie, joined the young Miss Tassias? opinion; they enjoy the festival and magic show ?because of Mr. Kalver’s talents.?
Mr. Kalver has been performing to appreciative audiences for almost four decades. Last night he elected to reprise effects from the more than a hundred years ago. “I’m going to do some magic from the 1800s to show that even old magic tricks can fool people even today.”
Mr. Kalver?s grandfather fostered his love of our art. He told reporters that his grandfather was an assistant to Houdini and would often build props for the famous magician. He encourages other young people by performing professionally and has participated in the First Nights for the last eight of its ten years.
Mr. Kalver serves magicians outside the Rhode Island arena through his work as Editor of the Magic SYMbol, a young magicians magazine for members of the Society of Young Magicians. Mr. Kalver?s work on Magic SYMbol is outstanding and precisely right for the young magician.
And because Mr. Kalver apparently has energy beyond that of a normal mortal, he also works as the moderator of the very well-run SAMtalk listserve. If you are an SAM member, you need to join this list. It is one of the best benefits of membership.
It is so nice to see the good guys get great press. Congratulations, Mr. Kalver!
Read the full article in the Westerly Sun by clicking here.
Download a copy (PDF) of the November 2004 Magic SYMbol by clicking here.
Check out Mr. Kalver?s very impressive website by clicking here.
Related Posts
Mentalist Suhani Shah Featured
Suhani Shah began magic at the age of seven and has vaulted into superstardom. We stumbled across a great…
Inside Magic Review: Bob White’s Torn and Restored Tissue
Bob White’s Torn and Restored Tissue DVD deserves a place in your magic collection. Chances are every magician reading this…
Houdini Searches on Google
We love the world’s best known magician, Houdini. We also take great pride in our programming abilities and yet we…
Letters to the Editor
From time to time and when required by the standards of decency and regulations, we publish letters to the editor. …
Magic Loses a Giant: Dan Garrett Passes
Dan Garrett was so many things to so many people in our wonderful art of magic. His passing is a…
Will Chat GPT Destroy Magic?
[The following was written in part by an AI algorithm. We have removed the cuss words.] As many of our…
No Show and It was Great!
We have a new act and look for any opportunity to try it out. We need to get in some…
Magic Imitation is No Good
Usually this spot is for Magic News. That’s what we do here at InsideMagic.com. We bring the fives of readers…
Kranzo’s Mene Tekel DVD – Best Buy on Web Today
This is a review of Nate Kranzo’s newest offering to the magic community, Mene Tekel Miracles DVD. His work is…
Matt Vizio – Very Honest Deceptions
We have seen great magicians at The Magic Castle but there are few better than Matt Vizio. In our humble…
Contact
Submit to Inside Magic
Let us know what you’ve got going on. Drop us a line, send us a press release or submit an…
Zoom Magic Sought by Inside Magic
We have seen some wonderful Zoom magic shows recently. We realized we only knew about them because friends (we’re not…
Inside Magic Review: David Copperfield’s History of Magic
We have been a fan of David Copperfield since his early days. We anticipated his television specials with the same…
