| CardWorker.com STUDY. PRACTICE. SCRIPT. REHEARSE. PERFORM. got Mick? Chances are, you don't know me. My name is Mick Ayres. I am an eclectic performer who plays traditional music, shares tall tales and performs skilled magic for audiences from around the world. As a Disney entertainer working under a character name, I perform several shows a day, six days a week...so attending magic conventions to rub shoulders with other magicians is rare. However, I believe that bouncing ideas off other, like-minded performers is critical to the development of new material. Obviously, I'm hoping this website will be a venue for that very purpose. Like many of you, I developed a passion for sleight-of-hand early on. But unlike many of you, I was raised close to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So, as a teenager in the mid-70's, I was already pitching magic effects to crowds at a now-defunct theme park and later for Ripley's Believe It or Not magic shop. After high-school, a four-year military tour in the U. S. Coast Guard took me to south Florida where I moonlighted for Paul Diamond at his famous shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For the next decade, I performed for metalworking industry corporations at trade shows across the United States, Canada and Mexico. In September of 1989, I moved back to the South Carolina lowcountry and sought performance opportunities closer to home. For the next ten years, I managed several tourism-based magic shops during the day and spent my evenings working tables at upscale restaurants and nightclubs. In those years, I developed a gospel- themed sleight-of-hand show titled In The Wink Of An Eye that was focused on youth audiences and was presented in churches nationwide. In the year 2000, after completing a successful month-long audition run at Disney’s Animal Kingdom resort in Orlando, I was permanently contracted as the resident entertainer for the exclusive Disney Vacation Resort on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Currently, my 'Evening of Magic' performance remains the only full-hour, one-man magic show Disney offers on any of its worldwide properties...as it moves into it's fifth straight year. I lecture frequently throughout the southeast United States. Also, I have marketed many effects and written several books and manuscripts about the art of magic. In 2001, I was chosen as South Carolina Magician of the Year. In 2002, I was awarded a Presidential Citation after founding two Rings of Fellowship for the International Brotherhood of Magicians. In 2003, my effect 'RhymeTime' won a Linking Ring Award for Mentalism. Internationally, my effects have been published in MAGIC, The Linking Ring (One-Man Parade), Channel One and in Steve Beam's Semi-Automatic Card Tricks Vols. 4 & 5. So there you have it. That's who I am. I offer these credentials not as an opportunity to boast but rather, to let you know that, in my life, I need card material that works. I'm not interested in the newest, slick card flourish. Sure, those things have their place, but I want routines and sleights I can use as tools in the real world. Show me a guy who has a small arsenal of solid utility sleights and I'll show you a man ready to make a living with a deck of cards. Mick Ayres W O R L D C L A S S E N T E R T A I N M E N T 50 Pebble Beach Cove, C-215, Bluffton, SC 29910 843-Mud-Tale mick@cardworker.com |
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