Griego - The great roving magician
Specialising as a roving street performer close up magician, for unique, amazing, mental card magic entertainment at street fairs, festivals, carnivals, country shows, wedding receptions, market days, corporate functions.
Griego comes in his very eye-catching, stand-out-from-the-crowd outfit of black top-hat, black trousers, white shirt with black frill trim, HUGE black bow tie which stretches from shoulder to shoulder, & the unique, intriguing mysterious black eyepatch over his right eye.
As at 2009 he has been engaged at the extremely successful annual Crow’s Nest Street Fair for the last 10 years. Other events include St. Ives Show [7 years]; street fairs at Glenbrook [4 times], Five Dock [2 years], Blacktown [5 years], Avalon [6 years], Narrabeen [4 years],Guildford [2 years], Auburn [4 years], Cabramatta [5 times] & Dulwich Hill [3 years], Springwood, Moss Vale Fair; Australia Day celebrations at Newport Beach [5 years], Jazz Festivals at Hamilton, Wollongong, Canada Bay & Ryde; Anzac Day celebrations at Dee Why RSL Club; Country Shows at Stroud, Penrith, Cessnock & Bulli; Erina Fair Shopping Centre [twice], Maitland Steam Festival, Katoomba Winter Magic Festival, Lithgow Ironfest, Crookwell & Kurrajong.
As you can see from the spread of locations where he has entertained, distance is no problem.
He already has an average of an event for each weekend booked to the end of 2009, & even one booked for 2010 !
Magicians have always been a proven attraction when mentioned on advertising aimed at luring large crowds of people of all ages to community or fundraising events. Why ? In the mind of the reader, it’s the mystery, the intrigue, the eye-catching spectacle, the anticipation of the unexpected.
Children are fascinated by a magician merely due to the colour & the sheer magic. Adults are fascinated by a magician because they ponder “now how on earth did he do that ?”
Either way, the means justifies the end, which is great roving entertainment. Plus having roving entertainers adds a jovial, fun-filled atmosphere to the event, which naturally instills good humour into all the patrons, which in turn encourages them to be happy & spend more freely.
One of Griego The Great’s signature classic tricks is the amazing “Invisible Deck of Cards”, which is the best card trick he has ever seen in his life, & he is sure it will be the same for you ! Briefly, the effect is: Griego produces from his pocket an invisible deck. of playing cards, which he explains is just a normal deck of cards but which becomes invisible each alternate time it is exposed to light.
A spectator chooses one card from this invisible deck, she notes the face value, then inserts it, still face down, back into the deck which Griego has in the meantime turned face up. Griego returns the invisible deck into his pocket, & immediately brings it out again, but this time the deck is actually visible !
Upon fanning out the now visible deck of face-up cards, it is noted that there is just one card still face down. Upon removing this card, the spectator finds, of course, that it is the card which she initially chose ! This proves the existence of the previously invisible deck.
Griego then asks the spectator to mentally select a card from a fan of six cards in his hand. Griego steals the thought of that card from the spectator’s mind by waving his hand around the spectator’s head, leaving a blank white card in her mind. Upon opening out the fan of cards, the spectator’s chosen card has also gone completely blank ! As well as these superb tricks, Griego is an expert with any borrowed deck of cards, & in fact, has enough tricks at his fingertips [please excuse the pun] to keep a small audience gasping for over an hour at a time.
