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Michael Jordan - Magic Circle Young Magician of the Year 2009 |
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Written by Andrew Webb
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:33 |
 The Magic Circle reports
that Michael Jordan from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, has at the age
of seventeen years old won The Magic Circle’s Young Magician of the
year competition, currently studying for a qualification in Media, Art
and Game Design he is hoping to become a full-time entertainer. A
member of The Young Magicians’ Club, the Northern Magic Circle and of
the Leeds based Circus Zanni; Michael regularly performs both close-up
and stand-up magic as well as being one half of illusion act High Jinx.
Michael is a regular performer in the British Ring ‘Stars of the
Future’ shows, a former winner of the Young Magicians’ Club annual
stage competition and also featured on ‘Tricky T.V.’.
Runner up Megan Knowles-Bacon, is from Eltham, South London, and has
been a member of the Young Magicians’ Club for six years and is a
previous winner of their annual stage competition. Megan is also a
member of The Bexleyheath Society of Magicians and has performed at
many events for both clubs as well as being featured on ‘Tricky T.V.’.
Although Megan particularly loves stage magic, she also performs
close-up and enjoys
taking old tricks and adapting them to her own style. Magic is a huge
influence in Megan’s life and last year, she won a scholarship from
SAM’s to go to the Sorcerers Safari Magic camp in Canada.
Third place Carl Scutt is seventeen years old and from Horsham, West
Sussex and says he has never entered anything that has made him as
nervous or as excited as this competition! Currently studying English,
psychology and sociology at college, he has been practising magic for
several years and says that people are just starting to realise that it
may not just be a “phase”! Carl joined the Young Magicians’ Club in
2008 and won their Close-Up competition later in the same year. Next he
is hoping his magic will help him fund a degree course in English at
the University of East Anglia, and hopefully become a career beyond
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