On today's Talk Magic we will be interviewing Matt Baker.

Matt Baker has been performing magic since the age of 10.  He has won multiple awards for his magic, including the Atlanta Society of Magicians' “Top Dog” trophy and (twice, most recently in 2019) the Greater Atlanta Magician of the Year award.  Don’t expect rabbits and hats: Matt’s specialty is sleight-of-hand card magic, but he also performs astonishing feats of mind reading and has been known to make impossible things happen with coins, rubber bands, and finger rings.  

Matt performs strolling magic at cocktail parties and also does formal close-up and stage shows at banquets, fundraisers, schools, and private events.  He loves creating original magic routines, and his work has been featured in some of the leading magic journals in the world (including Genii and The Linking Ring).  His first book on magic, The Buena Vista Shuffle Club, was published in April 2019 and has met with wide acclaim.

Matt has performed three times at the invitation-only Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic, the world’s premiere close-up magic convention, and in 2018 he recorded a Penguin Live Acts show and lecture in Columbus, OH.  In July 2019, Matt will be lecturing at the International Brotherhood of Magicians Annual Convention in Scottsdale, AZ. Matt has performed magic across the U.S., as well as in Colombia, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan (he once made a bar waitress in Japan gasp and drop her bottle of sake).