The D.C. Festival of Magic returns this weekend to the Capital Hilton.
The three-day festival includes performances from professional magicians from around the country, including top slight-of-hand artist and magician , who got his start as a street performer in New York City and has since fooled Penn and Teller twice on their show “Fool Us!”
鈥淗e is absolutely funny. Just spit-take funny. He’s really great,鈥� said festival host Brian Curry, a D.C.-based mentalist.
Capehart will be performing a family-friendly show Sunday at 3 p.m.
Curry said the idea for the magic festival originated four years ago as just a 鈥渟illy idea.鈥� This year, over 1,000 people are expected to attend.
In an age when you can search anything on your phone, Curry said people are drawn to magic because it offers some mystery.
鈥淣ot that long ago, you couldn’t Google anything and find out the answer. But now you just ask Siri or you ask your phone, and it will tell you anything in the world. So not knowing how something is done, there’s a sense of wonder or mystery that you don’t really get very often anymore. And I think that’s why it’s kind of having a big resurgence now, in my opinion,” Curry said.
Curry himself performs regularly at the Capital Hilton, which is a partner of the event. But he鈥檚 careful to tell the audience, that it鈥檚 (whisper) fake.
鈥淚 was raised Catholic. I’ve got that Catholic guilt through and through, and I know that it’s not right to pretend to be a mind reader,鈥� he said.
The runs Friday through Sunday night.
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