"Joel and I will be working together on something for my show real soon", says a still modelesqe Maria Brink after her blazing, high-energy audio/visual assault on Raleigh, N.C. last night (Friday, July 17th). Her band, Metal sensations, In This Moment had International Award-Winning Rock-N-Roll Magician Joel Givens perform his jaw dropping and recently highly publicized brand of precision sleight-of-hand magic for their friends and guests at the VIP After-Show Meet & Greet. What neither camp knew was how that one event would have Joel on the tour bus personally performing some of his most dexterous signature effects to date for Maria and her entourage of stage dancers. "It was just crazy", Givens says. "I thought I'd possibly get to meet her and have a picture taken, but not this! We ended up kind of mapping out an illusion I'm going to create for her and then teach her how to do for her show. I'm gonna be a good magician and not give away the secret of what she's planning, but let's just say when she told me the idea, I got excited about wanting to see someone else do magic. She's really creative, man. People better buckle-up, she's gonna kill it with this!"
oel Givens, talked about amongst the stars of screen, sports and music; like Godsmack, Pat Benatar, Michael Jordan, Yes, Dan Akroyd, ZZTop, Kevin Costner, Train, Third Eye Blind, Like A Storm, Peyton Manning, Alice Cooper and others as the "Magic That Rocks", is a triple-threat. Not only is he an Award Winning Magician, but he's a brilliant comedian and music trivia encyclopedia! "I'm coming for you, Eddie Trunk!", Joel snickers as he tells a reporter for the local news covering the Pat Benatar show where he performed earlier this month for the Rock Legend backstage. "It's a dream of mine to perform for Eddie and a couple of his music guests on VH-1's That Metal Show. I'm a huge fan!"
Experience Joel Givens and Magic That Rocks backstage and at VIP After-Parties throughout the East Coast this summer and fall. With upcoming performances for Scorpions, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lita Ford, Pop Evil, KIX, ZZ-Top, Marylin Manson, Alice Cooper and others planned before the end of summer 2015, you'll have plenty of opportunity to catch him at a venue near you!
