Local Illusionist, 10 year old Devon Owens, along with his assistant, 11 year old Glenna Beaty attended the Winter Carnival of Magic in Pigeon Forge Tennessee this past weekend to compete in the stage magic contest. They performed their Tribute to ?The Most Famous Magician Ever, Harry Houdini? against 2 other youth contestants. Devon brought home not only the first place trophy but also a lot of encouragement from magicians from around the country.
Devon is the son of Greg and Tammy Owens of Smithville and Glenna is the Daughter of Kim Griffin also of Smithville and Philip Beaty of McMinnville. Both are in the 5th Grade at Northside Elementary School.
To see videos of their performance you can visit Devon?s MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/magicianboy or the Tennessee Magical Society’s Web Page at http://www.tnmagic.org.
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