By Kayla Bruch

World-renowned performer coming to P.A.

Jan 12, 2015 | 5:48 AM

Since the age of 10, Darcy Oake has been performing awe-inspiring and thought provoking magic and illusions.

“I’ve performed literally all over the world, it’s been insane,” said Oake. “I did a show for the president of Kazakhstan, I did a show in Russia, did a show in India, I had a show in Vegas, New York, London [just to name a few].”

Recently Oake has become hugely successful and it all started with what he said was an “accidental” magic trick.

“[My dad] was just playing around with a deck of cards that were sitting there. [He] asked me to pick one out, I reached in pulled it out [and] put it back in the pack. He shuffled them up, he reached in pulled one out and said ‘was that your card?’ and it was and it was just like a…one in 52 chance … but he played it off like it was a real trick and wouldn’t tell me how it was done,” Oake said.

Following that trick Oake said he was hooked on learning to fool people because of the “emotion it evoked.”

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“I experienced that feeling of not being able to explain what happened and it just really fascinated me and I started learning myself and never really stopped,” he said.

In 2014 Oake took his magic to the next level by auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent, where he placed fifth.

“I was just sort of artistically … unsatisfied,” he said. “I was doing a lot of cruise ships and it was good work but it, you know, you’re on a ship for months at a time.”

After Oake’s act on the final show in the summer of 2014, Simon Cowell said “we are witnessing the birth of a star.” Oake said he wasn’t expecting that comment, especially being that it was their first time meeting.

“It’s crazy to be recognized, you know, by him and like that.  It was overwhelming. It was … the most amazing compliment, I think ever,” he said. “For that to be his initial impression was quite flattering.”

On Thursday Oake will perform at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre, in an event hosted by the Northern Lights Casino.

 “The caliber of his magician-ship and that he’s been on Britain’s Got Talent, also bringing in something to Prince Albert that Prince Albert hasn’t seen for a while,” said Paul Lomheim, marketing co-ordinator with the casino. “We’re going to get the full-blown deal, like what you see on T.V.”

Oake said the performance will mainly include classic stage illusions and he will likely be making doves appear out of thin air.

“The stage illusion genre hasn’t necessarily been the most popular in the past, you know a couple years, it’s been more the street magic style, so I’m sort of taking it back to the Vaudevillian days and putting you know a current [and] relevant spin on it,” he said.

For tickets or for more information visit the Northern Lights Casino or E.A. Rawlinson Centre box offices.

If you are unable to attend the performance in Prince Albert, Oake will also be visiting three casinos in Saskatchewan.

On Wednesday he will be at the Golden Eagle Casino in North Battleford, on Friday he’ll perform at the Painted Hand Casino in Yorkton, and on Sunday he’ll hold a final show at the Living Sky Casino in Swift Current.

-With files from paNOW staff

kbruch@panow.com

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