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Welcome to the website of Darren Snelgar, Hampshire magician. Darren Snelgar is a member of the prestigious Magic Circle in London and one of the South’s leading professional close up and ‘sleight of hand’ magicians. He has been performing magic for adult audiences for more than 20 years.

His magic is strong, fresh and very entertaining. Darren can be on hand at your event to entertain your guests by performing astonishing magic right in front of their eyes. Darren’s magic gently gets your guests directly involved – even to the point where it’s happening in their very own hands! Perfect for any function, party, wedding reception or corporate event.

Darren’s unique style of magic combines cards, coins, sponge balls and everyday objects. He can truly captivate an audience – whether it’s for 10 people or 200 – all your guests will be truly amazed and your event will be remembered and talked about for a very long time!

Although Darren is based in Southampton, He is available to perform in Portsmouth, Winchester, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Dorset, London and Nationwide.

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About Me!

Born in Southampton in 1971 and grew up in Fareham. My initial interest in magic began when I was a small boy and I used to visit a local joke shop with my parents. Occasionally they would indulge my fixation with magic by purchasing some of the latest tricks. Most of my time was spent practicing to make it perfect and performing for my family and friends.

By the time I reached ten years old, I already knew what career path I was going to take. When I left school I worked in the building industry but always kept my interest in magic and never let go of my dream career.

As the years have come and gone, my magic became of a professional nature. In the year of 2006, I was invited to join the Portsmouth District Magic Circle as a result of my enthusiasm and contact with other members.

This has led me to do professional close-up magic regularly for special events. I have performed at a wide variety of venues for different occasions and I always try to leave the audience with an enjoyable memory of my performance.

Why not escape into the world of wonder – I did!

Weddings

Your Wedding Day is the most important day in your life. Booking Darren (Hampshire magician) is a great way of making your day even more special for you and your guests.

Darren is an experienced wedding magician. He is versatile and skilled with magic that works in your own hands, as well as a great deal of laughter and audience participation. He can keep your guests entertained, leaving you to focus on having a great day. Breaking the ice and bring your guests together is a key activity that Darren will do using his unique style of magic.

Here are just a few of the occasions you can book Darren Snelgar to perform.

♥ During the meal – When your guests are seated, Darren will amaze them from table to table.

♥ At the Reception – Darren can meet your guests as they arrive. He can walk around while they’re all having their drinks,allowing your guests to mix and mingle, breaking the ice.

Corporate

Darren Snelgar’s act can be tailored to fit your requirements and product, your company message or your team objectives.

Using magic to get the message across can be more powerful than any long presentation.

♠ Trade Show/Product Launch – Darren knows how to build a crowd and keep them at your stand; he can also entertain your clients as well as build interest in the product you are launching by adding the product into his act.

♠ Corporate Hospitality – Add something different for your client’s enjoyment. Darren understands how important your customers are to you. Make them know you value them by including some power entertainment at your next event.

♠ Team building events, Conferences etc – Get your message across as well as repay your staff for thier hard work over the year.

♠ Company Dinner – Having a party to celebrate your success? Why not enhance it with some close-up
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Parties

Hire Darren (Hampshire magician) to make your party Unforgettable! You want a great party but how do you ensure your guests have a great time?
Give them something to shout about, amazing talking points, thrills and spills!

Close-up magic is a bullet-proof way to ensure your party is Unforgettable

Ideal for:
♥Small intimate dinner parties
♥Large dinner parties
♥Private parties
♥Restaurant parties
♥Birthday parties of all age groups
♥Company Christmas parties

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Emily Sandoval
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Absolutely brilliant magician - and just such a lovely guy. I always recommend Darren to anyone looking for a magician, you won't find anyone better.
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Kim Ruff
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Darren performed table magic at our wedding vows renewal and was very popular with the guests. His act was very entertaining as he moved round the room doing his tricks. We were very impressed with his sleight of hand tricks and kept the audience entertained with his charismatic chat.
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Tina Bailey
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Darren performed at my dad's 94 birthday. He and our other guests enjoyed it very much .very clever magic. including some for our younger guests 12 and 10 years old. He was very entertaining with a great sense of humour . I highly recommend him .
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Vi kid fowler
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Darren was friendly and professional. Everyone enjoyed the magic show and were left amazed. A fantastic addition to our special birthday celebrations. Thank you Darren
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Lisa Osborne
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We booked Darren for our wedding as a surprise for our guests, when he turned up he immediately started interacting with our guests doing his close up magic, Darren is such a happy, friendly guy who has something for all ages, he entertained the children as well as having some adult only tricks, how he does it is so mind boggling and he even had the sceptics baffled 🤪 we highly recommend booking Darren for any occasion you won't be disappointed. Many thanks Darren 😊 Lisa & Oz
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Daisy Nightingale
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Darren was booked for a family party and as soon as he stepped foot on the premises he had us all captivated. The party had guests of ages ranged 2-90 and he was entertaining to all. He’s a great laugh too! Hope to see him at our family parties in the future.
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Darren was amazing, funny and everyone at our wedding couldn't stop talking about him and couldn't believe how he did his magic tricks, he managed to include everyone and may our day extra special
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Jayne N
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I hired Darren to entertain guests at my Mum's 70th birthday party. Communications up until the event were consistent and friendly. Not only is Darren excellent at his craft, he engaged with us as if he'd always known us, having a good laugh while doing so. These are little touches which I find important. He did an excellent job of entertaining everyone from the little kids to the grandparents, wowing everyone along the way. I can't recommend him enough.
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Stephen Potter
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Great magician for our wedding party. Suitable you adults and children and a lovely guy!
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Katherine Holmes
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We engaged Darren to entertain our Golden Wedding Anniversary guests after the lunch. Darren did not disappoint! He immediately established a great rapport with our guests, involving them in his tricks and magic. It was easy-going and both relaxing and challenging, as we wondered 'how on earth did he do that!" A huge success and set us up for the rest of our Anniversary celebrations.

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