North Dakota

Magician in North Dakota

Nine hours up I-94, and a winter meeting season worth planning around

North Dakota is a drive rather than a flight. Nine hours up through Minnesota on I-94 means my own equipment travels with me and nothing has to be shipped or rented on arrival.

The practical consequence is that one date is expensive to justify and two or three in the same week are not. If you are booking here, it is worth asking whether anyone else in your network needs a date that week. Travel is either built into the package or itemised on your quote, agreed before anything is booked.

What I get booked for in North Dakota

The calendar here is seasonal and association-heavy. Winter is convention season: agricultural groups, co-ops, implement dealers, banking and healthcare associations hold their annual meetings and banquets between January and March, and an after-dinner entertainer is a normal line item rather than a splurge.

The rest of the work spreads across Fargo's technology and manufacturing employers, the state offices in Bismarck, the energy companies out west and the aviation and university crowd around Grand Forks. Community fundraisers, church events and school programmes carry more weight here than in bigger markets, often in the same room on a different night.

Travel

Roughly 9 hours by road from Milwaukee. That is normally still a drive rather than a flight, which means the full show travels with me, and travel is either built into the package or itemised on your quote, agreed before anything is booked.

Close-up magic at a private celebration — available in North Dakota

Where the people are

North Dakota’s biggest cities

Most of North Dakota’s population lives in and around these five cities, and that is where most of the events are. Caleb performs in all of them — and in the smaller towns between them.

  1. Fargo
  2. Bismarck
  3. Grand Forks
  4. Minot
  5. West Fargo

Largest market: Fargo metro.

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