Ace Miles or call or text (916) 365-2265

Private parties

Some nights it's a living room with guests on the couches. Other nights it's a full yacht with three decks... one just for card tricks.

I'm Ace Miles. For your party I bring close-up magic that happens right in your guests' hands, or a sit-down show for the whole group, whichever actually fits the night.

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Ace Miles working cards at a parlour table to a mixed-age crowd, kids and adults gathered close, vintage Carter and Blackstone posters on the wall behind him.

What people say after

“Despite competing with an open bar, a DJ, and panoramic views of the Bay, he had guests completely captivated for more than four hours. People kept following him around and circling back to see what he would do next. His mentalism genuinely stunned us, and our friends and family were still debating how he pulled everything off the next day.”

Thomas Peck Engagement party, San Francisco

“Ace has been to my house to entertain my kids and I've seen his show a few times over the decades. He always performs. I don't know how he can stay so consistent, but he's a great performer.”

Michael Alan Prestwood Private client, repeat audience member across many years

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However your night is actually shaped

Most private parties aren't run on a schedule, and I don't try to make them one. If people are going to be standing around with drinks, or spread across more than one room or level, a yacht with a few decks, a house with people upstairs and down, I move through in small groups so whatever happens, happens right in their hands. No stage means nobody has to be in the right spot at the right time to catch it. If the plan is more of a sit-down evening, or the group's on the smaller side, a show works better than strolling does, everyone in one place, watching the same thing at once.

Fifty years of private parties

In the 1990s I did over sixty private parties in a single December, almost all of it across the Bay Area, mostly Silicon Valley and the Peninsula. Wealthy clients in the hills of Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, the hills of Oakland, the steep hills of San Francisco. Parties at Kohl Mansion, parties at Stanford. My record is still over a dozen shows in one day: a Breakfast with Santa in downtown San Jose at 6am, and strolling magic in the Saratoga hills past midnight.

One of those Decembers I did a holiday party for the researchers at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), the group known for testing Uri Geller, and I had a blast fooling them completely. Another year, at a special event in a park, I taught Steve Jobs and a group of Apple managers how to juggle.

Ace Miles at his black parlour table mid-trick, a young girl watching closely from the front of a seated crowd.
Close-up, at work

Let's see if your date's open

Tell me what you've got, the date, roughly how many people, and whether you're picturing something people can walk around and talk over, or a sit-down show everyone watches together. If you're not sure which, that's normal, figuring that out is part of what I do.

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Emailace@acemiles.com
Phone(916) 365-2265
Where I performSacramento & the Bay Area