Sleight of Hand, Served at the Table: Virgin Hotels Nashville Books Three October Evenings

For three nights this October, Virgin Hotels Nashville is putting a magician within arm's reach of your dinner plate. The series is called Magic & Mixers, and the idea is close-up magic as part of the evening rather than a show on a distant stage, set inside a dinner instead of after it. Close-up work is the hardest kind to fake. It happens a few feet from the audience, under the dining room lights, with nowhere for a mistake to hide. Nashville is used to talent you can stand close to, and this is the same pleasure in another form: watching someone who has done the work make a difficult thing look easy. Three nights is a short run, so anyone who wants a seat should plan their October around it.

With reporting from Nashville Guru.