NEW HAVEN — Looking for some summertime magic? The Addison Independent has it on a good account from magician Tom Joyce that the phrases to chant this summer are not “abracadabra” or “open sesame.” Instead, he says the magic words are “I love Field Days.”

For 21 years, Joyce has been performing at the Addison County Fair and Field Days. He began putting on his act in 2004, and now does two shows every day. He is located in the tent next door to the FFA Food Booth.

“Whenever I go to Field Days, magical and amazing things seem to happen all day long,” Joyce told the crowd.

During his 45-minute performances, Joyce performs a series of tricks that delight and excite his audience. On Wednesday, he opened with a mind-reading trick that involved the participation of the young camper-packed audience that had come to find refuge from the boiling sun.

He selected one of the children to close their eyes and placed a cube covered in six different emojis into a small box. Then, Joyce asked one of the counselors to guess what emoji the camper was thinking of. When the counselor guessed “sunglasses,” Joyce opened the box and there it was, a smiling emoji wearing sunglasses.

Following the success of his first trick, Joyce used three colorful scarves — blue, green and red — and played an interactive rhyming game with the audience. Once he ran out of things that rhyme with “red,” Joyce ended the trick by pulling a bouquet of flowers out of the middle of the green scarf. This feat received a collective gasp from the children.

Joyce pulled out his “clap-o-meter” to measure the enthusiasm of the audience. Not surprisingly, the box burst open in response to the deafening roar produced by the kids.

The audience was deeply involved in this interactive show with many members going up to stand next to Joyce and hand him missing bits that had flown off of one wand end or another. They even cheerfully heckled him when he made silly, purposeful, mistakes. While not all of these interruptions were planned, Joyce seamlessly worked them all into his act.

Some of Joyce’s signature acts, and quite obviously fan favorites, include the “Vanishing Banana” trick where instead of making bananas disappear, he multiplies them and acts alarmed when he holds up his hand and finds yet another banana in it; the “Loose Wand” trick where he pretends the caps at either end of his wand are screwed on tightly, but when he turns around, they shoot off into the audience to the delight of the kids; the “Timmy the Toilet Paper” trick which ends with Joyce pulling a 20-foot-long strand of toilet paper out of his mouth; and the “Tooth Fairy” trick where he pulls half dollar coins out of thin air.

When a segment concludes, Joyce will say the phrase, “That’s the end of that one,” to which the audience will respond “Awww.”

Joyce will then whip around and say, “But I have another one!” and the audience will shout, “Yay!”

At the end of his show, Joyce concluded with a trick that made large pieces of colorful tissue paper disappear. But, when he opened his hands, they exploded into a bunch of tiny colorful ribbons, mimicking a firework explosion. He then thanked the audience for attending.

“I will literally be here all week,” Joyce said jokingly (but truthfully).