CMC's Got Talent.

The other evening in the cafeteria in Willett Hall, Students Activities put on a Talent Show Contest for students to show off their many gifts, so I thought I'd let everyone know how that went.

It started off with a warm-up act that was not part of the contest but just to get things started. Faculty member Greg Huey started it off with a hilarious poem making fun of the slang used in the ski and snowboard world.

Following that, Tamara, head of student activities, introduced the judges, who were an advisor here at CMC, one of the cooks in the cafeteria, and the student president of student activites. They were to judge the contest based on thier personal opinions and on audience response. The winner would receive a $100 gift card to any store of their choice in Steamboat.

The acts being judged started off with Shane and dorm RA Josh with a funny dance routine titled Funk McNasty. I don't remember what the song is called but it goes "Hey Tonto, jump on it" or something like that. The dance consist of a lot of spins a walking around the stage, but was pretty fun to watch.

After that, Ryan, also known as Papa Red since he's very tall and a redhead, read a personal poem her wrote in the style of an accapella rap. It was a very hopeful themed poem and also very religious, talking about God being salvation and what not, and was very well written and performed.

Next was Mia, who sang and played guitar for a song she had written for her friend she met this year from South Africa. Unfortunately I forget the name of the song, but it was really cool because a lot of the lyrics were based on texts he had sent her, making it a very personal song.

Next up was another RA here, Scotty, who performed a one man drama piece in which he started off juggling, and then ended up sitting a pretending he was talking to a sad clown about how much worse his day was. He talked about how he lost his girlfriend, his car broke, and he lost his job. I thought it was really well performed and actually pretty funny.

After that was Grant, who played a really long but really sick guitar solo in a sort of bluesy style. It went on for quite awhile but was really cool.

Lastly was another RA Kerry, who did a hilarious parody of the scene in the movie Old School where Will Ferrel does one of those floor routines with the stick with ribbon on the end. It was really funny and actually a lot like what Will Ferrel did in the movie.

So after all those acts, Tamara led the crowd in the applause-off where everyone in the audience got to pretty much vote for who they wanted to win by cheering loud or not. After that, the judges talked amongst themselves and ending up choosing Ryan for 3rd with his poem, Grant for 2nd with the epic guitar solo, and Mia won the grand prize of the $100 gift card with her original song.

Sorry I once again dropped the ball on taking pictures, but there was a CMC luau this evening that I got some pictures from and will write about tomorrow. Peace.