2009
Coordinators Report
Wow !
What a great Junior Festival !!!
This year’s
The talent displayed
delighted the judges, audience and organizers. The Judges had a difficult job
to do but came up with very deserving winners.
With record individual
entries, over 160 in all, I feel that the Country
Music industry in
As well as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
place getters in all sections, the MAJOR AWARD WINNERS ARE AS FOLLOWS –
Best Dressed
Award-------------------Breanna Gerritsen----from
Studio 51
Award-----------------------
Juvenile Encouragement
Award----Janet Cuffe-------------from Caboolture
Junior Encoueagement
Award------Dusty Clifford---------from
Coordinators
Award------------------Amelia Richards------from
Band’s Choice
Award-----------------Amber Goldsmith----from Nanango
Juvenile
Champion--------------------Rebecca Holdorf------from Boonah
Junior
Champion----------------------Brodie Holmes---------from Gympie
Overall
Champion---------------------Amelia Richards------from
Amelia also won
a. The Alchemix Recording Studio Award - $300
worth of recording time.
b. An invitation to appear on the
Festival.
c. An invitation to appear as the Guest Artist
at the 2010
Expo.
d. $300 in
Cash.
e. A paid guest appearance on the main stage in
the
Urban Country Music Festival courtesy of
the
and the Deputy Mayor, Mr Greg
Chippendale.
f. A Personal trophy
g. The
I cannot express how proud of
you all I am as the running of the Expo went like clockwork from the
contestants being backstage 3 acts before their own where Dianne Thornton &
Karen Logan ushered them and their charts on stage where Vern Duncan &
Bruce Berry made sure everything was ready to go and the Comperes Darryn
Robinson , Tracy Robinson , Barbara Hall and Frank Moroney kept the show
rolling along while the 2 bands, The Homestead core band and the Young guns were
on hand to play for each contestant.
I would like to personally
congratulate all of the
THE 2009 YOUTH TALENT EXPO
COMMITTEE –
Peter Bigg – Homestead
President.
Tracy Robinson – Assistant
Coordinator and Scrutineer.
Bob Cole - Secretary and
Computer operator.
Fiona Cole – Assistant
Computer operator.
Darryn Robinson – Media
representative.
Michael Smith – Set up
Property officer, Groundsman and Security.
Frank Moroney – Treasurer.
Steve Fraser – Musical
Director.
Alan Handsley – Committee
member.
Special thanks to Dianne
Thornton who took advertising to the
THE VOLUNTEER ARMY –
Heather Fraser – Volunteers
Manager, wristbands and wherever else she was needed.
Pam Matthews – Door Manager.
Queenie Lodge – 6 Months of
selling
Alan & Moya Handsley –
Registration Desk, Entrants wristbands, T/Shirt and C.D. Sales.
Dianne Thornton – Backstage
Manager.
Karen Logan – Backstage
Assistant.
Vern Duncan – Stage Manager.
Bruce Berry – Stage Manager
Patsy Smith – Judges water,
Coordinators Aide, and Ladies rest room monitor.
Barbara Hall – Judges sheets
Lucy Cossin – Judges sheets.
Heather Fraser – Judges
sheets.
Plus anyone else who helped
with the judges sheets.
Ned Palmer – Assistant
Security and gents restroom monitor.
Plus a big thank you to every
one else who I may not have mentioned who also contributed to the day being the
success that it was.
THE
John Boetje
My thanks to John for putting
the entry forms and conditions of entry information on the Homestead website
which made easy access to the Youth Talent Expo contestants for downloading.
THE COMPERES –
Darryn Robinson
Tracy Robinson
Barbara Hall
Frank Moroney.
What a mighty job you all
did. Thank you all.
THE CATERERS
The “Old Skool Muscle Car
Club”under the direction of Graham “Boppa” Curtis.
Made sure the food was
excellent and the service supurb. I hope you will be there again in 2010.
I would like to thank the
members of the Old Skool Muscle Car Club for the display of cars set out on the
grounds. The contestants took advantage of this and have had some very nice photos
taken with the cars. (Some of these would look great on their first C.D.
cover.)
THE SOUND ENGINEER
Peter Smith.
Thank you Peter for the
excellent sound again this year.
The musical backing was
excellent and provided by members of -
THE
Steve Fraser – Lead Guitar
Bill Turgeon – Drums
Peter Bigg – Bass Guitar
Michael Cole – Rhythym Giutar
THE YOUNG GUNS BAND
Michael Cole - Lead Guitar
Kyle Thompson - Drums
Craig Samin - Bass Guitar
Lance Coassin - Rhythm Guitar
THE JUDGES
Paul Wilson – Head Judge
Ali Hinchcliffe
Walter Coassin
Margaret Stephan
Randal Terrens
Tracy Killeen
The Judges had a particularly
hard day with Tracy Killeen having to leave at
(as she was performing that
night). One Judge had 5 sections in a row to adjudicate and with the talent on
show, that was very stressful but it seems nothing was too much trouble for
this year’s Judges. I would like to see them all back again next year. They did
a fantastic job.
To have Tracy Killeen with us
this year is especially gratifying as she is the 2009 Tiara Award winner. In
her words, she was,”Blown away by the Talent”displayed by our contestants. I
appreciate all of the Judges giving up their time to help young people towards
a possible career in Country Music and thank them most sincerely. Also a special
thanks to Randal Terrens who did not accept a booking with his band “The
Smokin’ Crawdads” to be with us for the day.(A decision he made way back in
February this year and he stuck to his promise). He said it was an excellent
festival and wanted to be involved again next year.
Most of today’s Country Music
Stars and Judges started out in competitions like our Youth Talent Expo including
the famous Kieth Urban, festivals such as this are the training grounds of tomorrows Australian
Country Music Stars.
We would be unable to have such
a large a Festival with the prizes that we have without our wonderful Sponsors.
I thank them all for their support and hope they will all be back next year.
THE SPONSORS –
101.5 Fm
Morayfield Music
The Deputy Mayor, Mr Greg
Chippendale
Action Trophies
Caboolture Screen Printers
Studio 51 Gympie
Sooty’s Promotional Products
Western World Saddlery
Alchemix Recording Studios,
Woolloongabba
The professionals Caboolture
Nova Ford Caboolture
Channis Signs & Designs
Darryn Robinson, Private
Sponsor
Trevor Gowlett, Private
Sponsor
Bellmere Butchers
Sue Venn – for the lucky spot
prize
Frank Moroney & Pam
Matthews – for the fruit & Vegetable trays
101.5 FM need a special
mention here for their generous sponsorship of free advertising for our Cash
Sponsors for the Expo, Masses of on air advertising and interviews for the event, support for
Homestead Country Music Club in general and the presence of their outside
broadcast van on our site onfor the Youth Talent Expo.
I could probably go on for
hours about how much I appreciate the help each of every and every one who was
connected in any way to the Youth Talent Expo 2009, but I would like you all to
know what a wonderful job you did and offer my sincere thanks because as you
know something like this cannot be put on by one person.
I am very happy to say that
the computer room run by Bob & Fiona Cole did a spectacular job. Working
with them was a pleasure and I thank them for the printed information presented
to me immediately the Festival ended, to hold for the Youth Talent Expo
records.
Thanks to Leisa Bye who took
nearly 1000 photos this year, I will be able to do up a 2009 photo album. This
will not be done as quickly as it was in last two year s as I have to sift through
all of those photos and then have the selected ones printed before I can begin
to put it all together.
Without the contestants we
would have no Junior Festival, so I thank all of the young entrants and their
parents who attended this year, especially our Overall Champion and her family
who traveled up from
Congratulations to all the winners
and to every contestant who provided such amazing talent. I’m sure they all bring their
best performances to the
Going on the co-operation shown
by everyone involved this year I am sure that next years
Lastly my heartfelt thanks go
to everyone connected in any way to the Expo and hope you will all be there
again next year.
Laurie Sterling
Homestead Youth Talent Expo
2009
Coordinator