Singers, dancers, storytellers and other performers took to the stage in the second annual Seniors Have Talent show.
The Sapperton Old Age Pensioners and the New Westminster Lions Club joined forces to present the talent show on Sunday, Oct. 19 at the Sapperton Pensioners Hall. Cal Donnelly was the show’s MC.
Event promoter Vic Leach said it was an “excellent show” with 14 contestants and three guest performers.
Aman Gill, a 21-year-old singer who appeared in Blind Beginnings Has Talent, was the special guest who started the show. Local poet Susan McLeod attended and recited her new poem, Seniors Have Talent, and 89-year-old Second World War Veteran (and last year’s Audience Choice winner) Chuck Johnston sang with Donnelly during the intermission.
While the judges selected the winners, the audience also had a chance to get into the act.
For $1, folks had the chance to vote for the best in show.
“After the six finalists competed with their second act, judges Dolores Kirkwood, Belle Puri and Rick Carswell chose first place to poet David Slater of White Rock, second place to storyteller Comfort Ero of Surrey and third place to a trio of dancers from Bright Sunset Chinese Dance Group of Vancouver,” Leach said.
“The Audience Choice winner was the tap number by Pat Trimble and Dan Minor, along with accompanist Alice McAuley, all who perform regularly with The Vaudevillians from Surrey. Overall it was an afternoon of high quality entertainment from many fields appreciated by both the audience and performers.”
