Original Songs, Magic Tricks Among Selections At Morning Pointe Foundation’s Seniors Got Talent Show

  • Tuesday, July 23, 2024

From original folk and jazz songs to “Steel Guitar Rag” on the hammered dulcimer and a magic routine, the Morning Pointe Foundation’s 5th Annual Seniors Got Talent show in Chattanooga offers a wide variety of performances.

Seniors Got Talent, produced by the Morning Pointe Foundation in partnership with Morning Pointe Senior Living, is less than a week away. The show is on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Silverdale Center Creekside Theater. The venue is part of the Silverdale Baptist Academy campus, next to the sports fields at 7236 Bonny Oaks Dr.

Tickets are $10 and are available at silverdaleba.org/arts and MorningPointeFoundation.com/seniorsgottalent. Seating is general admission.

The show will open with last year’s winner, pianist Bonnie Hannah, reprising her performance of a patriotic medley of her own arrangement.

Performers are ages 60-93 and include:
Richard Daigle – singer/guitarist, performing his original song “I Still Say We”
Betty Harris and Marilyn Reppond, singer/musicians – performing “Five Pounds of Possum”
Richard and Laurie Collett – ballroom dancers, performing to their adapted version of “You’ll
Never Walk Alone” from “Carousel”
Daniel Hixon – singer/guitarist, performing “Best of My Love”
Bryan Skinner – lip synch comedian, synching to “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
Clare Donohue – jazz singer, performing her original song “Sunday in Georgia”
Agene Parsons – hammered dulcimer musician, playing “Steel Guitar Rag”
Iris Whitney and Mark Whitney – singer and guitarist, performing “He Touched Me”
Robbie Robertson and Donna Stetler – actors performing a comedy sketch
Vicki Henricks – singer, performing “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
Jim Driscoll – magician, performing a magic routine
Susan Taylor – singer, performing “Try a Little Tenderness”

Acts are competing for the $1,000 grand prize, $500 second-place prize and $250 third-place prize. Show attendees will also be able to vote for the People’s Choice Award winner for $1 per vote, with funds going to the Morning Pointe Foundation.

For more information, contact Miranda Perez at 238-5330 or visit morningpointefoundation.com.
Morning Pointe also sponsors Seniors Got Talent competitions in Knoxville and Franklin, as well as Lexington, Ky.


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