With Morning Pointe Foundation’s 5th Annual Seniors Got Talent, Chattanooga coming up on July 29, the names of the 12 performers have been released.
The show will take place at 7 p.m. at the Silverdale Center Creekside Theater at 7236 Bonny Oaks Drive in Chattanooga. The theater is part of the Silverdale Baptist Academy campus, next to the sports fields.
The show is produced in partnership with Morning Pointe Senior Living, although only two of the acts feature Morning Pointe residents.
Performers (some of them pictured above) are:
- Richard and Laurie Collett – ballroom dancers
- Richard Daigle – singer/guitarist
- Betty Harris and Marilyn Reppond, singer and musicians
- Jim Driscoll, magician
- Daniel Hixon, singer/guitarist
- Bryan Skinner, comedy
- Clare Donohue, singer
- Robbie Robertson and Donna Stetler, comedy
- Iris Whitney and Mark Whitney, singer and guitarist
- Vicki Henricks, singer
- Agene Parsons, hammered dulcimer musician
- Susan Taylor, singer
Participants range in age from 60-93. Only one act will take home the grand-prize of $1,000. Second place will receive $500, and the third-place winner will receive $250. 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.
“We are less than a month away from our Chattanooga show, and we can’t wait to see these amazing seniors shine!” said Miranda Perez, Morning Pointe Foundation Executive Director. “I can promise that the show will both entertain and inspire.”
Tickets for the Morning Pointe Foundation Seniors Got Talent show are $10. They are available at silverdaleba.org/arts. Seating is general admission, and the show almost sold out last year.
All proceeds from votes, ticket sales and sponsorships will go to the Morning Pointe Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, to support nursing and other college scholarships. The Morning Pointe Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Morning Pointe Senior Living founded by senior healthcare entrepreneurs Greg A. Vital and J. Franklin Farrow. It was created in 2014 to provide caregiver support programs, sponsor educational awareness events and fund scholarships to advance the care of seniors throughout the Southeast.
More About the Show
Gino D, radio personality with Hits 96 in Chattanooga, will serve as emcee for the show. Judges are Steve Darmody, award-winning Christian recording artist; Danielle Farrell, author, dancer and director of Raw Art Dance & Entertainment Dance Academy; Josh Robinson, executive producer of The Daily Refresh on NewsChannel 9 in Chattanooga; and Susan Caminez, executive director of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra.
Sponsors for this year include Russ Blakely & Associates, LLC; First Horizon Bank; Patients Choice Laboratories; Gordon Foods; ETPS – A Guardian Pharmacy; The University of Tennessee School of Nursing; Aphix Lawn Service; Erlanger; Live Oak Caregivers, LLC; The Weston Group; Factory Direct Furniture; Good News Catoosa/Walker; Century Park Associates; Hickory Valley Retirement; Chatt Creative; Yardi; Wound Providers of America; CityScope Magazine; Amazing Senior Solutions; Mobile Images; Hearth Hospice; Tallanted Interiors; Horizon Advisors; The Refuge Church; Avail Senior Living; Heritage Funeral Home; Medicare Misty; SpringHill Suites in Ooltewah; Boundless Movers; AccentCare/Guardian; and Team Steve Darmody – Keller-Williams.
To learn more or inquire about sponsorships for Seniors Got Talent, contact Miranda Perez at 423-238-5330 or visit morningpointefoundation.com.
Morning Pointe also sponsors Seniors Got Talent competitions in Knoxville and Franklin, Tennessee, as well as Lexington, Kentucky.
Founded in 1997 by Vital and Farrow, Morning Pointe Senior Living owns and operates 38 assisted living and Alzheimer’s memory care communities in five southeastern states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and Indiana. Morning Pointe’s 41st community, The Lantern at Morning Pointe Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence, East Hamilton, is under development in Hamilton County and is expected to open in 2025.
