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, July 29, 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 Drive.
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.
The Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Morning Pointe Senior Living founded in 2014 by Tennessee-based senior healthcare entrepreneurs Greg A. Vital and Franklin Farrow. Seniors Got Talent proceeds specifically go toward clinical scholarships for students at partner colleges.
Founded in 1997 by Vital and Farrow, Morning Pointe Senior Living 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 early 2025.
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 & Opera.
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; 5090 South The Furniture Store; Good News Catoosa/Walker; 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; Boundless Movers; AccentCare/Guardian; Supreme Restaurant Equipment; and Team Steve Darmody – Keller-Williams.
For more information, 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.
