The Central Spotlight on Central’s Talent

Lisa Deslauriers School News Editor

On Fri., Jan. 13th at 7:00 PM, Central students gathered in the audi-torium for “The Central Spotlight”. “The Central Spotlight” consisted of Central students in bands, solo musical performances and solo dance performances displaying their impressive abilities. The Student Council event ran by Pa Foua Hang (11) had the purpose of raising money for the “Open Your Hearts” charity.
The event was hosted by Nehemiah Jett (12) and Danez Smith (11), who provided comical entertainment between stunning performances. Group performances consisted of a variety of genres, “The Devil Shrewds” with Emily Borka (12), the jazz ensemble of Daniel Duke (11), Amber Woodhouse (11), Nathan Whitley (11) and Aaron Henden-strom (who were later joined for an encore with Rachel Graber (12) and Peter Cozine (12) ) and “The Midwest Ma€a”, a rap group featuring “Diamond” (11) .
Solo performances were a united success, Dorian Cotton (11) played the keyboard to the melodies of popular songs, Eric Hardy (12) played the classical piano and Chris Moua showed his skill with his hip-hop dancing.
Overall the evening was a great success, 75 people attended and about $350 was collected for charity. “I thought it went really well. We raised a lot of money, and the audience enjoyed Smith and Jett’s comical comments. Peter Cozine’s group was a good mix of everything,” said senior M-Team member, Emily Wolff. “It was entertaining, a lot better than I thought it would be. The Midwest Ma€a is my favorite group,” said junior Annie Arnold.