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RONAN — Raw talent was interspersed with comedic anecdotes during Friday’s 4-H Open Talent Show held at the Lake County Fairgrounds.
It took all the courage 10-year-old Logan Smith could muster to play his recorder in front of a crowd and three judges.
“My whole body was quaking out,” he said, demonstrating by rapidly shaking his hands. “But I think I did good.”
Lily Christ, 14, conquered her stage fright to perform a ukulele solo, just after adult Brian Gentry belted out Bon Jove’s 1986 hit song, “Wanted Dead or Alive.”
Nerves were not a problem for 17-year-old home-schooled senior Anya Smith, who performed “Over the Moon” from the musical “Rent.”
“I love performing. I’ve been in theater since second grade,” she said. Smith wrote, produced and directed her first play titled “Fractured Fables” when she was just 12 years old. She’s in the fifth season of managing Glacier Lily Theatre Company, the children’s theatre she founded.
She plans to study creative writing in college. She recently published her first full-length novel that she describes as an “alternative science fiction fantasy,” titled “Peter Wick and the Train of Aemulo.”
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