Jack LauckemLauckem Wins 'Colgate Country Showdown'
Sixteen-year-old Jack Lauckem from Auburn, NY is the 2008 local winner of Sullivan County Radio Station Thunder 102 Annual Colgate Country Showdown competition held last Sunday afternoon at Sullivan County Community College.
The Showdown was part of the Craig Morton show held later that same evening.
Second place went to Johnny Dodge and Bill Lis from Utica, NY and third place was won by Darcy Demmin of Auburn, NY.
This competition is designed to find the most promising country music talent in America and to give these performers a chance to launch their professional music careers.
The 'Showdown" begins each spring with over 450 local talent contests sponsored by country music radio stations throughout the United States.
Lauckem will advance to the New York State competitions where he will compete for a $1,000 prize, the state title and the opportunity to advance to one of five Regional finals.
The regionals is the last step before the national final which is usually televised to a national audience from country music's most exciting venues like the stage of the Grand Ole Opry House. Lauckem if he continues to win would be awarded $100,000 and the national title.
The staff at Thunder 102 works very hard at producing this local event and they know that this event has become a reliable source of rising country music stars over the years.
Some of today's outstanding country stars like John Michael Montgomery, Sara Evans and Garth Brooks competed in the Country Showdown.
Thunder 102 Marketing and Promotions Director Regina Hensley noted that contestants for this local competition can come from anywhere in New York and Pennsylvania but that their area is deemed to be a 50-mile radius of Liberty, NY.
Seven contestants competed last Sunday as part of Thunder 102's ThunderFest.
Area country music fans had the best of all worlds as their kind of music flowed from the large stage in the Paul Gerry Field house from 3 p.m. to after 8 p.m. that evening.
Trista Wheaton, last year's Colgate Country Showdown winner was interviewed by Paul Ciliberto and she disclosed that she would be moving to Nashville, Tenn. she also performed for the audience who came and supported this benefit for the Sullivan County Community College Student Activities fund.
Sullivan County country music fans in addition to being a part of the Colgate Country Showdown also were treated to the talented Craig Morgan, Mandy Miller, Iron Cowboy and Cooper Boone.
Country 102 did an outstanding job in bringing together this entire event and the entire staff deserves a nice big pat on the back for helping in its support of this and many other community fund raising events.
Sixteen-year-old Jack Lauckem from Auburn, NY is the 2008 local winner of Sullivan County Radio Station Thunder 102 Annual Colgate Country Showdown competition held last Sunday afternoon at Sullivan County Community College.
The Showdown was part of the Craig Morton show held later that same evening.
Second place went to Johnny Dodge and Bill Lis from Utica, NY and third place was won by Darcy Demmin of Auburn, NY.
This competition is designed to find the most promising country music talent in America and to give these performers a chance to launch their professional music careers.
The 'Showdown" begins each spring with over 450 local talent contests sponsored by country music radio stations throughout the United States.
Lauckem will advance to the New York State competitions where he will compete for a $1,000 prize, the state title and the opportunity to advance to one of five Regional finals.
The regionals is the last step before the national final which is usually televised to a national audience from country music's most exciting venues like the stage of the Grand Ole Opry House. Lauckem if he continues to win would be awarded $100,000 and the national title.
The staff at Thunder 102 works very hard at producing this local event and they know that this event has become a reliable source of rising country music stars over the years.
Some of today's outstanding country stars like John Michael Montgomery, Sara Evans and Garth Brooks competed in the Country Showdown.
Thunder 102 Marketing and Promotions Director Regina Hensley noted that contestants for this local competition can come from anywhere in New York and Pennsylvania but that their area is deemed to be a 50-mile radius of Liberty, NY.
Seven contestants competed last Sunday as part of Thunder 102's ThunderFest.
Area country music fans had the best of all worlds as their kind of music flowed from the large stage in the Paul Gerry Field house from 3 p.m. to after 8 p.m. that evening.
Trista Wheaton, last year's Colgate Country Showdown winner was interviewed by Paul Ciliberto and she disclosed that she would be moving to Nashville, Tenn. she also performed for the audience who came and supported this benefit for the Sullivan County Community College Student Activities fund.
Sullivan County country music fans in addition to being a part of the Colgate Country Showdown also were treated to the talented Craig Morgan, Mandy Miller, Iron Cowboy and Cooper Boone.
Country 102 did an outstanding job in bringing together this entire event and the entire staff deserves a nice big pat on the back for helping in its support of this and many other community fund raising events.
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