The piano students of Dr. Beth Laytart presented a spring recital at the Cynthiana Presbyterian Church on Saturday, April 28. Seventeen students participated, including Lucy Barry, Corrie Bascom, Kara Bracken, Meliah Carrel, Michaela Carrel, Ava Craig, Andra Gaunce, Elijah Harris, Amy Johnson, Anna Blake McDaniel, Morgynn McDaniel, Mary Hollis Partin, Olivia Partin, Harry Smith, Ross Smith, Jared Thomas, and Josie Vaughn.

Each year’s recital has a theme and stu-dents choose their recital pieces accord-ingly. The theme was popular music. The younger students performed children’s songs such as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” “I’m a Little Teapot,” “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” and “You are My Sunshine.” The older students per-formed from movies such as Twilight, The Wizard of Oz, The Lord of the Rings,

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Peanuts, The Sting and The Phantom of the Opera. Students also performed popular hits recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Billy Joel and Tanya Tucker.

One senior was recognized at this year’s event. Corrie Bascom, daughter of Raymond and Kathy Bascom of Paris.

Seven other students were recognized at the recital for the publication of their original piano compositions in the music magazine, “Piano Explorer.” These stu-dent composers included Kara Bracken, Ava Craig, Anna Blake McDaniel, Mary Hollis Partin, Olivia Partin, Ross Smith, and Jared Thomas.

The recital was a success and each stu-dent presented an excellent performance that was indicative of a good year’s hard work and study.

Piano studentsperform spring recital

Craig wins third inInternational

Composition contestAva Craig, age 9, has been

awarded third prize in the 2012 Composition contest sponsored by the ‘Piano Explorer,’ which is a music magazine that is published for children. The theme of this year’s contest was “Ocean Life,” and Craig’s piece was entitled “Slow Ocean” and was evocative of jellyfish and seahorses that pulse through the water.

She also submitted a piece of original artwork that will be pub-lished along with her composition in a summer issue of the maga-zine.

There were over 450 entries from all over the world. The first place winner was from Japan, second place w i n n e r was from Wisconsin, and three students from Rhode Island, Arizona and Missouri were given honorable mention.

Craig is the daughter of Wesley and Melissa Craig and is a third grader at Eastside Elementary. She studies piano with Dr. Beth Laytart.

Students performing were, front row, from left, Andra Gaunce, Michaela Carrel, Amy Johnson; back row, Anna Blake McDaniel, Morgynn McDaniel, Corrie Bascom, Meliah Carrel.

Front row, from left, Elijah Harris, Ava Craig, Kara Bracken; back row, Olivia Partin, Mary Hollis Partin, Lucy Barry, Josie Vaughn.

From left, Ross Smith, Harry Smith, Jared Thomas

14 The Cynthiana Democrat - Thursday, May 10, 2012 www.cynthianademocrat.com

The 31st annual Texaco Country Showdown” is coming to Cynthiana.

The local Country Showdown will be held on Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. at Rohs Opera House.

Genuine Country 1400 AM will host America’s largest country music tal-ent search and radio pro-motion. Approximately $200,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded nation-wide including the grand prize of $100,000 cash to the national winner, pre-sented at the national final televised special.

Designed to find the most promising country music talent in the United States for the past thirty years, the Texaco Country Showdown gives aspiring artists a chance to launch their professional careers. Thousands of performers compete annually for the Country Showdown title.

Each spring hometown talent contests sponsored by over five hundred local radio stations across the country pave the road to stardom. Local winners advance to over forty state contests where the prizes include $1,000 in cash and the opportunity to compete at one of five regional con-tests in the fall. The five regional winners receive an expense-paid trip to the National Final to compete for $100,000 and the cov-eted National Title.

“We consider the Texaco Country Showdown one of the most anticipated events in country music each year,” said Chris Winkle, president of WCYN Broadcasting Inc. “It is an exciting community event that provides aspiring art-ists in our area an opportu-nity for state, regional, and national exposure while promoting a greater appre-ciation of country music. We are pleased and proud to join Snap Equipment and Rohs Opera House as local sponsors in the 31st Annual Texaco Country

Showdown.”Open to vocal and/or

instrumental perform-ers, the Texaco Country Showdown welcomes indi-vidual acts or groups with up to seven members to compete.

Acts also must not have performed on a record charted in the top 100 coun-try format of Billboard, Radio and Records, or the Gavin Report within 18 months preceding local competition.

A $20 entry fee is required of all acts enter-ing the Texaco Country Showdown competitions produced by participating country radio stations. To ensure fairness, a uniform

judging system is used on all levels of competition. Entry forms are available for download at www.wcyn.com or by calling WCYN at (859) 234-1400. Entry dead-line is May 4, 2012.

Texaco Country Showdown coming to town

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