Well, we thought we had seen it all over the last two years of doing Yakima’s Got Tal­ent, but we are proud to report that the third annual Yakima’s Got Tal­ent just topped it all. The Sea­sons would like to thank all the tal­ented con­tes­tants who par­tic­i­pated in the pre­lim­i­nary audi­tions today. We saw an amaz­ing range of per­form­ers over a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent tal­ent areas includ­ing some really excep­tional per­for­mances. It takes a lot of courage to get up there in front of the crowd and judges, and every­one who par­tic­i­pated deserves to be congratulated.

A big Thank You also goes out to our MC Dave Ettl for his charm­ing humor, and to our won­der­ful judges John Gasperetti, Pat Muir and Linda Doria for lend­ing their encour­age­ment, tal­ent, and exper­tise. None of this could have been pos­si­ble of course, with­out the gen­er­ous sup­port of our spon­sors, Town­square Media and Gasperetti’s Restaurant.

After see­ing the awe­some range of tal­ent that was on dis­play today, we know that the semi-finals will be a great show for every­one to see and par­tic­i­pate in. We encour­age the com­mu­nity to come out and cheer on the semi-finalists in what is sure to be an amaz­ing show com­ing up on Fri­day, May 27^th at 6:30pm. Remem­ber all con­tes­tants who par­tic­i­pated in the pre­lim­i­nary audi­tions can use the “con­tes­tant tick­ets” you received to check out the semi-finals and finals this com­ing Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. Con­tes­tants who did make it in, be sure to BRING YOUR A GAME and show us some­thing we have not seen before because the com­pe­ti­tion is fierce!!!

And now, for the moment you have all been wait­ing for, you will find below a list of the twenty semi-finalists, listed in no par­tic­u­lar order:

The Blue Maths, Genre bend­ing three piece band
Nikki Jay, Soul­ful and bluesy vocal­ist
MacKen­zie Tay­lor, Oper­atic singer
Terry Sex­ton, Stand up come­dian
Jes­sica Corn, Coun­try vocal­ist
The Broad­way Bound Girls, Hip Hop dance troupe
Big Al, Sina­tra inspired vocal­ist
Da Mae­stros, Break dance squad
Terry Tay­lor, Coun­try vocal­ist
Nick John­son, Freestyle yo-yo
Miguel Chavar­ria & Michelle Hotchko, Salsa dancers
Ed Mejia, Magi­cian
Andrew Isom, Simul­ta­ne­ous sax and piano player
Latrice Shep­ard, Gospel singer
Sophia Tilley, Coun­try vocal­ist
Andrea & Spencer, Folk duo
Hay­den Sin­gle­ton, Impro­vi­sa­tional gui­tarist
Bon­nie Blan­chard, Opera singer
Vio­lent Force, Pow­er­house vocal­ist
Anna Wilkin­son, The­atri­cal singer

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