Tonight we will see the TOP TWENTY con­tes­tants selected from our pool of orig­i­nal tal­ents! If years past are any indi­ca­tion, you will see a wide vari­ety of the best in local per­form­ers and musicians.

Tick­ets for the semi-finals are $10
VIP tables are $75 and seat 4 peo­ple
About the judges:
Local show­man and restau­ran­teur John Gasperetti has been soak­ing up the lime­light for years. He is well known to the Yakima com­mu­nity for his top notch Ital­ian Restau­rant, local phil­an­thropy, Christ­mas Cabarets, Memo­r­ial Folies and numer­ous appear­ances in Ware­house The­atre pro­duc­tions. Between plan­ning lun­cheon menus, cater­ing wed­dings and mas­ter­ing the intri­ca­cies of his newest role at the Ware­house in “Dinner/Music”, Gasperetti always deliv­ers the very best to his patrons. Recently, Gasperetti appeared on the first episode of “Val­ley Fresh Fare”, com­peted in the YWCA fundraiser “So You Think We Can Dance” and will open his house for the 12^th annual Tour of Artists’ Homes.

Pat Muir is the lead writer at On mag­a­zine and a staff writer at the Yakima Herald-Republic. He has cov­ered pol­i­tics and gov­ern­ment but is most well-known locally for his weekly On mag­a­zine col­umn, The Indoors­man. Pat is a grad­u­ate of Michi­gan State University’s jour­nal­ism school and has lived in Wash­ing­ton for 10 years. He has been an avid music fan since child­hood and was known among his fel­low kinder­gart­ners for bring­ing a Fisher Price tape recorder to school so he could dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” These days when he’s not work­ing, he is usu­ally lis­ten­ing to old Tom Waits records.

Linda Doria was raised in the Port­land, Ore­gon area. She earned her bachelor’s degree in music edu­ca­tion and flute per­for­mance from the Uni­ver­sity of Ore­gon in 1978. She recieved her master’s degree in con­duct­ing at Cen­tral Wash­ing­ton Unitver­sity in 1993. She landed her first job at Kiona Ben­ton School dis­trict in 1978 in Ben­ton City, Wash­ing­ton as a band and choral direc­tor for grades 5 – 12. She worked at the Ki-Be school dis­trict for 15 years. In 1980 she joined the Mid-Columbia Sym­phony and is cur­rently main­tain­ing her posi­tion as prin­ci­pal flutist. Linda has been per­form­ing through­out the Yakima Val­ley and Colum­bia Basin areas for sev­e­real years. She was fea­tured as a guest soloist with the National Flute Con­ven­tion in Dal­las, Texas in 2001 and the Mid-Columbia Sym­phony in 2011. She has been a judge for regional Solo/Ensembles, Wash­ing­ton State Solo/Ensembles, All North­west Honor Bands, and All State Honor Bands. She also was a direc­tor for the Mid-Columbia Youth Sym­phony and been invited to direct band fes­ti­vals. She is cur­rently teach­ing Con­cert Band and Jazz Band at Selah High School, Band and Choir at Oakridge Montes­sori School, and she has a pri­vate flute stu­dio of 24 students.