Inverell’s Got Talent 2024

Spectacular Start to Festival

Inverell East Rotary Club launched the annual Sapphire City Festival with yet another edition of INVERELL’S GOT TALENT (IGT).

On Friday night 18^th October the Town Hall buzzed with excitement as an enthusiastic line-up of entertainers competed for a share in the $2000 prize money.

Members of the Inverell East Rotary Club, along with partners, community and Inverell High School volunteers organised and facilitated this impressive and popular event. They were ably supported by the sound and light skills of Allen East and the inimitable emceeing talents of Peter Caddey. The Club is very grateful to the Inverell Shire Council, all local sponsors, STA-FM and the Inverell Times for their encouragement and support. A great team effort.

The results were as follows –

The Jenny Fox Memorial Prize for Best Junior went to Haylee Phillipps-Lewis with Highly Commended awards to Kalen Lind and Peyton Childs.

Best Original Song went to Alex Munro for the second year in a row.

In the Senior Section the judges chose their Top Four – Kiara Lind, The Acapella Fellas, Alex Munro and Mikaela Bennion before announcing the overall winner for 2024 – Alex Munro for his original vocal composition ‘Dream Time Stories’. Highly Commended awards went to Mikaela Bennion and Kiara Lind. Many Thanks to our judges, Jodie and Naomi (The Abbeys) and Peter Champion,

Additional entertainment was provided by guest performers The Dramamatics with a rousing performance of ‘Thunder’ by Imagine Dragons, directed by Mark McCosker. Other guest entertainers were the fabulous Glen Innes Duo, The Abbeys, the 2023 Winners, Jonathan and Virgil and of course local legends Chris Richter and Peter Caddey.

Prizes were presented by Rotarian Tim Newberry on behalf of Inverell East President Barry Mason. Tim congratulated all performers and thanked everybody concerned with the show. He declared I.G.T 2024 a resounding success.