
Missoula’s First Night Spotlight Winner!
New Year's Eve 2015 was incredible! First Night Missoula was so much fun with the best part of the night being the 10th annual First Night Spotlight. Which included thirteen of the most talented singers and performers from high schools around western Montana. There was a wide variety of songs and each competitor was so talented it would be difficult to say this wasn't the best year ever. The list of competitors were:
Kelsey Austin (Junior) & Lance Fisher (Sophomore) from Big Sky High School
Faith Arledge (Sophomore) & Jessy Stobart (Senior) from Big Sky High School
Faith Kukla (Freshman) from Loyola Sacred Heart High School
Leila Parsons (Junior) from Hellgate High School
Elias Snyders (Senior) from Sentinal High School
Maiah Wynne (Senior) Home Schooled
Kanon Saunders (Senior) from Sentinal High School
Casey Nelson (Senior) & Rylee Fred (Junior) from Big Sky High School
Rachel Murphy (Junior) from Sentinal High School
Maris Ward (Freshman) from Hellgate High School
Michaela Ballowe (Junior) from Williard Alternative High School
Sophie Therriault (Junior) & Jalynn Nelson (Junior) from Hellgate High School
Elle Daniel (Sophomore) from Hellgate High School
The top three were awarded metals or a trophy, flowers, and lots of other goodies from local business such as recording time from one of the sponsors of the event. And the top three finalist were:
3rd place- Maiah Wynne
2nd place- Casey Nelson & Rylee Fred
and our First Night Spotlight winner was Maris Ward!!!
Check out her winning performance here.