Creek's talent show was filled with a wide variety of surprisingly strong live appearances, comedy, and excellent performances. Students from Improv classes, local garage bands, and people with all around excellent musical skills took part in this year’s talent show.

With a mixture of country performances, rock bands, pop dances, and a few that were fairly unusual, this year’s talent show is one of the most interesting and varied shows in the past few years. Solo country performances from students like Taylor Webb, dance performances from Molly Waldner and Ashley Johnson, beatboxing from Shae Perkins, and a loud punk performance from local band Low Frequency all made the night spectacular.

The most surprising performance was by Creek secretary Amy Wood and Stephen Flores, which showcased some of the more emotional side to the night, as they sang Green Day’s emotional ballad “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)”, which was dedicated to all the seniors moving on to college and graduating from high school. It was by far the night’s most emotional song, and the performance was definitely one of the night’s best.

Newer garage band “Under Tow” impressed the audience with their down-tuned hard rock reminiscent of Tool, which their name is derived from, while Alex Gadsby and Sean Jackson’s performance of “The Prayer” was moving and sentimental. Will West’s crowd-pleasing classic keyboard performance of “Cannon in D” changed up the night, bringing the more modern, eclectic, and electronic sound to Creek’s annual Talent Show. Ended by class favorites Low Frequency’s new song “Proud Parent”, the Talent Show ended strong.

Performers in this year’s show had a variety of things to say about their inspiration for performing. Adam Vencil, who partnered with Michael Romero on a performance of “Gravedigger” commented on their song choice.

“We had listened to the song a lot, we liked it, and we decided to perform it,” Vencil said.
Molly Waldner and Ashley Johnson, did a dance routine to “Gravity” wanted to reach out to the student body as well as express their creative side, “Me and Ashley wanted to do a duet to show our passion for dance, and we haven’t had the chance to do a dance for us. We made this dance for fun and share it with our student body, but we also wanted to show our artistic side,” senior Molly Waldner said.

This year’s Mix-it-Up Day showcased one of the school’s best beatboxers, Shae Perkins. Perkins won the Mix-it-Up Day contest, and went on to show his skill at this year’s Talent Show.
“One day I was messing around and I discovered I was pretty good at beatboxing. It sounded legitimate, so I went with it,” Perkins commented.

In the end, professional hip-hop dancer Lindsey Pugh and Mix-it-Up Day dance contest winner Juan Hinijosa won the talent show with their unique Hip-Hop mix that had the crowd in a frenzy as they cheered loudly for the duo’s fantastic dancing skills. Yet, this year’s talent show was a very strong outing for all of the night’s performers, and a showcase of the diversity of talent here at Clear Creek.