Gimme the Mike! Contestants Announced – Capitol Broadcasting Company

On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, FOX 50 announced the 20 contestants selected to compete on the station’s original program Gimme the Mike! The singers were chosen from over 600 hopefuls who auditioned in February.

Get ready for the second season of Gimme the Mike! and get to know the contestants by watching their audition videos online via FOX50.com. More information about the singers will be posted soon, so keep checking back to FOX 50’s Gimme the Mike! section to find out all about them.

The contestants are:

Bobby Caddell of Durham	Chris Daniel of Roanoke Rapids	F.D. Daniels of Fayetteville
Erica Davidson of Durham	Camiel Ferrell of Garner	Meghann Flores of Dudley
Erin Gilbert of Raleigh	Jenny Guse of Durham	Daniel D. Johnson of Goldsboro
Rachel Joseph of Cary	Clayton Lee of Fayetteville	Meagan Lee of Dunn
Barron Maness of Pinehurst	James McMillian of Sanford	H’yit Siu of Raleigh
Stephanie Shaw of Morrisville	Donnie Lee Strickland of Smithfield	Vivian Wade of Fayetteville
Tom Wedsworth Jr. of Chapel Hill	Lauren Wenick of Raleigh

Gimme the Mike! , sponsored by FOX 50 and Verizon Superpages, will begin airing on Thursday, April 21st at 7:30pm. Judges will select a winner from five contestants during four programs taped before a studio audience in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at the BTI Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. Viewers will select a Wild Card from each group and then will have the opportunity to choose the ultimate Wild Card to advance to the finals during a special Wild Card show.

Gimme the Mike! will be taped before a live studio audience April 13th and 14th at the Fletcher Opera Theater. All tapings are free and open to the public.

Gimme the Mike! will air on FOX 50 on Thursdays at 7:30pm. The one-hour live finale will air in May. The winner will receive a prize package including a trip to New York City to audition for music industry executives.

Last year’s broadcast of Gimme the Mike! showcased the talent of local singers and proved that a little television exposure could turn life around for the Gimme the Mike! grand prize winner Jason Michael Carroll. Carroll has signed with management company Murphy to Manteo, been picked up by the Monterey Peninsula Artists booking agency, who books such artists as Aerosmith, Toby Keith, Dave Matthews Band and Montgomery Gentry, and has had interest from several national record labels. He’s also been traveling to Nashville to write with some big names in country music: Radney Foster, Tracy Byrd and Jeffrey Steele.

Thanks to FOX 50’s Kevin Kolbe & Gayle Hardy for these capcom photos and this capcom story info.