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TCC HOSTS CAMPUS-WIDE VERSION OF STAR SEARCH
Even Simon Cowell will get a kick out of these performances

NORFOLK, Va. – (March 3, 2004) - Tidewater Community College hosts its 1st Annual Campus Star Talent Show on April 6 at 7 p.m. at the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in Norfolk. Admission is $2, and the general public is invited to attend.

The talent line up includes rappers, singers, dancers, steppers and poets. More than 80 contestants will compete in preliminary auditions for 20 places in the April 6 show. A 15-member student panel will make the final cuts on March 22 and 23. The TCC panel will present a $100 award to the winner the evening of the show.

In addition to the student acts, organizers have invited a few special guests including “Ringo,” an ever-popular barber from Granby Street and a fixture on the Norfolk campus. He will share his rapping repertoire with the audience. Also on stage, and a frequent guest on the Norfolk campus, will be ventriloquist Salaam and his dummy, Wilson.

The 1st Annual Campus Star Talent Show is sponsored by the TCC Agape Club. “We wanted to provide a forum for students to display talent and school spirit,” says Elizabeth Hines, Agape president. “We hope this show will be the first of a college-wide tradition.”

For more information call 822-1251.

Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37 th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges.   Founded in 1958 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-three percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.