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TALENT

PREMIUM OPTIONAL CONTEST

AVAILABLE TO:

ALL AGE DIVISIONS

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  • This is your chance to shine on stage and perform a talent of your choosing.

  • You will enter the stage center-back opening.

  • The MC will be reading about you as upbeat music plays in the background.

  • Advance to the location where you would like to begin your performance (if you have music, it will start once you are in place and still)

  • At the podium deliver your speech (pageant staff will have already placed a copy of your speech at the podium for you).

  • When finished, smile, and exit the stage via the opening behind the podium.

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Watch video samples to see of the talent

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attire & RULES

  • Only live solo performances.

  • Contestant is the only person allowed on stage

  • Time limit 2 minutes and starts when your music starts or you start performing, whichever is first.

  • No gymnastic apparatuses

  • May not engage in a talent that may increase the hotel liability or pose a safety or health hazard issue to anyone, such as archery or fire. NAM reserves the right to disallow any performance that the director or hotel deems unsafe.

  • Music must be on a CD. Electronic Devices (iPod, mp3 player, laptops, etc.) will not be accepted.

  • Make-up is allowed for all age groups, as long as it is keeping in theme with the outfit and/or performance and is age appropriate

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entry fee

  • $150 per entry

  • Limit 2 entries

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Click here to sign up for TALENT

NAM Provides

  • Stage (min. size 12' x 24')

  • MC

  • CD player and operator

  • Microphone (handheld, mic in a stand, or headset)

  • Podium

  • Electric piano* in select locations. (contact your state director's office for availability)

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prizes

winner

  • Entry fee paid in the talent contest at the national pageant in Orlando, FL ($175 value)

  • $125 credit into the National All-American Pageant in Orlando, FL

  • Talent winner premium trophy

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4 runner-ups

  • Golden ticket invitation to the National All-American Pageant in Orlando, FL

  • Trophy

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all participants

  • Talent participation ribbon

  • 1 credit towards Spirit of America award

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rehearsal

There will be a scheduled time where the stage will be available on a first-come-first serve basis to practice.

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If you are attending the rehearsal, you will take your music with you after you have practiced and bring it back with you to the talent competition.

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You bring

  • Talent outfit

  • Music, if applicable (CDs should be well labeled with your name and track number. You will bring this with you to your competition)

  • If you have an accompanist (piano*, guitar, etc.) they will be located off stage. 

  • Talent card (located in your pageant paperwork. This card will be submitted at pageant check-In and handed back to you just prior to the talent event)

On pageant weekend you will submit the corresponding check-in form for each Premium Optional Contest found here.

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