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Tuesday night, the Choice Professionals and Katie Bradley were chosen to go on to the finals in Java Jive Presents The Project. The competition, which will be going on throughout the semester, will end in a final free-for-all consisting of the top acts competing for a day in the recording studio.
The first performer to take the stage was Brian Monahan, who hit the crowd with a flurry of improvised songs.
Next up was the guitar playing duo known as Verve Logo. The team started off by playing an introduction piece, which they had written themselves. They continued to play two cover songs, which the crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy.
Katie Bradley, who ended up being one of the two acts to move on to the finals, performed third with two entirely original songs, “All for Love” and “Amazing Ways.”
“I really love it when people enjoy my music. That’s what I do,” Bradley said after the event. “It’s my heart really. The songs that I write are just what I feel and what I think.”
The audience seemed impressed with both Bradley’s guitar-playing skills and vocals. Bradley brought a feminine intensity to the stage that clearly spoke to the judges.
The final performers of the night were a duo known as the Choice Professionals. The twosome, consisting of music majors Nicholas Mather and Karl Varian, came out with guitar blazing and horn blaring.
One of the crowd’s favorite songs of the night that they performed was about the celebrity Lindsay Lohan. They brought an excitement to the stage that really got the crowd going.
The judges for the night were Stephanie Thompson and Katie Thurston of the Campus Activities Board and Pattie Barry of The Maine Campus. Each performer was scored after they played their set, and at the end, whichever acts had the two highest scores would continue on in the competition.
“We score them all as they come through, so it’s not like we pick at the end,” Thurston said about the judging.
Java Jive Presents the Project continues on Tuesday, Feb. 21, with all new acts competing to go on to the finals. It will be held, as always, in Memorial Union, and admission is free.
