Video:The SteppingSTONE Band wins audience vote
It’s a good thing the SteppingSTONE Band closed Wednesday’s 8th annual Morristown’s Got Talent show.
These guys would have been a tough act to follow.
They bounded onto the Mayo Performing Arts Center stage as if they had been pounding down energy drinks and cookies all night in the Starlight Room.
The performance energized spectators, who voted it their favorite one of the evening. Check out the video and see for yourself.
We’re confident the text-message-polling was iron-clad this time; a guy who bore a passing resemblance to Edward Snowden monitored the process. (When MGT attempted audience participation several years ago, electronic voting technology was a tad more…porous, akin to a major bank- or department store chain today.)
Anyhow, we never doubted this band would deliver the goods. The Stones played our MorristownGreen.com Film Festival in 2013 — that is, the SteppingSTONES played–and they were terrific.
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For the record, the group consists of Ryan Schutz, lead vocals; Brad Marullo, lead guitar; Jonathan Presnell, bass; Eric Schaburg, fiddle; and Bill Fajvan on drums.
It was like Old Home Week for Marullo, a music teacher in the Morris School District who was surrounded by past and present pupils all evening. One of them, 11-year-old Arthur Wawrzyniak actually had a better night; his sibling trio brought home $1,000 in prize money, compared with $500 for Marullo’s ensemble.
Our math is shaky, but we’re pretty sure that $1,000 split three ways is more than $500 sliced five ways. (Hmmm, we may have to opt out of next week’s PARCC tests, just to avoid any embarrassment.)
But the most important number is $70,000. That’s how much last year’s talent show raised for programs in the Morris School District.
Debbie Sontupe of the Morris Educational Foundation was confident that another record will be set when everything is counted this time.
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