"APRIL LOVE" SENIOR TALENT SHOW IN WAKE FOREST, NC ON APRIL 10th

THE FIFTH ANNUAL "APRIL LOVE" SENIOR TALENT SHOW BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SENIOR NETWORK WAS HELD AT THE RENAISSANCE CENTER IN WAKE FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA ON FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2026.

IVY ELDEN PRODUCED THE SHOW; AND THE MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES WAS JENNIE GRIGGS. PIANIST NELLIE YANCEY PLAYED AS THE GUESTS ARRIVED.

BESIDES THE TALENT SHOW, THIS WAS A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO ENTERTAINER ALGIA MOTLEY WHO HAD BEEN A MAJOR PART OF THE SENIOR NETWORK. (HE EXPERIENCED A TRAGIC ACCIDENT LAST YEAR AND IS NO LONGER WITH US.)

ALGIA MOTLEY

MAJOR SPONSOR OF THE EVENT

STEPHANIE FUSTICH

NELLIE YANCEY

USHERS & USHERETTES WHO ASSISTED GYESTS

BLUE GRASSMISTRESS OF CEREMONIES JENNIE GRIGGS

THE CROSS COUNTRY BOYS OPENED THE SHOW WITH "I HAVE FOUND A WAY" AND "ROCKY TOP". BELOW ARE PICTURES OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS BLUE GRASS BAND: KEN STALLINGS (GUITAR), FRANK LESSITER (MANDOLIN) AND DENNIS PHILLIPS (BANJO)

NEXT CAME JOEL TURNER WITH "IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT" AND "DADDY'S HOME"

TOM DEL CORRO WAS NEXT WITH "TEQUILA SUNRISE" AND "iF YOU COULD READ MY MIND"

"THE STRUTTERS" (JOYCE ADAIR, BETTY CLARY, GLENN CLARY, JUDY HARRISON, JUDY HOWELL, DARYL HUGHES AND VICKI LETFORD) PERFORMED TO "SWEET SWEET SMILE"

NEXT IT WAS DAVE FOUTS SINGING "TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS" AND "YOU;VE GOT A FRIEND"

DAVE FOUTS THEN ACCOMPANIED VICTORIA VOIGHT WITH "STAY".

VICTORIA GOT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION WITH "HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE"

DARREL DARNELL WAS NEXT WITH "SWEET CAROLINE" AND "KEEP ME IN YOUR HEART"

BRIDGING THE GAP - -

THIS SEGMENT OF THE SHOW WAS A REAL TRIBUTE TO ALGIA MOTLEY. ALGIA HAD PERFORMED IN 2024 WITH HIS OLDEST GRANDSON, LAST YEAR WITH BOTH HIS GRANDSONS AND WAS PRACTICING FOR THIS YEAR'S PERFORMANCE WITH HIS TWO GRANDSONS AND HIS YOUNG GRANDDAUGHTER.

ALGIA'S SON, JEFF, HAD AGREED TO APPEAR WITH HIS TWO SONS (ALGIA'S GRANDSONS) ELI AND EZEQUIEL AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER.

AS THEY APPEARED ON STAGE TO SING "GAMES PEOPLE PLAY", ALONG WITH THEM WAS ALGIA'S GRANDDAUGHTER, A WONDERFUL SURPRISE FOR THE AUDIENCE. SHE SANG AND DANCED! ALGIA WOULD HAVE BEEN SO PROUD OF ALL OF THEM!

MICAELA TORAIN SANG "NEVER GIVE UP" AND AS SHE BEGAN "DANCE WITH MY FATHER", THERE WAS NOT A DRY EYE IN THE THEATRE. A SCREEN CAME DOWN WITH PICTURES OF A YOUNG ALGIA AND PICTURES OF ALGIA PERFORMING HERE AT THE "APRIL LOVE" SENIOR TALENT SHOWS WITH HIS GRANDSONS.

ON SCREEN WAS A PICTURE FROM LAST YEAR'S "APRIL LOVE" SHOW WHEN ALGIA SANG TO A FORMER TEACHER HE FLEW TO RALEIGH FOR THE SHOW.

AFTER A SHORT INTERMISSION, ACT II BEGAN WITH DEBBIE DEL CORRO EL CHAYEB PLAYING SONGS FROM THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

"AMERICAN dREAM" AND "STEAM POWERED AEREO PLANE" WERE SUNG BY LARRY FERNANDEZ.

"THE STRUTTERSTONS:" WERE ON STAGE AGAIN PERFORMING TO "SIXTEEN TONS

STEVE PFANENSTIEL TOOK TO THE STAGE WITH "FROZEN MAN" AND "SUPERMAN"

FIRST TIME TO PERFORM AT "APRIL LOVE", JOHN KENLAN SANG "STARTING OVER" AND "BRANDY LOOKING GLASS"

THEN "RAPPER'S DELIGHT" PERFORMED BY JOEL TURNER

THE GRAND FANALE, "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN" WAS LED BY STEVE PFANENSTIEL. THE EVENING'S PERFORMERS CAME ON STAGE - AND THE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATED.

THE ENTIRE SHOW WILL BE ON YOUTUBE VERY SHORTLY. PLEASE LOOK FOR IT!