Kellan Perron performs during the 2010 International Idol Vocal Competition finals at the Soo Theatre. Photo courtesy of Tom Ewing.Local student and winner of the Soo Theatre International Idol vocal competition will open for Meat Loaf at the Kewadin Casino 25th Anniversary Summer Festival on Saturday, July 24.
Twenty-nine contestants competed for over $2,000 in cash in two different divisions, 13-and-under and 14-and-over. This is the third year for the International Idol competition which, this year, focused on the theme “The Possible Dream.”
Kellan Perron, a Bay Mills resident and the Grand Champion of the 14-and-over division, received the opportunity by Kewadin Casinos to open for American rock icon Meat Loaf, as well as $500 worth of studio time at Lake Street Studio in Brimley, a Music-In-The-Park guest appearance, and an opportunity to perform in a stage production sponsored by the Soo Theatre Project.
“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to not only do something that I really love to do but to do it on such a major stage and with a professional crew of people at Kewadin,” said Perron. “I can’t wait to perform!”
The casino’s three-day summer festival will be held from July 22 to 24.
It will feature four national headlining acts, including 1980s rockers Bret Michaels and Vince Neil, modern rockers 3-Doors Down, and American rock icon Meat Loaf. The festival will also feature celebrity appearances with autograph sessions with Henry “The Fonz” Winkler, former Lion football players Billy Sims and Herman Moore and the famous Playboy Playmates, Shannon James, Brittany B. and Amber Campisi, celebrity chef & spinmaster Marc Weiss “The DJ Chef," and a strolling magician.
The festival will also have food and merchant vendors, a golf simulator, bumper cars, Rock Band Wii, a NASCAR Simulator, electronic bull riding, Baggo tournament, daily food eating contests, and fireworks at the end of each day.
Three-day passes to the festival are available as well as single-day passes. The three-day passes include entry into all concerts and three days of festival activities. A limited number of tickets will be available. Cash sales will be available at the box office during the festival. All festival events will be held at Kewadin Casino Sault Ste. Marie from noon to 10 p.m., rain or shine. Admission to the concerts is general. Gates for the festival open at 11 a.m.
More information on the festival can be found on the Kewadin Casinos website (www.kewadin.com), as well as its FaceBook and Twitter pages.
For more information about this year's International Idol Vocal Competition at the Soo Theatre, including photos of the competition, see the International Idol Winners Page on the Soo Theatre website.