Singapore Airlines Starfest

Friday night's (18 July) Singapore Airlines StarFest at the James Hay Theatre was a huge success. A bunch of very talented children and families from throughout Canterbury competed. It was a very closely matched competition this year and the judges had a tough time.

First place and a family holiday to Singapore, courtesy of Singapore Airlines, was picked up by Eddie (12) and Cullen (10) Kiesanowski from Burwood who performed a very fine acoustic version of the Atlas song, Crawl.

Te Hae Whanau – Hikairo (13), Setu (11), Wairepo (9), Maia (4) from Wainoni were named second and Ashley (5) and Abbey (6) Armstrong from Prebbleton were third.

Also presented at the Singapore Airlines StarFest final were the inaugural APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Children's Song of the Year Award which had Craig Smith tieing for 1st place with Claudia Gunn, and the What Now Children's Video of the Year being awarded to the Funky Monkeys.