Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Talent Show
Young musicians get their chance to shine.
Talented young musicians and singers from Greenbelt and beyond entertained the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival crowd late Saturday afternoon with performances in a variety of musical styles and genres—everything from pop to punk, from grunge to soul, with a little heavy metal thrown in. The scheduled acts included accomplished performances by Cushioned Fall Band, singer Kristen Beauchamp, Plaid Zebra Band, and the Baltimore-based Five Mile Stretch band. A special revelation was the impromptu a capella performance by Shervonne Brown, who wowed the audience with her original take on a Beyonce song—“Listen”—from "Dreamgirls." Brown’s selected number about finding one’s own voice and living one’s own dream could be symbolic of the entire event, …
