Tiger’s Roar has been helping students showcase their talents for more than 80 years. Albert Lea High School students put on an amazing performance at this year’s talent show on March 28 and March 29 at 7 p.m. This show allows students with different talents and interests to showcase it to the community. With amazing performances of singing and playing instruments, it’s two hours of back-to-back acts.

In between these acts, we get skits from the masters of the ceremony, Sophomore Evalyn Holcomb and Freshman Given Saw. Later in the show, they also gave a singing performance of the song “Love is an Open Door” by K. and R. Lopez.

The show featured individual acts, three songs from the show choir, a clarinet choir, a sax quartet. Many of the performers were in multiple acts.

One of the emcees, Holcomb, was in three different acts while also being an amazing host. She got into hosting because Tiger’s Roar and choir director Erik Zinter asked her to host based on her previous experience from last year. Holcomb talked about the stress of being in so many different acts. It meant multiple costume changes.

“Hosting and also being in acts was stressful but Given was able to take over for me which made it easier,” said Holcomb and allowed her to participate in her favorite part of Tiger’s Roar  which “was lurking in the shadows while people were performing.”

Holcomb reached out to Saw and asked him to be her co-emcee. Saw also discussed the nerves that come with being an emcee.

“There were a lot of nerves but after the intermission, I was pretty confident,” said Saw but he agrees with Holcomb that hosting and performing is a lot. Saw isn’t planning on doing both next year. “It’s really thrilling and fun, next year though, I’ll either just act or stick to hosting, probably not both at the same time.”

All the performers had their own worries even though everything turned out amazing. Junior Gaby Tufte, who was in the show choir and clarinet choir, loved her experience. Her favorite part was her show choir performance.

“I really like when we all like start crawling,” Tufte said. “It’s so cool to see all your friends next to you, just making the weirdest faces.”

Junior Mayzie Paulson, who performed “Stay” by Rihanna for her solo, had only been fully preparing for the show for a week. Paulson discovered she could sing in fifth grade and began taking singing more seriously.  She picked “Stay” because of the emotions in it.

“I really like Rihanna,” Paulson said. “I thought it was kind of deep, you know, kind of emotional.”

Paulson was most worried about remembering the lyrics, “I didn’t know the lyrics until maybe three days before.”

Junior Axel Calderon was fully confident in their show choir performance from the beginning.

“I was fully prepared for us to be perfect, and we were,” he said.

Sophomore Adele Helleksen sang a solo both in show choir and on her own. “We didnt really know who was gonna have the solos. They kind of kept it a mystery until like the week or two before. So finding out that it was going to be me and Kyle was really cool.”

The group performances included clarinet choir playing “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” by W.A. Mozart, the sax quartet playing “Sweet Child of Mine” by Guns and Roses, and the show ends off with a show choir performing a three song story they called “A Rising Star”, the songs in this story were “Ignition” by Arr. Anita Crackauer, “Shallow” by Arr. Mac Huff, and “Love Runs Out” by Arr. Mark Brymer. The show choir portrayed the story of the highs and lows of a rising star.

Senior Brecken Koepke played guitar and sang “I Wish I Was” by the Avett Brothers. “I’d give my Tigers Roar experiance and performance five big booms. Boom, boom, boom.”

Tiger’s Roar not only highlights the students and their talents, it also creates a community within the groups and the audience. The entire night had an amazing energy and the audience was lively. Tiger’s Roar is the perfect place for students to showcase one of their talents.

“It’s not scary,” said Tufte. “It’s fun. You should do it.”