Idol hits the island of "rock"
Newfoundland and Labrador has a long history of competitors who have made it on Canadian Idol.
Jenny Gear, Jason Greeley, Rex Goudie, Craig Sharpe and Tara Oram have all cracked the Top 10 in the past five seasons. So just what is it about this province that makes it such an island of "rock?"
Kyle Puddester, who was hoping to be the next to make it on the show, said music here is just a way of life.
"It's just such a small spot that I guess everybody kind of gets on each other's back and pushes everybody else," said Puddester.
"There's a lot of support here, a lot of musical talent that really hasn't been tapped yet because there's so many small places here. (Idol) is a good chance for people to come out who probably wouldn't get noticed before. So I guess when they do get noticed, especially the smaller communities and stuff, where everybody pretty knows everybody's name, the support is unbelievable."
Puddester, 22, who grew up in Freshwater Placentia Bay but now lives in St. John's, said his mom was really big into music when he was young.
"That's actually kind of how I started playing. She used to sing me to sleep with 'Me and Bobby McGee' by Janis Joplin so I always grew up with music in the house and even in my own house now, music is a big thing," he said.
Puddester was one of more than 200 competitors who came out to Avalon Mall on Tuesday in St. John's to audition for Idol.
His friend Adam Baxter, 25, a transplanted Newfoundlander who is originally from Nova Scotia, had similar thoughts on the province's music scene.
"This kind of goes back to the province being an island and there being so many people who are musical and everybody feeds off each other. There's just so much support around here for music," said Baxter.
He looks up to former Season 1 competitor Jenny Gear from Carbonear, who didn't win but gained plenty of exposure from her time on Idol.
"It's been so long since her Idol journey that she's now gigging around St. John's and Newfoundland a lot so it's really good to go see her and kind of chat with her, she's really down to earth and she's an amazing artist," said Baxter.
Matthew Smith, 19, from Winterton, concurred that when you grow up in a small community you turn to music for something to do.
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Jenny Gear, Jason Greeley, Rex Goudie, Craig Sharpe and Tara Oram have all cracked the Top 10 in the past five seasons. So just what is it about this province that makes it such an island of "rock?"
Kyle Puddester, who was hoping to be the next to make it on the show, said music here is just a way of life.
"It's just such a small spot that I guess everybody kind of gets on each other's back and pushes everybody else," said Puddester.
"There's a lot of support here, a lot of musical talent that really hasn't been tapped yet because there's so many small places here. (Idol) is a good chance for people to come out who probably wouldn't get noticed before. So I guess when they do get noticed, especially the smaller communities and stuff, where everybody pretty knows everybody's name, the support is unbelievable."
Puddester, 22, who grew up in Freshwater Placentia Bay but now lives in St. John's, said his mom was really big into music when he was young.
"That's actually kind of how I started playing. She used to sing me to sleep with 'Me and Bobby McGee' by Janis Joplin so I always grew up with music in the house and even in my own house now, music is a big thing," he said.
Puddester was one of more than 200 competitors who came out to Avalon Mall on Tuesday in St. John's to audition for Idol.
His friend Adam Baxter, 25, a transplanted Newfoundlander who is originally from Nova Scotia, had similar thoughts on the province's music scene.
"This kind of goes back to the province being an island and there being so many people who are musical and everybody feeds off each other. There's just so much support around here for music," said Baxter.
He looks up to former Season 1 competitor Jenny Gear from Carbonear, who didn't win but gained plenty of exposure from her time on Idol.
"It's been so long since her Idol journey that she's now gigging around St. John's and Newfoundland a lot so it's really good to go see her and kind of chat with her, she's really down to earth and she's an amazing artist," said Baxter.
Matthew Smith, 19, from Winterton, concurred that when you grow up in a small community you turn to music for something to do.
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