<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>COURTNEY MELOCHE</strong></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">FTV Star <strong>Top 10</strong> Contestant!!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Get to Know Courtney&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">1. <strong>How did you feel about your experience as an FTV Star contestant? What were the highs and lows for you?</strong><br />
I absolutely loved the experience! It was amazing to see just how supportive my friends, family, classmates, castmates, community, etc<br />
really are&#8230; thank you so much to everyone who voted for me&#8230; love you all!!! The low point would be getting voted off when I did&#8230; I<br />
wish I could have made it further!</p>
<p><strong>2. Who is your favorite singer/band?</strong><br />
My all time favourite band is an incredible group out of New Orleans called the Continental Drifters. Their music has touched me and<br />
inspired me in so many ways and at so many different times of my life, I can&#8217;t imagine my life without them! I also really love Susan<br />
Cowsill&#8217;s solo material&#8230; her new album Lighthouse is mindblowingly amazing! My other faves are the Bangles, the Indigo Girls, Dixie<br />
Chicks, and the Barenaked Ladies. My current minor obsessions are Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley, and the Court Yard Hounds.</p>
<p><strong>3. What type of music do you have on your ipod/mp3?<br />
</strong>A very eclectic mix! I will listen to anything pretty well as long as it is quality music that doesn&#8217;t promote hate. I listen to mostly a<br />
lot of folk music and classic rock, but lately I&#8217;ve been getting a lot more into country as well. I also happen to be a musical theatre<br />
student, so I have a lot of show tunes and classical music&#8230; there&#8217;s not much that I don&#8217;t have! I just put my ipod on shuffle and the<br />
first ten songs that came on were by The Pretenders, Beach Boys, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Eurythmics, Stray Cats, Rush, Sopwith Camel, Kelly<br />
Clarkson, Chic, and Carole King.</p>
<p><strong>4. Who would you like to one day sing with?<br />
</strong>My absolute dream would be to sing with Susan Cowsill, Vicki Peterson, and/or the Indigo Girls!</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5562" title="Courtney_Meloche_2" src="http://blog.feelingthevibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Courtney_Meloche_21.jpg" alt="Courtney_Meloche_2" width="285" height="545" />5. What are your musical plans from here?</strong><br />
In September I will be starting my second year of college where I am studying music theatre performance. I love that because I get to go<br />
to school to sing, act, and dance, and while its a lot of hard work, when it all comes together it is the most rewarding feeling in the<br />
world! I have also been working on music of a variety of genres outside of school with a few different friends. One guy I&#8217;m working<br />
with is more 60s inspired psychadelic rock, another one is old school country and is helping me to launch a country music career&#8230; it&#8217;s<br />
amazing to me to think that I am fortunate enough to be able to dip my toes into so many different pools and get such a great taste of<br />
everything while I&#8217;m trying to figure out exactly what I want to do.</p>
<p><strong>6. What are your summer plans?<br />
</strong>My summer kicks off with a trip to Nashville at the end of June. We were supposed to go earlier, but postponed because of the flooding.<br />
Nashville, especially the Grand Ole Opry, is very near and dear to my heart, so I am really looking forward to getting back down there to do<br />
more writing and some recording. And I can&#8217;t wait to go back to the Opry and see an incredible show and meet some equally incredible<br />
artists, even though it isn&#8217;t going to be held at the opry building for some time yet. Shall be fun! I am spending most of the summer working as a history interpreter at a local historic site that I&#8217;ve been involved with for the last six years. My town has a rich history associated with the war of 1812 as well as the underground railroad, so with the bicentennial of the war of 1812 quickly approaching, we&#8217;re going to be pretty busy this summer getting prepared for that. I will also be singing at some local events connected to my job, and performing music from and inspired by<br />
the war of 1812 on site. Aside from that, I will be returning to a wonderful leadership camp in the greater Toronto area of which I am an<br />
alumni to facilitate a week of camp. I&#8217;m really looking forward to working with the kids, and hoping that I can be of inspiration to them.</p>
<p><strong>7. What has been your most exciting musical experience so far?</strong><br />
My most exciting musical experience so far was going to the Grand Ole Opry for the first time last summer as a VIP and watching the show<br />
from the side of the stage, meeting all of the artists, and discovering the magic of country music. At that particular time in my<br />
life I was feeling very discouraged and frustrated with my music, and was considering quitting, but after one night in that building I knew<br />
100% that music was what I wanted to do and what I was going to do.</p>
<p><strong>8. What was the best concert you ever went to?<br />
</strong>The best concert I have ever been to without question was Heart and the Bangles at the Illinois State Fair last summer! I&#8217;ve seen the<br />
Bangles multiple times and they are always fantastic, but that was probably one of their best sets in recent years. It was the first<br />
time I&#8217;ve ever seen Heart and I am absolutely dying to see them again! They&#8217;ve not only still got it, but they&#8217;re actually better now than<br />
they&#8217;ve ever been! That was a night I will absolutely never forget!</p>
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