Friendly family feud at Lake County Fair talent show
Anya Smith, 18, of the Polson-Ronan area, won the youth division of the 4H Lake County Fair talent show Friday evening, singing a song while playing the ukelele.
Cammy Maughan, left, and her son, Aaron Broxterman, sing after the Lake County Fair talent show, where Cammy won first place. (Ashley Fox/Lake County Leader)
Ronan’s Cammy Maughan won over a crowd of about 30 and the judges of the Lake County Fair talent show Friday evening.
Taking home the first place prize, Maughan competed against her son, Aaron Broxterman.
Maughan was also master of ceremonies for the talent show.
The victory was seven years in the making, the duo said after the show. Maughan sang a song by popular rock group Halestorm.
“This is the seventh time that we’ve competed against each other,” Broxterman said. “Well done,” he added as he complimented his mother on her win.
Broxterman, also a musician, covered “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi, taking home second place.
“He helps me with my choice of songs,” she said, noting that this year’s selection was “Break In.”
Also a musician, Maughan said she is the choir director at her church.
Maughan has been the emcee for four years at the fair talent show, keeping the audience’s attention by telling family-friendly jokes, finding them online.
“Some of them I try to take from real life, but I’m not a comedienne,” she said, laughing.
For the youth division, Anya Smith of Ronan took first place, singing while playing the ukelele.
Smith has been playing the ukelele for about two years after taking a “crash course” for the instrument at a 4H event.
“The crash course itself I had a lot of trouble” learning how to move her fingers with chord progression. When she got home, she said her grandmother had a ukelele.
“I took it and practiced… I’m sure I drove my entire household crazy,” she said.
Looking up chords online, Smith said that the rest is history.
In the adult division, two people from the same family were vying for the first place honor.
Hopefully next year, Maughan said that more people will join the talent show, as seven people participated this year.
Free to enter, she said that first place winners take home $100, second place takes $75 and third place receives $50.
“There’s a lot of money” to win, she said.
“If anybody wants to be in it, contact the fair board” next year, who will help contestants talk with who they need to, to compete, Maughan added.