Students display talent at Open Mic

By Nicole Lord
Staff Writer

The Campus Activities Board hosted an open mic night for amateur performers in the U.C. on March 15. Students played instruments, read poetry and even performed magic tricks on stage to an unusually large audience for an open mic night.

A student who called himself Sir Nicholas was one of the first performers to take the stage. He entertained the audience with songs he played on his guitar. Two performers following Sir Nicholas also serenaded the audience with self-written guitar song.

“This is a song that I wrote last year sometime,” Travis Marshall said before he began to play his tune.

The other five performers read poetry to the audience. It was the choice of entertainment for many of the performers.

One of the crowd favorites was a student introduced as Haji. He read a self-written poem entitled “Peace.” Junior Joey Kirk performed a spoken word he called “I sang a song.” Following his act, Ariadne DeGarr performed “I can.”

“I figured if I was going to drive an hour and a half [to UNCP] I might as well do something,” she said, when asked why she decided to participate in the CAB activity.