EeVe

EeVe's summer schedule is going to be a bit different than most 14 year olds. Whille many teens wil be vacationing or working summer jobs, Miss Stever will be in a professional recording studio laying down her first album. - Northern Light

Congratulatory Message - EeVe Stever


Mr. Kenny: I would like to congratulate Eeve Stever of Bathurst, an up-and-coming singer who now holds the title of Maritime Idol. She won the top prize on Saturday night in Shediac. The competition started with over 100 entries, and Eeve was in the top 24, then the final 12, and eventually number one with her fabulous voice and her strong performance. She has been singing since she was a baby, and she is now 14 years old and a Grade 9 student at Bathurst High School. Her practice has truly paid off, because she has walked away with a $50 000 prize including a $25 000 recording deal. Her parents, Lee and Diane, and her two brothers are very proud of her.

We members of the Legislature are also very proud of her and the other competitors who entered the contest. Bravo, Eeve, and we wish you success.



- House of commons

Congratulatory Message - EeVe Stever


Mr. Kenny: I would like to congratulate Eeve Stever of Bathurst, an up-and-coming singer who now holds the title of Maritime Idol. She won the top prize on Saturday night in Shediac. The competition started with over 100 entries, and Eeve was in the top 24, then the final 12, and eventually number one with her fabulous voice and her strong performance. She has been singing since she was a baby, and she is now 14 years old and a Grade 9 student at Bathurst High School. Her practice has truly paid off, because she has walked away with a $50 000 prize including a $25 000 recording deal. Her parents, Lee and Diane, and her two brothers are very proud of her.

We members of the Legislature are also very proud of her and the other competitors who entered the contest. Bravo, Eeve, and we wish you success.



- House of commons

Maritime Idol Winner - Eeve Stever
June 13, 2007



I was born in and raised in Bathurst, NB, I live with my parents, my brothers and my cat. My parents noticed my unusually loud voice when I was just a toddler. They thought maybe I was deaf. Turns out, I was just loud. My babysitter noticed my singing when I was about three. I could easily repeat songs I heard on TV, note for note. She told my mother I was musical. My parents, being sports oriented, just laughed it off. In elementary school, I sang in the choir and took music lessons. I later sang in music festivals and started playing instruments. In 2003, I won 3 special merit awards in the Bathurst & Miramichi Music Festivals. In 2004, I was a finalist in the Bathurst Hospitality Idol competition. In 2005, I won all of my categories in the Bathurst Music Festival, including Original song composition. I won Bathurst Hospitality Idol and also took home the title of Canadian Youth Idol, which landed me three music scholarships that year. Since than, I sang at many City functions, including the national anthem for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey league, Canada Day and NB Day. I sing at many charity events, Christmas shows, tourist attractions and weddings.

- City of Bathurst

Maritime Idol Winner - Eeve Stever
June 13, 2007



I was born in and raised in Bathurst, NB, I live with my parents, my brothers and my cat. My parents noticed my unusually loud voice when I was just a toddler. They thought maybe I was deaf. Turns out, I was just loud. My babysitter noticed my singing when I was about three. I could easily repeat songs I heard on TV, note for note. She told my mother I was musical. My parents, being sports oriented, just laughed it off. In elementary school, I sang in the choir and took music lessons. I later sang in music festivals and started playing instruments. In 2003, I won 3 special merit awards in the Bathurst & Miramichi Music Festivals. In 2004, I was a finalist in the Bathurst Hospitality Idol competition. In 2005, I won all of my categories in the Bathurst Music Festival, including Original song composition. I won Bathurst Hospitality Idol and also took home the title of Canadian Youth Idol, which landed me three music scholarships that year. Since than, I sang at many City functions, including the national anthem for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey league, Canada Day and NB Day. I sing at many charity events, Christmas shows, tourist attractions and weddings.

- City of Bathurst

Grande gagnante de Maritime Idol!

Et oui...une de nos joueuses de ringuette a un talent bien caché. Pour ceux qui ne le savent pas Eeve Stever, joueuse de ringuette Junior Belle Chaleur, a une des plus belles voix de la région Chaleur. Elle a tout récemment participée à la grande finale du concours Maritime Idol et a remporté les grands honneur. Quel exploit! Diane Guignard et Lee Stever sont très fiers de leurs fille. "Ca été un roller coster d'emotions pendant un mois et très stressant pour la famille, mais particulièrement Eeve. Elle a pu vaincre plusieurs de ces plus grandes peurs. Je suis très fiers d'elle" a signalé la maman. J'ai personnellement entendu Eeve chanter et ce n'est pas une grande surprise qu'elle gagne un tel concours. Au nom de la grande famille de ringuette je voudrais te féliciter et bonne chance dans tes projets futurs en chanson.

Bravo Eeve!

Claire Finn
- Ringette NB

Grande gagnante de Maritime Idol!

Et oui...une de nos joueuses de ringuette a un talent bien caché. Pour ceux qui ne le savent pas Eeve Stever, joueuse de ringuette Junior Belle Chaleur, a une des plus belles voix de la région Chaleur. Elle a tout récemment participée à la grande finale du concours Maritime Idol et a remporté les grands honneur. Quel exploit! Diane Guignard et Lee Stever sont très fiers de leurs fille. "Ca été un roller coster d'emotions pendant un mois et très stressant pour la famille, mais particulièrement Eeve. Elle a pu vaincre plusieurs de ces plus grandes peurs. Je suis très fiers d'elle" a signalé la maman. J'ai personnellement entendu Eeve chanter et ce n'est pas une grande surprise qu'elle gagne un tel concours. Au nom de la grande famille de ringuette je voudrais te féliciter et bonne chance dans tes projets futurs en chanson.

Bravo Eeve!

Claire Finn
- Ringette NB

Maritime Idol hits high schools
Organizers decide to change up singing competition this year to include more N.B. talent.
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Published Thursday September 27th, 2007
The couple behind Maritime Idol have decided to follow up last year's inaugural competition by taking much of their second web-based "season" directly to the region's youth.

"Basically we're moving it out of the restaurant/bar venues into the high schools," said Ron Pomerleau, who runs Maritime Idol along with his wife Katherine.

The Riverview couple believe the move will provide them with access to young competitors and audience members.

"Each school is like a small community that will propel itself," Ron said, noting that they would no longer need to compete with licensed events for bar audiences.

The Pomerleaus will still hold some parts of the events in bars for the sake of over-18 contestants, but younger competitors will be able to take part in schools.

"More and more, the contestants were minors and the parents were frowning -- with good reason -- at taking them into a bar atmosphere," Ron said.

Finally, Ron said, partnering with eager student councils will allow them to make deep cuts their advertising budget, which, last year, proved to be a significant expense. In exchange, the student councils earn 20 per cent of ticket proceeds.

The event is already underway at four high schools in P.E.I., and will reach likely its first New Brunswick school -- Saint John Harbour View High School -- on Oct. 18. Ron said he's currently in talks with a number of other schools.

Students will face an initial round of single-song auditions.

"If they can sing, we want them in the competition," Ron said. "We don't want all Celine Dions." But Ron said that, unlike other Idol competitions, Maritime Idol doesn't make the preliminary and potentially humiliating experience part of the show. He just has to cut contestants down to a manageable 12 per school, and wants to cut poor singers before they get a chance to embarrass themselves.

The chosen 12 at each school compete in four weekly events with themes ranging from modern pop to '60s rock. The singers are videotaped, and their songs are put on the Maritime Idol website for the perusal of the voting public.

The votes make up half of a contestant's point total for the week, with the other half coming from judges' marks on everything from vocal clarity to image to stage movement.

The four weekly winners go on to a monthly school final, and school winners and bar winners meet in a year-end faceoff for $25,000 in studio time and $25,000 in other prizes from local and regional sponsors.

Last year's winner, 15-year-old EeVe Stever, is in the middle of making her 12-song debut CD with Rogersville producer Denis Roy at his newly built Studio 126.

Stever said the competition was a "crazy" experience that she would certainly recommend to others. She quoted a fellow performer in saying she entered the competition a singer and left a performer.

"You learn so much, and if you do what the judges tell you, you're going to go far," Stever said.

The Bathurst singer admits she was extremely nervous before going onstage and was scared to talk to the audience or move around.

"I said 'if I'm going to go up there I have to look the part -- I can't just get up and sing,'" she said, though her nervousness was ironically tempered by her belief she had no chance of winning. "I definitely came out of my comfort zone." It's only appropriate, then, that the Pomerleaus are also miles beyond their comfort zones. As a middle-aged couple with a home-based Internet business, they never dreamt they'd be hosting a singing pageant.

"We look at each other and wonder 'how the heck did we get here?'" Ron laughed.

In fact, when watching a friend's teenage daughter put on an impromptu living room singing performance last February, Ron's first thought was that he'd never seen anyone sing so up close before. His second thought was that such a good young singer had very few venues to show off her talent.

"That's how the idea (for Maritime Idol) came up -- with how to give these people exposure," he said. The couple all but quit their Internet jobs to work on Maritime Idol full time. While they hired a full-time sales representative, they jumped headlong into a world of auditions, tournament brackets, votes and sponsors. Ron, who had never even used a video camera before, often found himself on filming duty.

"It's a lot of work and it's a lot of fun too," Ron said.

The first season drew $200,000 in prizes and 400-500 entrants. The year-end webcast alone attracted more than 10,000 views.

Before the couple launched the competition back in May 2006, they contacted the Canadian Idol people and asked if they could use the Idol name. The national b - Telegraph journal

Maritime Idol hits high schools
Organizers decide to change up singing competition this year to include more N.B. talent.
Print this ArticleEmail this ArticleResize TextBookmark this ArticleFacebookDiggStumble Upondel.icio.usLive BookmarkTechnoratiTOOL HELPBen Curties
Published Thursday September 27th, 2007
The couple behind Maritime Idol have decided to follow up last year's inaugural competition by taking much of their second web-based "season" directly to the region's youth.

"Basically we're moving it out of the restaurant/bar venues into the high schools," said Ron Pomerleau, who runs Maritime Idol along with his wife Katherine.

The Riverview couple believe the move will provide them with access to young competitors and audience members.

"Each school is like a small community that will propel itself," Ron said, noting that they would no longer need to compete with licensed events for bar audiences.

The Pomerleaus will still hold some parts of the events in bars for the sake of over-18 contestants, but younger competitors will be able to take part in schools.

"More and more, the contestants were minors and the parents were frowning -- with good reason -- at taking them into a bar atmosphere," Ron said.

Finally, Ron said, partnering with eager student councils will allow them to make deep cuts their advertising budget, which, last year, proved to be a significant expense. In exchange, the student councils earn 20 per cent of ticket proceeds.

The event is already underway at four high schools in P.E.I., and will reach likely its first New Brunswick school -- Saint John Harbour View High School -- on Oct. 18. Ron said he's currently in talks with a number of other schools.

Students will face an initial round of single-song auditions.

"If they can sing, we want them in the competition," Ron said. "We don't want all Celine Dions." But Ron said that, unlike other Idol competitions, Maritime Idol doesn't make the preliminary and potentially humiliating experience part of the show. He just has to cut contestants down to a manageable 12 per school, and wants to cut poor singers before they get a chance to embarrass themselves.

The chosen 12 at each school compete in four weekly events with themes ranging from modern pop to '60s rock. The singers are videotaped, and their songs are put on the Maritime Idol website for the perusal of the voting public.

The votes make up half of a contestant's point total for the week, with the other half coming from judges' marks on everything from vocal clarity to image to stage movement.

The four weekly winners go on to a monthly school final, and school winners and bar winners meet in a year-end faceoff for $25,000 in studio time and $25,000 in other prizes from local and regional sponsors.

Last year's winner, 15-year-old EeVe Stever, is in the middle of making her 12-song debut CD with Rogersville producer Denis Roy at his newly built Studio 126.

Stever said the competition was a "crazy" experience that she would certainly recommend to others. She quoted a fellow performer in saying she entered the competition a singer and left a performer.

"You learn so much, and if you do what the judges tell you, you're going to go far," Stever said.

The Bathurst singer admits she was extremely nervous before going onstage and was scared to talk to the audience or move around.

"I said 'if I'm going to go up there I have to look the part -- I can't just get up and sing,'" she said, though her nervousness was ironically tempered by her belief she had no chance of winning. "I definitely came out of my comfort zone." It's only appropriate, then, that the Pomerleaus are also miles beyond their comfort zones. As a middle-aged couple with a home-based Internet business, they never dreamt they'd be hosting a singing pageant.

"We look at each other and wonder 'how the heck did we get here?'" Ron laughed.

In fact, when watching a friend's teenage daughter put on an impromptu living room singing performance last February, Ron's first thought was that he'd never seen anyone sing so up close before. His second thought was that such a good young singer had very few venues to show off her talent.

"That's how the idea (for Maritime Idol) came up -- with how to give these people exposure," he said. The couple all but quit their Internet jobs to work on Maritime Idol full time. While they hired a full-time sales representative, they jumped headlong into a world of auditions, tournament brackets, votes and sponsors. Ron, who had never even used a video camera before, often found himself on filming duty.

"It's a lot of work and it's a lot of fun too," Ron said.

The first season drew $200,000 in prizes and 400-500 entrants. The year-end webcast alone attracted more than 10,000 views.

Before the couple launched the competition back in May 2006, they contacted the Canadian Idol people and asked if they could use the Idol name. The national b - Telegraph journal

La grande gagnante de Maritime Idol prépare son premier album
Mise à jour le vendredi 15 juin 2007
Par: Seymour, Béatrice
BATHURST - La gagnante de Maritime Idol 2007, EeVe Stever, de Bathurst, se prépare à entrer en studio, le mois prochain, pour l’enregistrement de son premier album.

EeVe Stever a été proclamée l’idole des Maritimes, lors de la grande finale, à Shédiac, samedi dernier. Elle fut le choix du public et du jury parmi 11 autres finalistes.



C'ette article est seulement disponible aux abonnés de ce magazine. - Acadie Nouvelle

La grande gagnante de Maritime Idol prépare son premier album
Mise à jour le vendredi 15 juin 2007
Par: Seymour, Béatrice
BATHURST - La gagnante de Maritime Idol 2007, EeVe Stever, de Bathurst, se prépare à entrer en studio, le mois prochain, pour l’enregistrement de son premier album.

EeVe Stever a été proclamée l’idole des Maritimes, lors de la grande finale, à Shédiac, samedi dernier. Elle fut le choix du public et du jury parmi 11 autres finalistes.



C'ette article est seulement disponible aux abonnés de ce magazine. - Acadie Nouvelle