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Weekend Finale Filled with Fun
All Photos Credit: Richard Weakley, Trey Henderson, Khaled Saeed/The Avion Newspaper
Elizabeth Worsham & Tayler Vest Managing Editor & Staff Reporter On Nov. 9, the Armstrong parking lot transformed into a spectacle of music, rides and glittering lights as a finale to ERAU’s Homecoming Week 2013. Thirty people put in a total of 1200 hours over the weekend to make sure that Homecoming finished with a bang. After a long week of activities, students and the general public were welcomed to Friday’s
comedy show featuring Demetri Martin. 1800 people attended the event, with nearly 100 students staffing the show. During the show, Demetri showed his unique style of comedy, using stage props such as the “Large Pad,” and accompanied some jokes with his harmonica and guitar as a final performance. His performance on Friday was very much
a throwback to his show “Important Things with Demetri Martin”, which aired on Comedy Central for two seasons in 2009. Demetri Martin wasn’t always a comedian. He went to law school before choosing to pursue his goal of being a comedian. Not only a comedian, Dimitri also writes and acts. He wrote for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and some of his books include “This is a Book,” as well as “Point Your Face at This.” He appeared in the Daily
Show as the Senior Youth Correspondent. He has also appeared in the season finale of Flight of the Conchords, an HBO series. His comedian career has been on-going since 1997. Yet his performance was just an appetizer for Saturday night’s festivities, as Touch-N-Go hosted a closed-to-thepublic carnival and concert for ERAU students. Over three thousand students attending the carnival participated in a range of activities from
rides and face painting to vendors and fun houses. The carnival featured a concert headlining Gloriana with Erick Baker performing as the opening act. Gloriana is a country music group hailing from Nashville, Tenn. Their hit songs include “Wild at Heart,” “How Far Do You Wanna Go?” and “(Kissed You) Good Night.” In 2009, they were recipients of the American Music Awards Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award, and in 2010,
they won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Vocal Group Award. Erick Baker is a singer-songwriter from Knoxsville, Tenn. In addition to his own headlining performances, he has performed with artists including James Blundt, Gavin DeGraw, John Legend and Goo Goo Dolls. Did you enjoy showing your ERAU spirit during this week’s festivities? Do not worry, next year’s Homecoming is only 356 days away!