http://wbkr.com Sun, 19 May 2013 04:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wbkr.com/two-acts-tied-for-second-at-battle-for-the-big-o-video/ http://wbkr.com/two-acts-tied-for-second-at-battle-for-the-big-o-video/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:00:48 +0000 Chadwick Benefield http://wbkr.com/?p=91653 Last Saturday, we crowned the champion of the 2012 Battle for the Big O!  It was an amazing night of competition at Diamond Lake's "Good Time" Theatre and the grand champion was Brian Hart of Henderson.  He pocketed $1,000.00 and gets the honor of opening The Big O Music Fest, Saturday, August 18th at Reid's Orchard.  Brian was awesome Saturday . . . but got a run for his money from two different acts:  Dakota Cummins and Ryan Hayden and The Bourbon Barrel Band.  Since the score was SO close, we thought you should see our runners-up too!  They were terrific and missed the title by a mere FOUR points!  TAKE A LOOK!

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