Show Choir season has officially begun, and with that, New Castle’s Red Hot Blues and Dynamiques starts with a bang! On Friday, January 24, New Castle’s show choir groups, Red Hot Blues (RHB) and Dynamiques, performed at the 2025 Ball State Mid America Show Choir Competition. The competition saw 7 schools competing in the small school mixed competition: DeKalb High, Edgewood High, Garrett High, Burris Laboratory, Bishop Dwenger High, Anderson Prep, and New Castle High. The competition also hosted a small school girls/ treble competition which included the schools Edgewood High, Wawasee High, and New Castle High. The event was hosted by Ball State University “University Singers”. New Castle’s all girl group, Dynamiques, performed on Friday and achieved 2nd place and the accolade “Best Crew”. Dynamiques’s best performer was junior student Rozlynn Gibson. New Castle’s mixed group, Red Hot Blues, also achieved 2nd place with the accolades “People’s choice” and “Best choreography”. RHB’s best performer was junior student Trenton Boughton. Two students participated in the soloist competition: junior Rozlynn Gibson and sophomore Glenn Stovall. Gibson placed top in the top 3.
After the show, interviews were done with members of the show choir. The interviews were aimed to garner how specific individuals felt about their placement and how they felt about the competition as a whole. Senior student, Rhiannon Fischer, states that she is, “proud of both groups for placing second,” and that she is “extremely proud of how we [RHB] placed and how much we’ve improved over the last few weeks”. Another member of RHB, junior student Jackson Gulley states that, “Although it was different compared to my last two years … because this year we are not going to the Show Choir State finals … We were all very excited. Everyone has worked very hard for this moment, and we gave it our all … I would say we did great for the first comp of the season.”
