 Location sponsorship generously provided by Eric's church bar and grill, with karaoke every Thursday night at 7 until 10. And champion sports bar with karaoke Sunday, Monday and Thursday nights 9 till close and Wednesday nights 10 till close. Welcome back, main karaoke idol. This is episode four. This is night two of our cut week. We have a whole crop. Thank you. Thank you. We have a whole crop of new contestants tonight. So we'd like to thank them for showing up. At least that's step one. Step two, you got to be able to sing a little bit. So we'd also like to thank our good people at champions bar in Bitterford, Maine. Let's hear for them. They'll be open until what time tonight? One o'clock. One o'clock. So if you want to meet us there and go over the show, I think the owner would really appreciate it. We'd also like to thank again our very talented pallet of judges, who dare I say may be better looking than they are talented. We got my good friend Melvin Gratis. Clap. Guys, we're live here. Let's wake up a little bit. Karen, one of Maine's most influential women, who I would say is probably the most influential after I bet her. Was that good? Yeah. And the wild card of the group, the dirty dog, Kelly Lawrence, give it up. So if you watched last night, I said that we were going to announce who was cut from last night, but we changed our minds. This is our first time doing this as well. So we're going to wait until tonight. Make sure you vote again. And we're going to announce Friday who's going to make it to next week. So a little twist, but I think it's going to work out better. So on that note, I think we're going to start with our first contestant, rockin' the moxie hat. My good friend, Zarek. Hello, my name's Eric Z. I've been singing karaoke for a long time, over 30 years. And I sing now a lot at Champion Sports Bar in Bitterford. Tonight I'm going to sing a song I've got to get a message to you by the Bee Gees. I've always enjoyed singing Bee Gees songs. How's it feel to be the first one of the night in my headphone? Bleeding from the ears over here? Thank you. You felt good though? Yes. Okay. All right. Well, let's go to the judges and we'll see what they thought. We're going to start with Melvin right here. He's the first one. Melvin is his name. Definitely appreciate that. Eric, thank you so much for being here. I really did not expect such a sweet voice to come out of you. And I really appreciated the song choice you did as well. I caught myself lost hearing when those harmonies met with your voice. That was a nice mix. So I definitely appreciated that. Thank you. And I'm loving your quintessential main style, the Moxie hat and the flannel shirt. You look great. Great voice, great feel from the heart. Could use a little more diaphragm. You got a lot of, got great words. You got a big presence. Got to push it out from inside instead of all up here, but it was, it was, you were right on. Love Moxie as well. Thank you, judges. Thank you, Eric. Let's hear it again for Eric. We're going to keep it going here. Next up. I'm Heather. I am representing champion sports bar. I'm singing the song Valerie tonight by Amy Winehouse. And I chose it because it's fun and upbeat. And that's what we're here to do tonight. I'm Jake. Not Brittany. Well, how'd you feel after I messed your name up? How'd you feel singing? We were having fun. You looked like you were having fun. The judges thought I definitely agree. I loved how relaxed and how you were showing fun and I felt the fun. And I loved how you didn't waver with pitch or anything, even when the monitor started soft. That didn't slow you down one bit. And I loved your style and stage presence and the way you really got into it. As Melvin said, I think you did a great job. Great choice of song. Spectacular. Did you hear that? We like that. And it's all about adapt and adjust. Someone gives you the wrong name. The sound isn't quite where it was and you still crushed it. So thanks again, Heather. Give it up for Heather. We're moving along here. We're having fun. We have our next contestant over there just ready to rock. I'm Rachel. I'm here representing champion sports bar. I'm from Kennebunk, Maine. I live there with my partner and our 14 month old son. And tonight I'll be doing Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman. I've always loved singing this song. It makes me feel really good. And yeah, I hope you guys enjoy it. Getting down with her bad self up here. How'd you feel? You came out of it. You came right out of your show and we like that here. Well, they seem to love it. So let's see what Melvin has to say. Melvin, take it away. Yeah, well, that was great. I really enjoyed the way your voice matched with that song. Your timbre with that whole song was, it was a very smart choice. It closed my eyes and really enjoyed that. So thank you. And I loved your facial expressions and your peppiness. You took charge of the stage. I really enjoyed it and you seemed smiling like you just were really into it. So keep that up and you'll go far. Sweet and sexy, very comfortable with the camera. Having fun, laughing, very comfortable, very convincing of the story. Tracy's got nothing on you. There we go. I felt the same way. All right. Thank you. Let's hear it again for Rachel. Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, we will be right back after this quick commercial break. Join Luigi every Friday night at 9-11, Friday PM. Guests, music, excitement. It's all the fun you can have on a Friday night and it's live. Friday PM, live every Friday night, 9-11. PMCWatch.com, Cable Channel 5, Portland, Maine. Back from commercial break. We're going to do a little special treat for you guys. All these singers are from the same bar, the same karaoke bar. So we're going to let them do a little medley together. So give it up for champions, the champions bar team we're going to call them. All right. Here we go. Enjoy the song. I hope you do too. If it wasn't for champions, I wouldn't be singing karaoke. Great people that support new singers and if it wasn't for them, I would be singing today. I love the energy. Can't lie about that. That was fun. That ACDC, the front men, they had some of the most iconic voices. So there was moments where I did hear you capture some of that. And I love the air guitar. You have secured a place for yourself in rock and roll history. That's what I feel like. Fun, Scott, incarnate, born to be wild. Great energy, great fun. All right, next up, we've got my man, Mike. Come on down, big Mike. Hi, I'm Mike from Bideverts, singing out of Champs. And I'm going to be doing some jelly roll tonight. A song called Need a Favor. It kind of hits home for me. It's about God and stuff like that. I hope everyone enjoys it. I think that was a perfect choice for your voice and that song. I got to say, it felt like you did a really good job with the performance where I thought I was just hearing a performance. It wasn't a karaoke thing. It was an actual band, like a picture of the band behind you with what you were doing. So I thought you did a great job. Thank you. I also thought it was a perfect choice for you. Love your overall style. And you just seemed like a natural on stage, just complete natural. So keep that up. Thank you very much. As Frank Sinatra would say, don't get in the way of the song. You were the song. Very well done. Thank you, thank you very much. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be back after these messages. Right before I get high. I decided to come in and give it a shot. I'm usually singing at champions in Bitterford, great crew, beautiful sound system, a lot of fun, huge sound selection. So when they asked me to come, I thought I'd do it. I don't know what song I'll probably sing tonight. I guess I'll be inspired last minute. I tend to kind of go around R&B, pop, rock. Global singing. Yeah. It sounds like it's going to be a fun night. Nico, I had a sneaking suspicion when the stool came out that this was going to be powerful and central. And you did deliver with that. So thank you for the dynamic control and everything. I appreciate that. Thank you. And I love your overall energy. And again, you just seemed like a complete natural. So never stop singing. Thank you. Fantastic talent, good diaphragm, good use of the voice. Maybe a little close to the mic sometimes with those big notes. But very, very well done. Thank you. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. In studio, we have a special little treat for you. Local legend was walking by the audience. Not audience, the studio. And we flagged him in. He's going to do a song for us tonight from Portland, Maine. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the legend, Reggie Grapp. Right. So yeah. So thanks for having me. I'm going to sing a little song just to, I guess, eases out into the night. Maybe I don't know if there's going to be somebody else going to sing after me. But thanks very much for having me and looking forward to singing so you can see what happens. For coming in on the street, that was very generous of you. And we thought that it was only fair that the judges maybe give you a little score here, you know. All right, come on. There's not mic feedback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's give them what he... I heard there was a local legend. And that legend delivered. Very small. And I loved the false... When you go to the falsetto, that's so sweet. That's one of my favorite things. I'm just standing in funk over here right now. We're just... All I can say. You can borrow it if you need. Reggie does it all. He does not. And he is one of my first clients who used to hire all my actors for his commercials. Back... I mean, he was... When he was producing... I mean, I think you're always producing, but you just have so many talents. He would hire Ford City models and actors for his commercials. So thank you. And that was back in 2001. Well, you should be a part of the family. Oh. 2001. And I did do... Way back. Oh. I did do commercials for you, too. Well, okay. Myself. Well, you know, good bunch. Yeah. Local legends don't come around every day. And this is a perfect example, why, for a long time. Yes. God bless you, brother. Thumbs up, baby. Thank you, Reggie. Night two of cut week. I'd like to thank everyone for coming tonight. Our contestants, let's hear it. Our judges, our local legends. We'd like to remind everybody to go and vote at PortlandMedia.org forward slash vote. And you can stream this on PMCWatch.com. We'll be right back here next week, Tuesday, 9pm. Oh, and also we're going to announce who's moving on Friday. Just go to the website and you'll see who's moving on. Thanks for coming out tonight, everyone. I had a good time. I hope you did, too. We'll see you next Tuesday.