2025 Teen Star Musical Competition

JOURNEY BANK ANNOUNCES 2025 TEEN STAR MUSICAL COMPETITION

Bloomsburg, PA – Journey Bank is pleased to announce its 15^th Annual Teen Star Musical Competition. Inspired by the hit TV show American Idol^®, Journey Bank is proud to sponsor this award-winning program to support area youth, the local schools, and the performing arts. This year’s show is themed “Movie Hits & Oscar Glitz!” with contestants singing songs from their favorite movie soundtracks.

The competition is open to any freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior who attends high school in Columbia, Montour, or Lycoming County, or the Warrior Run School District. Contestants may also be a high school freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior who permanently resides in Columbia, Montour or Lycoming County or the Warrior Run School District but attends a school outside the county or district. Sign-ups for auditions are open until Friday, April 18^th. Students can register for auditions here.

Auditions will be held on Wednesday, April 23^rd and Saturday, April 26^th at the Millville Area Junior Senior High School auditorium. These are private auditions and closed to the public. Independent judges, with music education and entertainment backgrounds, will choose 14 finalists. These finalists will then compete before a new panel of judges and a cheering audience at the finale at the Haas Auditorium on the campus of Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg on Sunday, June 1^st at 2:00 P.M.

The first-place prize for the Teen Star winner is $2,000. The second, third, and fourth place finishers win $1,000, $750, and $350, respectively—and the remaining eight finalists each receive $100.

Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Tickets go on sale at all Journey Bank community offices on May 1^st. All ticket proceeds from the show are donated to the music departments at the finalists’ schools. Since 2011, the Bank has given more than $51,000 to the schools in ticket proceeds and has awarded another $70,000 in prize money to the finalists.

Journey Bank looks forward to hosting this fun event for our community and to giving students a unique platform to showcase their talents, build their confidence, and meet new friends. For additional information, visit the Teen Star Facebook page at www.facebook.com/journeybankteenstar.

About Journey Bank

For over 125 years, Journey Bank has stood as a beacon of financial trust and expertise in local communities throughout Central PA. Journey Bank represents the combined legacies and strengths of two local community banks—First Columbia Bank and Muncy Bank. The combined bank, together with its nearly 300 dedicated employees, brings a shared commitment to delivering banking excellence to customers with convenient access to 22 community offices across a five-county area that includes Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, and Clinton counties. With more than $1.595 billion in assets as of December 31, 2024, Journey Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust, and financial services to more than 50,000 individuals, families, businesses, and municipalities. Member FDIC.