Contests

Bears, bears, everywhere bears. That was the scene on the ice for the 9th annual 'Teddy Bear Toss' Saturday night, at the Utica Aud.

Oldiez 96.1 welcomes Benny Mardones and The Hurricanes on December 14th at the Turning Stone Casino! Looking for tickets to the show? We got your hookup!

If you do construction, chances are you've been to McQuade & Bannigan many times, and maybe Rob has helped you find exactly what you needed for your project large or small. This time he and Stan and everyone else in the showroom got to be served. With pizza and wings that is!

Now who's the rocket man? (Answer: It's you.) We're flying one person and a friend to NYC to see Elton John rock Madison Square Garden on December 4.

Following the greatest voting battle so far, Kelly Preston has been given the right by YOU to step up and grab the Keith James All Star Band microphone on November 7th at Cavallo's. But first, if you're not familiar with her or her latest band Hot Roxx, take a listen below to her interview

Liz and her pals at the Oneida County Office For The Aging down at the old Oneida County Airport were our winners of the free pizza and wings this week, but despite our coordinated efforts, Liz wasn't there when I delivered her prize. However if I had just left minutes before for vacay at Disney, I'd leave work in my rearview pretty fast too!

After the most fierce week of voting yet between 29 nominees for the Keith James All Star Band vocalist and easily more than a staggering 51,000+ votes cast, Kelly Preston of Hot Roxx has emerged victorious with almost half (44%) of the total vote, meaning 22,000+ votes just for her alone!

Ken has risen out of relative obscurity to claim the drum throne for his own in the Keith James All Star Band and we finally caught up with him to hear of his exploits and while his name may not be as well known as others, his experience flies in the face of that scoring gigs opening for the likes of Marshal Tucker Band and Allman Brothers

I gotta admit, when I heard Chris was an hour away from Pizza Boys in New York Mills, I was like dang his pizza's gonna be cold by then but hey let's make a fall drive out of it and hopefully he'll have a microwave on hand to heat it up!

We've got one last musician to choose, so let the final round of hair-pulling and nail-biting commence now that the nominees for everyone's favorite Central New York vocalist are in! There's a good selection of both male and female belters up for your consideration for the Keith James All Star Band...

Walt Butler was the very first member of the Keith James All Star Band and for those of you who don't know him, he's the epitome of a great musician but as you can tell from his interview, he's a great person too and that combination is pretty rare and a huge credit to his profession.

Well, you have your winners, but who were the top contestants and how many votes did they edge out their opponents by or did they just clean their clocks? We've got your Top 17 results (just because that's all I could fit on the screenshot) in each category, read em and either rejoice or weep