Tarah, now turned 13…is finally a teenager and in her last year of Junior High.  She is still working one grade ahead in math (and Science now as well), so she has to walk over to the high school each day to take both Geometry and Biology…since they are not offered at the Junior High.  At this point, she is still performing, although the competitions have been replaced with live shows, and in one avenue or another, she is still totaling about 60 events per year on stage.  She also made just shy of 30 trips to Los Angeles for auditions, workshops, a new agent, and manager.  

         Towards the end of summer she snagged a part in the Television Series, “U.S. Customs Classified,” and in the fall her whole family attended the nationwide premiere of “Dark Fury.”  After just one year of voice lessons with her new coach, Adaline Bates, Tarah was invited to be the guest soloist for the “Accept A Challenge” benefit at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix, and then proceeded to perform on Tour across Arkansas with the pop & dance group, “B.C.C.” (credit Lance Kershner for working out the details).  The tour was certainly fun…and a worthwhile learning experience about the world of entertainment and being on the road.  But school, on the other hand, became more of a burden to manage this year as she was gone for quite a bit of it.  She was able to take most of the work with her...and she studied it regularly... but it wasn’t the same as being in school.  Tarah, now finding out first hand the “behind-the-scenes” side of the business, was prompted to again make another very important decision.  Even though life had become rather difficult for her when she returned home to Arizona due to, in addition to everything else, several very complex missed exams, she was determined that if she really wanted to make performing her chosen career, she would have to buckle down to make all her obligations fit... even if that meant cutting out a few extraneous activities.  Instead of giving in and taking the easy way out from the pressure of increasing responsibility, Tarah pushed through with a positive attitude and struggled to get everything back to normal.  The road surely wasn’t always smooth, but given her potential and love for her entertainment passion, she felt both desire and obligation to put to good use her many talents and not let years of hard work go unfinished.  After all, she still had big plans and she hadn’t even begun to be tap the surface.       

         Other notable appearances include performing at the Gila Indian Reservation’s Mul-Cha-Tha Ceremony, the Grand Opening of Phoenix City Hall, the Grand Opening of several Scottsdale coffee shops, the Phoenix Suns Game, Good Morning Arizona, and doing the opening number for the Arizona Top Model Pageant.  She also sang the Lead soloist role of “Tiny Tim” in the musical version of “Scrooge”.  In Gymnastics, Tarah competed 9 meets in her first year as a level 10 and qualified to both State and Regional Championships.  She wrote two children’s plays, started a novel and screenplay, and wrote seven sets of song lyrics.

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