Popular Fox 29 Philadelphia traffic anchor Bob Kelly will host an entertaining fundraiser for a local school, and the public is invited to watch.
St. Mark School in Bristol Borough is presenting Lip Sync Battle Part Two, hosted by Kelly, on Saturday, April 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Conwell-Egan High School on Wistar Road in Fairless Hills.
The musical event will benefit St. Mark School and Kelly’s Kidz, which supports children in pediatric hospitals and collects toys for them.
A number of teams will compete to be named the best lip syncers in the area, with Bristol Borough police Chief Joe Moors, Lower Bucks Total Health and Wellness Center’s Dr. Charlie Flood, Stepping Stone Dance Studio owner Dana Stone, and St. Mark School and Conwell-Egan Catholic High School alumni Kayla Jones judging the contest.
The first-place lip sync winner will receive a $100 prize, the second place will win a $50 prize, and the third place will win a $25 prize.
The lip sync contest will be made up of a handful of students, and they will each perform a lip sync act that will last three to five minutes.
In the past, performers have lip-synced “This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman” and music from “Hamilton.”
St. Mark School, a Catholic pre-K through eighth-grade school that sits on the Delaware River, hosted its first Lip Sync Battle in early 2020. While the event was a success, the pandemic derailed planned contests in 2021 and 2022.
“This is a return for the event. In 2020 at the first one, we raised over $3,200 between ticket sales, raffles, and snack stands,” said Diana Meunier, the parent volunteer who is organizing the event.
Meunier encouraged the community to come out for a night of entertainment and to support the local school. She explained the school is in the process of upgrading classrooms with new furniture and supplies to support students.
Kelly, a supporter of Catholic education in the region, has been involved in several events with St. Mark School.
“What you see on TV is what you get in real life,” Meunier said of Kelly. “He’s friendly and outgoing, and he’s a nice person who genuinely cares about Catholic schools and schools in general.”