Throng

After 3 weeks of performances and slowly eliminating contestants, tonight the final 10 was announced for Canadian Idol.

The Top 10 are: Mark Day, Drew Wright, Mookie Morris, Earl Stevenson, Katherine St-Laurent, Theo Tams, Amberly Thiessen, Mitch MacDonald, Adam Castelli and Sebastian Pigott.

Here's hoping that the sound has been sorted for tonights show and that our Idols can actually hear the music they're singing to.

Five of these singers will make it through to the Top 10. 3 will be going home. Make Sure You Vote

Mitch MacDonald
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Nope. Either the sound hasn't been rectified or Mitch just wants to go home tomorrow.

Gary Morissette

It's that time again. The first group of the Top 16 from Canadian Idol perform tonight

Martin Kerr
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The performance sounds a little empty compared to the original. Definitely not the same passion but the vocal was solid.

Theo Tams

CTV announced today that five sponsors have stepped into the spotlight to support Season 6 of Canadian Idol, which continues with the Top 16 performances beginning Monday, July 7 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV (go to idol.CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). All five sponsors – Kraft, Procter & Gamble, TELUS, TD Canada Trust and Subway Restaurants – are returning sponsors, with Kraft back for its fifth straight season. The sponsorships for the new season include show integrations and an online presence.

Back for a fifth year with a major sponsorship is Kraft, with KD Cups presenting the Canadian Idol Hometown Tour.

Procter & Gamble – also a major sponsor for Season 6 – returns for its third year, and will focus on Pantene, Gillette Fusion and Gillette Venus as they take over the Backstage Beauty Zone, offering hair tips and tricks and feature in-show integrations and an online extension at idol.CTV.ca.

Eight down, six to go as viewers whittle the Top 24 to the elite group of Top 10 finalists. Four more competitors have been eliminated from Canadian Idol tonight, leaving 16 to carry on and compete next week. The following competitors have received the fewest votes following performances on Monday and Tuesday and will not be moving forward in the competition:

Lisa Bell, 27, Winnipeg, Coffee Shop Manager
Performed: Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)

Paul Clifford, 26, Port Moody, BC, Bartender
Performed: Apparitions (Matthew Good Band)

Jesse Cottam, 23, Calgary, Music Teacher, Musician
Performed: Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)

Jessica Sheppard, 22, Toronto, Visual Manager
Performed: Umbrella (Rihanna - Mandy Moore Version)

Returning to the Canadian Idol stage to perform for viewer votes beginning Monday, July 7 at 8 p.m. ET on CTV (go to idol.CTV.ca to confirm local listings) are:

1. Marie-Pierre Bellerose, 25, Quebec City, Bartender

The Judges are picking four of the Top 20 to perform again tonight. Farley picks Theo Tams to come back and perform again.

Zack calls Amberly Thiessen out to perform again.

Jake selects Oliver Pigott to perform again. Sass wants to hear Omar Lunan again.

The bottom three contestants from each group are called out.

Lisa Bell, Marie-Pierre Bellerose and Paul Clifford are the bottom three from Monday and Jesse Cottam, Adam Castelli and Jessica Sheppard from Tuesday.

From Monday night, Paul Clifford is going home. From Tuesday night, is Jesse Cottam.

I'm pretty surprised that Jesse is going home. I suspected that he would have had some of the teenage girl vote keeping him around.

Lisa Bell is the second from Monday night to leave. Jessica Sheppard is the final contestant to leave.

Next week, the Top 10 will be decided.

See you Monday!

Last night the first 10 of the top 20 performed. Tonight, the remaining 10 bid for your vote to keep them in the competition.

There was one definite standout for elimination for me last night. Will group two have at least one definite dud too?

Here's the recap:

Adam Castelli
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When you have three nights of Idol the next week sure does come around fast.

After saying farewell to 4 contestants last week the pressure is one the final 20 to pull out all the stops.

Tonight, 10 sing. Tomorrow, the other 10. On Wednesday, 4 more go home.

Here's the recap.

Mark Day
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Tuesday, July 8
9pm

The remaining competitors perform live on the Idol stage.

Wednesday, July 9
7:30 p.m

Find out tonight who will head into the Top 10, and who will go home.

Monday, July 14
8 p.m.

The Top 10 perform live on the Idol stage.