Young performers have been showing how important Llangollen Eisteddfod is to them as they shone in its competitions this week.
At last year’s festival well-known local actor and singer Shea Ferron was the winner of the Voice of Musical Theatre competition.
And now it appears he and his girlfriend Hannah Williams have made a bit of Eisteddfod history after she took the same coveted title earlier this week.
A delighted Shea took to social media to say: “So b***** proud of Hannah! She absolutely smashed it out the water today. Just a few weeks ago she told me that she was pulling of the competition because ‘what’s the point,’ she said.
“I insisted she carried on because knew she had it in her to win the competition and she only goes and gets FULL MARKS in the competition. Proud is definitely an understatement.
“As far as we know, we are the first couple in the Eisteddfod’s history to win the same competition two years consecutively. Making history together and hopefully will continue to as a couple in the creative industries.”
Also showing the breadth of young talent that exists locally at the Eisteddfod was 15-year-old Rose Burgon.
Singing the song Somewhere in the Under 16 Musical Theatre preliminary round at Llangollen Town Hall, she went on later the same day to take a highly respectable second place in the final on the Pavilion main stage – wearing a dress she made herself.
Rose will next perform in Around Town during the current Llangollen Fringe Festival and will sing at the Bridge End at 3.30pm tomorrow (Sunday).
She moved to Llangollen two years ago and enjoys singing a range of music from 60s folk music to opera and musical theatre.
She is a regular at local open mics and other events in and around North Wales and has recently enjoyed performing as Cinderella in Into the Woods with Llangollen Operatic Society.
Her proud mum Rachel said on social media: “It was an amazing performance. Rose – you sang beautifully and held that enormous stage so well! You should be incredibly proud of yourself! Also, equally blown away that you made your own dress for the occasion (out of a bedsheet). You really are a real life Maria Von Trapp.”
