Post by Stephany on Apr 27, 2007 10:36:45 GMT
Hi everyone,
The Daily Post offers a chance to win tickets to meet Hayley in Llangollen. Here is the article.
Best wishes,
Stephany
The Daily Post offers a chance to win tickets to meet Hayley in Llangollen. Here is the article.
Best wishes,
Stephany
Go : Gran's Girl
By David Powell
27 April 2007
Daily Post (North Wales)
(c) The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd, 2007.
Hayley Westenra's appearing in Llangollen this summer and you could win the chance to meet her on a VIP weekend.
Songs inspired by Hayley Westenra's gran will be unveiled by the teenage opera star when she performs in North Wales this summer. The 19-year-old Christchurch star and Faenol Festival veteran revealed the importance of her gran in her life, as she promoted new CD Treasure in her native New Zealand.
She says: "It's a very personal album. It includes songs like Danny Boy which my gran picked up on her travels as a singer and then passed on down to me.
"There are also songs I myself have picked up on my travels and a few self-penned ones too. I think that whilst it's important to keep old music alive, it is also important to keep on creating new music to keep us moving forward."
It's been a busy time for Hayley. This week she sang on a New Zealand TV show Dancing With The Stars, and as we talk is due to sing the National Anthem at the dawn Anzac Day service.
Tomorrow she's off to Australia then the US for her month-long Celtic Woman tour.
Hayley is looking forward to returning to North Wales, this time for this July's Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
"My repertoire is still yet to be finalised, but I will be singing songs from my three albums: Pure, Odyssey and Treasure," she said.
"I believe I will also be performing with the Tower New Zealand Youth Choir which is very exciting as I have friends involved.
"The Eisteddfod should be a lot of fun...I can't wait. North Wales is so green and beautiful. In fact, it's quite similar to New Zealand in many ways. The people are very friendly and hospitable too and I amalways made to feel like I amat home."
Spare time is rare, but she scarcely needs it. She admits: "I don't have a great deal of time off, but fortunately my job gives me great pleasure and fulfilment.
"If I need to chill out my first port of call is music, but I do also enjoy reading a good book, watching old, romantic movies, going out dancing and hanging with friends too."
GALA PRIZE
You can win a VIP weekend at Llangollen's International Eisteddfod, to meet Hayley, and to watch her Friday concert, plus Jose Carreras' gala finale show. You'll also win tickets for the Eisteddfod itself.
For your chance to pick up this great prize collect today's token, plus two more - in tomorrow's Daily Post and on Monday. Details of how to enter will be published on Monday.
The winner will stay at the White Waters Country Hotel, Llangollen's newest country house hotel. The family owned hotel has been sympathetically restored and extended to a magnificent standard.
HOWTO GET TICKETS
Hayley Westenra performs at Llangollen International Eisteddfod on Friday, July13 at 7.45pm. Call 01978 862001 for £25 to £12 tickets or email tickets@internationaleisteddfod.co.uk
By David Powell
27 April 2007
Daily Post (North Wales)
(c) The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd, 2007.
Hayley Westenra's appearing in Llangollen this summer and you could win the chance to meet her on a VIP weekend.
Songs inspired by Hayley Westenra's gran will be unveiled by the teenage opera star when she performs in North Wales this summer. The 19-year-old Christchurch star and Faenol Festival veteran revealed the importance of her gran in her life, as she promoted new CD Treasure in her native New Zealand.
She says: "It's a very personal album. It includes songs like Danny Boy which my gran picked up on her travels as a singer and then passed on down to me.
"There are also songs I myself have picked up on my travels and a few self-penned ones too. I think that whilst it's important to keep old music alive, it is also important to keep on creating new music to keep us moving forward."
It's been a busy time for Hayley. This week she sang on a New Zealand TV show Dancing With The Stars, and as we talk is due to sing the National Anthem at the dawn Anzac Day service.
Tomorrow she's off to Australia then the US for her month-long Celtic Woman tour.
Hayley is looking forward to returning to North Wales, this time for this July's Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
"My repertoire is still yet to be finalised, but I will be singing songs from my three albums: Pure, Odyssey and Treasure," she said.
"I believe I will also be performing with the Tower New Zealand Youth Choir which is very exciting as I have friends involved.
"The Eisteddfod should be a lot of fun...I can't wait. North Wales is so green and beautiful. In fact, it's quite similar to New Zealand in many ways. The people are very friendly and hospitable too and I amalways made to feel like I amat home."
Spare time is rare, but she scarcely needs it. She admits: "I don't have a great deal of time off, but fortunately my job gives me great pleasure and fulfilment.
"If I need to chill out my first port of call is music, but I do also enjoy reading a good book, watching old, romantic movies, going out dancing and hanging with friends too."
GALA PRIZE
You can win a VIP weekend at Llangollen's International Eisteddfod, to meet Hayley, and to watch her Friday concert, plus Jose Carreras' gala finale show. You'll also win tickets for the Eisteddfod itself.
For your chance to pick up this great prize collect today's token, plus two more - in tomorrow's Daily Post and on Monday. Details of how to enter will be published on Monday.
The winner will stay at the White Waters Country Hotel, Llangollen's newest country house hotel. The family owned hotel has been sympathetically restored and extended to a magnificent standard.
HOWTO GET TICKETS
Hayley Westenra performs at Llangollen International Eisteddfod on Friday, July13 at 7.45pm. Call 01978 862001 for £25 to £12 tickets or email tickets@internationaleisteddfod.co.uk
