BGT star Shea back in spotlight for Llan charity concert

* Shea Ferron in the John’s Boys line-up on Britain's Got Talent.

* John’s Boys Male Chorus on the show.

A young singer who was part of the choir which wowed judges on Britain's Got Talent is one of the stars of a glittering charity concert in Llangollen later this week. 

Twenty-year-old Shea Ferron was in the line-up of the Rhosllanerchrugog-based John's Boys choir which sang the soulful number Biblical on the TV talent show recently. 

The stunning performance brought tears to the eyes of new judge Bruno Tonioli and led old hand Simon Cowell to declare he had never seen a choir on the show produce 'that' moment before. 

Now Shea, who is currently on BA (Hons) Performing Arts course at the ICTheatre College in Manchester and is from Ruabon, is back in the spotlight for a solo performance in Llangollen on Show, a fundraising variety and music hall show in aid of survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria earlier this year. 

To be staged over two nights at Llangollen Town Hall this Thursday and Friday, May 11 and 12, the show will make history as the first time all three of Llangollen’s most popular amateur stage groups have come together for a joint production.

Llangollen Operatic Society, Llangollen Twenty Club and The Collen Players

are combining their considerable talents for the show all proceeds from which will go to the Disaster Emergency Committee in which 15 of the UK’s top charities have come together to supply a lifeline to areas devastated by the earthquake. 

The Operatic, an all-singing and dancing outfit, will perform numbers from the smash-hit shows Hamilton, Six, Oliver Les Miserables and Half a Sixpence,  while the Twenty Club drama group will present comedy sketches – one specially written for the occasion – inspired by their own hilarious past hits. 

The Collen Players – including Shea who will sing two numbers - will provide a taste of the rip-roaring Victorian music hall shows for which they have rapidly become famous, with their founder Lee Taylor acting as chairman for the show which starts each night at 7.30pm.  

There will be a bar and prize raffle on both nights and a number of local businesses have pledged their financial support. 

* Tickets, priced at £12 (no concessions) are available online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/llangollenoperaticsociety or from Courtyard Books, Llangollen, and the Llangollen Oggie Shop in Caste Street or on the door on the nights.