THERE are some tickets left for the Turton Rotary Club's Gala Evening featuring the Maesteg and District Male Voice Choir with soloists Sally Ann Kingsbury (soprano) and Byron Hughes (bass-baritone) at the Victoria Hall, Bolton, this Saturday.

Sally Ann Kingsbury began singing as a chorister with Mid Glamorgan Youth Choir. While studying law at Aberystwyth - she now practices as a solicitor - she also pursued vocal studies with Hazel Holt, which led to a master-class with Delme-Bryn Jones for which she studied the role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.

Sally has sung solo with several choirs in the South Wales area and taken many leading roles with Maesteg Operatic Society.

She is a member of Spotlight Theatre Company, Treorchy, Rhondda, and taken leading roles including Jenny Lind in Barnum and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

Among her solos on Saturday will be Summertime from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Byron Huges lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire, but was born in Maesteg. He studied at Cardiff College of Music and Drama. He guests at many concerts, recitals and oratorio performances in England and Wales and has toured abroad several times.

He has been principal bass-baritone for the Valbrook Opera and Swindon Opera and guests for other opera companies.

His leading roles include Figaro in Marriage of Figaro, Mephistopheles in Faust, Scarpia in Tosca and Count Ribbing in A Masked Ball.

Byron enjoys guesting with choirs as it enables him to expand his repertoire to include ballads and humorous songs. Among his solos on Saturday will be the Hippopotamus Song by Flanders and Swan.

The evening starts at 7 pm and tickets are available from the Albert Halls, Bolton, Harker and Howarth, Folds Road, Booths Music, Churchgate, or Frank Lord, 4 The Coppice, Bolton, BL2 3EP.

Proceeds from the concert will go to the Bolton Life Education Unit.

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