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PICTURE SPECIAL Talent, tension
TALENTSHOW '■ ock and roll high
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school kids Fret. . 64 brought the
■ house down to . -H — win the 2014 Grab
title, the Ribble Valley’s inter- schools talent show.. -,■ ■ ■ ■ ■
The five music-mad lads ; ■ from Bowland High-who ' only got together as a five- ■ piece band last summer - :: ■ - wowed the sellout crowd at •; • Clitheroe’s Grand Theatre with their polished cover of The Foo Fighters’ rock clas sic Times Like These, to land - the £800 first prize... U-:.: Lead singer of Fret 64,
, 15-year-old Tom Bamber, ■ said: “This is a dream come
true for us, we can’t believe it:.-;
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• > “We are all massive fans . of Dave Grohl and The Foo Fighters, so to win Grab with
.oneoftheirsongswasextra- ' • special. All the acts were incredible-but it hasn’t -r sunk in yet that we have won ■ Grab.” ... Bamber, John Taylor,
Matt Popham, Jonny Douglas and-Jamie Crane’, all in their final year at Bowland} had, onlyplayedahandfulof .. gigs - including a special show for the Girl Guides; at Clitheroe’s Waddow. : HaU. -
- > ; -:i “We are aiming to
stay together for the next few years, and .’ ,4 maybe play profes-sj sionally one d a y , ' added Tom. Grabjudge
" Andy Bell, guitarist in Lori- . doripop group Malokai, told Fret 64, “You guys were ridic ulously good - I’ve just seen the next Beatles.”
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a huge sound, and they also : have a big future.” :
Acoustic guitaristBeth
Ferguson, who performed • her own song Fly Away, was the Grab 2014 rimrier-up. The 14-year-old s i n g e r - '
songwriter, also from Bow land High School, said: “I’ve . been playing the guitar since. I was eight and I’m part of the Be My Band project at The Grand.” >;■ " Grabjudge Emma Walker,
who was generous in her praise for Beth’s “special tal ent”, said: “Beth has a great authority on stage - and it is like she was born to do it.” ■ Ami Jorgensen, who sang
the theme tune from the ; James Bond movie Skyfall,' carried off the third-placed prize. The 15-year-old, who ; attends Ribblesdale High '
He added: “Fret 64 have w ; '
School, said: “I’ve loved sing ing since I was a little girl and my dream is to perform on Broadway.”
. . . .. Singer Breanna Howard,
from St Augustine’s High School, Billington, was fourth. Last year’s cham- i ■ pion, pianist Lizzie Burgess, also proved a big hit with the packed auditorium as she re turned to The Grand to sing 12'months after lifting the big prize: ■ - The audience also saw •
the first screening of a new ■ documentary film, Rights of a Child, showing how the Grand’s Solomon Project charity is saving lives in Af rica..-' Steven Lancaster, The • :
Grand’s director, said: “Grab raises vital funds for th e . Solomon Project and helps feed thousands of children - everyday.” He added: “Every Grab act
was a worthy winner - they all had a special talent. It was inspiring to see so much per forming talent from the Rib ble Valley and every year the bar seems to be raised
Steered by
the Grand’s High School forum members, with
. ^support from venue and ^school’s staff; Grab 2014
;-will see charities, The ^British Heart Foundation, Clitheroe Foodbank and
i.The Solomon Project, all ^benefit from’money raised
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by.trie event. Grab was ■ sponsored by Family Care ’Associates. , 1 “Grab” is short fo r ' ■ /£-
iGrammar, Ribblesdale, 'Augustine’s and Bow- Fland.-: the four Ribble V ||Valley High Schools :,which compete in ’ “the annual talent ? "contest staged by ' ^■ TheCfarid, Clit- . - heroe^s state-of- the-art musicand
.pffformingate'SL‘ centre.-" •
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