Britain’s Got Talent starlet Faryl Smith to headline Huddersfield concert

Nov 28 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

SHE is tipped as one of the musical superstars of the future.

And now a village brass band have secured singer Faryl Smith, 14, to headline one of their Huddersfield concerts.

Not that the Skelmanthorpe Band are strangers to mixing with superstars.

Previous concerts have featured the likes of Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra and Aled Jones.

Faryl, one of the ITV’S Britain’s Got Talent finalists of 2008, will be the special guest at the band’s concert in Huddersfield Town Hall on Saturday, March 27, next year.

The teenager, who is fast becoming one of the most sought after stars around, will perform solo with the band.

Concert secretary Graham Crossland said: “The band is delighted to be bringing to Huddersfield, one of the most talented young vocalists around.

“We feel very fortunate to be performing alongside such a phenomenal talent as Faryl.”

The band has staged several high profile concerts in the Town Hall over the years.

Band musical director, John Roberts, said of Faryl: “Her voice really is ‘literally one in a million’ as Simon Cowell said and we are look forward to sharing the stage with Faryl immensely.”

Faryl has been described as an ordinary schoolgirl with an extraordinary talent.

It was on May 31, 2008, when she sang her way into people’s hearts and minds all over Britain during the final round of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent.

One minute Faryl Smith was an ordinary schoolgirl from Northamptonshire who liked to sing in the choir, play football, and shop with her friends – the next minute Simon Cowell was praising her in front of a national television audience, calling her “literally one in a million” and “the most talented youngster I’ve ever heard.”