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                     Wiltshire Festivwl attracts
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                     second Brit award winner

   Teenage soprano sensation Charlotte Church only performed in two concerts last year, one of which was  Mini Bus for Hire
    in Swindon. This year she only plans to sing in three. Again, one of them will be Swindon.
     This means the festival will fea-  second al-
   ture Charlotte, who won the British  bumtofollow
   Artist of the Year at the Classical  her Voice of                                          .  yhere we go the extra mile..
   Brit Awards in May on Friday 25  an Angel de-
   August, and STEPS, the BritAward  but which
   Winners at the Party in the Park on  has sold two                                     16 seater - with driver
   Sunday 27 August.           millionworld-                                               Airport transfers
     Since appearing at Lydiard Park  wide. In the                                      -ivate & contract bookings
   in 1999, Charlotte has released a  Autumn she
                               sang at the                                              Local and long distance
                               Rugby World                                              .. it's a minibus ..it's spacious
                               Cup and per-
                                             Party makers at the Classical Extravaganza last year  ..it's safe .. it's the BUSiness
                               formed the
                               Ford millennium anthem 'Wave  I had a lot of fun. How could I say  07901 944 130
                               Hello,' the largest ever TV com-  no to coming back?"        07776 346 978
                               mercial, aired to 300 million homes  When asked if she would sing
                               around the world. She also turned  with the world renowned bass bari-
                               down invitations to sing for the  tone Willard White, Charlotte said
                               Pope, President Clinton and the  that the repertoire had yet to be
                               Queen at the Dome on millennium  worked out. However the prospect  Chinghai
                               night, so that she could party with  of the two singing the Porgy and
                               her family in Cardiff.     Bess classic'Summertime' (which
                                Taking a break from revision for  she sang on 31 May) could make
                               exams, the fourteen year old sang  the concert a historic occasion.
                               at a press preview at the De Vere  The irrepressible Jae Alexander
                               Hotel on 31 May.           will lead the English National Sym-
                                Speaking afterwards she said,  phony Orchestra and Maria
                               "the concert in Swindon last year  Kesselman will draw the night to a  EXCELLENT
                               was one of the best I've ever done;  close with a traditional Last Night  CHINESE, MALAYSIAN
                               the audience was just so great and  of the Proms finale.
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