2,000 enter choral speaking festival
Date published: 19 March 2013
St Mary's Primary School from Greenfield at last year’s festival: (l-r) Emma Gregory, Niamh Connor and Alex Gardner.
TALENTED youngsters get their chance to shine this week at the annual Oldham Primary Schools Choral Speaking Festival.
The event, organised by Oldham Metro Rotary Club, is in its 29th year. Local children take to the stage to perform poems and stories and so far more than 2,000 children have entered for this year’s event, at Oldham parish church from tomorrow until Thursday.
Ann Warr, the international adjudicator, awards groups grades and identifies trophy winners. Winners from this year’s event will perform at the Oldham Coliseum on Monday, April 22.
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