A Swansdike teenager has won first
prize on the final evening of the Froghill Arts and Music Festival on Thursday.
Hayley Grote pocketed the £2000
winner’s cheque for an original song about existential angst.
Nineteen-year-old Hayley, a
trainee hygienist at the Pearly Gates dental laboratory, wowed the panel of judges
with her self-penned ballad (I'm Just) Like a Hamster in a Wheel. The lyrics are set to the tune of Metallica's classic Enter Sandman, which Hayley arranged especially for kazoo and triangle.
Said chief judge Redfers
Nuthatch: “Personally, I like my rodents to be skewered and then flame-grilled. But Hayley’s performance was so imbued
with emotion that it quite won me over.”
Asked what she would use the prize money for, a jubilant Hayley replied: “I'm not quite sure – it hasn’t really sunk
in yet.
“But I think I might go seal clubbing in Canada.”
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