[ ClassicalX ] Hayley returns

If you fell in love with Hayley Westenra at last year’s Henley Festival, you will be interested to know that she has teamed up with ex-G4 star Jonathan Ansell for a national tour.

Together they will be performing an amazing repertoire of romantic songs, both classical and popular. The show will also include solo sets from each artist.

For Hayley Westenra the five years since the release of her debut album Pure have been a whirlwind. Along with her second album Odyssey and her third, Treasure, she has achieved combined sales of well over three million albums around the world. Pure is still one of the fastest-selling classical albums in the history of the UK charts — an astonishing achievement for a classical artist who is still only 20.

Jonathan Ansell shot to fame three years ago with pop opera group G4 on the X-Factor, and has now established himself as a bona-fide solo star. His debut solo album Tenor at the Movies topped the classical charts and also hit the Top Ten of the mainstream pop charts.

You can hear these two talented young stars at The Hexagon in Reading on February 8 (tickets 0118 960 6060) and at the New Theatre, Oxford on February 11 (tickets 0844 847 1585).

Source: Henley Standard