Amanda Eloise Kay returning to her roots to perform in Rochdale

Amanda Eloise Kay

Professional singer, actress and musician Amanda Eloise Kay is returning to her roots and coming back to Rochdale for a lunchtime concert at St Mary in the Baum church.

Amanda Eloise, who was brought up in Heywood, is currently attracting rave reviews in Alan Plater’s play with music ‘The Blonde Bombshells of1943’ at the Gatehouse Theatre in London.

Having attended Siddall Moor Secondary School and Holy Cross Sixth Form College in Bury, Amanda Eloise won several prizes in the Rochdale Festival of Performing Arts and was also a member of the Halle Youth Choir and National Youth Theatre.

She went on to read music at Cambridge University, where she had a choral award at both Homerton and Sidney Sussex colleges. After which, on completing the Drama Studio London postgraduate acting course, her first professional acting job was a six month tour of Austria and Italy with Vienna’s English Theatre.

Her performance in Rochdale will be on Wednesday 4 June at 12.30pm and will reflect her wide range of performance skills including classical singing from Bach to Britten; musical theatre from Harnick and Bock to Rodgers and Hammerstein; to dramatic monologues from Shakespeare to Victoria Wood.

Amanda Eloise will be accompanied by Dr Joe Dawson with whom she studied singing, piano and theory from the age of 14.