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| Coming home - Ella amid the marram grass on the coastal dunes of her native county |
IT is still four months until Tetney-born Ella Henderson's eagerly-awaited Cleethorpes concert, but it is already a sell-out.
The 29-year-old has resolved to put on what is being billed as a 'homecoming show' at the four-acre Meridian events arena on June 13, 2025.
That date just happens to fall on a Friday, so here's hoping no one is overly superstitious!
The arena is said to have a capacity of 35,000 though it is not known if that is the number of tickets that are being sold.
Although born locally, Ella - short for Gabriella - won a scholarship to the Hertfordshire-based Tring Park School for the Performing Arts which she attended as a boarder from the ages of 11 to 16.
She has a superb portfolio of successful songs sometimes performed with what one commentator has described as "a sultry edginess".
One feature of her vocal range is her capacity to impart a mid-word warble to the lyrics in some of her performances as in her most famous song, Ghost.
It possible (though probably unlikely) that Ella might have picked up this piece of vocal dexterity sub-consciously after listening to the flight-calls and songs of the Curlew - a shorebird often seen in winter on the mudflats of Cleethorpes and the Humber Estuary.
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| The Meridian events arena where Ella will performing live in summer |
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| Curlew on Cleethorpes Beach - the bird has a hypnotic warbling flight-note |
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