Well, that's it - the competition is over, the final songs have been sung. 

We had the final last night, 16th January at The Junction, Burgess Hill and what a night it was!  The pub was filled to capacity with standing room only. 

I did not envy the judges - Nat B from Bright 106.4FM, Michelle the landlady and Nigel, my husband - their job at all! 

The 14 finalists each sang their first song and the judges had to retire to another room for nearly 15 minutes to get this down to 6 acts to sing again.  After these 6 sang it took the judges another trip to a different room to decide on which 3 acts would be the winners but not until they had heard them sing for a 3rd time!

After much deliberation Dan Russell from Hassocks was declared the winner taking the £200 first prize, Suzi Branch from Scaynes Hill second winning £100 and Ben Jones from Handcross won the third prize of £50. 

  Dan with Nat B

We also held a charity raffle with all prizes being donated by local businesses and raised £266 which Dan decided he would like to go to the Tsunami Appeal. 

Following the success of this competition we are running it again at The Junction starting on 31st July in the same format as this time.

I would like to say a big thank you to The Junction for letting us run this competition and to all the judges over the months who have helped out but especially to all who took part.  You were all brilliant. 

Finally many thanks to all who turned up last night to support the singers and make the evening the success it was. 

Anyone wanting to offer prizes or sponsorship for the next competition please use the feedback form to get in touch.

Watch out for next week's Mid Sussex Times for a write up on last night.