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Incredible moment schoolgirl, 11, busker stuns shoppers with pitch perfect renditions of Annie songs moving one person to donate £1,000
Anna-Athene Bown-Lowe is helping raise money for a new play area at her school
A schoolgirl busker has melted the hearts of shoppers with her pitch perfect renditions of Annie songs and even moved one person to donate an astonishing £1,000.
During a five-hour performance, Anna-Athene Bown-Lowe belted out a number of songs from the musical plus other show tunes and tracks by her favourite indie band Everything Everything to help raise money for her school.
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The 11-year-old is planning to hand over any cash raised to St Cuthberts CofE Junior School so the school can build a £10,000 new play area.
One anonymous man, known as "A Bond" was so impressed with her singing voice, he wrote a cheque for a £1,000 and stuffed it with a note inside her busking tin while she performed with friend Emma Watts in Somerset on July 1.
Anna-Athene said: "I'd like to say thanks to everyone who was kind and considerate enough to put money in my tin or, if they had none to spare, just to have time to stop and smile, and appreciate what we were doing.
"And I would like to say an individually massive thank you to the man who put £1,000 - it shows what a kind and generous man he was and that money isn't the most important thing in life."
Dad Paul Lowe, 47, said his daughter had so far raised more than £1,500.
He said: "She's just so determined and her social interaction is wonderful, she's down-to-earth and just gets on so well with people.
"She knows that she won't get to use the new play area, leaving for a new school at the end of this term, but she has thoroughly enjoyed being at St Cuthberts and her tenure as Head Girl, enough to want to give as much back as she can.
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On Tuesday night there was an extra special treat for the dedicated fundraiser.
She got to meet her heroes Everything Everything at a gig at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Mr Lowe said: "They chatted to her about her fundraising and later dedicated one of her favourite songs to her in the middle of the gig which was fabulous for her."
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St Cuthberts C Of E Junior School headteacher Helen Singleton has praised Anna-Athene for her efforts.
She said: "Anna-Athene has a beautiful voice and has used this to great effect to raise a considerable amount of money for our new adventure playground at school as well as raising money for local charities in Wells.
"She is an incredible young lady who we are all very proud of."
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