ORGANISERS and performers for an eagerly awaited charity extravaganza are celebrating a double coup - having sold all 500 tickets within two weeks as well as bagging a signed Led Zeppelin album to auction off.

Wyre Forest singing sensations Beth Dunn and Russell Painter are holding their second annual Young Proms Charity Concert in aid of Kemp Hospice at Kidderminster Town Hall on January 31 - and have been overwhelmed by the level of support they have received so far.

The concert not only sold out within two weeks of letters being sent out at the start of December to people who attended last year's event or donated cash, but has also received the backing of legendary rock singer Robert Plant.

The world-famous rocker met 18-year-old music and drama student Beth when she was working as a part-time waitress at the Bellman's Cross pub in Shatterford and donated a signed triple CD album, How The West Was Won, to her cause.

The CD, which has been signed by surviving Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, as well as lead singer Plant, is now up for sale on the internet site eBay.

Beth's father Chris, who organises the concert with his wife Jane, said they were hoping its sale would enable them to top last year's grand total of £6,500 for Kemp Hospice.

He added a signed version of a single CD Led Zeppelin album was being offered on the same site for more than £200 and he was confident their triple album would beat that figure.

Twenty-one-year-old Russell, who is also performing in the concert alongside his friend from London Guildhall School of Music, Michael Christie, as well as Laura Bassett and 16-year-old soprano Lauren Tristram, said he could not wait for the event.

Nineteen-year-old Laura and Lauren are both singers with Wyre Forest Young Voices and contributed to their CD The Rhythm of Life

It will also feature a guest appearance by Birmingham Conservatoire pupil Sarah Cotterill and a charity auction by CBI director general and compere for the evening, Digby Jones, who also hosted last year's event.

Items up for sale on the night will include a shirt signed by the West Bromwich Albion team, two seats for a Birmingham City FC game and a Grosvenor Wilton rug.

"The programme is roughly the same with the same type of music, with a lot of songs from the shows and opera classics," Russell added.

"The singers are the same as last year but the programme is very varied - we even have some old classics from Flanders and Swann, which are humorous songs from about 50 years ago.

"At the end, we will also have the Proms with Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory - and it will be a night to remember."

The former King Charles I High School pupil, who is in his final year of a music degree at London's Guildhall School of Music, was last featured in the Shuttle/Times and News in November, when he scooped the lead role in a West End production of Half A Sixpence.

He said of The Young Proms: "Whoever came to see it last year will enjoy it just as much - if not more - because it's so varied.

"I think it's going to be better than the last show because we've had one crack at it and found out what did and didn't work," he added.