A CONTEST aimed at promoting folk music among young people ended up as a mini-pop concert accompanied by deafening cheers and screams of the teenage audience.
The Joint School Folk Song Singing Contest, in its second year, had attracted hundreds of teenagers who jammed the Queen's College auditorium.
However, its main objective took a back seat when pop stars came on stage and turned it into a mini-concert.
''I'm here because of my idol Dicky Cheung. I am his fan. When Dicky attends public functions, my friends and I will turn up and wait for him,'' said third-former Ann Law.
A Form 4 student, Teresa Fong, told Young Post that her reason for coming was to catch a glimpse of her idol, Lam Man-lung. But she added that she also came to support her schoolmates, who were taking part in the folk contest.
The pop stars performers were Dicky Cheung, Lam Man-lung and Luk Ka-chun and each sang two of their hit songs.
During their performance, the hall was filled with loud cheers and screams as the audience became excited and sang along with the stars.