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Musical lovers in Cardiff were shocked when an internationally renowned Broadway star turned up and performed at a local pub night.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is best known for creating and performing in hit 11-Tony-winning musical Hamilton and wrote How Far I'll Go from Moana, surprised the audience at a singalong night.

The night, known as Jane’s Calamity, packs out the trendy Cardiff watering hole Porters as part of a monthly event.

Normally, it is just a group of diehard regulars gathered round the piano but this time they had promoted a mystery special guest.

As crowd broke in to the opening song from Hamilton a man in a hoodie made his way towards the stage only to reveal but it was in fact Lin-Manuel Miranda himself.

(Image: Mat Troy)

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The American, who is in the capital filming the brand new version of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials , then stuck around with his family to enjoy the rest of evening amongst the crowd.

At the end of the night the pianist started playing the song My Shot from Hamilton and once again he led the crowd for a stirring rendition.

He also sang Stars from Les Misérables.

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The man at the piano is 32 year old secondary school music teacher Neil Parker.

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He said: “This is a night that we started about two years ago can we do it on the first Thursday of every month.

“Basically it is just a group gathered around a piano to sing!

"It was started by myself, with my friends Laura and Susie started it and it's grown really big. It's always packed out."

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According to Neil they didn't know Lin-Manuel was turning up until a couple of hours before.

"We sent him a couple of tweets over the last few weeks and he sent us a message this morning asking if there was any chance he could come along and we could sort something out,” he said.

“Performing his own songs in front of him was nerve wracking, scared is an understatement.”

Mat Troy, who was in the audience, said: "It's crazy when an internationally famous person whose work you admire and inspires you suddenly turns up in your local and sings songs around piano with you!"

Mr Miranda spent most of the night dancing along to the song and consenting with pictures to very excited onlookers.