What do you do on your way to work?

Florence Graham Welton sings her way through the doldrums of the daily commute.

The 11-year-old Bermuda High School student is now the youngest soloist in the BMDS pantomime, The Pied Piper.

She says she is inspired by her sisters — Alice, 17, and Skye, 19 — and the three of them often sing to pass time on the drive between their Sandys home and BHS.

“I have loved singing my whole life, but I started taking voice lessons with Jane Farge three years ago,” Florence said. “I wanted to take lessons, because I really wanted to sing like my older sister, Alice. She sings really well and so does Skye.”

Florence has performed as part of school events but the pantomime will give her her largest audience yet.

“Before I go on stage I feel quite nervous, but afterward though, I feel really good and really happy,” she said.

The Pied Piper follows the traditional story about a town called Hamlyn overrun by rats.

The town hires a rat catcher, the Pied Piper, but when the job is completed, refuse to pay him. The Pied Piper lures the children out of town by playing his flute. Florence plays a girl so engrossed in her book that she doesn’t hear his music, and is left behind. She sings a solo about her sadness at being the only child in Hamlyn.

Florence is now learning to play the guitar to accompany her singing. She also took an acting class organised by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society this summer, which piqued her interest in the craft.

“There was a lot of singing in that workshop,” she said. “It was a lot of fun. I learned a lot.”

She couldn’t say who her favourite singer was as there were so many she admired in different genres.

“I just want to sing for the rest of my life,” she said.

Tickets, $35, are available from www.bmds.bm. The show opens tonight and runs through Sunday. Performances are at 7pm each night with a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday and Sunday.