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St David’s Day concert and celebration of Amelia Earhart (Burry Port’s moment in world history), featuring Burry Port Town Band, Burry Port, Burry Port Junior Band and the brass ensemble of the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment, at Memorial Hall, Burry Port. It is so often the case that inspirational stories lend themselves to equally inspirational tributes. It was certainly the case at Burry Port Memorial Hall when Burry Port Town Band staged the Welsh premiere of ‘Stillness’ a special composition celebrating the achievement of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane. Burry Port’s part in the Earhart story is well documented. In 1928, a seaplane carrying Earhart landed in the estuary and was later towed into Burry Port harbour. Nearly 89 years later, composer Tom Davoren was finally able to stage a ‘homecoming’ for his 15-minute-long musical tribute. Tom, who hails from Gower and made his first connection with Burry Port Town Band as a musician at th...

Burry Port Town Band received a very generous donation from the Burry Port Charity Fund of £500. This money has now been put to the purchase of five cornets for young learners and now the band are looking for five young learners who perhaps don’t get the opportunity to learn in the local primary schools and would like to join the enthusiastic Junior Band Club. The Junior Band Club will run from 6:30pm on Tuesdays, at our Bandroom in Morlan Terrace, Burry Port. Each weekly session will be split into three sections, the first 20 minutes will be tuition followed by a break where the use of the band's snooker table will allow the group to socialise and make friends with other brass players from the area, then the final 20 minutes will be a full Junior Band ensemble lead by one of the tutors or a guest conductor. Burry Port Town Junior Band’s Senior Tutor, Tara Smith said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for those children in local schools who don’t benefit from brass tuitio...