It was the night ‘Girl Power’ met the ‘Best of Brass’ at QE High School, Carmarthen.
Burry Port Town Band’s status as one of the best brass bands in the UK is well known – and they lived up to top billing in stirring concert which deserved a bigger audience.
They shared the stage with the 70 ladies of A Choired Taste, the Carmarthen choir led by one of the winners of the BBC’s Unsung Hero Award for Music, Sarah Kirby.
They provided the ‘razzle’ to the band’s ‘dazzle’ – or was it the other way around? Whatever it was, it worked a treat and the razzle-dazzle went down a storm.
Band Burry Port Town Band opened up with Men of Harlech, All Through The Night, Myfanwy and a storming Delilah, which was something of a tribute to the winning Welsh football team!
A Choired Taste started their set with a Happy Mash-Up (Sarah Kirby loves her Mash-Up medleys, by the way), followed by Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man and the Karl Jenkins classic, Adiemus.
Burry Port Band member Sophie McLaughlin took the solo slot for the evening, swapping her tuned percussion for the flute. The youngest flautist in this year’s National Youth Orchestra of Wales, she showed that she is a potential future star with Moderato Assai from Rigoletto Fantasi, Gounod’s Ave Maria and the Allegro from Rigoletto Fantasie by Wilhelm Popp.
Burry Port Town Band paid their own tribute to the famous Brassed Off film (starring Pete Postlethwaite) with four pieces from the movie – The Floral Dance, Londonderry Air, Adagio from Concerto De Aranjuez and the Clog Dance.
After the interval, Burry Port Town Band took us soaring into outer space with the Imperial March from Star Wars. This was followed by Out of Africa, Born Free, The Royal Airforce March Past, Amazing Grace, and a joyous Salute to Sinatra.
A Choired Taste concluded their set with Hero Mash Up, Electricity, I Dreamed A Dream, Cry Me A River and Pure Imagination.
The encore was a stirring Girl Power Mash Up, complete with dance moves.
Those of you who stayed at home to watch the football, you missed a treat.
The compere for the evening was former Carmarthen Journal and Llanelli Star editor Robert Lloyd.
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