Brass band defends playing at Libyan bashA British brass band defended Wednesday its participation in Libyan celebrations next week marking the 40th anniversary of Moamer Kadhafi coming to power, despite the recent Lockerbie bomber row. The Burry Port Burry Port (Welsh: Porth Tywyn) is a small town five miles outside the larger centre of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the Loughor estuary. The town is home to a harbour and is where Amelia Earhart landed as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Town Band from south Wales South Wales south n → sud m du Pays de Galles said its participation in the ceremonies in Tripoli was agreed a long time ago, well before the recent row over Scotland's release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi from prison. "The timing is difficult although this festival was planned over a year ago," the band's chairman Marc Scaife told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. at their last rehearsal before heading for the north African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. country. "We had no idea the crisis would come. The purpose of this tattoo, this festival, is to bring nations together in the spirit of camaraderie and that's the approach we're taking going out there," he said. The Libyan leader will celebrate 40 years in power on September 1. As a young colonel, Kadhafi led a 1969 coup that overthrew the monarchy. Celebrations, which begin on August 28 and run to September 4, will include a military parade  The perspective and/or examples in this article do not represent a world-wide view. Please [ edit] this page to improve its geographical balance. and air show on August 31.
Representatives of several Arab and African armies invited by Libya to take part in the military parade have already arrived in Tripoli. 
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