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Band in tune with roots: Bangor Area High School group travels to Great Britain for music, history.

The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)

| March 30, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Morning Call. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tom Coombe

Mar. 30--Aralee Williams doesn't use words like grandpa and nana when addressing her grandparents. She uses the Welsh words "nain" for grandmother and "taid" for grandfather.

Williams is a high school senior from Bangor, a community that still has strong connections to Wales 161 years after the arrival of the first settlers from that country. Over the next few days, Williams will make that connection even stronger, traveling with the Bangor Area High School band on a weeklong tour of the British Isles that includes several concerts in Wales.

"It's not just a band trip," Craig Payne, the band's director, said Thursday afternoon.…

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