BURY'S "First Citizens" were serenaded when they kept their promise to visit the borough's young musical maestros.

The Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor Wilf Davison and Mrs Maureen Davison, were guests of the thriving Bury Music Service when they visited its Mersey Drive headquarters in Whitefield during a recent Saturday session.

Both had been unable to attend Bury Music Service's annual open day held in March, but they promised to visit at a later date and fulfilled that pledge this month. The Mayor and Mayoress were able to go from room to room to as the various musical ensembles were undergoing rehearsals.

Bury Music Service provides tuition for about 280 schoolchildren from all over the borough as well as giving them the opportunity to perform in concert to members of the public.

The organisation embraces a choir, three concert bands, a chamber orchestra, strings orchestra, junior strings, junior brass group, saxophone group and a brass group.