The Salford Family Orchestra

The BBC Proms Family Orchestra perform 'The Rough Guide to the Proms Family Orchestra' (26 July)

Families from across Salford have taken centre stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London for a very special concert.

Seventy-five members of the Salford Family Orchestra, ranging in age from 5 to 85, performed live with the BBC Philharmonic as part of the BBC Proms on Sunday 26 July.

It's the first year that families from outside of London have joined the Proms Family Orchestra.

Being part of the Proms

The idea of the orchestra is to give family members - whether mums, dads, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or grandparents - the chance to play music together.

For the past three months, the families from Salford have helped to create a new piece of music, loosely based on Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, called 'The Rough Guide To The Family Orchestra'.

They were joined members of the London Family Orchestra for the performance in front of 5,000 people on Sunday.

Words for the chorus have been written by poet and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan.

Listen again to Prom 13 - The Family Prom on the BBC iPlayer

BBC Proms 2009 are from 17 July to 12 September 2009.

The Salford Family Orchestra performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday 26 July.

Members of the Salford Family Orchestra rehearsing for the BBC Proms