BANDSMEN’S CARNIVAL
QUICKSTEP COMPETITION TO-DAY. Great interest is being taken in Wellington and suburbs in tho bandsmen’s .musical carnival which is to be held this week-end and which opened last night at the Concert Chamber with a boys’ eolo competition. This afternoon the outstanding event will be the quickstep competition. Twelve bands will compete and 350 bandsmen will bo on parade. The bands will all play different marches. At night at the Town Hall a novelty concert will take place in which the massed bands will play selections. Scotch music and dancing by tho champion pipers of the Dominion and other items contributed by Wellington musical artists will make cp the programme. A novelty item will bo the performance of a band of 32 trombones, the first time such an event has taken place in New Zealand. The purpose of the carnival is to raise funds for the Dominion contest,, and tho public are promised, full value for their money.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 12, 8 October 1927, Page 13
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