VICTORY BAND WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 132, 1 December 1945, Page 11

VICTORY BAND WEEK

Victory Band Week will open tomorrow afternoon at Lower Hutt, when the 20 Wellington and Hutt bands will present a massed bands festival. The colourful uniforms of nearly 500 bandsmen and bandswomen and their shining instruments viewed against the vivid green lawn of the Hutt Recreation Ground will provide a splendid setting for the music and the marching displays. A feature of the festival will be the appearance of the junior bands, whilst Scots will be thrilled by the massed pipe band of over 150 pipers. All bands will fall in m Andrews Avenue at 1.30, where they will be inspected by the president of the Wellington Bands' Association, Mr. J W. Andrews. They will then march to the Recreation Ground, where the festival will commence at 2.30. For the convenience of the public the gates will be opened at 1.30. An invitation has been extended to the band of.H.M.S. Indefatigable to make a guest appearance, but so far it is not known whether it will be possible for the invitation to be accepted.

At night a concert will be given by the composite pipe band and the composite brass band on the same ground. Victory Band Week will be officially opened by the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. Appleton) at noon on Monday, when, in the Council Chamber, he will tender a civic reception to band officials, bandmasters, pipe-majors, and band presidents. The week will continue until December 9, when a massed bands festival will be held at the Basin Reserve and a concert by the composite band at the Opera House.