KAIKORI BAND.

Evening Star, Issue 13144, 28 December 1908, Page 3

KAIKORI BAND.

OPEN-AIR ENTERTAINMENT. With commendable enterprise, the Kaikorai Band management havo inaugurated a ser;es of open-aid entertainments, for the purpose of adding to Ihe band funds and of forming the nucleus of a fund to enable the band to take part in ihe great band contest at Sydney in a few months' time. During their recent trip to Ballarat the members of the band had an opportunity of seeing the manner in which these open-air entertainments are managed on the other side, and were" enabled to' purchase a first-class biograph and a number of excellent films at a moderate cost. They have had the Carisbrook Cricket Ground equipped with ten arc lamps and with platforms and screen for the purpose of the various entertainments. The total outlay has been oyer £340, so that the band will require to receive pood patronage from the public in order to be able to have any surplus for the purposes in view. At the first entertainment on Boxing Night there was an attendance of about 500, many of those who would.otherwise have attended being debarred by the heavy rain (hat fell during the afternoon. Those who did attend did not suffer any inconvenience, as there was a good cinder track to stand on, and ample shelter was provided in the event of rain. The band played selections from eight o'clock till half-past, and at frequent intervals during the rest of the evening. Vocal items were given by Mr D. Robertson ('Let me like a soldier fall' and 'Take a pair of sparkling eyes') and Mr R. JPKonzie ('When it's moonlight on the silvery Rio Grande,' and, as an encore, 'Way down on the old Swanee'). Both singenf acquitted themselves very well, but Mr MTSenzie's «ongs seemed to be more to the taste of the majority of those present. Juggling and acrobatic items were also included in the programme. The biograph pictures that were to be the main feature of the programme were not shown. For some reason the light «™»*"> act. Mr Laid Jaw explained that it had been impossible to have a preliminary txial of the biograph, as some of the apparatus had just come to hand that day. He was confident, however, that everything would be in thorough working order at the next entertainment, which takes place on, Wednesday