'BIG BANDS’ CONTEST

Evening Star, Issue 19175, 16 February 1926, Page 4

'BIG BANDS’ CONTEST

OPENING ON GATURRAY Very soon now the pick of the dominion’s brass bands will be arriving in Dunedin, and the city streets will be gay with their bright uniforms. On Saturday the big brass bands contest opens at the Exhibition in the afternoon, on the Sports Ground, with the B grade quickstep event, and at S o’clock at night the G grade ownchoice event will be hold in the Festival Hall.

The contest will he held under the auspices of the North and South Islands Bands’ Association, and is conducted here by the Dunedin Bands’ Contest Committee and the Dunedin Pipe Bands’ Contest Committee. Fortveight bands have entered lor the various events, justifying the claim that the Exhibition bands’ contest will be the biggest of its kind ever held in New Zealand. With so many hands in the combined selections and individual champion performers entered for the solos, and quartets, the pnblic_ is assured of a splendid week’s entertainment, and there is sure to be keen interest between the various hands and their following in the progress of the contest.

Tim quartets, trios, and championship cornet solos will he judged by Mr F. J. Ricketts, conductor of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Rand, and the other solos by Mr W. S. King.

The box plan for the grand stand for the B grade quickstep on Saturday. the A grade quickstep on Saturday week (February 27). and the pipe bands contest on Wednesday. February 24, are now open at The Bristol.