DUNEDIN BURNS CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 17

DUNEDIN BURNS CLUB.

The enthusiasm of Burns Club members ris36 superior to ia.in showers and muddy streeis. Consequsntly there was a full house on ths 2Cfch inst., when the 225 th concert took place in th© Art Gallery Hal!. Ths president (Mr A. Bain) oacup:od *h°> chair,- and in the course of a few in/trcductory remarks said the programm-e arranged for tho evening had bsen get up by the choir. Some, time ago it had baen suggested that tha' choir should ba done away w.th, on lh« eeore of expense, but, fortunately, tetter counsel, prevailed. He remarked that Scottish songs appealed to their natures better than any other?, and as all singers were improved by training, he appealed to those possessing singing ability to join the choir., as no regarded that body as a capital roeans of training its members to sing th«ir national songs as they should be sun.g. 'Hie manner in which the Burn« Club catered for its membors was, in his opinioe, unique, in prcof of which he stated that the club was getting more popular every day and its membership • was steadily increasing. • . The 'programme op-ensd with a spiricea seieetion on the bagpipes by Pipe-major M'Callum, and this was followed .by songs and recitations. All the performers o^ the evening' "were highly successful with their respactive items, which made the entertainment a success, .pneorss being tparingly permitted by the chakinan owing, to the lengthy programme. The concert was, e« usua, under the musical directorship of Mr A. M. Bain, and Mi:a E. Wright proved a very suecessrul acoompanist.