ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO Saturday November 1, 1919

Campbeltown Brass concert

A very successful and enjoyable concert was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday night under the auspices of Campbeltown Brass Band.

There was a good audience, and the chair was occupied by Sheriff Macmaster Campbell.

The chairman said he found it was about 15 years since Campbeltown was privileged with the possession of a band, and that the present combination might be regarded as the successor of the band that went out of existence then.

He understood that the instruments which were used by the band in 1904 were the same instruments as are in the possession of the present band.

He was informed, also, that a number of the members of the present band were also members of the former band.

It was satisfactory to know that the present band was not entirely a new organisation, but was in a way a continuation of an honourable succession.

Mr J W Johnston, who was instructing and training and conducting the band, had informed him that they gathered twice every week for instruction and practise, and that the progress they were making was highly satisfactory.

He thought it was for the townspeople to congratulate the band upon the success of the movement.

He considered it a pity that a town the size of Campbeltown should have been without a band, for in many ways a musical combination such as this was capable of contributing to the best phases of the communal life of the town.

The meetings of the band, the comradeship of the members, and the spending of their leisure in the study of music was a pleasant and profitable way of relieving the drabness of life in a country town, while at the same time it engendered a love for the higher class of music.