BESSES O' TH' BARN BAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8401, 17 April 1907, Page 6

BESSES O' TH' BARN BAND.

Messrs J. and N. Tait, the wellknown concert enterpreneurs of Melbourne, have completed arrangements for a brief visit to Maaterton of the Besses o' th' Barn Band, The first of the three performances will commence to-morrow afternoon, with an open-air performance at the Showgrounds, commencing at 3 o'clock. On Thursday and Friday evenings the Besses will play in the Town Hall. When it is considered that the expense attached to bringing the thirty-two bandsmen on a tour of the colonies runs into a cosiderable sum of money, such enterprising action will, no doubt, be substantially recognised by an appreciative public. This famous band takes its name from a quaint old village called Besses o' th' Barn, the origin of which is explained in a newspaper dated January, 1747, in which a meeting was convened at Besses o' th' Barn. This hostelry was previously a barn in which the first-prac-tices of the band were held, and was kept by a popular Lancashire lass called Bessie. The box plans for the reserved seats are on view at Messrs McLeod and Young's, where day-sale tickets for both open-air and evening concerts are on sale.