Salt Lake Times | 1891-10-05 | Page 2 | Parade of the Bands

PARADE OF THE BANDS. A Gninds Tournament of I'lali Musicians Toilay. Those who saw the grand parade of tho I'tah bands this morning as they inarched down Main street, witnessed a beautiful sight, and heard some exquisite ex-quisite music. Thoro were seveuty-tivo seveuty-tivo .nusicians in that tournament, playing almost every kind of a brass or reed instrument. These musicians were the Ogden City, Hold's and tho First Brigade bands, who were headed by the seven-foot drum major of the Ogdeu band. The tournament formed at tho head of Main street, marching south on that thoroughfare to Third South and then on to the fair grounds The piece selected was McQua'tdc's quickstep, "Nephi," and this was played during tho entire march. It was well rendered, too, and was frequently fre-quently applauded by the people who thronged the lino of march. The procession pro-cession arrived at the Exposition building build-ing at 12 o'clock.