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1937 San Francisco
ABOVE: The trumpet section on the 1937 trip to open the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. In the fall of 1936 Arthur received a letter from the San Francisco Golden Gate Committee inviting him and his boys to perform the following summer at the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. His band would be the…
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1936 Crystal Palace
Buckingham Palace 1936 Card provided by Carson Manzer Scanned version courtesy: Vintage Brass Band Pictures (www.harrogateband.org) The following three quotations were taken from a small booklet “The Vancouver Kitsilano Boys Band – Woodwinds, Brass, and Glory” published sometime after 1961: FIRST CONCERT AT PARLIAMENT PEACE TOWER – Ottawa, June 26, 1936 From directly under the…
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1934 West of England
ABOVE: 1934 Band at Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline The following quotations were taken from a small booklet The Vancouver Kitsilano Boys Band – Woodwinds, Brass, and Glory” published sometime after 1961.] VANCOUVER BOYS CHARM BRITONS London, August 2, 1934 After a successful tour across Canada, the Kitsilano Boys’ Band has arrived in the Old Country.…
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1933 Chicago World’s Fair
After their win in Toronto Arthur looked around for something bigger to challenge his boys. He found it in Chicago at the Chicagoland Band Festival in 1933. They would be playing for the championship of the world and there would be several top U.S. bands performing. Youth bands had long been established in the US…
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1931 Toronto Exhibition
ABOVE:1931 With great thanks to Frank Hills who is the trumpet player on the extreme left side. Arthur took his fledgling band into the local music festivals a couple of times in the early days but they didn’t do so well! He wasn’t happy unless they came in first so he continued to get better…
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1928 General Gordon School Band
ABOVE: The General Gordon School Band In 1920 Arthur Delamont arrived in Vancouver by train with his wife Lillie and his young son Gordon. He couldn’t find work playing his trumpet right away because the Musician’s Union had a 6 month waiting period before new musicians could look for work. So he bought a grocery…
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