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RIDGEWAY
[Welland Tribune, 3 May 1895]
The band are practicing an entirely new repertoire of music and will spring it on the public “when the robins nest again.” We had the pleasure of being in the band room the other night and are pleased to say the selections are good. A gentleman of our acquaintance living in the town, severely criticised last season’s music because the boys didn’t play any of the old stand-by pieces that he liked. And when we asked his preference he strung out a list that almost took our breathe away, and the ones he considered worthy of undying fame were “Old Zip Coon” and “Old Dan Tucker.” We never could see any music in such trash as that and are glad the boys haven’t the time to spend on it. There is plenty of time in them, however, when played by an old-fashioned fiddler with big cow-hide boots, his tongue keeping time on both sides of his mouth to the music and his boots making more noise than the fiddle, but deliver us from Zip Tucker and Dan Coon music from a nineteenth century band.
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