There are three bands in Blenheim—the Garrison Band, the Hibernian Band, and the Salvation Army Band. There is also a local Orchestral Society, and the town churches possess good choirs. Musical entertainments, however, are not frequently held, but the erection of a town hall—for which a loan of £4,000 has been voted—will perhaps lead to a change in this respect. There is a band rotunda in Market Place, and another in Seymour Square, and from these stands the brass bands occasionally give open-air concerts. At the Bands Contest held in Feilding in October, 1905, the Blenhein Garrison Band entered for eleven events, and secured five first and four second prizes; in all, it won £40, eleven medals, a conductor's baton, and the metronome for the championship. Blenheim also tied with the Feilding Band for the first place in the aggregate points, each gaining 258.