CITY OF ASHLAND PARKS & RECREATION presents an annual 19-Concert Summer Season at the Guy C. Myers Memorial Band Shell at Brookside Park. Performances are held every Thursday and Sunday evening beginning mid-June through mid-August.  All performances are Open to the Public with a suggested $2.00 FREEWILL donation per person.

This grand facility was donated to the City of Ashland by Mrs. Kate Myers in Memory of her husband Guy Chase Myers.  Below is the story of the Band Shell's creation.

Brookside Park was conceived in 1917 and became a twenty-acre reality in 1919 at a cost of $6,000. Eight years later the first swimming pool was built for $26,000. In addition, a shelter house was added for $1,400, tennis courts for $2,500 and a wooden band stand for $2,200.

By 1932, the park covered twenty acres with additional facilities for horseshoe pitching, softball and baseball diamonds, a lake with a casting platform, croquet courts, a children's playground, archery, and bowling on the green. All of this was illuminated for night use.

In 1937, Mrs. Guy C. Myers purchased ten acres adjoining the park and presented the land to the city. Ten years later a plea by Dr. Louis E. Pete for a new band shell appeared in the local paper and was read by Mrs. Myers as she vacationed in Michigan. The following day a message reached Dr. Pete that Mrs. Myers would build the desired band shell as a memorial to her husband.

Designed to replace the old wooden band stand, the new shell would be 110 feet high and 90 feet wide to accommodate a 100-piece band, orchestra, or choir on its stage, 65 seats in the orchestra pit and 3,000 seats in its amphitheatre. The shell was designed by Hahn and Hayes, architects from Toledo; W.C. Forbes as general contractor; Jay Patterson, electrician; H.C. Wheeler seating and concrete; and D.D. Quinn landscaping.

The official dedication occurred in the third week of June, 1949, with three evenings of ceremonies and concerts by bands and choirs.