Robert Ames and his fellow musicians are looking for a little help from the City of Laconia to build a new public bandstand on the Weirs Beach Boardwalk in a place where a bandstand once stood.

Ames, the owner of many properties in Weirs Beach including the Half-Moon arcades, has been playing with his Boardwalk Jazz Group under a tent next to the train station in the center of the Weirs for several years.

Each week, Ames, a jazz saxophone player, and his band performed there to appreciative crowds.

“Honestly, that’s a lot of work each week setting up where we are now,” he said. “But, really, the idea is to bring back something that was very popular here for a long time.”

The first Weirs Beach train station was built in 1859. In the years that followed, as local music groups played in t

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