(Not very rewritten — I like the concept of my lead. Just polished slightly for now. More research may change it later.)
We don’t know who they were. We don’t know how many of them turned out to play for that first gig, or what instruments they carried. We know that several were students, but whether the others were merchants or teachers or bankers, their ages or musical backgrounds: all that is unknown. We don’t know what they wore to perform, or where they held their rehearsals. There are no records of the names of the tunes they played, and we don’t know how those standing to watch the football game on that autumn afternoon felt as the team scored points and the fans cheered and the music floated up into the clear air.
