Georgia Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jun 1867, Evening
18 Jun 1867, Evening
19 Jun 1867, Evening
20 Jun 1867, Evening
21 Jun 1867, Evening
22 Jun 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

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LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Georgia Minstrels

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Power of music, The

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Four freedmen

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Artful dodgers

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Ten minutes in Congress

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Sun, 17 June 1867, 4.

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Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 June 1867, 7.

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Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 June 1867, 12.

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Review: New York Sun, 19 June 1867, 4.

“… The Georgia Minstrels are a troupe of genuine [negroes] who having had their hours of work and play on the Southern plantations, have brought away to the North the recollection of their old slave sports, and reenact them every evening at 600 Broadway.”

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Announcement: New York Sun, 19 June 1867, 4.

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Announcement: New York Herald, 20 June 1867, 7.

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Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 June 1867, 7.

New program given. See 06/24.