San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 September 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 May 1868, 8:00 PM
05 May 1868, 8:00 PM
06 May 1868, 8:00 PM
07 May 1868, 8:00 PM
08 May 1868, 8:00 PM
09 May 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Ku Klux Klan
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus;  Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 May 1868, 4.

“At this comfortable little theatre the San Francisco Minstrels and their company of dusky chaps, with mellifluous voice and engaging ways entertain the finest people in town with the freshest and funniest things in the Ethiopian line.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 May 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 May 1868, 7.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 May 1868, 7.