San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 October 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 May 1868, 8:00 PM
12 May 1868, 8:00 PM
13 May 1868, 8:00 PM
14 May 1868, 8:00 PM
15 May 1868, 8:00 PM
16 May 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus;  Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer;  J. [singer] Ackerman
2)
Contraband College, The; or, The Hilton Head Institute
3)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Griffin)]
aka Hamlet the dainty; Hamlet in black
Text Author: Griffin
4)
Adel Greasy and Norma on a lark
aka Norma and Greasy on a lark
5)
Railroad express train
6)
Ku Klux Klan

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 May 1868, 5.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 May 1868, 3.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 May 1868.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 May 1868, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 May 1868, 8.
6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 May 1868, 46, 2d col., middle.
7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 16 May 1868, 47.
8)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 May 1868, 4.

“A new singer, Mr. J. Ackerman, has been added to the band of San Francisco Minstrels. He seems to be liked. The programme of merry acts given by this lively band is varied each week, and besides the new comers, who are always coming, the old favorites—Birch, Wambold, Bernard and Backus—appear every evening.”