Festival of German Workingmen’s Associations

Event Information

Venue(s):
Jones's Wood
Germania Assembly Rooms

Manager / Director:
Carl Anschütz

Price: $.25 for festivity at Germania Assembly Rooms; $.25 for one gentleman and ladies admission to Jones’s Wood

Event Type:
Band, Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 October 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
09 Jun 1869, All Day

Program Details

Enormous festival of over 8,000 attendees across two days. Participants gathered at the Germania Assembly Rooms at 8 pm on Tuesday for an “introductory festivity.” The following day there was a procession up Broadway and a pic-nic with choral concert at Jones’s Wood. The event featured “about a dozen brass bands, all under the general direction of Prof. Charles Anschutz.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified;  Band, unidentified

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 May 1869, 5.

“An imposing demonstration of German workingmen is to take place in this city on the 8th of June. The programme embraces a grand musical festival and oration at the Germania Assembly Rooms on the evening of the 7th, and imposing parade and pic-nic at Jonse’s Wood on the 8th. Thirty-five societies have already signified their intention to paticipate in the parade.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 June 1869, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 09 June 1869, 8.

“In spite of the rain, and the disagreeable weather, and the more disagreeable streets, yesterday, the procession and pic-nic of the German Workingmen’s Associations were complete successful, and were enjoyed by over 8,000 hard working men of various callings, with an indefinite number of women and children. [Long review of the event follows.]

…The music of about a dozen brass bands, all under the general direction of Prof. Charles Anschutz, enlivened the scene, and furnished the music for the various dancing parties. [Discusses speeches.] A very interesting feature of the exercises was the grand concert in Belvidere [sic], by about a dozen different singing clubs of this city, of Williamsburgh [sic], and Hudson City.”