San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 September 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Feb 1871, Evening
28 Feb 1871, Evening
01 Mar 1871, Evening
02 Mar 1871, Evening
03 Mar 1871, Evening
04 Mar 1871, Evening
04 Mar 1871, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Charles Templeton
4)
Composer(s): Danks
Text Author: Gardner
Participants:  David S. Wambold
5)
aka Rat-a-plan; Rataplan; Rat a plan
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Rollin Howard
8)
aka Stop dat music; Stop that music
Composer(s): Howard

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 February 1871, 2.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 March 1871, 5.

“strong props for their immense bill every night.”

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 04 March 1871, 382.

“Messrs. Birch, Backus, Bernard and Wambold—the managing men of the San Francisco Minstrels, have sufficient fun and sentiment in their composition to afford amusement for half a dozen troupes, and we hope to see them at no distant day a little farther up town, in a location where their talents will be better appreciated than they seem to be at present. We know of no four performers that can surpass the quartet we have named for their respective dues.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 11 March 1871, 390.