Broadway Concert Saloon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Canterbury Music Hall

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 November 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jan 1872, Evening

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 January 1872, 7.

“...fifty beautiful and accomplished young lady attendants, elegantly attired, and a selected and full orchestra, under the direction of an accomplished leader, will discourse the choicest music.”

2)
Article: New-York Times, 24 January 1872, 5.

Arrest of three Broadway concert-saloon proprietors on Monday night; opening last night, with the girls in attendance; numerous throngs around their doors; bands of music in full blast; other saloons in the neighborhood, who had not received the free “advertisement,” deserted; warning against lewd or indecent behavior.

3)
Article: New-York Times, 25 January 1872, 8.

Business extremely dull for the present; “the music was heard as usual.”