San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 May 1875, Evening
04 May 1875, Evening
05 May 1875, Evening
06 May 1875, Evening
07 May 1875, Evening
08 May 1875, Evening
08 May 1875, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance];  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  Charley Backus;  Add Ryman;  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph;  Foley McKeever [Ethiopian vocalist] Ricardo;  A. H. [minstrel vocalist] Pelham;  Arthur Bent
2)
"Good Rhein wine"
aka Good Rhine wine
Composer(s): Gray
Participants:  A. H. [minstrel vocalist] Pelham
3)
"Darling little Daisy"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  David S. Wambold
4)
"Will you buy my pretty flowers?"
aka Who will buy my flowers?
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Carl [minstrel] Rudolph
5)
Clotilde; or, The bruised heart
Text Author: Unknown playwright
6)
Africaine, L', [burlesque]
7)
"Washday"
aka Wash day
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance]
8)
Living photographs
aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits
Participants:  Charley Backus
9)
Cornet solo
Participants:  Benjamin C. Bent

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 May 1875, 11.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 May 1875, 54.

Program changes since last week.