Bryants’ Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
22 March 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
04 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM05 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
06 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
07 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
08 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
09 Jan 1864, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Bryants' Minstrels; Nelse Seymour; G. A. Conners; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; James Morrison; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; John H. Sivori; Dan Bryant; Tommy Gettings; Rollin Howard; James Garatagua; Daniel Decatur Emmett; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Neil Bryant
2)
aka Seedy musicians;
Old time's rocks;
Old times' rocks;
Old times rock
5)
aka Tin panonion;
Tin-pan-on-ion;
Tinpanonion;
Tin pan onion;
Tin Pano-ni-on;
Tin-pan-o-ni-on
6)
aka Johnny Schmoker ("Pilly Willy Wink" in refrain.);
Pillwillywink Band;
Johani Schmoker
9)
aka U. S. Grant;
USG;
plantation festival scene;
US Grant;
Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
Citations
1)
“First time of the Plantation Festival Scene U.S.G.”
2)
“We do believe the Bryants have been at our poetry machine. . . . They bring out a new plantation festival scene this evening, called ‘U.S.G.,’ and here is the burthen [sic] of the song – ‘U. stands for Union, U.S. for Uncle Sam, but U.S.G. it just suits me, or any other man; He dug a trench round Vicksburg, and, sure as you’re alive, he’ll dig one more round the White House door, in 1865.’ Unselfish reader, wouldn’t you take that for ours? Have a care, boys, have a care how you trifle with our poetic machine.”