Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Price: $1; $.50 nurses and children under 12

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 June 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Mar 1864, 2:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 12 March 1864, 6.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 15 March 1864.
Says the event was to be held on Wednesday afternoon.  Most indications are that it was held on Saturday, including a later announcement in the Post.  “The affair is under the management of the Music Committee of the Metropolitan Fair.”
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 March 1864, 6.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 March 1864, 5.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 March 1864, 2.
“[W]ill include the choicest gems of Ethiopian minstrelsy.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 March 1864.

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 19 March 1864.

8)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 March 1864.

9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 March 1864, 9.