Concert for the Metropolitan Fair

Event Information

Venue(s):
Special Police Headquarters

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 July 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Mar 1864, Evening

Program Details



NYP announcement says the concert took place on Thursday, March 17. The NYT has a separate small article about the concert taking place “this [March 24] evening.” We believe there was only one concert and that the NYP announcement had the wrong date.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Juvenile Choir, unidentified;  Old Folks Singers

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 March 1864, 4.

Provides the incorrect date. Part of longer announcement on events connected to the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair. See: 03/16/64, Article on entertainments given on behalf of the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.

“A concert by a juvenile choir, and a troupe of ‘Old Folks’ in ancient costume, to take place at the headquarters of the Special Police, corner Jefferson and Water streets on Thursday evening, the 17th.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 March 1864, 4.

“Concert for the Fair.—Another concert is given this evening, by the Juvenile Choir and the Old Folks, at Special Police Headquarters, Jefferson and Water streets. The proceeds go to the Seventh Precinct Police, to make part of their contributions to the fair. The citizens of the precinct should aid in making the concert a success pecuniarily; they should buy tickets whether they go or not.”