Bryants’ Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 February 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
04 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM05 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
06 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
07 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
08 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
09 Apr 1864, 7:45 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Little [minstrel] Mac; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Tommy Gettings; James Garatagua; Dan Bryant; William L. [minstrel] Hobbs; Daniel Decatur Emmett; [minstrel] Sayers; Neil Bryant; G. A. Conners; Nelse Seymour; James Morrison; George S. Fowler [minstrel]; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank [minstrel] Leslie
4)
aka Tin panonion;
Tin-pan-on-ion;
Tinpanonion;
Tin pan onion;
Tin Pano-ni-on;
Tin-pan-o-ni-on
6)
aka Seedy musicians;
Old time's rocks;
Old times' rocks;
Old times rock
10)
aka Exempt Shaking Quakers;
Exempt Shakers from Lebanon Town;
Lebanon Shakers, The ;
Shaking Quakers
12)
aka U. S. Grant;
USG;
plantation festival scene;
US Grant;
Ulysses S. Grant
Composer(s): Emmett
Citations
4)
“Black opera, under the impressarioship of Dannelli Bryanti more than keeps pace with the 14th street shop, for nothing stops a crowd from gathering at Mechanic’s Hall. If the boys could enlarge their hall by taking in Crosby street, we believe they would still turn money away. We tried to edge in at 472 Broadway one night last week, but we got squeezed worse than at the Fair, and we therefore beat what a brigadier general would call ‘a masterly retreat.’”
5)
“Dan Bryant was on Saturday last, subsequent to the evening entertainment, the recipient of a valuable testimonial of personal esteem and respect, in the shape of a magnificent solid silver banjo, of exquisite manufacture, made by—Dobson. . . . At a later period of the evening, Dan was also the recipient of a splendid signet ring from a valued personal friend.”