Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 April 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
26 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
27 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
28 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
29 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM
30 Apr 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels
2)
"Philharmonicgermaniarehearsal"
3)
"Pomp of Cudjoe’s cave," [Minstrel parody]
4)
Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
5)
Going to the fair
6)
"Finnegan’s wake"
Composer(s): Pastor
7)
"Voting for the sword"
8)
Smiggy McGlural
aka Smiggy McGhural; Smiggy McGuirrel
9)
Cotton field sports
Composer(s): Unidentified
10)
"Gobble Family, The"
aka My grandfather's farm yard
Composer(s): Kirbye
11)
Historical reminiscences
12)
Comic banjo solos

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 April 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 April 1864, 24.