Melodeon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Melodeon

Manager / Director:
George E. Heydon

Price: Free

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Sep 1864, Evening
06 Sep 1864, Evening
07 Sep 1864, Evening
08 Sep 1864, Evening
09 Sep 1864, Evening
10 Sep 1864, Evening

Program Details

Program included “twenty others.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Albert Braham [tenor, etc.];  Moses Solomon;  W. S. [Melodeon - comic vocalist] Coles;  Ella Thompson [contralto];  Alice [ Melodeon] Perry;  Kate [Melodeon] Patti;  [Melodeon - Ethiopian delineator] Rustimenton;  [Melodeon - dancer, minstrel] Wilson;  Alicea [Melodeon vocalist] Eoles
2)
"Muleteer song, The"
Composer(s): Meves
Participants:  Albert Braham [tenor, etc.]
3)
"Doomed ship"
Participants:  Moses Solomon
4)
Challenge dance
Participants:  [Melodeon - dancer, minstrel] Wilson
5)
"Mocking bird, The"
aka Mocking bird song
Participants:  Kate [Melodeon] Patti

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 September 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 September 1864.
“Thirty ladies and gents in songs, glees and choruses.  Braham the great tenor . . . Coles, the great comic, in a variety of side-splitting songs . . . Ella Thompson, the Sicilian Warbler . . . Twenty others in ballads and songs.”