Ladies Entertainment in Behalf of White Refugees
Event Information
Venue(s):
City Assembly Rooms
Price: $.50 includes strawberries and ice cream
Event Type:
Band
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
29 July 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
13 Jun 1864, Afternoon14 Jun 1864, Afternoon
15 Jun 1864, Afternoon
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
“Tickets, including strawberries and ice cream, 50 cents.”
2)
“The great Strawberry, Ice Cream and Floral Festival in Aid of the Freedmen and the Southern Loyal Refugees commenced yesterday afternoon at the City Assembly Rooms, No. 466 Broadway. . . . Around the flower table and about the room many couples were promenading, and the whole affair was enlivened by some excellent selections from the various operas performed by Dodworth’s celebrated band. . . .
The object of the festival, to aid the suffering white refugees, should recommend it to every patriotic man and woman in the City, and as long as it is kept open the festival will doubtless be well attended, for, independent of the great good it is to do to a suffering and deserving class of people, it is, with the combined influences of music, ice cream and strawberries, and the latter served up by very pretty and patriotic young ladies, so attractive as to be irresistible to the gallant young men of the present day, and they, of course, will not dream of attending it without taking their lady friends with them.”