Campbell’s Minstrels Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Campbell’s Minstrel Hall

Manager / Director:
M. C. Campbell [minstrel]

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 May 1864, 11:00 AM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Campbell's Minstrels;  Ainsley Scott

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 April 1864.

“The new minstrel hall in the Bowery will soon be among the things that are.  The old building is being torn down this week; carpenters, masons, laborers, are all busy, and the hum of preparation is heard on all sides.  Mr. Campbell is busy also in adding to his talented company, now traveling, with a view to opening about the last week in May.”

2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 May 1864, 38.

Description of new hall and progression of construction.

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 14 May 1864, 40.
“Campbell’s Minstrels will open their new hall 199 and 201 Bowery Opposite Spring Street on or about June 1st.”
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 May 1864, 46.
“The Campbells are coming, hi ho, hi ho.”
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 May 1864.

“The old original and only Campbell’s Minstrels will open their new hall, 199 and 201 Bowery, on or about June 1. Rehearsal – The members of the above organization are requested to meet at the Hall, on Monday morning, May 23, at eleven o’clock.”

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 28 May 1864, 54.

– “M. Ainsley Scott has been engaged by M.C. Campbell for his new opera house in the Bowery.  Mr. Scott will act as basso and interlocutor.”

7)
Announcement: New York Herald, 29 May 1864.

“Campbell’s Minstrels will open their new temple of minstrelsy, Bowery, opposite Spring Street, on or about June 30 with a superior company, superior to all and second to none in the Ethiopian profession.”