Hooley’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Hooley’s Minstrel Hall

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Mar 1865, Evening
14 Mar 1865, Evening
15 Mar 1865, Evening
16 Mar 1865, Evening
17 Mar 1865, Evening
18 Mar 1865, Evening

Program Details

“Fall of Sumter” includes “The Star-spangled banner.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Hooley's Minstrels (Brooklyn);  Willie Guy [minstrel];  G. [Hooley's] Dodson;  J. [Hooley's Minstrels] Isaacs;  E. [Hooley's Minstrels] Thomson;  George [minstrel] Reynolds;  Cool [minstrel] Burgess;  Robert Nichols;  W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins;  Dick Ralph;  Luis J. [minstrel] Nevers;  Thomas B. [Minstrel] Prendergast;  Richard M. Hooley;  Joseph Bailey [minstrel, trumpeter];  John B. Donniker;  William S. Budworth;  J. W. [minstrel] Hilton
2)
Industrious family
3)
"Young Eph's lament"
aka Young Epre's lament; Young Ephe’s lament; Young Ephe's lament
Composer(s): Murphy
4)
Fannie Bloomer
aka Miss Bloomer at the soiree; Fanny Bloomer; Fancy Bloomer
5)
"All quiet on the Potomac"
6)
"Dream of music"
7)
"Old veteran"
8)
"Happy contraband"
9)
"Magic echo, The"
10)
"Fall of Sumter"
11)
"Star-spangled banner, The"
aka Star spangled banned
Composer(s): Smith
Text Author: Key

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 March 1865.

2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 18 March 1865, 392.

     List of troupe members.