Event Information
Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall
Price: $.30 family circle; .50 parquet
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
20 July 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
12 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
13 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
14 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
15 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
16 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
17 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
aka Man with the black bag
4)
aka Seedy musicians;
Old time's rocks;
Old times' rocks;
Old times rock
5)
aka Essence of old Virginia;
Essence of ol' Virginny;
Essence of ole Virginia;
Quint essence of Old Virginny;
Quaint essence of Old Virginny;
Quintessence of Old Virginny;
Essence of Old Birginia
7)
Composer(s): McNally [composer, conductor, minstrel]
8)
aka Johnny Schmoker ("Pilly Willy Wink" in refrain.);
Pillwillywink Band;
Johani Schmoker
10)
aka Pompey's blunders!;
Pomp's blunders;
Pompey's patients
11)
aka Who struck Billy Patterson?
Composer(s): Emmett
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 December 1864, 7.
“Plantation festival scenes.”
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 December 1864, 4.
“Ethiopian Songs, Dances, Burlesques, &c.—High Daddy.”