Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Aug 1865, Evening
08 Aug 1865, Evening
09 Aug 1865, Evening
10 Aug 1865, Evening
11 Aug 1865, Evening
12 Aug 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; W. D. [minstrel] Corrister; Frank Brower; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; Tom Vaughn [minstrel]

2)

Handy Andy, [minstrel]

3)

Running the blockade

aka Blockade runner

4)

"Poor old maids"

aka Old maids' lament, The ; Old maid's lament; Old maids lament; Poor old spinsters; Old maids

Composer(s): M.

5)

aka Nerves original; Nervés

Composer(s): Gordon

Text Author: Brian

6)

"Flat foot Jake"

7)

Mississippi fling

8)

"Bounty jumpers lament"

aka Bounty jumpers

Composer(s): Arlington

Text Author: Murphy

9)

Champion clog dance

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 August 1865, 7.

2)

Review: New York Herald, 08 August 1865, 4.

Short review. “There is no place of entertainment of its kind in the city so cool and comfortable as Wood’s Minstrel Hall, and to this fact, as well as to the excellent management of Mr. Wood, we attribute the good attendance there every night. The performance is just the kind the people want in this sultry weather. There is always plenty to laugh at and plenty to amuse. The bill of last week is so good that is has not changed.”

3)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 12 August 1865, 143.

4)

Review: New York Clipper, 19 August 1865, 150.

Fair patronage last week. “Mr. Tom Vaughn, an old corkite, but who for the past three years has been doing his country good service in the army, appears . . .with his funniments and banjo playing.”