Bryants’ Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Mechanic's Hall

Price: $.50 parquet; .20 gallery

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 August 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM
10 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM
11 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM
12 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM
13 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM
14 Oct 1865, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Bryants' Minstrels;  Dave [minstrel] Reed;  Mickey [variety/minstrel dancer] Warren;  John S. [minstrel] Cox;  Dan Bryant;  Daniel Decatur Emmett;  Neil Bryant;  Eph Horn;  Nelse Seymour;  Jules Stratton [minstrel];  Charles Templeton
2)
Miserables, Les; or, Old times rocks, [burlesque]
aka Seedy musicians; Old time's rocks; Old times' rocks; Old times rock
3)
Power of music, The
4)
Herrmann and Heller
5)
"High Daddy"
Composer(s): Emmett

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 October 1865, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 October 1865, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 October 1865, 214.
4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 14 October 1865, 215.

Performers.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 October 1865, 222.

“Dan Bryant still holds a full hand, a plays it with good judgment; his sallies of wit, his local bits, his open countenance, and eccentric movements, are all so harmoniously mixed up in him as to give assurance to the world that he is a ‘Nigger man’ on the mock turtle principle.”