San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 August 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM
10 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM
11 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM
12 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM
13 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM
14 Oct 1865, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
2)
I am here, [stump speech, San Francisco Minstrels]
Participants:  Billy Birch [minstrel]
3)
Young Africa on the flying trapeze
Participants:  Charley Backus
4)
Ballads
aka Favorite ballads ; Ballads and warblings; Beautiful ballads
Participants:  David S. Wambold
5)
Historical reminiscences
Participants:  William H. [minstrel] Bernard
6)
Clog dance
aka Clog reel
7)
"Susan's Sunday out"
Composer(s): Whymark
8)
Sprites of the silver shower, [minstrel burlesque]
9)
Herrmann in the shade

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 October 1865, 4.

“[T]he ‘acts’ are of the most select and irresistible kind.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 October 1865.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 14 October 1865, 215.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 October 1865, 214.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 15 October 1865.

Best in the city.  Birch Wambold, Bernard, and Backus are incomparable.