Wood’s Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Jan 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Wood's Minstrels; Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy; Frank Brower; Edward [minstrel] Haslam; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; James Garatagua

2)

Running the blockade

aka Blockade runner

3)

Wonderful rabble family

4)

"I wish I was in Dixie's land"

aka Dixie; Dixie's land

Composer(s): Emmett

5)

Hamlet, [burlesque (Unknown author)]

Text Author: Unknown playwright

6)

"Bounty jumpers lament"

aka Bounty jumpers

Composer(s): Arlington

Text Author: Murphy

7)

Four crows, The

8)

Jullien burlesque, The

aka Julien burlesque; Julian burlesque; Monster Jullien concert

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 September 1865.