San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM
26 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM
27 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM
28 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM
29 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM
30 Dec 1865, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Program included “speeches, ballads, a wild Irish jig, Mrs. McGowan’s reel, with instrumental performances.”

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]

3)

Africaine, L', [burlesque]

4)

"Darling Jeannie"

aka Darling Jennie; Farewell Jennie; Farewell Jeannie

Composer(s): Blamphin

Text Author: Blamphin

Participants: David S. Wambold

5)

Living photographs

aka Animated photographs; Living pictures of great artists; Living portraits

Participants: Charley Backus

6)

Still so gently; or, Kehoe’s developing system

7)

Triple clog dance

8)

aka Wild Irish jig

9)

10)

Anne Maria Jane

aka Anna Maria Jane

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 25 December 1865, 1.

“Speeches, ballads, a wild Irish jig, Mrs. McGowan’s reel, with instrumental performances are on their bill’s great variety.”

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 December 1865, 7.

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 December 1865, 302.

“The San Francisco Minstrels offer a fruitful programme for the holiday season, and Merry Christmas times are promised. The patrons of this troupe are a well informed set of people, and a little Birch on the end makes them smart and attentive. The man on the other end will back us in this opinion, eh, Charles? The San Francisco boys are King Pins, and their efforts to please are well appreciated by the public. As the undaunted Billy would say—everything is lovely, and the metaphorical goose has roosted at an altitude extremely difficult for a short man to reach without a cheer to stand on.”

4)

Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 December 1865, 303.

“Wambold’s new song, ‘Darling Jennie’”

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 01 January 1866, 310.

“There is something so ridiculously amusing in the comic acts of the funny element of this band, that the effect remains with us for many days.”