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:
8 January 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
18 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
19 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
20 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
21 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM
22 Jul 1865, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Wood's Minstrels
2)
Challenge dance
3)
"Bounty jumpers lament"
aka Bounty jumpers
Composer(s): Arlington
Text Author: Murphy
4)
Loony Napoleon
aka Looney Napoleon
5)
Mississippi fling
6)
Conscripts, The
7)
Champion clog dance
8)
"Magic echo, The"
9)
"Black Brigade, The," [plantation song and dance]
aka Black Brigade, De; Black brigade horse cavalry
Composer(s): Emmett
Text Author: Emmett

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 July 1865, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 July 1865, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 22 July 1865, 119.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 July 1865, 4.