Announcement of banjo lessons by Henry Dobson

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17 November 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Feb 1867

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LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Henry Clay Dobson

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Announcement: New York Herald, 03 February 1867.

Henry C. Dobson of 681 Broadway provides banjo lessons.  He claims to have instructed such celebrities as Nelse Seymour, Edwin Kelly (of Kelly & Leon), Tony Pastor, James Gaynor, Lewis Simmons, Dan Bryant, Charles Parsloe Jr., Miss Lotta and Jenny Worrell (of the Worrell Sisters).  Banjos for beginners cost between $1 and $5, and fine instruments between $15 and $50.