Campbell's Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
Palace of Music

Price: $.25; .15 children

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM
02 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM
03 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM
04 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM
05 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM
06 Dec 1862, 3:00 PM
06 Dec 1862, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Instruments included in the program:

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Little Katy; Hot corn, who’ll buy; Hot corn brothers; Hot corn boys
5)
aka Ham-fat
Composer(s): Unidentified
6)
Composer(s): Unidentified
7)
aka Old maids' lament, The ; Old maid's lament; Old maids lament; Poor old spinsters; Old maids
Composer(s): M.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 November 1862, 7.
“Matinee every Saturday at 3 o’clock, for Ladies And Children.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 December 1862, 7.
Time, prices. “Ned Davis in new and funny doings. Clifford, in his great acts. Eddy, in new and elegant dances. Pic. Butler, in his wonderful solos.”
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 December 1862.
“Campbell’s Minstrels . . . are meeting with marked success. The band consists of 17 performers, some of the best in the country. There is an entire change of bill to-night.”
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 December 1862, 7.
“Second week of Rumsey, The Monitor Banjoist of the World. . . . New Ballads, Instrumental Solos, Banjo Solos, New Polkas.”
5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 December 1862.
“Campbell’s Minstrels have made a permanent settlement at Palace Hall . . . and are well patronized.”
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 December 1862, 7.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 December 1862, 7.