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Note: Venue Uncertain: listed as "Theatre, Sheffield"
Venue Type: Theatre
Location: Sheffield
County: Yorkshire: West Riding
Type: Minstrel Show
Venue: Theatre Royal, Sheffield
Date: 16 April 1846-17 April 1846
Date notes: Thursday & Friday evening
Event Program
Title
Performed Person / Troupe
Notes
Type
Slave Ship, The
Henry Russell/ Russell, Henry
Boatman of the Ohio (Song)
Henry Russell/ Russell, Henry
Song
Going ober de Mountains
Henry Russell/ Russell, Henry
Song
Bibliographic Sources
Local Studies Library, Sheffield Central Library 1840s Playbill - April 16, 1846
Info in Record:
Performance Type:
Minstrel Show
Performers Listed: “Mr. Henry Russell”
Days & Times: “Thursday & Friday, April 16 & 17” (“Two Nights Only”)
Venue Name: “Theatre, Sheffield”
Program Info: “Vocal Entertainment, Interspersed aith Negro Anecdotes and Melodies”; several specific songs for Thursday performance listed and extensively described – see attached document scan
Other:
performance time,
ticket info
Sheffield Iris April 23, 1846: Referenced in University of Bristol, Barker Collection.
Info in Record:
Performance Type:
Vocal Entertainment
Performers Listed: “Mr. Henry Russell”
Program Info: Concerts
Other:
audience,
ticket info
Sheffield Iris April 16, 1846
Info in Record:
Performance Type:
Vocal Entertainment
Performers Listed: “Mr. Henry Russell”
Days & Times: “Thursday (This Evening) and Friday, April 16th & 17th, [sic] 1846”
Venue Name: “Theatre, Sheffield”
Program Info: “Two of his Vocal Entertainments”. Listed songs (ostensibly for the Thursday show) include several pieces not clearly connected to minstrelsy/race, plus “Song of the Shirt”, “The Slave Ship”, “The Boatman’s Dance” and “Anecdotes of Negro Life and Character”.