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Shades Concert Room

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Venue Type & Location

Tavern

Overview

  • Address: Royal Arcade and Manor Street. For a current map, Click Here.

  • Alternate Names: Shades Saloon

  • Performance Space Description: Information about this venue has not yet been compiled; however, some sense of the performance space may be gleaned by following the links at right. In particular:

  • See the 'Bibliographic Sources' link for a provisional list of venue-relevant resources (both primary and secondary). Wherever possible (i.e. when the pertinent text is relatively short and/or easily condensed) this material has been transcribed, and appears beneath the appropriate bibliographic citation.

  • See the 'Events at venue' link for a listing of blackface/minstrelsy-related events that took place in this performance space (with attached bibliographic references).

    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Shades Concert Room

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Booth, J.W. Booth, J.W. Minstrel Definite Booth, J.W.
    Hodgson, D., the Female Juba Hodgson, D. Minstrel Definite Hodgson, D., the Female Juba
    Murray, J. Minstrel Definite Murray, J.

    Events at Shades Concert Room

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Variety - Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Hodgson, D., the Female Juba
    Variety - Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Booth, J.W.
    Variety - Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Murray, J.

    Bibliographic Sources

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    • Newcastle Chronicle February 8, 1850: Referenced in University of Bristol, Barker Collection.


      Gives address as Royal Arcade & Manor Street. Suggests that the venue may have been located within a house (Roger Whitfield's), and that performances there have been discontinued.