the first full-length minstrel show was given in what year
Tudor Minstrel


winner. Tudor Minstrell began his racing career by winning races at Bath and Salisbury in the spring of 1946. He was then sent to Royal Ascot where he won the Coventry Stakes by four lengths. In July he won the National Breeders Produce Stakes at Sandown Park by four lengths and was then retired for the season. At the end of the year, Tudor Minstrel was given a weight of 133 pounds in the Free Handicap, a rating of the best British two-year-olds, making him the leading juvenile of
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Blackface


In New York City in 1843, Dan Emmett and his Virginia Minstrels broke blackface minstrelsy loose from its novelty act and "entr'acte" status and performed the first full-blown minstrel show: an evening's entertainment composed entirely of blackface performance. (E. P. Christy did more or less the same, apparently independently, earlier the same year in Buffalo, New York.) Their loosely structured show with the musicians sitting in a semicircle, a tambourine player on one end and a bones player on the other, set the precedent
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Minstrel show


witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, and happy-go-lucky. Minstrel shows emerged as brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s in the Northeastern states. They were developed into full-fledged form in the next decade. By 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national artform, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. By the turn of the 20th century, the minstrel show enjoyed but a shadow of its former popularity, having been replaced for the most part by vaudeville
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Withrow Minstrels


The Withrow Minstrels was a musical variety show that ran for 35 years at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was known as "The Minstrels". Two hundred performances were staged between 1931 and 1965. The Minstrels was created in 1931 by the school's 22-year-old band director, George G. "Smittie" Smith and performed under "Smittie's" direction every year. The Minstrels is one of the nation's first high school performing arts programs. At the first performance in May 1931, the crowd was
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Dan Desdunes


Hall in Chicago. Receiving second place (first place was given to the Eighth Illinois National militia and third to O. T. Turner's band of St. Louis), Dan's performance was the crowd favorite and "lost only due to the judges adherence to musical and not popular qualities in their choice". In Omaha, he continued to arrange and write music. He put on a noted performance commemorating Emancipation, "Forty Years of Freedom" and used Omaha performers in his own minstrel shows, "Lady Minstrels," "
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Dan Emmett


-length blackface performance is generally considered to have been the first true minstrel show: previous blackface acts were usually either an entr'acte for a play or one of many acts in a comic variety show. Emmett is traditionally credited with writing the famous song "Dixie." The story that he related about its composition varied each time he told it, but the main points were that he composed the song in New York City while a member of Bryant's Minstrels. The song was first performed by Emmett and the Bryants at Mechanics
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Methley


first atlas of England (1577). However, the map is now lost. Methley Hall was the former seat of the Earl of Mexborough. During the fourteenth century the de Waterton family married into the de Methley family and moved to Methley Hall, a large, imposing and solid castellated building, mostly spread over three storeys rising to four by the turreted entrance. An eighteenth century watercolour shows a great hall with a minstrels gallery and grand staircase, decorated and embossed ceiling with a full length oriel window. Young Richard Plantagenet
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The Scottsboro Boys (musical)


("It's gonna take time"). Finally, Haywood is brought up for parole in front of the governor of Alabama, but will not be given parole unless he pleads guilty ("Zat So?") He defiantly refuses ("You Can't Do Me"). Haywood dies twenty-one years later in prison. As the show ends, the Interlocutor calls for the finale. The boys appear dressed in full-blown Minstrel attire and blackface, alternating between a high-energy closing number
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Miss Lucy Long


) in 1838." Despite predating the minstrel show, "Miss Lucy Long" gained its fame there. The song was the first wench role in minstrelsy. The Virginia Minstrels performed it as their closing number from their earliest performances. Dan Gardner introduced what would become the standard Lucy Long costume, skirts and pantalettes. George Christy's interpretation for the Christy Minstrels became the standard for other troupes to follow. The "New York Clipper" ignored Gardner completely and wrote "George [Christy] was the first to do the
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Frank Brower


They joined two other blackface performers—Richard Pelham, and Billy Whitlock—to form the Virginia Minstrels, the first group of blackface performers to put on a full minstrel show. Brower took the role of one of the minstrel endmen and played the bones. His performance style was characterized by wild poses and antics while he played, and he and fellow endman Dick Pelham, the featured dancers, broke into "Virginia Breakdown" dances. Brower wrote some songs for the troupe, including "Old Joe" in 1844; he
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Richard Pelham


part of his early career. The song "Massa Is a Stingy Man" became their trademark tune. Pelham was also a renowned dancer; by 1845, he was ranked so highly that William Henry Lane did an impression of him. In 1843, Pelham became one of the founding members of the Virginia Minstrels, the first group to present a full minstrel show during a performance at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on February 6, 1843. Through April 1843, he played tambourine as the Virginia Minstrels toured New York City and
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Vaudeville


and burlesque houses, which catered to those with a taste for the "risqué". In the 1840s, the minstrel show, another type of variety performance, and "the first emanation of a pervasive and purely American mass culture", grew to enormous popularity and formed what Nick Tosches called "the heart of 19th-century show business". A significant influence also came from Dutch minstrels and comedians. Medicine shows traveled the countryside offering programs of comedy, music, jugglers, and other novelties along with displays of tonics
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Little Brother (group)


eighth studio album "The Black Album". Following the release of "The Listening", Little Brother opened for Oakland-based alternative hip hop collective Hieroglyphics on the latter's "Full Circle" national tour. Little Brother's first commercially distributed "mixtape". Released on June 21, 2005 ahead of their sophomore album "The Minstrel Show". Little Brother's second album, "The Minstrel Show", released in September 2005, saw increased success for the group due to their raised popularity and praise for the
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Frank Brower


moved to New York City. They were out of work by January 1843, when they teamed up with Billy Whitlock and Richard Pelham to form the Virginia Minstrels. The group was the first to perform a full minstrel show as a complete evening's entertainment. Brower pioneered the role of the endman. After a successful tour in the British Isles, Brower returned to the United States and teamed with Emmett and other blackface performers for a time. In the 1850s, he left minstrelsy to work in the Tom shows based on "
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


Stan Stennett. It was initially produced by George Inns with George Mitchell. The Minstrels' main soloists were baritone Dai Francis, tenor John Boulter, and bass Tony Mercer. During the nine years that the show was broadcast in black and white, the blackface makeup was actually red, as black did not film as well. Prior to the creation of the Television Minstrels Show in 1957 the Television Toppers were already very popular, and The BBC Television Toppers first performed in 1953 which was aired on television for the first time February
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Hutchinson Family Singers


these, the Luca family, in 1859. Four-part harmony became an important component of all American popular music. Minstrel show troupes compared themselves to the Hutchinsons. In 1844, the Congo Minstrels advertised that "their songs are sung in Harmony in the style of the Hutchinson Family." Other minstrels parodied the group. The Harmoneon Family Singers (later the Boston Harmoneons) wore powdered wigs and faces and called themselves the Albino Minstrels or the Albino Family in what was supposed to be a blackface show. In 1845,
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Blackface


for what would soon become the first act of a standard three-act minstrel show. By 1852, the skits that had been part of blackface performance for decades expanded to one-act farces, often used as the show's third act. The songs of northern composer Stephen Foster figured prominently in blackface minstrel shows of the period. Though written in dialect and certainly politically incorrect by today's standards, his later songs were free of the ridicule and blatantly racist caricatures that typified other songs of the genre. Foster's works
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Someone Else's Deja Vu


Someone Else's Déjà Vu is the third studio full-length from Son, Ambulance. It's the first full release by the band since 2004's "Key". The album is divided into four parts: "A View of Minstrel Town" (tracks 1-3), "About the Public Square" (tracks 4-7), "To A Deserted Town" (tracks 9-11), and "Farewell Pulse" (the final two tracks). Track 8, "and" (
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Louise Linden


on the female form over minstrelsy’s racial or ethnic humor. Madame Rentz’s Female Minstrels, however, retained the interlocutor and end men of the traditional minstrel show joined by an ensemble of “blondes,” but without the overt displays of sexuality, which occasionally caused misplaced expectations among its patrons. An engagement in Ithaca, New York, by Madame Rentz’s Female Minstrels deteriorated into a full-blown riot after Cornell students disrupted the show because they became bored with its tameness. M. B. Leavitt claimed, “during the
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Peire de la Mula


, "Una leig vei d'escuoill", was also an attack on minstrels ("joglars"), who, at his time, were bringing their "insolence" from across the Alps into the presence of the "pros" (powerful) of Italy. Peire refers in this work to both Breton ("Bretz") and Norman ("Normans") minstrels. Peire's only full-length work to survive, "Dels joglars servir mi laisse", is a "sirventes joglaresc", a "sirventes
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American burlesque


, who first appeared in the United States in 1868. "Leg" shows, such as the musical extravaganza "The Black Crook" (1866), became popular around the same time. The influence of the minstrel show soon followed; one of the first American burlesque troupes was the Rentz-Santley Novelty and Burlesque Company, created in 1870 by Michael B. Leavitt, who had earlier feminized the minstrel show with his group Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels. American burlesque rapidly adopted the minstrel show's tripartite structure: part one
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Minstrel show


broadcast "The Black and White Minstrel Show" starring the George Mitchell Minstrels. The racist archetypes that blackface minstrelsy helped to create persist to this day; some argue that this is even true in hip hop culture and movies. The 2000 Spike Lee movie "Bamboozled" alleges that modern black entertainment exploits African-American culture much as the minstrel shows did a century ago, for example. Meanwhile, African-American actors were limited to the same old minstrel-defined roles for years to come and by playing them, made
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Eudora (band)


number of shows in the Southland the band began work writing what would be their first full length CD "The Silent Years". Not being signed to a label the entire recording process had to be financed by the band themselves by playing shows and selling merchandise whenever possible. The album "The Silent Years" was recorded between November 17, 2007, and April 27, 2008, at Black Studios in Los Angeles and WoodWorks Studios in Hollywood. Produced and co-mixed by Brent Woods. Soon after production on the CD
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Alison Faith Levy


1998, shortly after the release of the Loud Family's "Days for Days", Levy also issued her full-length solo debut, "The Fog Show". She released a second solo CD, "My World View", in 2000. In the late 1990s, Levy joined San Francisco psychedelic jazz collective Mushroom, and appears as keyboardist and vocalist on a number of their CDs. Levy also performed with British folk rock tribute supergroup The Minstrel In The Galleries, featuring John Wesley Harding. With Jad Fair's
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Walter Halliday


; there are many errors in it". The records show that, in addition to Walter, two other Hallidays were royal minstrels in the first half of the 15th century : William and Thomas. As William appears to have been older than the other two, it's possible that Walter and Thomas were brothers and William was their father. The recurrence of surnames in the lists of royal minstrels over the years strongly suggests "that minstrelsy could be a family business". Walter's first recorded listing as a royal minstrel is
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William H. West (entertainer)


William H. West (June 18, 1853 – February 15, 1902) was known as the "Progressive Minstrel", who emulated the British minstrel owner Sam Hague and became one of the first white owners of a minstrel troupe composed of black performers in the United States. He was born on June 18, 1853, in Syracuse, New York. He often produced and played minstrel shows with George Primrose, first with a minstrel troupe owned by J. H. Haverly, and later in a show known as Primrose and West starring
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Eddie Leonard


Eddie Leonard (October 17, 1870 – July 29, 1941), born Lemuel Golden Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were an acceptable and popular mainstream entertainment in the United States. He performed in vaudeville for 45 years before that medium faded in the 1920s, and was known for such songs as "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" and "Roly Boly Eyes". He published his memoir titled "What a Life I'm
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Christy's Minstrels


Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York. They were instrumental in the solidification of the minstrel show into a fixed three-act form. The troupe also invented or popularized "the line", the structured grouping that constituted the first act of the standardized three-act minstrel show, with the interlocutor in the middle and "Mr. Tambo" and "Mr. Bones"
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Keith Harris (ventriloquist)


"The Black and White Minstrel Show", was given his own show called "Cuddles and Company". He appeared several times on BBC TV's long-running show "The Good Old Days". Harris' best known creation, Orville the duck, came about after he saw some green fur lying around backstage at a performance of "The Black and White Minstrel Show" in Bristol. Orville, recalled Simon Farquhar in his "Independent" obituary of Harris, was "a huge, gormless, falsetto-voiced
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


of blackface. This racial controversy led to the programme's eventual cancellation from television in 1978, although a stage version ran for ten years after the show's cancellation at Victoria Palace Theatre, London. This was followed by tours of Australia and New Zealand. "The Black and White Minstrel Show" was created by BBC producer George Inns working with George Mitchell. It began as a one-off special in 1957 called "The 1957 Television Minstrels" featuring the male Mitchell Minstrels (Mitchell was the musical director) and the
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Nouvelle Expérience


Franco Dragone agreed to return—albeit reluctantly—but only if he had full creative control of the show's environment. One of the first things he did was to remove the curtain that separated the artist from the audience, so that they would both feel part of a larger show. Whereas in a traditional circus the artist could go past the curtain and drop his role, Dragone had created an environment where the artist had to remain in character for the full length of the production. Although Dragone was given full control over
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran for twenty years on BBC prime-time television. Beginning in 1958, it was a weekly light entertainment and variety show which presented traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show tunes and music hall numbers, and with lavish costumes. It was also a popular stage show. The show was accused of racism and ethnic stereotyping by black anti-racist groups in the UK, such as the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, due to its use
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Minstrel show


, black minstrelsy was the first large-scale opportunity for African Americans to enter American show business. Black minstrels were therefore viewed as a success. Pat H. Chappelle capitalized on this and created the first totally black-owned black vaudeville show, The Rabbit's Foot Company, performed with an all-black cast that elevated the level of shows with sophisticated and fun comedy. It successfully toured mainly the southwest and southeast, as well as in New Jersey and New York City. The Christy Minstrels established the basic structure of the
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The Minstrel


by Willie Carson. The two colts raced side-by-side throughout the closing stages before The Minstrel gained the advantage in the last strides and prevailed by neck. Blushing Groom was five length further back in third. The Minstrel's success was a fifth in the race for Vincent O'Brien and a record eighth for Piggott. At the end of the month The Minstrel followed up with a win in the Irish Derby at the Curragh, beating Lucky Sovereign by one and a half lengths and surviving an objection by the rider of
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Thomas Dilward


usually headlined their advertisement. Advertisers went as far as referring to him as "The Wonderful Japanese Tommy". (Ottawa Citizen & Halifax Morning Sun 1865) Dilward performed in a number of different minstrel shows including Dan Bryant's Minstrels, Wood's Minstrels, Morris Brothers' Minstrels, and Kelly & Leon's Minstrels. Also, some modern historians such as Mel Watkins cite Dilward as possibly being one of the first black entertainers to present some element of authentic black dance on the white American stage. The first of these minstrel
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Orange 9mm


US with Helmet, Quicksand, Korn, and Deftones; they were also featured on the first Airwalk Sno-Core Tour. Later, they toured Europe with Biohazard, and were on the bill for three shows with The Offspring. With Warner Music Group (the parent company of Elektra and Atlantic) consolidations, Orange 9mm moved to Atlantic Records. During the writing sessions for what would become their second full-length, Davide Gentile left the band to pursue audio engineering. Orange 9mm's second full-length,
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In Medias Res (band)


"Intimacy", In Medias Res independently released "Of What Was", their first full-length album, in April 2003 to favourable local reviews. Distributed by Vancouver's Scratch Records, In Medias Res sold out their initial 1,000 copies of the album within a year-and-a-half, before re-releasing it under local label Anniedale Records on May 24, 2005. (By the time of their next full-length release in January 2011, "Of What Was" sold over 2,000 copies.
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Nineteenth-century theatre


arguing that Forrest, who had made tens of thousands from Bird's plays, owed him more than the $2,000 he had been paid. Minstrel shows emerged as brief burlesques and comic entr'actes in the early 1830s. They were developed into full-fledged form in the next decade. By 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national art form, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that mocked people specifically of
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Music of the United States


becoming associated with abolitionism. The minstrel show was invented by Daniel Decatur Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels. Minstrel shows produced the first well-remembered popular songwriters in American music history: Thomas D. Rice, Daniel Decatur Emmett, and, most famously, Stephen Foster. After minstrel shows' popularity faded, coon songs, a similar phenomenon, became popular. The composer John Philip Sousa is closely associated with the most popular trend in American popular music just before the start of the 20th century. Formerly the bandmaster of the United States
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Rising in the East


to be as live and as real as possible, and when you start taking from different shows there isn't continuity. We wanted it to be one show and that's exactly what it is." Rob Halford talked about the overall details of the release, "I think what "Rising in the East" displays to Priest fans is the first time seeing us reunited for a full-length show in the DVD format. I think the DVD compounds all the great things that Priest fans and metal fans all around the
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What We Do in Secret


band released its second music video, "Water It Down". It was covered on "HM" magazine. The vocalist, Adams, describes the song: The guitarist, Aaron Kadura, formerly of Fit for a King, joined the band and played his first show with them on July 15, 2015. Kadura was replaced later that year by Luke Kendall. The band is currently recording its first full-length album, due to be released in summer 2016. On July 26, 2017, it was announced that
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Australian jazz


by the 1840s, featuring characteristics that later became associated with jazz, such as polyrhythmic 'breaks'. From the 1850s, full minstrel shows with minstrel 'orchestras', including locally formed troupes, toured the major capital cities and smaller, boom towns like Ballarat and Bendigo. Visits by American vaudeville troupes became much more common after the introduction of regular steamship services between America and Australia in the 1870s. Some genuine African-American minstrel troupes and Jubilee Singers (black chamber choirs) toured from the 1870s. Ragtime reached Australia
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John W. Vogel


been known. John W. Vogel was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 16, 1863. Vogel's first introduction to show business was working with the Sells Brothers' “Millionaire Confederation of Stupendous Shows” circus in March 1882. That same year he became the assistant agent for Thatcher, Primrose and West's Minstrels in Cleveland, Ohio. He excelled to such a degree that he was made manager of the show. John W. Vogel went on to manage the McIntyre and Heath Minstrels (1887–88), organized in Kenosha,
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George Mitchell (musician)


hit records. In 1957, the George Mitchell Minstrels first appeared at the annual Earl's Court Radio Show, though misleadingly this programme was televised. From 1958, the Minstrels, in red make-up which looked black on camera, became an enormous hit, with a peak viewing audience of 16.5 million viewers in 1964. It won the Golden Rose of Montreux for Best TV Show in the World in 1961. The show appeared in a prime-time television slot for twenty years, as well as spawning two touring stage
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Bellowhead


line-up. Before they had time to rehearse, the fledgling band were invited to play the first Oxford Folk Festival in April 2004, earning critical approval. In 2004, the band independently released a five-track EP, publicised as "English World Music", called "E.P.Onymous", which generated positive reviews. In 2006 Gideon Juckes joined the band, primarily playing the tuba, and they released their first full-length album, "Burlesque", featuring material from the Napoleonic Wars, the American minstrel movement
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Tudor Minstrel


the season. Tudor Minstrel began his 1947 by winning a minor race at Bath and then started 11/8 favourite for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Ridden by Gordon Richards, Tudor Minstrel won the one mile 2,000 Guineas by eight lengths, from Saravan, with Sayajirao in third. The winning margin was the biggest recorded in the race in the 20th century. Richards eased the colt down in the final furlong, leading contemporary observers to believe that Tudor Minstrel could have won the race by twenty lengths. In the aftermath of his Guineas
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Tom Queally


widest margin of victory since Tudor Minstrel in 1947. Speaking after his first Classic win, Queally said, ""He’s made a show of them. The one thing this horse does is gallop - I didn't want to disappoint him, I wanted him to do what he enjoys and he showed them. The first thing you think is what speed are we going, because to him it feels like a cruising canter. He quickened up and went away." However, the plaudits for his tactics at Newmarket turned
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Desario


. A chance meeting between Jim Rivas and a friend of Mike Carr's, initiated by a conversation about Jim's The Shins T-shirt, resulted in Mike Carr's introduction into the band. The fully formed band continued practicing and writing songs and played their first live show on September 8, 2005. Over the next four years, they continued to refine their sound and recorded what would eventually become their first full-length album. "Zero Point Zero" was released on March 24, 2009 on Darla Records.
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History of music in Paris


accompany songs, became the instrument of choice for minstrels and musically-inclined aristocrats. In 1597, there were so many different instrument-makers in Paris that they, like the minstrels, were organized into a guild, which required six years of apprenticeship and the presentation of a master-work to be accepted as a full member. Dance was also an important part of court life. The first French book of dance music was published in 1531 in Paris, with the title: "Fourteen "gaillardes", nine "
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Banjo


the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth string. This new banjo was at first tuned d'Gdf♯a, though by the 1890s, this had been transposed up to g'cgbd'. Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeney's group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. In the antebellum South, many black slaves played the banjo and taught their masters how to play. For example, in his memoir "With Sabre
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Dan Desdunes


music. His first task was to put on a minstrel show, he chose twenty-five residents as performers, his band provided the music, and Desdunes wrote the script and music, choreographed the dancers, and directed the entire performance. Between 1922 andn 1927, the group toured the country in the summers raising funds and entertaining audiences. The band continued after Desdunes death, and Dan's son, Clarence, donated Dan's gold plated cornet to be given each year to the band's best musician. Desdunes's pedagogy
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1964 New York World's Fair


to private enterprise. Special media attention was given to a racially integrated minstrel show, that was intended to be satirical anti-bigotry, called "America, Be Seated", produced by Mike Todd Jr. During the opening of the fair, several civil rights protests were staged by members of the NAACP, who believed that the "minstrel-style" show was demeaning to African-Americans. The pavilion included ten theater restaurants, which served a variety of Creole food, a Jazz club called "Jazzland" which hosted live
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


"Music Music Music," a spin-off series in which the minstrels appeared without their blackface make-up, replaced "The Black and White Minstrel Show". It did well, with viewing figures to match the Minstrels, but the BBC were not happy and "The Black and White Minstrel Show" returned to win back viewers. Since its cancellation in 1978, "The Black and White Minstrel Show" has come to be seen widely as an embarrassment, despite its huge popularity at the time. The BBC1
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Algernon Cadwallader


Algernon Cadwallader was an American emo band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Stereogum" referred to the band as the "heroes of the emo revival". The band started in the year 2005. They released their first full-length album in 2008 titled "Some Kind Of Cadwallader". They released their second full-length album in 2011 titled "Parrot Flies". In 2018, they re-issued their albums to digital streaming services for the first time. The re-issue contained what the band referred to as
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Radio minstrel


Radio Minstrels were entertainers whose shows considered of comic skits, variety acts, and music performed by people heard on radio, especially during the pre television years. By the 1920s, radio minstrel shows began appearing on the American radio, usually as musical performers who traveled to different cities doing concerts. As radio stations increased their airtime to fill all day, 7 days per week, demand increased for musicians who could entertain the audience. Radio stations used similar performers at other stations throughout the Midwest and into Tennessee. These migrating minstrels
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The Contrabandista


's full-length operas that was produced. Although it was not a great success, it exhibits many of the qualities and techniques that Sullivan would employ in composing his twenty further comic operas, including the famous series of fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas produced between 1871 and 1896. In 1866, F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan, then 24 years old, wrote the one-act comic opera "Cox and Box" for a private performance at Moray Lodge, where a group of friends called the "Moray Minstrels" gathered
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The Minstrel


his nine starts The Minstrel won seven races, finishing second and third once each. In the 1977 poll organised by the Racegoers' Club, The Minstrel took twenty-six of the thirty-seven votes to win the title of British Horse of the Year. In the same year he was given a rating of a 135 by the independent Timeform organisation, making him the second highest-rated horse in Europe, two pounds behind his stable companion Alleged. In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and
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Jim Smallman


both for "The Boy Next Door Gone Wrong". He also became the Saturday morning presenter at BBC Radio Leicester. In 2011, Jim took his second full-length show 'Tattooligan' to the Edinburgh Fringe. As a publicity stunt he had the show title tattooed across his stomach, and for the year was a columnist for Skin Deep magazine. In 2012 he made his first appearance on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk, before taking his third full-length show 'Let's Be Friends' to the
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


female Television Toppers dancers. The show was first broadcast on the BBC on 14 June 1958. It was popular and soon developed into a regular 45-minute show on Saturday evening prime time television, featuring a sing-along format with both solo and minstrel pieces (often with extended segueing), some country and western and music derived from other foreign folk cultures. The male Minstrels performed in blackface; the female dancers and other supporting artists did not. The show included "comedy interludes" performed by Leslie Crowther, George Chisholm and
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


Ronnies", a musical sketch, "The Short and Fat Minstrel Show", was performed as a parody of "The Black and White Minstrel Show", featuring spoofs of various songs. "Alternative Roots", an episode of the BBC comedy series "The Goodies", spoofed the popularity of "The Black and White Minstrel Show", suggesting that any programme could double its viewing figures by being performed in blackface, and mentioning that a series of "The Black and White Minstrel Show" had been tried without
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The Independents (band)


The Independents have also toured with the Voodoo Glow Skulls on many occasions. In 2014 The Independents released their CD "Into The Light", their first full length CD since 2008's "Do it Again". Although they had no official releases between the years of 2008-2014 with the exception of the "Ho Ho Ho...What A Party" Demos (2013), the band were on the road performing shows all over the United States and Canada. Late in 2014 The Independents released a limited edition live CD
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Geoff Useless


DVD sets from the show, of The Guts, and Wimpy Rutherford with The Guts, were released on Insubordination Records in 2008. That year they would also release what would be their last full-length album, "Let it Go", which was recorded at Butch Vig's Smart Studios. In 2009, Geoff Useless was arrested on suspicion of heroin possession, and again for failing to appear in court. The band broke up shortly after this. Geoff Palmer released his first solo album "Don't Stop".
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Music of the United States


addition to popular patriotic songs, the Civil War era also produced a great body of brass band pieces. Following the Civil War, minstrel shows became the first distinctively American form of music expression. The minstrel show was an indigenous form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, usually performed by white people in blackface. Minstrel shows used African American elements in musical performances, but only in simplified ways; storylines in the shows depicted blacks as natural-born slaves and fools, before eventually
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Music history of the United States in the late 19th century


The first minstrel group was probably the Virginia Minstrels, who performing in 1843 in New York City (Chase, 232), though E. P. Christy's four-man show in Buffalo, New York the year before is another contender. Many other groups soon followed, usually using a banjo, violin, castanets and tambourine. Thomas Rice and other blackface entertainers adapted to minstrelsy; Rice wrote operas like "Bone Squash Diavolo" before his popularity declined in the 1850s. Another minstrel opera group was the Kneass Opera Troupe, which
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Minstrel show


bones In short, early minstrel music and dance was not true black culture; it was a white reaction to it. This was the first large-scale appropriation and commercial exploitation of black culture by American whites. In the late 1830s, a decidedly European structure and high-brow style became popular in minstrel music. The banjo, played with "scientific touches of perfection" and popularized by Joel Sweeney, became the heart of the minstrel band. Songs like the Virginia Minstrels' hit "Old Dan Tucker" have a
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Edinburgh Comedy Awards


the funniest, most outstanding, up-and-coming comic / comedy show / act" at the Fringe. The winner receives a cash prize of £10,000 and an invitation to perform at the Montreal, Toronto and Chicago Just for Laughs Comedy Festivals. The Best Newcomer Award category was introduced in 1992, and is given to the best "performer or act who is performing their first full-length show (50 minutes or more)". The prize is £5,000. Newcomers are eligible for the Best Comedy Show
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Shilpa Ray


Washington's "What a Difference a Day Makes". Personnel includes, Shilpa Ray on keys and vocals, Jon Delorme on pedal steel, Alistair Paxton on bass, and Russ Lemkim on drums. "Make up" was released on February 17, 2015. "Last Year's Savage" was Ray's first full length on Northern Spy Records while also her first full-length solo record as Shilpa Ray. "Door Girl" is her sophomore album on Northern Spy Records. A report in the "San Francisco Examiner
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The Huntingtons


band: an EP, "The Soothing Sounds Of...", and their final full-length of all new original material, "Self-Titled Album". The band ended their 10-year run in 2005 with a 30-song best-of disc, ""m and played its final show at the Cornerstone Festival, bringing back Cliffy on guitar. Two years after the band decided to quit, they reunited for a show in Elkton, Maryland and subsequently decided to keep the band going in part-time "do what
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


of 1962, the show secured full houses for all evening and matinee performances, so they were held over. This happened in both countries, and every box office record was broken. The show continued for 3 years, and the Australian and New Zealand box office records it set have never been broken. EMI Records approached the 3 lead singers, Harry Currie, Jeff Hudson and Eric Whitley, and asked them to make an LP. Currie was asked to produce the LP, felt that since they were touring the songs should
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Calabrese (band)


first full-length album through their recently created record label, Spookshow Records. For the title, the band held a contest to name their next album. The winning title was "13 Halloweens," sent in by Tempe fan Kurt Havelock under the name Nil Failstorm. One year later the band released their second full-length album, "The Traveling Vampire Show". The album features the artwork of Tom Bagley (of Canadian rock band, The Forbidden Dimension) and Andrew Barr. "The Traveling Vampire Show"
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Tom show


slavery versions. Among the most popular was "Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is: The Southern Uncle Tom", produced in 1852 at the Baltimore Museum. Lott mentions numerous "offshoots, parodies, thefts, and rebuttals" including a full-scale play by Christy's Minstrels and a parody by Conway himself called "Uncle Pat's Cabin", and records that the story in its many variants "dominated northern popular culture… for several years". According to Eric Lott, even those "Tom shows" which
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Minstrel show


Ethiopian Serenaders purged their show of low humor and surpassed the Virginia Minstrels in popularity. Shortly thereafter, Edwin Pearce Christy founded Christy's Minstrels, combining the refined singing of the Ethiopian Serenaders (epitomized by the work of Christy's composer Stephen Foster) with the Virginia Minstrels' bawdy schtick. Christy's company established the three-act template into which minstrel shows would fall for the next few decades. This change to respectability prompted theater owners to enforce new rules to make playhouses calmer and quieter. Minstrels toured the same circuits as
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Walkaround


A walkaround (also spelled walk-around or walk around, or called a horay) was a dance from the blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century. The walkaround began in the 1840s as a dance for one performer, but by the 1850s, many dancers or the entire troupe participated. The walkaround often served as the finale to the first half of the minstrel show, the opening semicircle. Minstrels also wrote songs called "walkarounds", which were specifically intended for this dance; "Dixie" is probably the most
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The Black and White Minstrel Show


in 1961 the show won a Golden Rose at Montreux for best light entertainment programme and the first three albums of songs (1960–1962) all did extremely well, the first two being long-running #1 albums in the UK Albums Chart. The first of these became the first album in UK album sales history to pass 100,000 sales. In the spring of 1962 the BBC musical variety show, "The Black and White Minstrel Show", was to open at the Victoria Palace Theatre. While the three lead singers, Tony
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Lions Lions


Lions Lions is an American post-hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts. Lions Lions began in 2008 with their first EP titled "Direction". The following year the band released their first full length album titled "From What We Believe" via Panic Records. In 2010, Lions Lions released an EP titled "The Path We Take". In 2012 the band announced they were releasing their second full length album, titled "To Carve Our Names". The album was released on June 19 via Hollywood Waste Records.
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William Shakespeare Hays


of some of his songs was so like that of Stephen Foster that the two men's material was sometimes confused. Hays died in 1907. In his later years, Hays claimed to have written the lyrics to "Dixie", a song that had enjoyed unprecedented popularity since before the American Civil War and that was by then usually attributed to minstrel show songwriter Dan Emmett. Specifically, Hays said that he had written the song at Faulds in 1858, one year before Emmett and Bryant's Minstrels first performed it. In May
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The N Crowd


are two special guests for these shows. Each special guest and The N Crowd perform for 30 minutes. These shows take place outside the regularly scheduled N Crowd shows. Their length is anywhere from 20 minutes to a full 90-minute show. These shows are typically held in bars, colleges, fundraisers, or as entertainment for conferences. North Penn High School has its own improv troupe, and has had the honor of having its troup perform onstage with the N Crowd twice in recent years. Both times at what is known as
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Minstrel show


rendered thoroughly black by burnt cork." The minstrels themselves promoted their performing abilities, quoting reviews that favorably compared them to popular white troupes. These black companies often featured female minstrels. One or two African-American troupes dominated the scene for much of the late 1860s and 1870s. The first of these was Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels, who played the Northeast around 1865. Sam Hague's Slave Troupe of Georgia Minstrels formed shortly thereafter and toured England to great success beginning in 1866. In the 1870s, white entrepreneurs
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2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament


addition, a banner at the top of the screen displayed the scores of other games along with what network they are being broadcast on. Replays feature all four network logos being shown, and for fair use highlight credits by local television stations and other networks such as ESPN, the Turner network name or CBS Sports, followed by "NCAA" is given as the source. CBS also kept coverage of the Division II final, which is part of the larger contract for this tournament. Turner Sports aired full-length studio shows
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Music history of the United States


music grew increasingly popular, especially after the American Civil War, when black and white soldiers worked together and Southern slaves fled north in huge numbers. By the end of the 19th century, minstrel shows had spread across the country, and even to continental Europe. In minstrel shows, performers imitated slaves in crude caricatures, singing and dancing to what was called "Negro music", though it had little in common with authentic African American folk styles. An African American variety of dance music called the cakewalk also became popular,
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Virginia Minstrels


performers to band together and present a show, they were the first to present a concert. The way that they presented and marketed themselves resembled that of the Hutchinson Family Singers, a group that was making more than ten times minstrel troupes were for each performance. The change of perception from being a variety show to being a concert afforded the Virginia Minstrels with patrons of a slightly upper class. Their work was deemed as refined and a breath of fresh air in the New York scene. One critic wrote: "Chaste,
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Peachcake


band Less Pain Forever. In October, the band landed an opening slot on Hellogoodbye's national headlining tour. During the tour, the band signed to indie record label, Sidecho Records, to release their debut full length, "What Year Will You Have The World?.." Though the band was scheduled to release their full length in the mid-2007, the release date was pushed back several times throughout the year due to several extensions to finish the album and their continuous touring schedule. Upon completion of "What Year Will
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Tripping Daisy


the Fillmore East. It used effects such as hand made slide shows with multi layered 16 mm projections along with oil and water. This visual attention was present in their very first show and was the beginning of many multimedia attractions to come. The band soon began recording what would become their first full-length album, "Bill", released on the independent label Dragon Street Records. The album was a favorite on Dallas radio. The sound on "Bill" is characterized by the heavy use of vocal effects and unconventional
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Arbroath


Angus Black and White Minstrels" to simply "The Angus Minstrels". The decision to stop performing the show in blackface received widespread press coverage in the UK. Beginning in 1947, a pageant commemorating the signing of the Declaration has been held within the roofless remains of the abbey (last full-scale event 2005). This was run by the local Arbroath Abbey Pageant Society, now Arbroath Abbey Timethemes, a registered charity, and re-enacts the story and history of the signing. The group also spearhead Scotland's
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Guttermouth


their own style of fast punk tempos with humorously sarcastic and offensive lyrics coupled with equally outrageous and offensive behavior, developing a reputation for chaotic live shows. In 1991 they were approached by local record label Dr. Strange about putting out an album, and entered Westbeach Recorders to record and release their first 7" record, "Puke". Later that year they released another 7", "Balls", and finally their first LP, aptly titled "Full Length LP". "Full Length" proved to be a success
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The Carrier (band)


its second 7" entitled "No Love Can Save Me" on Deathwish Inc.. In 2010, Deathwish Inc. re-released the album "One Year Later" in vinyl for the first time licensed from Rock Vegas Records. In 2011, the band released their second full-length record entitled "Blind To What Is Right" on Deathwish Inc.. The Carrier has completed tours alongside Agnostic Front, Shai Hulud, Killing the Dream, Dead Swans, Reign Supreme, plus several other DIY tours. They have played shows all
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Consider the Source


second full-length album, "Are You Watching Closely" and quickly followed with a third full-length album, "That's What's Up", in 2010. In 2012, Ahiyon left the group, and was briefly replaced by Louis Miller, before Jeff Mann took over on the drum kit. The band toured Germany and Israel. The new trio continued to produce original material which was constantly being introduced at shows and resulted in two live albums. Around this time, the band also began to play full
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Cornelius J. O'Brien


Cornelius J. O'Brien (1869 - January 14, 1954) was known professionally as Neil O'Brien. He was a vaudeville performer and a minstrel show performer. He worked with Lew Dockstader. He was born in 1869 in Port Dickinson, New York. He joined a minstrel show and later appeared with Lew Dockstader for a few years. He next performed in vaudeville then he started the Neil O'Brien Minstrel Company in 1913. He toured from 1913 to 1925. He next teamed up with James J. Corbett, the boxer to tour as
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Margaret Truman


panelist (and twice as a mystery guest) on the game show "What's My Line?" and guest-starred more than once on NBC's "The Martha Raye Show". In 1957, she sang and played piano on "The Gisele MacKenzie Show" Truman's full-length biography of her father, published shortly before his death, was critically acclaimed. She also wrote a personal biography of her mother and histories of the White House and its inhabitants (including first ladies and pets). A series
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Pearl Diver


eight lengths. Ridden by Georges Bridgland, Pearl Diver raced prominently and tracked the leaders in the early stages as Gordon Richards struggled to restrain Tudor Minstrel before being forced to allow the favourite to make the running. When Tudor Minstrel weakened entering the straight, Pearl Diver moved up to overtake him and dispute the lead with Sayajirao. In the final quarter mile Pearl Diver went clear and pulled steadily away from the field to win by four lengths from Migoli with Sayajirao third. Many of the crowd began to celebrate a Tudor Minstrel victory
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Arctic Tern (horse)


started favourite, Vitiges, Exceller, Full of Hope, Trepan and Sarah Siddons as well as Infra Green (winner of the race in the previous year) and the Prix Vermeille winner Lagunette. Arctic Tern accelerated halfway up the straight showing what Timeform described as "fine finishing speed" to win by half length from Exceller, with Infra Green a neck away in third. The colt started favourite for the Prix Dollar on 29 May but was beaten three quarters of a length by Trepan. In July Arctic Tern was sent overseas
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Anarchicks


in 2012. They were first heard on national radio in 2012 in the show Indiegente, an influential show for alternative music show on Antena 3 which has been running since the mid-1990s. The DJ and presenter of the program, Nuno Calado, played the song Forever, which would later feature on their first full-length album. 2013 marked the appearance of Really?! the first full-length album by the band . It received some media attention, and the band was invited several times on to TV shows, including
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Minstrel show


The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that depicted people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people. There were also some African-American performers and all-black minstrel groups that formed and toured under the direction of white people. Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-
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Billy Whitlock


of the group's founding holds that Whitlock asked fiddler Dan Emmett to practice with him. They did so on a few occasions, but during one such session, Frank Brower dropped by unannounced and decided to join in on bones. Richard Pelham soon followed with his tambourine. The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo
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Ida Cox


& Tan Minstrels. She began her career on stage by playing Topsy, a "pickaninny" role commonly performed in vaudeville shows of the time, often in blackface. Cox's early experience with touring troupes included stints with other African-American travelling minstrel shows on the Theater Owners Booking Association vaudeville circuit: the Florida Orange Blossom Minstrels, the Silas Green Show, and the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. The Rabbit Foot Minstrels, organized by F. S. Wolcott and based after 1918 in Port Gibson, Mississippi, were important not only for
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Minstrel show


the act, a fact perhaps best exemplified by the popular radio shows "Two Black Crows", "Sam 'n' Henry", and "Amos 'n' Andy", A transcription survives from 1931 of "The Blue Coal Minstrels", which uses many of the standard forms of the minstrel show, including Tambo, Bones and the interlocutor. The National Broadcasting Company, in a 1930 pamphlet, used the minstrel show as a point of reference in selling its services. As recently as the mid-1970s the BBC
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Turboweekend


live musician, became a part of the band, as they started working on songs for what would become their 3rd full length studio album Fault Lines. In February 2012, Turboweekend signed a deal with EMI Nordic (now Parlophone), for the release of their 3rd full length studio album Fault Lines. In Denmark the album went #1 in the week of its release and first single On My Side was elected Hit Of The Year (shared 1st place) by listener votes on national radio P3. In April the band
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Edward Le Roy Rice


Edward LeRoy Rice (August 24, 1871 - December 1, 1938) was an American producer of minstrel shows. He was the leading authority on the history of minstrel shows. He also bought and sold theatrical memorabilia. He was born in Manhattan, New York City on August 24, 1871 as the second son of William Henry Rice (1844-1907), a minstrel performer. He first performed on stage in Morristown, New Jersey on July 18, 1890. He married Emma Rodenberger in Brooklyn, New York City
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Thomas D. Rice


sack, and emulate each of Rice's moves and steps. Rice also performed as the "Yankee" character, an already-established stage stereotype who represented rural America and dressed in a long blue coat and striped pants. Rice's greatest prominence came in the 1830s, before the rise of full-blown blackface minstrel shows, when blackface performances were typically part of a variety show or as an entr'acte in another play. During the years of his peak popularity, from roughly 1832 to 1844, Rice often encountered sold-
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Let Me Go (Gary Barlow song)


concert tour, , which sold out minutes after going on sale. During these shows Barlow played across the UK, when he began to consider returning to the studio to write what would become his first full-length studio album in over 14 years. As he began writing material for the album, "Since I Saw You Last", he wrote "Let Me Go" and knew it should be the lead single. Barlow revealed in a TV documentary that "Let Me Go" was written about the loss of his
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