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Musical performances

 Subject
Subject Source: Unesco Thesaurus

Found in 401 Collections and/or Records:

Egyptian Hall Handbills, c1821 - 1883

 Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.1-20
Scope and Contents

Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.

Dates: c1821 - 1883

Electric Public Hall Poster, 29 December c1910 - 1923

 Item
Reference code: 178R36.11
Scope and Contents

Exmouth, Ben Jackson in banjo tricks and witticisms. White, blue and red type on white background.

Dates: 29 December c1910 - 1923

Empire Theatre Poster, Week commencing Monday 2 December c1935

 Item
Reference code: 178R38.14
Scope and Contents

Tonbridge. Count Lucifer magic act, Bert Elmore comedy act, Stuart and Leigh, The Handby Celeine Trio skating act, Ramon & Ramona musical act, Al Downes acrobatic act, Mariana musical act, Earle & Ascott musical act. Blue type of off white background and solid red border. Printed by Wilson’s of Leicester.

Dates: Week commencing Monday 2 December c1935

Empire Theatre Programme, 16 July 1906

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.98
Scope and Contents

Blue type on white background and embossed crown in gold on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme in the centre listing Venus, Australian Ladie's Quartette, Morris Cronin & Truoe, Coppelia and The Biograph, 8p.p.

Dates: 16 July 1906

Eva: A Musically Illustrated Service, c1896

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Reference code: 178Z56.1
Scope and Contents

Booklet of sheet music and narrative text, compiled and arranged from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by James Tipton. Black type on off-white paper with decorative border on the front cover. Inside, sheet music for songs with bodies of text. Printed by Weekes & Co., 16, Hanover Street, Regent Street, W, 12p.p.

Dates: c1896

Exeter Hippodrome Poster, 23 April for six nights c1920 - 1929

 Item
Reference code: 178R38.3
Scope and Contents Miss Nora Bancroft presents, Playtime, the original cabaret production with Syd Christo & Jack Strand, the laughter makers, Violet Field, commediane, Claude Worth, baritone, Joan Wells, at the piano and Nora Lamb, soubrette and Nora Bancroft, contralto, The Playtime Girls, comedy, The Leo Sax Trio, comedy, music, song and dance, Sydney and Adelaine, Australian entertainers, Pathe super gazette, Hippodrome orchestra, directed by Mr Syd Beckett, Handby and Celeine in skatorial moments,...
Dates: 23 April for six nights c1920 - 1929

Felixstowe Spa Pavillion Programme, 25 August 1905

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.118
Scope and Contents

Brown type, floral illustrations and black and white photograph of the outside of the building on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme listing programme of concerts and Ruffell's Imperial Bioscope, 4p.p.

Dates: 25 August 1905

Fossett Bros. Circus Poster, c1970 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.34
Scope and Contents

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Bobo musical Clown, Judy horse with the Human Brain. Red and Black type on yellow background.

Dates: c1970 - 1979

Fossett Bros. Circus Poster, c1970 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.36
Scope and Contents

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Rodeo, Bobo musical clown. Red and black type on yellow background.

Dates: c1970 - 1979

Fossett Bros. Circus Poster, c1970 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.37
Scope and Contents

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Rodeo, Bobo musical clown, Freda and Frenchi International Juggler.

Dates: c1970 - 1979

Fossett Bros. Circus Poster, c1970 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.38
Scope and Contents

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Rodeo, Bobo musical clown, Henleo Indian Fire Eater, Freda and Frenchi International Juggler. Red and blue type on white background.

Dates: c1970 - 1979

Fred Brightmer's Ladies’ Sailor Choir Programme, c1910 - 1929

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.214
Scope and Contents

Songs, Duets Specialities, Bioscope, Dioramas and Sketch Organisation, possibly at Peterborough. Featuring Moyra Beresford, Zene Jordan, Lindsay Stevens, Sisters Roze, Fred Hill, Will James, Cissy Rose, Madge Hazel, Roza Roze, Fred Brightmer, and John Parker. "Bioscope, Dioramas and Sketch Organisation" Various acts from duets to comedy songs, 4pp. Printed by Dysons, Peterborough.

Dates: c1910 - 1929

Gaiety Theatre Ayr Poster, 22 March 1976

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.174
Scope and Contents

The Dixie Minstrel Show featuring John Boulter with Reg Lester and David Lee. Red and black with border.

Dates: 22 March 1976

Glasgow Empire Poster, 20 June 1938

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Reference code: 178R38.8
Scope and Contents

Tom Arnold Ltd. Presents Revelry on the Ice, musical show with Melitta Brunner skating , Kurt Schier free skating, Ken Kennedy barrel jumping, Al Gordon comedy on ice, Schima thrills on stilts, Eileen & Ernest Hartung ice skating, Olive & Joyce Goater the ice skating twins, Handby Celeine Tio, Chevalier Brothers, entertainers, Calores Sisters music making maids, Sidney Marion & Madelyne Killeen, American comedy act. Red and black type on white background.

Dates: 20 June 1938

Gomp-Ertz Grand Diorama Programme, c1882

 Item
Reference code: 178K53.14
Scope and Contents Philarmonic Hall, Southampton, War in Egypt, Mr Owen Vauguard and Miss Marie Coulson, musical act, Fred Medex, Central and Southern Africa, Mr H.M. Stanley's encounter with the natives of the Congo River, Discovery of Livingstone, Tarn Bend, Victoria Falls, Pandanus or screw palm, Horrors of the slave system, Slave market at Zanzibar, Source of the Nile, Victoria Nyanza, Abon Simbel, Second cataract of the Nile, Throne of Pharoah, Nubian water wheel, The sitting statues, Sphynx, Sir Garnet...
Dates: c1882

Good Old Days Invites you to A Night at the Varieties Poster, Commencing 27 June c1970 - 1979

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.652
Scope and Contents

Arcadia Theatre, Skegness. Gary Webb, Ken Joy, Barbara Jackson, Red Preston, Dennis Lake, The Gorgeous Gaiety Girls, John Warwick, Julie McMahon, Colin Cresswell, Vic Riches and his music. Multicoloured type on white background and illustration.

Dates: Commencing 27 June c1970 - 1979

Grand Festival Concert Handbill, 25 June 1898

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.170
Scope and Contents

Concert at Crystal Palace Gardens. Pass to North Area Stall.

Dates: 25 June 1898

Grand Musical Festival Handbill, c1891

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.188
Scope and Contents

Mrs Sims Reeves at Exeter Hall, Strand, London. Huge concert with over twenty acts and a full orchestra. Printed by John K. Chapman and Co., 5 Shoe Lane, and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.

Dates: c1891

Grand Opera House Handbill, 21 November 1910

 Item
Reference code: 178T34.1
Scope and Contents Harrogate, Max Mantesole and Angus McLeod present, Rabottini, the world famous conduct and his Italian court band, Ben Jackson, trick soloist and banjo humorist, Minnie D’Aubyn, the local pantomime favourite in chorus songs, Tom Bryce assited by Miss Maynard, musical comedy, The Fosyths (Frank and Millie), musical comedy 'The Doll and the College boy', Tom Garland, mimic and voice Thower, ventriloquist and singer, Bert Anderson, conjuror, Rozel, Speciality artiste. Black type on orange...
Dates: 21 November 1910

Grand Theatre Poster, 30 May 1932

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Reference code: 178R38.6
Scope and Contents

Luton. Rupert Ingalese presents, Dr. Raymond and Company hypnotist, magician and mind reader, The Handby Celeine Troupe of tricks and fancy skaters in thrills on wheels, Eastern Miracles, Musical Astleys, G.S. Young comedian, Peacock & Rees singers. Red and blue type on cream background with red border.

Dates: 30 May 1932