Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Music: a Collection of the Most Favorite Tunes of Billings, Swan, Holden, and Others: to Which is Added a Variety of...Songs of the Greatest and Best Composers.
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1874.
Price: $150.00
About the item
96pp. Oblong 8vo. Blue pictorial wrappers with an image of Father Robert Kemp. VG.
Item #307903
An Old Folks Concert was a form of musical and visual entertainment at which early American compositions by such composers as William Billings and Daniel Read were sung in period costume, while demonstrating early singing school methods. Old Folks Concerts began in the early 1850s in New England, spread in popularity throughout the United States by the 1860s, and continued to be performed into the 20th century. They are especially associated with Robert "Father" Kemp, who formed a traveling troupe to perform this music, and who published a collection of music known as Father Kemp's Old Folks' Concert Music
With flyer for Concert Dec 2, 1887 at St. James M.E. Church on 126 in NYC.
