Event | Free and Easy | ||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Clown Hotel, Sydney, NSW | ||||||||||||||||
First Date | 16 December 1843 | ||||||||||||||||
Last Date | May 1844 | ||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||
Description | CLOWN HOTEL, OPPOSITE THE THEATRE.
MR. COPPIN most respectfully informs the public, that his large Saloon will he opened every Monday and Saturday evening for a Free and Easy. Singing to commence this evening at half past eight. |
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Description Source | Advertisement | ||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Music | ||||||||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
Community
Music Hall Minstrelsy |
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Further Information | A definition of the Free-and-Easies is given as "Taverns and early music halls run on casual free-and-easy lines with the customers supplying their own impromptu entertainments." Music hall acts were to be seen in pubs or otherwise "licensed premises": "twice or thrice weekly as a rule, under the name of Free-and-Easies, or Sing-Songs." | ||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 153056 | ||||||||||||||||
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