First Grand Fashionable Friday Night Concert

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Event First Grand Fashionable Friday Night Concert
Venue Royal Cremorne Theatre, Coolgardie, WA
First Date 8 January 1897
Opening Date 8 January 1897
Last Date 9 January 1897
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description "Departed from normal variety programme: mainly classical and sentimental songs. Featured 'All the Old Cremorne Favourites' and Professor Shaw, 'The Human Bird in his wonderful Imitations of Birds and Animals.' Prof. Shaw created a perfect furore, the greatest wonder being excited at his imitations of the voices of birds and animals, from the willie-wagtail to the ostrich, and from the neighbouring and nightly dog to the roaring elephant."
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Variety
Song
Concert
Comic Song
Animal and Bird Imitation
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Shaw Animal and Bird Imitator
Frank Cahill Singer
Celia Ghiloni Singer
Denis Carney Singer: Comic
Joe Cowan Singer: Comic
Isabel Reid Singer: Contralto
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information The series of 'Fashionable' Friday concerts was intended to attract more respectable audiences. Women were encouraged to wear formal or semi-formal dress.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper Coolgardie Miner 7 Jan. 1897 vol. 3 no.649, p.2; 9 Jan. 1897 vol. 3 no. 651, p.4
WA Goldfields Project
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 89990