(MUSIC) Annotated handbill for the Nashville Jubilee Singers

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(MUSIC.) Annotated handbill for the Nashville Jubilee Singers. Letterpress handbill, 9 x 6 inches; folds, minor wear, short closed tear in margin, mount remnants on top edge, contemporary notes in pencil. Simcoe, ON: Reformer Printing, [1877]

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The Nashville Jubilee Singers were distinct from their obvious inspirations, the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, TN who toured on behalf of Fisk University. This group may have had Nashville ties, but their manager was based in Toronto, Canada and this handbill was printed in nearby Simcoe. It lists the group's repertoire of 94 songs, and boasts that the singers "confine themselves to the Songs that have sprung into life through religious fervor and inspiration, and all of these Vocalists having previously been slaves."
The original owner of this handbill noted in pencil that the performance took place in Buffalo on 27 February 1877, and numbered the songs performed in pencil, with a few other notes. The Fisk Jubilee Singers were touring Europe at this time.