Bryant's Minstrels

Detail from a playbill for Bryant's Minstrels, Mechanics' Hall, New York, 4 April 1859 (the première of the song "Dixie")

Bryant's Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe that performed in the mid-19th century, primarily in New York City. The troupe was led by the O'Neill brothers from upstate New York, who took the stage name Bryant.[1]

  1. ^ Mahar 38.