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Dan Emmett's music and specifically information about his song "Dixie's Land" AKA "Dixie"
Updated on Mar 29, 15
Created on Aug 13, 10
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Song #1 The Boatman's Dance (click to hear this song)
This song was written in 1843 by Dan Emmet (1815-1904), one of the most famous Irish American performers in minstrelsy. More likely than not, he adapted it from a popular older African American song which was sung near his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio in the 1830s by African American river boatmen on the Ohio River. Emmet, whose grandfather John had emigrated from Ireland before the Revolutionary War and served as a surgeon and chaplain in Washington's army, was an outstanding singer and banjo and fiddle player who formed the Virginia Minstrels with Frank Brower, Dick Pelham and Billy Whitlock in the early 1840s and toured Britain and Ireland in the summer of 1843. In this tour, Emmet introduced the 5-string banjo formally to
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12 items | 2 visits
Dan Emmett's music and specifically information about his song "Dixie's Land" AKA "Dixie"
Updated on Mar 29, 15
Created on Aug 13, 10
Category: Music
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