FISK JUBILEE SINGERS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 275, 9 July 1910, Page 5

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS.

An eagerly anticipated event will occur on Monday evening next when the world-wide-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers will make their first appearance at Te Kuiti in the Town Hall. Few, very few indeed touring organisations have so thoroughly stood the test of time or so ingratiated themselves in the high e-iteem of all classes of people as they have. Of a comparatively recent entertainment the "Sydney Morning Herald" thus remarked: —"The perennial company of melody artists with which Australia has been familiar, with more or less varying personnel, but with the fixed name of Fisk Jubilee Singers, for over two decades, returned to Sydney on Saturday, and opened at the Town Hall. No doubt that great hail was taken by the management because no smaller suitable house was available and judging by the numbers present) and the enthusiasm of the welcome, the engagement of a small hall would have meant loss to the company, and disappointment to the public. Like the combination'itself, its methods change only in There is the charming scheme of plantation melody, varying only in the words sung or chanted. But the programme is lightened—to say brightened in a programme that is all bright and cheery svould be- incorrect—with touches of excellent comedy, and from beginning to end is a delightful surprise packet in which all are prizes. The Fisks stand alone in platform singing. They are a school unto themselves; not a school to hit the popular taste. There is more wit and humour in the method of the presentation of the songs, and in the ludicrous contrast of the sentiment with the sjnging, than in whole pages of Joe Miller." Seats may be reserved at Mr McColl's.