KENTUCKY JUBILEE SINGERS
TO APPEAR IN AUCKLAND At various times the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management has presented to playgoers of New Zealand grand opera, comic opera, musical comedy, drama, the world’s greatest concert artists and comedy, but for the first tirae in its history the management will, on Saturday, July 6, present tc Aucklanders the famous Kentucky Jubilee Singers. For the past five years the representatives of J. C. "Williamson, Ltd., in New York have been endeavouring to procure the Kentucky Singers for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, but their services have been in such great demand that it has taken that period to work out their American engagements. The company, which includes Arthur Gaines and Robert Caver (first tenors), Hinton Jones and Augustus Simons (second tenors), Archie Cross and William Veasey (first bassos), Arthur Payne and Matt Houseley (second bassos), will arrive from San Francisco on Tuesday next, and they will make their first appearance in Australasia at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on Saturday week. They will present a varied and unique programme of nigger spirituals, plantation melodies and dance solos, and no doubt their entertainment will be appreciated in Auckland as it has been appreciated in other parts of the world.
After a brief tour of New Zealand the organisation will proceed to Sydney, where it will make its first appearance in August next.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 17
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229KENTUCKY JUBILEE SINGERS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 17
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