Biography:Edwin Christie

Edwin Christie
Given name:	Edwin
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Family name:	Christie
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Profile:	Composer, Musician
Source of information:	https://www.academia.edu/42982150/Elias Howe William Bradbury Ryan and Irish Music in Nineteenth Century Boston?email work card=view-paper

Biographical notes

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EDWIN CHRISTIE was the composer of ten tunes in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). He is sometimes confused with the blackface minstrel performer Edwin Christy, however, Edwin Christie was a member of a Boston family of performers that also included George, Henry, Kate and Helen. "One of these Christies also led a quadrille band the worked out of 103 Court Street, Boston, in the 1870s, which was [music publisher] Elias Howe's address at the time" .

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