Biography:Edwin Christie

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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


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" [1].



  1. PAUL F. WELLS (2010). Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Journal of the Society for American Music, 4, p. 415.