Biography:Edwin Christie
Edwin Christie
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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].
- ↑ 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.