Title: Theater playbill for Matt Peel's original Campbell Minstrels at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Washington, D.C., March 22, 1858
Description: The Campbells are coming at Odd-Fellows' Hall for three nights only. The first grand concert will be given on Monday evening, March 22, 1858. Matt Peel's Original Campbell Minstrels in a melange comprising all the gems pertaining to Ethiopian Minstresly and rendered by this, the Excelsior Band composed of 14 star performers under the lead of Matt Peel than whom no better exponent of Negro Eccentricities can be found in the profession. The Concert will commence with a rich and varied "Soiree d'Ethiop" replete with beautiful ballads, effective choruses, pleasing dances, wonderful solos, laughable burlesques, piquant entr'Acts, masterly instrumentation. The whole mingled with queer, quaint, and quizzical sayings. Matt Peel, manager, G.G. Minor, musical conductor ... Tickets 25 cents. Doors open at 7, to commence at 8 o'clock. Dr. F.A. Jones, Agent.