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Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
Pages in category "British music hall performers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Category: Music hall performers. 2 languages. ... British music hall performers (259 P) C. Canadian music hall performers (1 P) F. French music hall performers (9 P) G.
Music hall involved a mixture of popular songs, comedy, speciality acts, and variety entertainment. [2] The term is derived from a type of theatre or venue in which such entertainment took place. In North America vaudeville was in some ways analogous to British music hall, [3] featuring rousing songs and comic acts.
The UK Music Hall of Fame was an awards ceremony to honour musicians, of any nationality, for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom. The hall of fame started in 2004 with the induction of five founder members and five more members selected by a public televote, two from each of the last five decades. In subsequent years, a ...
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
Music hall singer, entertainer Alfred Glanville Vance (born Alfred Peck Stevens ; 1839 – 26 December 1888), often known as The Great Vance , was an English music hall singer, regarded as "one of the most important of the early music-hall performers".
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