Virginia has always had a weakness for minstrelsy, but the current epidemic of low officials in high places auditioning as lovers and blackface minstrels is something almost new. So far ...

Grand Opening of Cleveland, Gorman, and Bayard’s Minstrels at Washington, ca. 1895. Colored lithograph. Graphic Arts Theater Collection. Minstrel shows featured white actors wearing blackface in a ...

His yearly service to the king, at least as it has come down to us, was ‘saltum, siflum et pettum’: a jump, a whistle and a fart. Roland fits poorly with the image of medieval minstrels that later ...

By Clay Risen Randy Sparks, a creative impresario whose musical ensemble, the New Christy Minstrels, helped to jump-start the folk revival of the early 1960s and launched the careers of performers ...

The debut of the Wandering Minstrels of Rush Acadamie at the fair’s Cheapside Theater promised family-friendly musical entertainment and jokes for the children to a diverse audience that ...

This musical spectacle brings audiences the festive season vibe in winter, with original songs performed by authentic, seasoned minstrels and musicians who are all well respected in their particular ...

Randy Sparks, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and founder of the folk music group the New Christy Minstrels, died Feb. 11 at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. He was 90. His son ...