Footlight Notes: Performers, sound files, images, etc.
Music Hall Guided Tour: General overview, performers, and acts.
The English Music Hall: Performers and songs, both nineteenth-century and contemporary.
Music Hall Performers: Brief overviews with sound clips.
The Music Hall--The End of an Era: End of the music hall's heyday post-WWI; some sound clips.
Victorian Popular Music: Exhibit of illustrated sheet music.
"London Music Halls": An article by F. Anstey.
Wilton's Music Hall: Introduction to a famous hall that opened in 1858.
The Old Bedford Music Hall: Brief essay with some images.
The Music Hall War: Discusses the emergence of a music hall/variety union in 1907.
Dan Leno: A number of images.
Arthur Lloyd (1839-1904): Overview of a major star; the site is operated by a descendant.
T. S. Eliot on Marie Lloyd: An article published in 1922.
Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley, et le British Music-Hall: French page with some sound clips.
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952): A famous male impersonator.
Music Hall & Variety: Some photographs.
Evanion Catalogue: British Library collection devoted to all sorts of Victorian ephemera, including a number of music hall playbills.
Windyridge CDs: Sells CDs of Victorian and Edwardian recordings.
British Music Hall and Variety: A Bibliography: Books and articles compiled by Don B. Wilmeth.
Wherer can I look for information about an anxcestor, Arthur Sharp, who was involved in music hall at the turn of the century ?
Thank you
Linden Sharp
Posted by: Linden Sharp | January 06, 2007 at 11:43 AM
I am interested in finding any information about my gg-grandfather Samuel Levy, concertmaster for the Apollo or Orpheus theatre between about 1871 and 1915. Thanks!
Posted by: Deborah Schmidt | October 16, 2007 at 01:30 AM
where can i find any information on ernest and bertha van mogh,both living in manchester. these are relations and on 1917 marriage cert occupation for both stated , music hall artiste many thanks margaret.
Posted by: margaret king | January 25, 2010 at 03:03 PM