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The Proper Ladies, dressed in elegant Victorian costumes, perform stunning a-cappella arrangements of the songs of nineteenth century America; Their entertaining, humorous, moving and informative programs commemorate and celebrate: the 150th anniversary of the Publication of Little Women in Songs for Four Little Women; the 100th Anniversary of WWI in Bicycle to Aeroplane; Oliver Ditson and the birth of American pop music in Published in Boston. Also, Songs of Suffrage, Temperance, The Civil War, Romance and Victorian holidays. Sing to the old songs; sigh to the rare gems; laugh as The Ladies take you back to the first full century of American Independence. Click for our Complete PR folder
The Ladies read from the writings of women who lived in the period; women who made history and women who watched it unfold. These diaries and memoirs are of women who farmed, who went to sea and who worked and changed America. You may meet the extraordinary speaker, Mary Livermore; author and hostess to the Athens of America, Annie Fields; suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; or cookbook and children's author, Lydia Maria Child, among others.
"... you had the audience eating out of your hand." (First Night Danbury; Danbury, CT)
Find a full list of our programmes and descriptions here: http://tinyurl.com/pyqn29s
And information on our Winter Holiday Programs, including A Dickens Christmas and Auntie Belle & Mother Goose for children, here: http://bit.ly/2gHv4WV
Additional Content:
The Proper Ladies sing a perennial favorite, first published in Boston in 1891.
A late 18th Century song by Charles Dibdin; a favorite of The Proper Ladies.
An inspiring song, published in Boston in the 1880's. The words by Mrs. M. A. Kidder.
"Let Freedom Sing" on WGBH Radio
The Proper Ladies sing the opening and closing songs on this WGBH program, broadcast in 2013.
Complete list of Programmes and Descriptions
Read about our programmes.
Tell Me Darling That You Love Me, Sung by The Proper Ladies
Written by Dr. John P. Ordway for the very popular Ordway’s Minstrels and published in Boston in 1867. A short segment from a live performance on Mar 8, 2015.
Institution/Business Type:
Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Unincorporated
Year Founded:
1982
Institution/Business Type:
Performing Group
Legal Status:
Nonprofit - Unincorporated
Year Founded:
1982
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Music - GeneralAdditional Disciplines:
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$250 - $2,400Teaching Settings:
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$250 - $2,400NEST Eligible Artist
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$750 - $4,500State of Residence:
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