Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery.

Mentioned or performed are Lilac Time, " A Wand ' ring Minstrel I ", " Beautiful Dreamer ", and " Largo al factotum " (" della ... città " being all that is heard ).

* Cantus the Minstrel ( performed by Jim Henson )-Cantus and the Minstrels continually travel to different parts of the cave, and stop several times at Fraggle Rock.

** Brio the Minstrel ( performed by Terry Angus )-A Fraggle who is one of the Minstrels following Cantus.

* Murray the Minstrel ( performed by Steve Whitmire in all other episodes, Gord Robertson in " The Honk of Honks ")-An unspecified creature who is one of the five Minstrels and " second in command " to Cantus, plays a guitar.

In a 1973 episode of The Two Ronnies, a musical sketch, " The Short and Fat Minstrel Show ", was performed as a parody of The Black and White Minstrel Show, featuring spoofs of various songs.

" Alternative Roots ", an episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, spoofed the popularity of The Black and White Minstrel Show, suggesting that any programme could double its viewing figures by being performed in blackface, and mentioning that a series of The Black and White Minstrel Show had been tried without make up.

*" Minstrel Potpourri " performed by the Edison Minstrels ( possibly The Haydn Quartet )

The first singing telegram in the UK is said to have been performed by Mike Collins aka The wandering Minstrel who is still performing fully personalised songs to this day.

A Minstrel Greeting, A fully personalised song performed by A Wandering Minstrel, with a full band production audio CD or DVD music video.

He performed in the Troupe's award winning production of A Minstrel Show ( or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel ) He attended film schools in Sweden and London, and returned to the US to ply his trade.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

*" The Palace of Minstrel " sung and danced by a minstrel chorus

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

Champion racehorses trained by Vincent O ' Brien on the flat include Nijinsky II, Sir Ivor, Ballymoss, Alleged, The Minstrel and El Gran Senor.

North American stand-up comedy has its roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century including vaudeville, English Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as Mark Twain and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics.

A review for the 1944 Joseph Lewis film Minstrel Man stated " the music, scored by Ferde Grofé, is an outstanding item.

* Christopher Cross by Christopher Cross ‒ " Minstrel Gigolo " ( 1980 )

However, biographer David Rees reports in Minstrel in the Gallery that Anderson had never intended to replace the ' classic ' Tull lineup with the musicians who recorded A, but was forced by Chrysalis Records which had decided to release his ' solo ' album under the name Jethro Tull.

The end result was a number that parodied The Black and White Minstrel Show by having the male performers in blackface while the females ( excluding Mrs. Slocombe ) were not.

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by The Minstrel

* The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore

Its sole riff was inspired by the Jethro Tull song " Minstrel in the Gallery ".

The 1872 gubernatorial election resulted in a narrow victory for Minstrel Elisha Baxter over Brindle Tail Joseph Brooks in an election marked by fraud and intimidation.

The player at the centre bottom is playing the Minstrel and the player to the right is the Dwarf.

Blind Harry ( c. 1440 – 1492 ), also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace.

* Yes Sir, Mr. Bones ( 1951 ), is based around a young child who finds a rest home for retired Minstrel performers.

Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show is complete with black actors in blackface, extremely racist jokes and puns, and even offensively stereotyped CGI-animated cartoons that caricature the leading stars of the new show.

He is the author of Cottage Poems ( 1811 ), The Rural Minstrel ( 1814 ), numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles, and various rural poems.

His family history, fancifully interpreted, is the main subject of much of The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Havens ' set, which is available as an audience recording, also included " Maggie's Farm " by Bob Dylan, " Freedom ", " Minstrel from Gault " and the Hare Krishna mantra.

" The Minstrel Boy " is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore ( 1779 – 1852 ) who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air.

" Baker St. Muse " is a song from Jethro Tull's album Minstrel in the Gallery, which was released in 1975.

The well-known annual Cape Town Minstrel or Carnival street festival is a deep-rooted Cape Malay cultural event ; it incorporates the Cape Malay comic song or moppie ( often also referred to as ghoema songs ).

Laidlaw is remembered only for his tender song, Lucy's Flittin, published in Hogg's Forest Minstrel, 1810.

The day the Minstrel arrives, the Queen is testing Princess # 12 with an unfair quiz.

His 1944 musical Minstrel Man, starring singer Benny Fields, is quite possibly the finest film ever made by low-budget PRC Pictures.

Although it is called the Coon Carnival by Capetonians, local authorities have renamed the festival the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival as foreign tourists find the term " coon " derogatory.

In this episode, it is clear that the classic Irish tune The Minstrel Boy plays a major part of his journey as a character: an innocent man thrown into the destructive nature of war.

He sings the song in this episode, and much later, in the final episode of DS9 " What You Leave Behind ", The Minstrel Boy is the first musical theme to be heard in the flashback sequence.