Walker's Famous Fisk Jubilee Singers

              Walker's Famous Fisk Jubilee SingersAcknowledged Lyceum and Chautauqua Favorites
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Interest, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee

To hear these celebrated artists is time well spent for old and young. Their program is always interesting from beginning to end.

There are only two Jubilee companies in the world representing Fisk University, viz:

FISK UNIVERSITY 
JUBILEE SINGERS
Managed by
PROF. JOHN W. WORK, JR.
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

WALKER'S FISK
JUBILEE SINGERS
Under the Management of
M. ELIZA WALKER CRUMP
3554 Vernon Avenue, Chicago, ILL.
They Have Sung Themselves into the Hearts of the People, and Have Achieved Greatness as Entertainers
THE SINGERS THAT SING‐WALKER'S FAMOUS FISK JUBILEE SINGERS
This Season's Greatest Success
Walker's Fisk Jubilee SingersTheir program is replete with a repertoire for any audience and any occasion.  Positively no ragtime
M. ELIZA WALKER CRUMP
Manager

To the People, Greetings:In presenting these, singers to the public, we wish to say that their mission is three-fold:First: To please the masses.Second: In the laudable cause of uplift.Third: Singing to raise funds for one of the world's greatest institutions for Negroes, Fisk University.


Each member of this company is an experienced artist. They have entertained the largest Chautauqua and lecture course assemblies in the United States. Their rendition of jubilee and Plantation Melodies is the result of special training, both together and separately; therefore, the quality of their music is unique and artistic.
The Great Lincoln Jubilee
They were the only Jubilee Singers employed throughout the Lincoln Jubilee Celebration, at the Coliseum in Chicago, from August 22 to September 16, 1915. Singing to thousands nightly with unstinted applause. Of these singers, Bishop Samuel Fallows, President said, in part: I have never heard better singing. It does the soul good and in this large place they know just how to throw their voices to be heard with perfect ease by the thousands who listen to them daily. None but well trained singers could accomplish this. The entertainment during this celebration would have been a failure without them.
PRESS COMMENTS
Negro Melodies Please AudienceColored Singers delight enormous crowd at Methodist Church‐Many clever numbers‐Colored Folks put souls into songs and are encored on every number‐Program unusually pleasing.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a company of clever colored singers, delighted another enormous audience at the First Methodist Church last night in the Community Course series of entertainments. It is safe to say that no entertainment has afforded more satisfaction than these singers gave last evening.

Musical authorities are free to admit that the only real American folk songs are furnished by the negroes. The melodies flow out with ease and they seem to enjoy singing as much as the audiences delight in hearing them. Nothing, classical, except vocal numbers by the soprano was given, and the old, familiar negro melodies and camp meeting songs made the best program these folks could have chosen. The character song by Mr. Crump, who was dressed to represent an old slave and sang Old Black Joeto the delight of the audience, the male quartette were among those numbers which earned additional applause.Brazil Ind., Daily Times

Walker's at ElginWalker's Fisk Jubilee Singers entertained a large audience at the State Hospital, Elgin, Illinois, February 21. And that they pleased, is evidenced by this from Dr. Gahagan, superintendent, in behalf of the faculty, I wish to extend to the manager of these singers our heartfelt thanks and high appreciation for your most excellent program. We welcome you and shall call on you again very soon. I shall be glad to speak a good word for you to anyone wishing your services.

It is unnecessary to say more, except that the high standard reached will be strictly maintained at any cost‐and surpassed, if possible, by the introduction of new material and novelty. The personnel of the company will never be the same if room can be found for improvement. Their every appearance means a recall‐not only once, but several times‐and the result is they are constantly in demand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.
The object of our mission:To raise funds to aid Fisk University, at Nashville, Tennessee.In continuing the great work of uplift, this effort alone is sufficient commendation.
JUBILEE HALL
This building, and the site upon which it stands, was purchased by the Original Fisk Jubilee Singers
Fisk Jubilee Singers
It may be interesting to the reader to know that the organizer and manager of this company (Mrs. M. Eliza Walker-Crump) is one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, who was sent out from Nashville, Tennessee, October 6, 1871, to raise funds for the University, touring the United States and Europe.  Space will not allow us to tell here of their remarkable success.  Suffice it to say, the management, backed by the University, enjoys the undisputable distinction of having the largest experience of any Jubilee Concert Company now before the public, and we further declare that the ORIGINAL Fisk Jubilee Singers are the sole originators of the name Jubileeas applied to plantation songs and which was early adopted by them in remembrance of the freedom which had come to the slaves in their day of jubilee.

Very truly yours,
M. Eliza
Walker-Crump
3554 VERNON AVENUE
CHICAGO

Fisk Jubilee Singers
The original company of Jubilee Singers left Nashville, October 6, 1871, and traveled four years in the United States and three in Europe, earning in all $150,000. With this money Jubilee Hall was built and the present campus purchased