Handbill from James Brown concert at the Pleasure Pier Ballroom: Museum Object and Cultural History
Handbill from James Brown concert at the Pleasure Pier Ballroom: Date: 1965. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: James Brown, American, 1933 - 2006.
The object in the museum catalogue
A 3-color handbill for a concert by the singer James Brown held on Tuesday, November 30, 1965 at the Pleasure Pier Ballroom in Port Arthur, Texas. The handbill adversises James Brown and the performers accompanying him for this performance. The top of the handbill lists the concert venue, date, time, and ticket price. At center-right is a cropped portrait photograph of Brown, smiling and looking to the viewer's left, next to white text on a red background, "James/Brown/ "Out of Sight"/ Grits and Soul" "Virginia Wolfe". Below this text and image, from viewer's left to right, are three rows of text and images depicting additional performers, including: James Crawford, The Famous Flames, Bobby Byrd, and T.V. Mama; "Baby" Lloyd and Al Brisco Clark; and James Brown 18-Piece Orchestra. The handbill has text printed in blue and black ink, four text boxes in red with white print, and two text boxes outlined in red with black text inside.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1965
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: James Brown, American, 1933 - 2006
- Subject of: James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American, 1934 - 2012
- Subject of: Bobby Howard Byrd, American, 1934 - 2007
- Subject of: "Baby" Lloyd, American, 1941 - 2002
- Type: handbills
- Medium: printing ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 9 7/16 × 7 in. (24 × 17.8 cm)
- Place depicted: Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Funk (Music)
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Soul (Music)
- Object number: 2014.97.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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