Good News from Home

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Good News from Home is a sentimental narrative song developed and performed by the Christy Minstrels in the mid 19th century. Also performed as part of their repertoire on their three-month long South African tour in 1862.

See The Christy Minstrels

Sources

"Christy's Minstrels 1857-1861", in Tracy C. Davis (Ed). 2012. The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance pp. 265-279[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.141

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