"Dixie"- by Black Irish Band Performed on traditional instruments of the 1850s this famous song from American History-"Dixie" is a song with music and lyrics by the Northerner- Daniel Decatur Emmett (Irish Family) His song was first performed in a minstrel show in New York City in 1859, but it soon swept the South, and when Confederate President Jefferson Davis took the oath of office in 1861, the band played “Dixie.” Southern troops marched into battle singing the song. The composer, who suppor