Minstrels or troubadours are part of the tradition. Christy was the founder of the blackface minstrel show known as the Christy's Minstrels. The minstrel show was invented by Daniel Decatur Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels. Tabor performed with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels. Other traveling American minstrels were yodeling in the United States as well. A significant influence also came from Dutch minstrels and comedians. The Mela draws the largest number of Bauls, the wandering minstrels of Bengal. He joined The New Christy Minstrels, an American folk music group, in 1962. They are a group of Hindu mystic minstrels. Hymen Hymenaeus is sung by the minstrels at the festivities. In the early 1920s he worked in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue. In 1845, Juba began touring with the Ethiopian Minstrels. The song was recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, and others. Don Bryant's Minstrels, a German theater company, classical concerts and opera. At the age of 23, he became the bandmaster of Mahara's Colored Minstrels.