At what venue was the anthem of the north-east of England "The Blaydon Races") sung for the very first time?
Who sang it, on what date and in what year? And, in order to score the point because we can all use Google , who was being fêted that evening?

The famous ‘Blaydon Races‘ song was first performed by George Ridley on 5th June 1862. He performed it at the Wheatsheaf Inn in Newcastle’s Cloth Market which was owned by a gentleman called Bambra (the name the pub holds today). As the first line of the song points out, the date of the event was the 9th June, so it is historically assumed that George was writing about the previous year’s race event - the year of the 1861 census.

Harry Clasper? was being feted
http://www.lhi.org.uk/docs/Heritage_Trail.pdf

Hi Jenny,

Harry Clasper was a famous Tyneside rower in the 19th century:
Wikipedia

More on the
Blaydon Races

Bless you, Jenny - and bless you dance girl,

The original lyrics are less penetrable than the set you link to Jenny, Geordie Ridley being an exponent of the local vernacular, but your link will be more comprehensible to non-Brits. Just for the record, there's an "l" in Balmbra's, but I'm not unknown to let the odd typo slip into my own posts , I forgive you, for I know you meant to insert it really! Thanks again yp you both.