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2013 St John's Mummers Parade Mummering is a Christmas -time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador , Ireland , Philadelphia , and parts of the United Kingdom . Also known as mumming or janneying , it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or ...
A play text which had, until recently, been attributed to Mylor in Cornwall (much quoted in early studies of folk plays, such as The Mummers Play by R. J. E. Tiddy – published posthumously in 1923 – and The English Folk-Play (1933) by E. K. Chambers) has now been shown, by genealogical and other research, to have originated in Truro ...
The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia.Started in 1901, it is the longest-running continuous folk parade in the United States. [1]Local clubs, usually called "New Years Associations" or "New Years Brigades", compete in one of five categories: Comics, Wench Brigades, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades.
The long-running Philadelphia tradition is perhaps its biggest party of the year, but before you and thousands others gather along the 1.5-mile-long parade route there are some things you'll need ...
The Mummers Parade in Philadelphia is taking place again in 2024. The annual celebration of the New Year has a long, long history, dating back to 1901 and their first "formal, city-sponsored ...
Numerous Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans from South Philadelphia became involved in the Mummers Parade as both Mummers performers and parade goers. Several Irish themed bands have emerged from the area. The Green Fields of America is an ensemble which performs and promotes Irish traditional music in the United States.
The song is well-known today as the unofficial theme song of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. [5]The song, by then long in public domain, was used in early American television commercials for Golden Grahams cereal in the 1970s, with the refrain reworked in various ways around the phrase "Oh, those Golden Grahams".
The teams of Irish mummers known as Wrenboys who perform on Saint Stephen's Day (26 December) in pubs and private houses have been known to include a white hobby horse (Láir Bhán – c.f. Laair Vane, above) of the tourney type, and this has survived into the present century, at Dunquin in County Kerry for example. [48]