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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 ...
Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins). Historically, mummers' plays consisted of informal groups of costumed community members that visited from house to house on ...
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.
What time does the Mummers Parade start? The 2024 Mummers Parade will begin at 9 a.m. ET on New Year's Day (Jan. 1, 2024).Mummers Parade history. Immigrants from Scandinavia were some of the first ...
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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]
In the Middle Ages, the Mummers Play was a traditional English folk play, based loosely on the Saint George and the Dragon legend, usually performed during Christmas gatherings, which contained the origin of many of the archetypal elements of the pantomime, such as stage fights, coarse humour and fantastic creatures, [15] gender role reversal, and good defeating evil. [16]
"Mum's the word" means to keep silent or quiet. Mum is a Middle English word meaning 'silent', [2] and may be derived from the mummer who acts without speaking. [3] Note the similar English word "mime" (Old English "mīma", Latin "mimus") meaning silent actor or imitator.