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On the Web
- Philadelphia New Year's Shooters and Mummers Association - Official site of the Mummers Parade which takes place outdoors and is judged at the Philadelphia City Hall each New Year's Day. Includes news, images, tips and history with information on sponsors, music, how to join and the gift shop.
- Mummers Home Page - Links to all the divisions in the Parade. History, schedules of off season events, and tenative schedule for next year.
- Mummers Artist - Information center for the Philadelphia Mummers Parade.
- RATCO Mummers - The Royal Acme Tipteer Company perform a Mummers or Tipteer play at Christmas time. The site includes information, programme, links and Convivio, an all female carol singing group.
- Ashdown Mummers - Performing group with photos, history and coming events list.
- Mummers Scripts - Scripts and photos of Stony Stratford mummers.
- The Riverfront Mummers Museum - Opened in 1976 dedicated to the Philadelphia Parade to celebrate New Years.
- South Philly Vikings - A Fancy Brigade in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade
- The Ashdown Forest Morris Men - Events programme and contact details for this side from Sussex. Also contains information about The Ashdown Mummers.
- Morris Dancing Discussion List - Email group for all things related to morris dancing, mummers plays, and other traditional activities. Contains subscription instructions, FAQ, and links to the archives.
Wikipedia Articles
- Mummers Play - Mummers' Plays (also known as mumming) are seasonal folk plays performed by troupes of actors known as mummers or guisers (or by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, galoshins and so on), originally in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales (see wrenboys), but later in other parts of the world. They are sometimes performed in the street but more usually as house-to- ...
- Summer Mummers - Summer Mummers is a yearly production presented at the historic Yucca Theater in downtown Midland, Texas. Running for three months out of every year (June, July, and August), Summer Mummers is celebrating its 59th year in 2007.
- Mummers Parade - The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Local clubs (usually called "New Years Associations") compete in one of four categories (Comics, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades).
- Aqua String Band - The all-volunteer Aqua String Band (see String band) was chartered to participate in the annual Philadelphia Mummers' New Year's Parade (Mummers parade). Organized on April 2, 1920 by Elmer W Leyrer and Fred J Kesel, Sr, Aqua was incorporated into the String Band Association in 1945.
- Tidza Guisers - The Tidza Guisers are a group of mummers who perform in the Peak District village of Tideswell in Derbyshire. They were formed in the late 1980s to revive the ancient tradition of guising (or "guisering"), in which people dressed up in elaborate costumes, blackened their faces, and went round the village asking for food and money ...