USA
Maryland
Center for Fawkesian Pursuits Mummers [Website]
Category:
Other Performing Group
Home Town:
Linthicum, Maryland, 21090
Description:
The Center for Fawkesian Pursuits Mummers perform an ancient mummers play each year for our Wassail Celebration on the Saturday closest to January 17.
Established:
2005
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Conrad Bladey, Director (cbladey@verizon.net), Phone: 410-789-0-930
Address: 402 Nancy Ave. Linthicum, Md. 21090, USA
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Washington Revels - The Christmas Revels [Website]
Category:
Special Festival Troupe
Home Town:
Silver Spring, Lat.& Long.: 39.0042, -77.0190
Description:
Annual productions (May Revels & Christmas Revels) that incorporate traditional music, dance, drama, and folk ritual. Productions typically include Morris Dancing, a Mummer's Play, Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, Maypole Dance.
Established:
1983
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2005 (6), 2006 (6), 2010 (5), 2012 (5)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Information, Marketing Director (info@revelsdc.org), Phone: (USA) 301-587-3835
Address: 531 Dale Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Massachusetts
Paper Bag Mummers (PBM) [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Waltham, Lat.& Long.: 42.3806, -71.2350
Description:
The Paper Bag Mummers of Waltham, Massachusetts explore traditional folkplay texts as improvisational performance and street theatre. Our motto: We never rehearse, we only perform! Made from 100% recycled materials (kit, scripts, and most performers included).
Established:
2003
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2003 (1), 2004 (5), 2006 (1), 2010 (2), 2011 (1)
Media Links:
1 link to Web page
Contact:
Lynn E.Noel (lynnoel@lynnoel.com), Phone: 978-985-2707
Part of:
Crosscurrents
Notes:
PBM offers participatory workshops in mumming and always welcomes new actors. Since we perform from chapbook scripts, anyone can (and often does) find themselves onstage.
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Revels Inc. [Website]
Category:
Special Festival Troupe
Home Town:
Cambridge, Lat.& Long.: 42.3737, -71.1106
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (12), 2003 (9), 2005 (11)
Media Links:
1 link to Photo(s)
Contact:
Sue Ladr (sladr@revels.org), Phone: +1 (617) 972-8300 x32
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That Long Tall Sword [Website]
Category:
Sword Dance Group
Home Town:
Amherst, Lat.& Long.: 42.3667, -72.5167
Description:
Founded in 1989, we perform an English longsword dance and mummers' play of our own devising, based on traditional longsword dances from the north of England. We also dance the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance.
Established:
1989
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2001 (4), 2002 (7), 2003 (6), 2004 (1), 2013 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Steve Howe (steve@cdss.org)
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Welcome Yule: A Mid-Winter Celebration [Website]
Category:
Special Festival Troupe
Home Town:
Turners Falls, Lat.& Long.: 42.6000, -72.5500
Description:
A celebration of the winter solstice and the customs surrounding it mostly based on British Isles traditions includes mummers play, morris dance, wassailing and other singing by adult and childrens chorus.Each year a different mummers play has been performed. Some years based on traditional plays, some years more novel, written by a member of the cast usually.
Established:
1984
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (3), 2003 (3), 2004 (3), 2005 (3), 2009 (3), 2010 (3), 2011 (3), 2012 (3), 2017 (3)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contacts:
Jinny Mason (jmason@smith.edu), Phone: 413-665-3206
Address: P.O. Box 148
Whately, MA 01093
Alan McArdle, Business Manager (ahmcardle@gmail.com), Phone: 413 320-9598
Address: P.O. Box 148
Whately, MA 01093
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Michigan
Ann Arbor Morris [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Ann Arbor, Lat.& Long.: 42.2754, -83.7308
Description:
Ann Arbor Morris (no longer 'and Sword') does a mummers' play some years and some years not. We did not do
one in 2006.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
a2morris@umich.edu
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Greenwood Morris
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Okemos, Lat.& Long.: 42.7167, -84.4167
Description:
Morris dancers who perform mummers plays.
Established:
1978, Ceased: 2006
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Sarah Gilmour (sarahjgilmour@gmail.com), Phone: 517.676.0168 or 517.927.9616
Part of:
Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse
Notes:
Greenwood died a grisly death in 2006.
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Minnesota
Lowry Hill Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Minneapolis, Lat.& Long.: 44.9667, -93.2500
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2003 (4)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Rudd Rayfield (ruddr@aol.com), Phone: 612-822-5477
Part of:
Ritual Drama Team
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Ritual Drama Team
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Minneapolis/St Paul, Lat.& Long.: 44.9667, -93.2500
Description:
We are an umbrella group of three separate Mummers' Teams, the Lowry Hill Mummers, the Mirriam Mound Mummers, and the Kenwood Keystone Mummers, each performing its own Hero-Combat play door-to-door in several urban neighborhoods. Also we do a Souling Play at Hallowe'en. We often combine forces for special presentations and events. We will perform for hire.
Established:
1976
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (4), 2009 (4), 2013 (4)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Rudd Rayfield (ruddr@aol.com), Phone: 612-822-5477
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New Hampshire
Nelson Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Nelson, Lat.& Long.: 43.0000, -72.1000
Description:
Nelson Mummers invariably barge into the annual MFS Solstice Celebration contra dance and insist on presenting their version of the story of St. George and the Dragon. The actual characters and plot details change from year to year according to current events.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contacts:
Lynn Arnold, Director (lynnarnold@myfairpoint.net), Phone: 6034008552 (Mob.)
Address: 34 Jewett St., Marlborough, NH 03455, USA
Larry Ames, MC (lsames@worldpath.net)
Part of:
Monadnock Folklore Society
Notes:
Performances go back to at least the 1980s.
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New Jersey
General Mercer's Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Princeton, Lat.& Long.: 40.3522, -74.6571
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2001 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Mary Zikos (maryzikos@yahoo.com), Phone: +1 609 258 4095
Part of:
Princeton Country Dancers
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Handsome Molly [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Princeton, Lat.& Long.: 40.3522, -74.6571
Description:
Handsome Molly performs molly dances and a Plough Play.
Established:
1993
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Mary Zikos, Squire (maryzikos@yahoo.com), Phone: 609-258-4095
Address: PO Box 1378
Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
Part of:
Princeton Country Dancers
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New York
Bassett Street Hounds [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Syracuse, Lat.& Long.: 43.0333, -76.1333
Description:
Performers of May Day mumming plays.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2003 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Thomas Keays (htkeays@syr.edu)
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Champeons of Folly
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Binghamton / Ithaca, Lat.& Long.: 42.0833, -75.9167
Description:
Performing a play loosely based on the St. George/Hero combat. Performance usually concludes with a morris dance and singing. In the past, the Kirby Malzeard sword dance has been presented; it may appear again in the future.
Established:
1980
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2011 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Peter Klosky (klosky@aol.com), Phone: +1 607 723 1660
Address: 99 1/2 Oak Street, Binghamton, NY, 13905 USA
Part of:
Binghamton Morris Men
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Long Island Traditional Music Association (LITMA) [Website]
Category:
Special Festival Troupe
Home Town:
Smithtown, Lat.& Long.: 40.8500, -73.2000
Description:
At our Winter Solstice celebrations we usually perform a mummers' play and the Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance - details on the appear on our website. We are also affiliated with the Three Village Morris Team.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2005 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Elizabeth Levitt (letlizzzzzz@yahoo.com), Phone: 631 281 5648
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Pennsylvania
Pennsbury Roleplayers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Morrisville, Lat.& Long.: 40.2000, -74.7833
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2003 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Lara Murphy, Phone: 215-946-0400
Part of:
Pennsbury Manor
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Vermont
Green Mountain Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Brattleboro, Lat.& Long.: 42.8619, -72.6192
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2003 (2), 2004 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Fred Breunig, Phone: 802-387-5985
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Nowell Sing We Clear [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Brattleboro, Lat.& Long.: 42.8619, -72.6192
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2002 (8), 2003 (6)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Tony Barrand (barrand@sover.net), Phone: 802-254-8684
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Virginia
Lantern Tours [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Staunton, Lat.& Long.: 38.1579, -79.0764
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered Past events: 2005 (7)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Part of:
Frontier Culture Museum
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