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"The Mummers' Dance" is a song written and performed by Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt, released as a single from her sixth studio album, The Book of Secrets (1997), in November 1997. The song refers to the seasonal mummers' play performed by groups of actors, often as house-to-house visits. Its lyrics indicate a springtime holiday.
The Book of Secrets is the sixth studio album by Loreena McKennitt, released in 1997.It reached #17 on the Billboard 200. [3] The lead single of the album, "The Mummers' Dance," remixed by DNA, was released during the winter of 1997–98, and peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #17 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. [4]
In 1995, her version of the traditional Irish song "Bonny Portmore" was featured in the Highlander series, followed by the 1994 film Highlander 3: The Sorcerer. McKennitt's single "The Mummers' Dance" received airplay in North American markets during the spring of 1997, and was used as the theme song for the short-lived TV series Legacy.
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".
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"The Mummer's Song", performed by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea, but originally written by the Newfoundland folk band Simani, is an arrangement of the traditional song "The Mummer's Carol", which details the mummering tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador. A hip-hop version by M.W.A. (Mummers With Attitude) was released in 2014.
The Mummers are a band based in the English coastal city of Brighton, centred on London-born singer/songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni, composer Mark Horwood (before taking his own life in September 2009), producer/writer Paul Sandrone and co-producer/manager Alastair Cunningham.
The Mummers; The National; The Neville Brothers; The Nightwatchman; The O'Jays; The Only Ones; The Ordinary Boys; The Orwells; The Phoenix Foundation; The Pierces; The Pigeon Detectives; The Pipes and Drums, 1st Battalion Scots Guards; The Polyphonic Spree; The Pretenders; The Proclaimers; The Raconteurs; The Rakes; The Rockingbirds; The Roots ...