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The Mummers' Dance. " 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.
"The Mummers' Dance," a hit song from the album The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt, refers to a springtime traditional mummers' play as performed in Ireland. "England in Ribbons", a song by Hugh Lupton and Chris Wood is based on the characters of a traditional English mummers' play.
Mummering is a Christmas -time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, City of 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 neighboring communities during the ...
'The Mummers' Dance' by Loreena McKennitt. Evoking thoughts of "Outlander," this catchy, etherial song by Loreena McKennitt hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, climbing all the way up to No. 19 on ...
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 White Boys (mummers) A performance of the White Boys in Peel, 2019. The White Boys (Manx: Ny Guillyn Baney) is the traditional mummers' play of the Isle of Man. The play and its actors are named because of the unusual white clothing they wear. The play is traditionally performed in public places close to Christmas, and it concerns knights ...
Pure is the first internationally released album by Christchurch, New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra. It became the highest selling New Zealand album, which Westenra was awarded by at the New Zealand Music Awards of 2004. It was published by the Decca Music Group label in 2003. It was distributed in the United States by Universal Classics in 2004.
Mummer's Day, or "Darkie Day" as it is sometimes known (a corruption of the original Darking Day), is a traditional Cornish midwinter celebration that occurs every year on Boxing Day and New Year's Day in Padstow, Cornwall. It was originally part of the pagan heritage of midwinter celebrations that were regularly celebrated throughout Cornwall ...