Any Mummers Allowed in? They certainly are!

Today, the concept of dressing up to disguise one’s identity and then barging into other people’s houses as a Mummer, is something that most law abiding people would simply no longer do.  But it was fun.  

Almost all of us who grew up in here in Nl have seen the classic Mummers episode from Land and Sea.  If you have not seen that episode you have certainly heard Simini’s Mummers Song. The episode and the song that inspired it arguably saved mummering from extinction. 

Three years ago, The good folks in St. John’s hatched a plan that captured the fun of mummering while at the same time keeping people from being arrested.  The St. John’s Mummers festival has been a phenomenal, family friendly success.   http://mummersfestival.ca/

This was just enough inspiration for Lisa Browne to dare to try it here in Clarenville.  She convinced Rotary, me and many others that this could and would work here, so we decided a few months ago to give it a try.

We promoted it with posters and through Our Town and we even made a Video, but until 2 o’clock Sunday, the scheduled start time for the parade, we had no idea how it would go over.   WOW

Mummers came from everywhere – young, not so young, men, women people from Clarenville, from outside Clarenville and they were dressed to mummer – and they did and they had a great time doing it. 

Since the Parade, the pictures and video that we posted have received hundreds of views each, and this single event has generated the most comments ever.  There's an appetite for this rekindled Christmas tradition and we will now work to make it grow.  

You have a year to work on you outfit ;)  

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