Down Buckmaster’s Circle we parade to the insistent beat of the Music Collection’s Drumline, valiantly keeping the Newfoundland tradition of mummering alive, albeit tweaked for modern ...

There’s a wonderful strange Christmas tradition in Canada’s Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Known as mummering (or jannying), it’s an ancient tradition. A relatively recent ...

Wearing costumes to hide your identity and visiting neighbours during the twelve days of Christmas is a vital Newfoundland and Labrador tradition that has survived for 500 years. The practice has ...

The holiday tradition's history is one of festive ... of a fatal assault that took place involving Christmas mummers in Newfoundland," Fraser said. In 1861, the Newfoundland government responded ...

Warne. (The Rooms Provincial Archives/Public domain) Over the past 20 years, Newfoundland and Labrador's unique Christmas traditions have seen a bit of a renaissance, and people across the ...

While the specifics vary from place to place, Mummering is a deeply weird ancient Christmas tradition practiced in (usually rural) parts of Canada, Latvia, Newfoundland, and Ireland, wherein packs ...

There’s a wonderful strange Christmas tradition in Canada’s Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Known as mummering (or jannying), it’s an ancient tradition. A relatively recent ...

In simpler times, families came together at Christmas out of ... Mummering is a tradition which takes place in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. People dress up in costumes ...