The  Longford Mummers - Longford, Derbyshire.       

We are priviliged to offer you a real Mummers' welcome to our site. Here you will find our Christmas Schedule for 2009 this year we are performing for one night only, the 19th December. There are some photographs of previous years and a brief and not too intense history of Mumming. Enjoy!!

For the past five years the Longford Mummers have been performing in their local habitat -  pubs of the local area. Over the years we have raised money for the Catholic Children's Society, The County Air Ambulance, The NSPCC Full Stop Campaign, the Alzheimer's Society  The Nightingale Macmillan Unit (Derby), Guide Dogs for the Blind and Action for Children. The players all come from the surrounding area. Music is provided the band who play good traditional music and finish the performance with a couple of good hearty Christmas songs. The whole play takes about as long to perform as it takes to read this website!! It is a great piece of participative Christmas entertainment that also has the benefit of raising money for a good cause.

We perform the Bampton Mummers' Play which originates from the South West Oxfordshire village of Bampton where it has an unbroken tradition of performance on Christmas Eve  stretching back over 100 years.

(picture- Green Man with Tom the Tinker)