Folk Play Links - Dorset, England

Compiled by Chris Little

Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.

001 - A Southwell Maid's Diary [by Otter, 1930]
002 - Andy Anderson [2000 report, with photos, about Babylon]
003 - Babylon [photos; script]
004 - FF-1104: Walk in, Saint George [DVD for sale: Video of Symondsbury Mummers, 1953]
005 - Frome Valley Morris [perform Broadwey text]
006 - FTX-103 - Dorset & Devonshire Mummers [CD for sale: Audio of Symondsbury Mummers, 1957]
007 - FTX-408 - Dorset is Beautiful: Village Traditions - Dorset [CD for sale: Audio of Mummers' songs from Symondsbury and Evershot (- in fact Symondsbury Mummers at Evershot)]
008 - FTX-517 - The Napoleonic Battle Period [CD for sale: Audio of Dorchester Mummers, 1936 (- in fact West Lulworth Mummers at Dorchester)]
009 - FTX-950 - Sing Christmas [CD for sale: Audio of two excerpts of Mummers' songs from FTX-104 and FTX-103]
010 - Glimpses of Past Days [sic] in & around Sixpenny Handley [by F. Adams, [ca. 1953]]
011 - Shillingstone : The Story of a Dorset Village [by ed. Rev J.H. Cooke, 1921, Chapter VII - "… -formal, undramatic, incredibly dull: to revive the Mummers would now be futile"!]New
012 - Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year : The Live Christmas Day 1957 Broadcast on BBC Radio [CD for sale: from FTX-950]
013 - Singing the Travels [sung by the Silly Sisters - Symondsbury Mummers' song]
014 - Songs of Christmas From the Alan Lomax Collection [CD for sale: excerpt from FTX-103]
015 - Steps in Time
016 - Stourvale Mummers / Bourne River Morris [perform Sixpenny Handley text; photos; programme]
017 - Symondsbury Parish [Includes a brief description of Symondsbury Mummers]
018 - The Dorset Ooser [Check references 39, 40, 41, 42]
019 - Wessex Morris Men
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