Folk Play Links - Kent, 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.


Groups

001 * Boughton Monchelsea Morris [script]
002 * Darent Valley Champions / Hartley Morris Men [perform Shoreham & Brasted texts; programme]
003 * Dead Horse Morris [photo; programme; script]
004 * Each to their own [by Chris Maclean, in , 5th Jan. 2009 - about Boyden Gate Mummers]
005 * Elsie's Band / The Queen's Arms
006 * Mummers ensure Pagan Traditions are Remembered [in ?, 2nd Jan. 1999 - about Tonbridge Mummers]
007 * Rabble Folk Theatre
008 * Ravensbourne Morris Men [perform Leigh [Brasted] text]
009 * Tonbridge Mummers & Hoodeners (/ Nellie's Folk Club) [perform Bearsted text - Archived]
010 * Wadard Mummers / Wadard Morris Men [perform Sutton-at-Hone text]
011 * West Hill Morris [photos]

Publications

012 * A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in use in the County of Kent [by W.D. Parish & W.F. Shaw, 1888, p.27 - entry for 'Championing'; (p.76 - entry for 'Hodening'; p.77 - entry for 'Hoodening' - at St Nicholas-at-Wade)]
013 * Annals of a Fishing Village [New edition] [by A Son of the Marshes [Denham Jordan], ed. by J.A. Owen, 1892, pp.239-245 - at [Milton Regis]]
014 * Kentish Mummers and Morrismen [index to Annis Cumfrey, in Bygone Kent, Vol.9 No.6, Jun. 1988, pp.360-363 - Brasted Champions and revival by Darent Valley Champions - Archived]
015 * Three Mumming Plays [citation of Alan Brody, in English Literary Renaissance, Vol.3 No.1, Winter 1973, pp.105-130 - (Branston, Lincolnshire text from Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection;) unlocated, Kent text from Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection; (Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire text from Maurice Willmore Barley Collection)]

[General]

016 * BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, 7th Dec. 2005 [Audio - 'Christmas Champions']
017 * Leigh and District Historical Society [Mummers Plays and Leigh]

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