Mumming park inn mumbles

We visited the Park last night, with some of us joining in with the music session there. At 9pm some of us sloped away to dress up in our Mumming kit and we delivered the Christmas Sport Mummers play to a friendly, appreciative and very generous audience! 

Gower provided a rich harvest of these wacky folk plays, there being about 8 different versions collected from the area. They date back nearly 200 years, providing mirth and merriment to all! Sweyns Ey Morris have kept this old traditional Christmas play going for the past 45 years!

We collected for Wales Air Ambulance and made a good start to our collection. There was a sad post script to this tour as a couple of days after we performed at The Park, the landlord decided it was time to permanently close the pub, so, another pub gone which we will never see re-opened. Luckily for Di she was able to relocate her monthly music sessions to the wonderful Railway Inn at Killay. Still sad to see the Park go!