Recent Events

2025

  • Sunday 31st August:  Wallingford Bunkfest: 1130-1200 High Street with Roots Morris; 1300-1330 Railway station with Aldbrickham; 1400-1430 Dolphin with Towersey Horseshoes; 1500-1530 Bullcroft Dance Stage with Thrales Rapper.
  • Friday 5th September: We danced at an early evening wedding party held at the Abbey Buildings.  The mummers also put on a show later on.
  • Saturday 13th September: Heritage Day, Abingdon.  Two dancing spots on the Market Place.
  • Saturday 18th October: LoveBeer Brewery Craft Fair, 3pm dance spot on a gravel surface.
  • Saturday 29th November: Abingdon Christmas Extravaganza, 12.00 Parade, dancing 13.30 Market Place, 14.30 & 15.30 Bath St. The rain stopped just in time for the parade.
  • Monday 15th December: Mummers Out of Town Tour: 7.30 The Plum Pudding (Milton), 8.15 The Pack Horse (Milton Heights), 10.00 The Red Lion (Drayton).  Planned peformances at 9.00 The Cherry Tree (Steventon) and 9.30 The Fox (Steventon) didn’t take place as the pubs were shut.
  • Wednesday 17th December: Mummers Town Tour: 7.20 The Anchor, 7.45 Kings Head and Bell, 8.10 Nags Head, 8.35 Broad Face, 8.55 Stocks Bar, 9.20 Punch Bowl, 9.45 Tipsy Mercer, 10.00 The Brewery Tap
  • The Mummers raised a grand total of £564.78 for The Fellowship of St. Ethelwold (towards the restoration fund for St Ethelwold’s House).

2026

  • Thursday 1st January:  New Years Day tour, Abingdon town centre. 2pm Market Place, 3pm Broad Face.  Drinks at the Punch Bowl before and after.  A really good audience turn out, especially on the Market Place despite the bitterly cold wind.
  • Saturday 4th April: Abingdon Easter Eggstravaganza: Danced on the Market Square at 12.30 to a good crowd, retired to the Punch Bowl to rest up before our next performance at 3.15, only to be tracked down by the organisers at around 2pm to be told that the rest of the event had been cancelled before all the stalls and gazebos blew away in the high winds of Storm Dave. So we stayed in the pub for a while longer, and blamed Dave for having to drink more beer.
  • Sunday 12th April: Oxford Folk Festival: 11.00-11.45 Westgate Roof Terrace with Knights of King Ina, Owlswick and Downes on Tour; 12.30-13.15 Radcliffe Camera with Headington Quarry, Taylor’s and Downes on Tour; 14.00-14.20 Broad St outside Balliol with Windsor and Headington Quarry – we had to leave in time for our musicians to get to their session; 14.30-1600 Music session at the Royal Blenheim (ATMD and Friends), luckily missing the hailstorm and rain, and having the pleasure of being joined by a couple of young Bampton musicians; 16.15-17.00 Oxford Castle with OBJ, Aldbrickham, Kirtlington, Borderline. An enjoyable day.

[ last revised 14th April 2026 ]