Coffee & Culture: Music & Mummering
Date: Dec 5
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
Where: Theatre
Singing, playing instruments, or carrying a boombox the mummers often come with music. In this presentation you will learn more about the music traditions associated with mummering. The ugly stick, for example, has played a large role in Newfoundland times throughout the years. It's about four feet long, on which bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other noisemakers are attached. It is played by thumping the stick, and striking its attachments with a 'saw' --a notched stick that really gets those bottle-caps rattling! Learn more about accordions, fiddles, and spoons, and try your hand at playing an ugly stick. Researcher and folklorist Terra Barrett will be joined by some special guests in this multimedia presentation on music and mummering. In partnership with the Mummers Festival Event. ASL/English Interpreting Services are available through NLAD by request only to ASLservices@therooms.ca or 709-757-8090. We will do our best to accommodate requests made within two weeks of the scheduled event. Photo credit: Greg Locke.
Today's Events & Programs
Sharing Our Cultures celebrates and showcases our province's diversity by enabling school youth from diverse cultural backgrounds to share aspects of their cultures through interactive exhibits. This multicultural and educational event allows the public to travel the world, learn about its many stories and establish positive intercultural connections.
Depuis 26 ans, cet événement célèbre et met en valeur la diversité de notre province en permettant aux jeunes des écoles de divers horizons culturels de partager des aspects de leurs cultures par le biais d'expositions interactives. Cet événement multiculturel permet au public de voyager à travers le monde, d'apprendre ses nombreuses histoires et d'établir des liens interculturels positifs.
Free (does not include access to the galleries and The Rooms exhibits / Gratuit - n'inclut pas l'accès aux galeries et autres expositions de The Rooms)