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Carols

Discover Gloucestershire Carols

To explore Christmas songs and traditions stay on this site

 

Mumming

The strange tale of St George and the quack doctor

Wassailing

The true story of the Gloucestershire Wassail

 

Welcome to a celebration of Gloucestershire Christmas traditions.

We have a rich cultural  heritage goes back many centuries.  Explore this site to find not only history, but traditions that have survived and evolved to find a role in the C21st.    Now you can: sing Christmas Folk Songs & Christmas Carols recorded over 100 years ago; listen to archive recordings of singers who learnt village songs over 100 years ago; read a history of Mummers Plays and Gloucestershire groups ; find events in the Diary of Christmas folk singing,  mummers plays and west gallery quire music;  research family history of the folk singers; local history of village singing some of which has been provided by local history groups. Get browsing – better still why not learn a song or tell us about Christmas traditions in your town or village?