Penzance Guize Dancers and Tir Ha Tavas: Kan Rag Dons ( a song for a dance) project 2014 Penzance Guize Dancers were formed in May 2012 to learn the art of guizing from Tudor times to the present. Tir ha Tavas (Delia and Dave Brotherton) write and perform songs in
The Cornish Quickstep was played as a march for Cornish Tea Treats in the 19th Century
Different versions of the Frogpool March 19th Century - present.
Re a lever and Jawl yw Marow ynkleudhys yn Porth Fowi
Re a lever what 'ma few owht havi yn y growji
(some say the Devils dead and buried in Fowey harbour, some say he is still alive and living in his holiday cottage)
Pencarrow Hunt” as the song is known in North Cornwall becomes “Lord Arscott of Tetcott” along the Cornwall Devon border and shares it melody with a Welsh song called “Difyrwch Gwyr Dyfi” (Delight of the Men of Dovey). The narrative focuses on Pencarrow House, near Bodmin, and a bucolic fox
The world’s most popular Gilbert and Sullivan production “The Pirates of Penzance” premiered in 1879, first at the Bijou Theatre in Paignton before opening in New York. It was an immediate hit and within weeks of opening, touring and amateur performances were being arranged.
Pasties and Cream Herbert Thomas 1903 The score for this song was sent to us by Sue Ellery-Hill, daughter of Brenda Wooton the celebrated Cornish singer. It was the title track for an LP released by Brenda and John the Fish through Sentinel Records in 1971 and in many ways
The dance and tune were transcribed in 1971 by Mrs Esme Francis, the Honorary Harpist for the Cornish Gorseth. In 2009 she described the circumstances: “A neighbour of mine, farmer John Williams, who lived at Boscreggan Farm,Nanquido, described the Newlyn Reel Dance tome in 1971. He remembered travelling to Newlyn
Porthlystry as contributed to the Racca Project 1995/97. Originally transcribed from memory by Merv Davey in 1978: ” I stayed with my aunt Mrs Elsie Millis for several summers between 1969 and returning to Cornwall to live in 1975. Elsie would often talk abut her father, my grandfather Edward Veale,