You are invited to join Tir ha Tavas, the Kernow Bedroom Choir and Exeter Universitys Arts and Culture for an online Cornish Wassail this January.

In March 2019, Cornish Trad editors Tom and Tehmina Goskar, were rootling in the pamphlets section of the Jenner Room when they found this song slipped into the cover of a copy of Ralph Dunstan’s Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs, 1932

An adaption of "The Buffalo" with Cornish lyrics by Tony Snell

Adaption of gtraditional song "The Miller's Three Sons" with Cornish lyrics by Tony Snell

Song in Cornish by Tony Snell to the tune of Bold Privateer from Dunstan's "Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs".

R.J. Noall's setting of Davies Gilbert's "Cornish Cantata - Lapyeor Tom's Song" using placenames to reate the sound of Cornish as traditionally spoken.

Karol, Karol, Kristyon (Carol, Carol, Christians) Kenys gans Keur Heb Hanow Ilow:                               Matthew Burrows, Lanneves. Geryow Kernewek:     John Parker     Karol, karol Kristyon, Kan ughel dha lev, Kan awos dineythyans  Krist yw Myghtern an nev. Dres an nos ow kwitha, Aga flokk y’n pras, Bugeledh a Vethlem

Chambour bys y’n Bedh (Sing from the Chamber to the Grave) Kenys gans Keur Heb Hanow Music:                  Inglis Gundry from his opera The Tinners of Cornwall Arranger:             Jim Carey English Words:    Verse by R S Hawker on gravestone of Richard Cann in Morwenstow Cornish Words:   John Parker and Steve Penhaligon

Keur Heb Hanow           Chambour Bys Yn Bedh Karol, Karol Kristyon

Wassails are a living tradition  across the length and breadth of present day Cornwall . Some have a long continuity with the past, some have been revivied and some are entirely new. In essence  the wassail is sung as part of a custom to bless the trees in the apple