Skinners Bottom Singers were the first group to represent Cornwall at the Pan Celtic Festival In Ireland in 1970.

Dame Fanny Moody (1864-1945) of Redruth was known as ‘The Cornish Nightingale’. She became one of the great singing stars of her age.

Philippa Davies’ Music Book: Contents, Context and History by Mike O’Connor and Barbara Griggs

The Music Book of Denise Nankivell - Babara Griggs and Mike O'Connor

Gilbert and Sullivan were the reigning monarchs of British satire at the latter end of the 19th century and were happy to mock anything that came into their line of fire. In their other Cornish-set classic The Pirates of Penzance, the idleness of the lords and gentry is put under