The Clay Country is rich in stories and folk traditions together with the music, songs and dances that go with them.
Merv Davey- 29 May 2022
A series of postcards provide us with some wonderful images of two itinerant entertainers from the area in the 1900s, “Harry and Carrie”.
- Merv Davey
- 29 May 2022
“Forty Thieves” is an interesting example of a “jobbing tune” in John Old’s manuscripts. Here it is played as a jig for dancing, but it is related to a Cornish carol called “The First Good Joy That Mary Had” and also one of the tunes to which the rather more
- Merv Davey
- 29 May 2022
From the manuscript of Michael Harris, St Stephen in Brannel, 1858
- Merv Davey
- 29 May 2022
Michael Harris was a flutist who played in a chapel band at St Stephen in the 1850s. Kresen Kernow hold some of his music manuscripts, mostly hymn tunes arranged in four parts, but pinned in between these he has included the score for a reel called Stoney Steps.
- Merv Davey
- 29 May 2022