Sunny Corner as played by the Benbow Cornish Music Session Sept 2021
The Sunny Corner March (Keskerdh Kornel Howlyek in Cornish) was a popular tune played by 19th century brass bands in Cornwall for Tea Treats and Regattas. Ralph Dunstan included the tune in his Lyver Canow Kernewek – The Cornish Songbook published in 1929 and attributes to Edward Visick Webber of Chacewater. It is a polka style march and used today for Cornish social dance.
Sunny Corner played by St Austell Band.
Tune as recalled by Ralph Dunstan from his days as a “Boy Bandsman” playing for Tea Treats and Regattas in the late 19th Century. *
Tune as captured by the Racca Project 1995/97
*Dunstan, Ralph, ed. The Cornish Song Book, Lyver Canow Kernewek. (London: Reid Bros Ltd 1929) p136.
See Cornish Session Tunes Project
For more about Cornish Session Tunes
Racca: Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97
Fooch 1 & 2 Favourite Cornish Session and Dance Tunes – Neil Davey
Prys Ton: Cornish Session Tunes – An Daras Folk Arts Project
Cornish Trad -Discovering Cornish Traditional Music