Racca: Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions Project 1995 – 1997 The Racca Project recorded 146 traditional Cornish dance tunes and airs and a further 105 compositions from groups and individual performers involved with Cornish music between 1995 – 1997. The Editorial team comprised 0f Frances Bennet, Hilary Coleman, Nick Crowhurst,
Audio file: Jim Pengelly – Lowender Peran Festival 1987. first 16 bars are repeated at end to make 48 bar dance tune. Open downloadable pdf file:Daras_an_Skiber-Barn_Door_Waltz Notes: This waltz was played by Arthur Biddick one time Choir Master, Bandsman and Dance Band Leader from Boscastle. Arthur retired to
Nine Brave boys / Naw Map Harth played as an instrumental by Bagas Crowd and sung in Cornish by John Bolitho.
Open downloadable pdf file: Kostentyn-Constantine Version played on bagpipes by Merv Davey Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Battle of the Somme commemoration St Petrock’s Church Bodmin 6th July 2016. Notes: Communicated by James Roberts of Constantine to M H N Cuthbert Atchley who published an arrangement for 4
Open downloadable pdf file:-St_Keverne’s_Feast Dialect Terms: Braa – very Traaps –to roam or wander without aim This version of the song is from “Sengen Fiddee”, An Daras Cornish Folk Arts Project 2003. The song was arranged in 1932 by Ralph Dunstan based on the tune “Flight March” which was
Snail Creep Played by St Dennis Band at Wheal Martyn Clay Museum July 2022 Audio file: Snail Creep from Rescorla Festival’s “Snail Creeps and Tea Treats: Clay Country Customs” project 2008 Open downloadable pdf file:Rescorla_Snail_Creep Video Link: Rescorla Festival: Rescorla Snail Creep at Wheal Martin Museum and Country Park 2008
Begone From the Window was published in the Old Cornwall Journal in 1927 from the singing of Jim Thomas.
In 2000 the members of Cornish Youth Dance group Tan Ha Dowr (Fire and Water) engaged in a recording project to capture the sounds and rhythms of Cornish dance. The project featured Cornish Scoot (step) dance where the percussive sound of hard shoes creates a conversation with musician and tune.
'Squire's Song'/'Can Scoswas', from Robert Morton Nance's Cledry plays, was recorded for the Racca Project between 1995 and 1997. The plays were inspired by what Nance called 'guise dance drolls'.