A Grey Day, lyrics by Kitty Lee, music by Ralph Dunstan published in the Cornish Song Book, Lyver Canow Kernow in 1929. Kitty Lee or Katherine Lee was the pen name of Katherine Jenner, formative member and Bard of Gorsedh Kernow.
We are grateful to Alison England for granting permission for this Colan Williams composition to be included here.
Guise Dancing in Cornwall is spelt variously as Gees, Geeze, Giz, Geys and Guize but always pronounced as “Geeze”. It is probably a conflation of the Cornish “ges” meaning jeer, joke, mockery, ridicule, satire; the Cornish “gis” meaning fashion, guise, style, way; and the English term “guise”.
Awaked from sleep we fall before thee, God of love, and chant the praise the angels raise, O God of might, above: Holy, Holy, Holy! Thou art God adored! In thy pitying mercy show us mercy, Lord. As at thy call I rise, shine on this mind and heart, and
Dialect song by Bernard Moore. Bernard Moore was the pen-name of Samuel Syrus Hunt (1873 -1953). He lived in London but his poetry was inspired by Cornwall and Cornish culture and dialect.
Killigrew Fancy written by Michelle Lyon and played by Bagas Crowd
Golden Meadow written by Joyce Hollands and played by Bagas Crowd