Lowender a Dheu – Kenys gans Buccas 4 An kan ma yw dyworth Solympnitys a’n Orsedh Kernow.
As played Lowender Peran 1987 ” I stayed with my aunt Mrs Elsie Millis for several summers between 1969 and returning to Cornwall to live in 1975. Elsie would often talk abut her father, my grandfather Edward Veale, and his interest in Old Newquay and his involvement with the Old
Lady Eveshams as played at the Seiners Session Perranporth, Oct 2021 Audio File: Lady Evesham’s as played by Festival Band at Lowender Peran 1987 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
An Awhesyth / Lark as collected for the Racca Project 1995-7 See Racca: Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project Also discussion of song origins and variations: An Awhesyth
As played at Benbow Cornish Session Two versions of Fer Lyskerrys / Liskeard Fair recorded in the Racca Project 1995-1997. Fer Lyskerrys as played by the Lowender Festival Band in 1987 (Version 2) The tune, Liskeard Fair, is noted down in Rev Sabine Baring Gould’s Rough Notebook Vol
The lyrics for “The Lark in the Morning” appear in Broadside Ballads from the late 18th century to the mid-19th as well as from oral tradition across Britain, Ireland and beyond.[i] The song is associated with several different melodies. Folk song collector Rev Sabine Baring Gould noted two distinct tunes
The lyrics to Lamorna started life as a broadside called “Down to Pomona”. Pomona was a nineteenth century zoological park in Manchester with a notoriously expensive admission fee intended to discourage working class people, thus the twist in the last verse.
This popular song started life as a Charles H Sheffer composition "Liza Loves You" for a Minstrel Show entitled "The Wrong Girl" that toured across the USA in 1885.