In 2008 suggestions were made to create a new informal group or quartet … “Newquay’s Canoryan Singers” from within Newquay Male Voice Choir. All choir members were invited to participate. As a result, a few enthusiasts started to meet with Beverley Carpenter (music teacher) to sing light 4-part arrangements.
Off She Goes played at the Gwerthji Koffi Keltek Session, Newquay.
One and All played at the Gwerthji Koffi Keltek Session, Newquay.
O Spirit of the Cornish Land” was written by R.J. Noall and included in a pamphlet of songs titled “Cornish Patriotic and Dialect Songs” published in 1934
See: Racca 190 – Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97 Also: Sengen Fiddee
Audio File: Off She Goes as played by Lowender Peran Festival Band 1987 Notes Ralph Dunstan Lyver Canow Kernewek / Cornish Song Book (London Reid Bros,1929), p.76 Racca no. 103 : Racca – Cornish Tunes For Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97
In the heat of the day what a little we can do! We lay by the plough for an hour or two, On the banks of sweet violets where we take our rest While the cool stormy winds blow around us so fast. If the farmer has no corn, no