Michael Harris was a flutist who played in a chapel band at St Stephen in the 1850s. Kresen Kernow hold some of his music manuscripts, mostly hymn tunes arranged in four parts, but pinned in between these he has included the score for a reel called Stoney Steps.
Project to introduce Cornish dance to children aged 3 -7 years. The dances are adapted and simplified to suit this age group.
A Seagirl's Cry was composed by Lorna West to verse written by Valda Trevlyn Grieve and sung here at a concert commemorating Valda in Bude 1991.
In previous centuries carols were traditionally sung around the streets and farms in the Stratton area, memories of this having been documented by the Saunders/Jewell family of Stratton and the Tape family of Morwenstow.
Following some research, Jory Bennett followed tracked down Thomas Merritt's lost cantata at Methodist Church in St Just. The Cornish Music Guild subsequently published the Cantata in 1988 as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of Merritt held at Illogan.
St Piran's Celebrations at Bodmin
An article by Cornish Historian Charles Henderson in the Cornish Guardian (04/10/1928) seems to have inspired Newquay School Master, R.S.Best, to write a song for Summercourt Fair.
Summercourt is a village in the civil parish of St Enoder, five miles southeast of Newquay This is yet another band where we struggled to find the date of its formation. We do know that it existed in 1870 as a report in the Cornubian and Redruth Times of
The Skippers of St Ives sung by Jack Collings of Port Isaac