Recorded by Ralph Dunstan from the singing of Jim Thomas, Camborne.
As played by Frances Bennett January 2024, part of a series of play-through's of Cornish Tunes aimed at promoting and enabling players of all abilities to improve their knowledge of Cornish music. Courtesy of Sounds Like Cornwall Today
We are grateful to Alison England for granting permission for this Colan Williams composition to be included here.
We are grateful to Alison England, Zacharias Williams’ granddaughter, for granting permission for this composition to be included here.
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.