Although Brenda's love of Cornwall shone through every programme, audiences could also expect to be regaled with an eclectic range of songs incorporating bawdy humour, sensitive love songs, powerful spirituals, ballsy blues and punchy rock numbers.
Although Brenda's love of Cornwall shone through every programme, audiences could also expect to be regaled with an eclectic range of songs incorporating bawdy humour, sensitive love songs, powerful spirituals, ballsy blues and punchy rock numbers.
Silver Net - Words & music: © Richard Gendall. Arrangement: Brenda Wootton. “Carillon” album,
Skwardya, formed in 1998 by Matthi Ab Dewi and Alan Pengelley, is a Cornish language folk/rock/pop band.
Project & background This book came about as a result of a project called Shout Kernow, undertaken in 2012 by Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley. The project aimed to record, celebrate and help sustain the living tradition of pub singing in Cornwall. We realised that it would be one of
The Flight March was adapted from the song "St Keverne's Feast" to provide a Tea Treat March in the nineteenth century.
We do not know when Sticker Brass Band was formed. 1860s: Sticker Brass Band active. (John Brush) “The teachers and scholars assembled at the Wesleyan Chapel [probably Tresillian], where a procession was formed, headed by the Sticker Brass Band.” (4th of August 1870 – West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser) 1872:
Cornish Brass Band Contest results are recorded separately and can be found using this link We have not discovered when Stenalees Brass Band first began playing but we do know that it was taking part in contests by August 1888 when it competed in the 8th Annual County Volunteer and Independent Brass
St Stephen-in-Brannel is to the west of St Austell It is thought that St Stephen Brass Band was formed during the 1850s and one of its earliest engagements was in 1857 when it played at a St Austell Cottage Gardening Society event. 1857: The band of the Royal Cornwall