Since we launched in 2020, alongside adding articles and content about Cornish music in general, we’ve been able to run some one-off projects that focus on specific types of music, musical events, or music from a particular area.

Check out our list of projects below:

Throughout 2024, the CNMA is working with The Roseland Music Society and St Gerrans and Porthscatho Old Cornwall Society on a new project titled ‘Music Of The Roseland’, exploring the variety of music related to one of Cornwall’s most rural areas.

During the course of the year we will be putting on workshops, events and engagement opportunities and are working with local musicians and groups, community groups, schools and to bring together articles relating to music, dance, traditions, events associated with the Roseland peninsula (and depending on your point of view, perhaps a little bit beyond!).

We are grateful to FEAST and the Cornwall Community Foundation for their support for this project.

In the spring and summer of 2022, we ran ‘Music From The Clay Country’: a project which focused on exploring a breath and depth of music from one of Cornwall’s clay country.

We worked with local musicians and groups, community groups, schools and to bring together over 100 articles relating to music, dance, traditions, events associated with Cornwall’s clay country, and celebrated the project with a launch event at Wheal Martyn Clay Works.

We are grateful to FEAST, the Cornwall Community Foundation, Gorsedh Kernow and the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies for their support for this project.

In the spring of 2021, we ran a project covering Tea Treats, which were extremely important element of community calendars the length and breadth of Cornwall. A ‘tea treat’ was often the anniversary of a church or chapel, evolving from a religious procession into a day of celebration for the whole community, with music at its heart.

Covering the activities of over 200 churches and chapels across Cornwall,  this project takes the form of a series of web pages which introduce tea treats, exploring their evolution, and culminated in a short virtual concert of four new arrangements of traditional marches, created by local musician Hannah Hawken, and played by the St Austell Band.

We were very grateful to FEAST for their Covid Re-Ignition grant which supported this project.

In January 2021, a surge in covid-19 cases meant that the UK went back into lockdown, meaning that the in-person wassail ceremony that had been planned had to be changed into a virtual event!

Collaborating with Tir ha Tavas, Dan Woodfield and the Kernow Bedroom Choir, Lowender Peran, the St Ives Community Land Trust, Cornwall Council, and Arts and Culture at the University of Exeter, we called for people far and wide to learn a wassail song and record themselves taking part in the different elements of the ceremony, and combined them all into

Learn the music, read the words, and read more about this fantastic project here.

If you’ve got an idea for a musical project which you’d like to discuss or get off the ground, we would love to hear about it. Drop us a line!