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On the 25th November, Chris Trevena met with Merv Davey in St. Austell. This is the first article. We cover when music first happened, finding a Cornish community in London, and some Cornish music roots. Pur dha, I’m Merv Davey I usually describe myself as an itinerant bagpiper. I’m
Chris Trevena- 18 April 2023
Guise Dancing in Cornwall is spelt variously as Gees, Geeze, Giz, Geys and Guize but always pronounced as “Geeze”. It is probably a conflation of the Cornish “ges” meaning jeer, joke, mockery, ridicule, satire; the Cornish “gis” meaning fashion, guise, style, way; and the English term “guise”.
Merv Davey- 15 April 2023
Kevin Mackenzie, Camborne Town Band Musical Director. Kevin was born on the 1st March 1977, in Middlesex, and in 1989 he and his family moved to Cornwall. Kevin’s mother and her father are musical and they were very supportive when he showed an interest in joining a brass band.
Tony Mansell
- 20 March 2023