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In 2000 the members of Cornish Youth Dance group Tan Ha Dowr (Fire and Water) engaged in a recording project to capture the sounds and rhythms of Cornish dance. The project featured Cornish Scoot (step) dance where the percussive sound of hard shoes creates a conversation with musician and tune.
Merv Davey- 18 March 2020
'Squire's Song'/'Can Scoswas', from Robert Morton Nance's Cledry plays, was recorded for the Racca Project between 1995 and 1997. The plays were inspired by what Nance called 'guise dance drolls'.
- Merv Davey
- 18 March 2020
The story of "Delyow Sevi" is a strange one. It is the one complete folk song that has survived in the Cornish language and yet was completely overlooked in Ralph Dunstan's 1929 Cornish Song Book.
- Merv Davey
- 16 March 2020