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Thread #44321   Message #1903617
Posted By: Hawker
08-Dec-06 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: HELP: Need most popular Cornish songs
Subject: RE: HELP: Need most popular Cornish songs
As well as Mike O'Connor, as Cats has already said, I can put you in touch with a Cornish piper, Rob Strike, who is also a Music teacher at Launceston College, N. Cornwall. He plays a lot for Gorseth events and the like. He made his own set of Cornish pipes, and is a friendly sort of chap who I am sure can help you out.
Lamorna, White Rose, Trelawney, Camborne Hill, Bodmin Riding, come to mind readily as those The Cornish love to sing.
Mike O'Connor has published several books - one named This Song Sing To You may be worth investing in - and Fooch, which is a book of Cornish tunes, with CD. Also Ilow Kernow.
Are you in Cornwall?
Cheers, Lucy