Snail Creeps and Tea Treats: Clay Country Customs

Pack with A5 book plus CD of music.

9 dances assocated with traditional customs from the Cornish Clay Country. Prepared as part of the Rescorla project in 2008. The Tea Treat customs surrounding a community dance called the Snail Creep are featured

£5.00 +p&p

Tam Kernewek: Cornish Dance Taster

A5 Booklet and music CD

This pack was created to provide dances for an adult dance workshop giving a chance to see the range and variety of Cornish dance. i.e. step dance, troyl dance, furry dance. A CD is provided at about normal dance pace.  We hope it provides the same enjoyment to other groups as it did to the international dance class at Cecil Sharp House in 2005, who were the original guinea pigs ! 

£5.00 +p&p

Dons Bew: Cornish Dance Innovations

Pack with A5 book and CD of the dance music

The title “Dons Bew” means “Dance Lives”. Cornish dance is very much alive, a fact evidenced by sometimes fiercely conflicting interpretations of tradition, which, whilst not always comfortable when you are in the middle of it, is definitely healthy!   “Dons Bew ” provides a cross section of Cornish Dance activity in 2005 and some of the the groups involved: Anao Atao,Asteveryn,  Bolingey Troyl Band and Dancers, Dalla, Pyba Troyl Band,  Tan Ha Dowr  

£10.00 + p&p

Cornish Pub Songs: Kanow Tavern

A5 pocket song book with songs in English and Cornish
• Cadgewith Anthem
• Camborne Hill / Bre Gambronn
• George the Magic Chough / Jory An Balores
• Lamorna
• Little Eyes / Dewlagas Byghan
• Maggie May
• Old Grey Duck / An Hos Loes Koth
• The Pasty Song / An Gan Basti
• Roll the Old Chariots / Goes Nelson
• Sweet Nightingale / Eos Wheg
• White Rose / An Rosenn Wynn
• Johnny Bugger / Jonni Boekka

£2.00 +p&p


 

Sengen Fiddee: Songs In Cornish Dialect

A4 book with words and music for 30 Dialect Songs including:Trelawnee, Goyn Up Camburn 'ill, Jan Knuckey, KeenleeLoad. Lamorna, Liddel Eyes, Maagee May,  Nawthen Cept you, Tha Ol Grae Duck, Ol Mallee Pijee, Pasty Song, Tom Bawcock's, Trura Ager-icultural Shaw. 

£5.00+p&p

Kanow dons- singing for Cornish Dances

Handy sized A5 book with 14 Songs in Cornish and English for accompanying dances.

£2.00 +p&p

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Bolitho Sings

This album draws on live recordings of John in action made by him, his friends and family in a variety of settings. There are singing sessions at the London Inn in Padstow where he is joined by Charlie Pitman and  Johnny Morrisey,  sessions lead by John at the Cobwebs in Boscastle, the Upper Deck in Rock and at the
Lowender Peran Festival in Perranporth.There are three songs in Cornish,
including Maggie May, a song which, for many, became synonymous with him.

• Spanish Ladies
• Calm is the sea
• The Lower Lights 3
• The Larks They Sang Melodious
• White Rose / Rosen Wyn
• Cadgewith Anthem
• Maggie May (Cobwebs)
• Down Mexico Way (London Inn )
• I’m a Man (London Inn
• Spinning Wheel (London Inn)
• Danny Boy  (The Upper Deck)
• Horseshoe on the wall (Cobwebs)
• I Once loved a lass (London Inn)
• Old Armchair (Cobwebs)
• The Bantam Cock (Lowender Peran)
• Maggie May (Cornish)
• Nancy
• Tek o an Blejenn
• Bro Goth
• The Anchor's Away

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Brythennek

15 Songs in English and Kernewek from Brian Webb, Cornish Bard and Songwriter. His songs have come to form a core repertoire for Cornish singers.

1. Ow avon splann
2. Pasty Song          
3. An tir yw ow bro
4. Talking emmet blues
5. Daskorr
6. If it wasn’t for the Cornish
7. Farwel genes Wella
8. George the Magic Chough
9. Frutys ha bleujennow
10. Deck of cards
11. Yth esov vy lemmyn spyrys yn-dan dhor
12. St Michaels
13. Goslowyn orth nowodhow trist
14. We don’ sell pastys here
15. Warnas mutations

£10 + p&p

Hengan,  Traditional Folk Songs, Dances and Broad Side Ballads Collected in Cornwall(Redruth, Dyllansow Truran,1983- Second Edition An Daras, 2013), Edited by Merv Davey

A collection of 30 traditional songs in Cornish and English,15 tunes and 14 broadside ballads collected in Cornwall, with notes on origins of tunes  

Second edition available to order: contact info@an-daras.com

Cornish Session Tunes - Pris Ton

Handy sized A5 book with 44 tunes popular at Cornish sessions.

£2.00 +p&p

Pibrek - Cornish Tunes for Cornish Pipers

Music arranged and played by Pyba using a variety of bagpipes including the Cornish Double Chanter set.

This is an interactive CD, play in the normal way on your CD player or use with a computer to access pictures, music files, music script and more detailed information about bagpipes in Cornwall.

1. Hutchens Salterello
2. Carol Coref
3. Plethen Newlyn
4. Tom Bawcock’s
5. Bosvennegh
6. Helston Foray
7. Hungan
8. Dons an Melinor
9. Fer Lyskerys
10. Pencarrow
11. Cor Elow
12. Cock in Britches
13. Kellynn
14. Quay Fair 

£10.00 +p&p

Racca -Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions

Between 1995 and 1997 the RACCA project captured a snapshot of tunes played at Cornish sessions, some traditional and some contributed by the composers. With nearly 300 tunes this remains the definitive reference for Cornish session and dan ce tunes. It is now out of print but we have a small number of copies left from the original project.

(Free Downloadable PDF file available on the Federation Of Old Cornwall Societies Web Site online archive.)

Hard Copy:

£5.00 +p&p

Cornish Costume: Workwear of the Newlyn Area

A4 Book with costume illustrated by plates from the Penlee Archive and Truro Museum.

Working clothes worn in the west of Cornwall changed very little during the nineteenth century.  The industries of fishing, mining and agriculture dictated  very much the everyday wear of the people. strongest evidence of what was worn in the Newlyn area at the end  of  the eighteen hundreds can be observed in the paintings of the Newlyn Colony of Artists who painted the local people at work in the Penzance area.Early  photographs  of West Cornwall also show the everyday wear of the people.

£8.00 +p&p

Cornish Drolls 1+2

Double DVD

A selection of stories taken from archive footage of the Lowender Peran Festival in Perranporth, Cornwall. Each story is a unique interpretation of a tale or event remembered by the individual storyteller from the ’first-timers’ to the ’pros’, and most stories told are in the informal setting of a storytellers session. 

• Tom the Tinner, Mike O’Connor (2003)
• Jack the Giant Killer, Gwaryoryan (1988)
• The Story of St Piran, Chris Easton (1995)
• The Night We Got the Ghost, Brenda Wooton (1988)
• Snuff and Fishermen, Stewart Biddick (1994)
• Short Stories in Dialect, Joy Stevenson (2003)
• Tamara, Mike O’Connor (2003)
• Cornish Pasties, Brenda Wooton (1992)
• The Mermaid of Zennor, Trev Lawrence (1990)

• Jan and the Piskeys, Gwaryoryan (1988)
• The Frog and the Vicar, Stewart Biddick (1994)
• The Bantam Cock, John Bolitho (1994)
• Jackie and Jan, Mike O’Connor (2003)
• The Story of Tregeagle, Merv Davey (1995)
• Short Stories, Sheila Buse (1994)
• Short Stories, Joy Stevenson (1994)
• The Devil in Cornwall  Gwaryoryon(1988)
• Piskey Led, Trev Lawrence

 £10.00 +p&p

Gwary Myr: Perran Round 1996

DVD with Archive footage of the extract from the Cornish Ordinalia performed as a community production in the summer of1996 at the ancient site of St Piran Round.

£5.00 + p&p

Cornish Bagpipes: Fact or Fiction

A5 book with 68 pages of information and illustrations describing the known facts about this instrument, where they it was played and what for.

£5.00 +p&p