Ertach Kernow Heritage Column – Voice Newspapers
Sharing news from Cornwall's heritage sector, our articles included in the Voice newspapers published for Bodmin, St Austell, Newquay and Truro. This will also be shared on our Ertach Kernow Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ErtachKernow with links to our Association for Cornish Heritage Facebook page at www.facebook.com/associationcornishheritage
Publicise your heritage group's activities in community newspapers, on social media and on websites. Contact associationcornishheritage@gmail.com
We will also try to share news we were unaware of at the time that didn't make the newspaper
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To download the booklet 'Corn Dollies' and how to make them, click the image above which will open a pdf in a new window.
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Clicking the LOGOs to the right will open a new page for the podcast channel
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Raising funds for a Garden of Healing at Treliske Hospital, Cornwall. by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
(supplement to main Ertach Kernow article)
Len Sheppard says that he takes this opportunity to highlight a wonderful cause here in Cornwall. As a teenager I remember talking to the famous explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison on many occasions and thinking what a great and kind man he was. This was decades before the recent work with his son Merlin of reintroducing beavers to Cornwall. Robin was an early victim of COVID-19 and was thought unlikely to live. However, he did survive after coming out of a five-week coma. His later recovery he felt benefited from nature, through a garden of healing at Derriford Hospital. Robin decided that five months after leaving hospital on 3rd May he would set himself a challenge to raise money to create a garden of healing for Cornwall, at Treliske Hospital. On 3rd October 2020 aged 84 Robin Hanbury-Tenison climbed Bron Wenelli and planted the Baner Sen Peren on Cornwall’s highest tor.
Watch his inspiring video with fund raising information at www.gofundme.com/f/climbing-for-nhs-hospital-gardens and support this wonderful cause that is now 77% to its £100,000 target.
BBC Travel Story interview
Some nice interviews by BBC travel journalist Richard Collett in a piece entitled "The UK's forgotten fifth nation" about Cornwall. Kernow Goth's Federation President Karin Easton and the President of Launceston OCS Rob Tremain speak about Cornwall and also include mention of some of the ongoing issues and feelings from Cornish folk.
Link to BBC Travel Story website: The UK's forgotten fifth nation
Cornish Story website link click image above
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Free talks and podcasts
Dr Merv Davy - The Old Cornwall Societies & Folk Culture
Tony Mansell - Bugle Brass Band Talk
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Check out the Fowey Harbour Heritage Society at www.foweyharbourheritage.org
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The Cornish National Music Archive has been launched
www.cornishnationalmusicarchive.co.uk
The collaborative effort documents and celebrates music in Cornwall
It is an online resource about music in Cornwall, featuring all kinds of music - from brass bands to choirs, pub songs to rock bands, and orchestral to pop.
Funded by the Cornwall Heritage Trust, Gorsedh Kernow and the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, the collaborative project is the work of Cornish musicians and researchers Tony Mansell, Merv Davey, Kate Neale and Garry Tregidga, who have made the website during lockdown.
The project stems from an archive of sheet music and old manuscripts collected by the former Cornish Music Guild, which had been housed in the Cornish Studies Library until it was rediscovered by the group and handed to Kresen Kernow.
Merv Davey, director of Lowender Peran, said “Rediscovering the Guild’s archive was the spark that got us thinking that there ought to be somewhere that brings all types of Cornish music - and music in Cornwall - together.’
The website is freely available online for people to search and explore, and also has a section where visitors can create a profile and log in to write their own articles for publication. The creators encourage contributions on all aspects of music in Cornwall - with categories for individuals, performing groups, songs, tunes, and many more.
What qualifies for inclusion in an archive of Cornish music? Tony Mansell, projects co-ordinator, explained ‘We’ve put our heads together and decided that the archive should be broad and diverse, rather than narrow and prescriptive. It includes music that is, or has been, popular in and special to Cornwall, impactful in Cornwall, written in Cornwall, written about Cornwall, inspired by Cornwall – covering individuals, traditions and compositions that express, reflect and celebrate Cornwall and our distinctive identity.’ He continued “For example, my specialism is brass bands, so many of my articles focus the history of these hugely important groups for communities across Cornwall.’
Kate Neale, project lead, said “We’re hopeful that people will not only enjoy exploring what’s already there, but also contribute their own entries. You could add a biography of a composer you’ve a particular interest in, write up a memory about the best gigs you’ve seen in a particular venue in Cornwall - or give an account of a musical experience, whether as an audience member or as a performer - or something else. Really, we’re hoping that the archive will be a resource for music lovers of every type, spark ideas and discussions, and record important information for posterity’.
Garry Tregidga, co-director of the Institute for Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, added ‘This is a wonderful opportunity to build on the fantastic work of the former Cornish Music Guild, and we hope that the archive will be useful for both amateur and professional researchers who are interested in Cornwall’s rich and diverse musical culture.’
The website is available at www.cornishnationalmusicarchive.co.uk and its data will eventually be handed to Kresen Kernow for safekeeping.
An Mis - July 2020
This months ‘An Mis’ Cornwall’s online TV magazine programme, introduced by Matthi ab Dewi, remembers the life of Craig Weatherhill through many people who knew him, spoken in Kernewek. There are also some words from the great man himself along with some wonderful views of the Cornwall he loved.
There is a review of the recent Speak Cornish Week and the programme also looks at the commemoration of the 1497 Cornish Rebellion led by Michael Joseph An-Gof and Thomas Flamank at St Kevern.
This month Gorsedh Kernow made its annual awards and the programme has contributions by Grand Bard of Gorsedh Kernow Elizabeth Carne and a number of the award winners. If you want to know how to bake Cornish ‘Hevva Cake’ then watch and listen to Esther Johns.
As usual ‘An Mis’ includes other items and contributions by Kernewek speakers. We hope that even if you aren’t a Cornish speaker you pick up on a few words and the gist of things and enjoy some of the scenery. Perhaps you’ll be encouraged to learn a little more Cornish.
For other video content from Pellwolok an Gernewegva
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Gorsedh Kernow - https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/
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Heritage in the News - Truro Voice 22nd July 2020
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
National Maritime Museum, Falmouth
