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Brenda Wootton

Title: The Voice of Cornwall Vol. 2 (2CD)

Label: Keltia

Cat No:KMCD527
Format:CD

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Brenda Wootton (1928 - 1994) was a Cornish folk singer, songwriter and poetess who was - and in many ways, posthumously, still is - seen as an ‘ambassador’ for Cornish tradition and culture.

She began her musical career as a young schoolgirl, singing in village halls throughout the remote communities of West Cornwall. She became active on the folk scene in the early 1960s and almost single-handedly kept the Cornish folk song tradition alive for many years. She opened her own folk club, The Pipers, at St Buryan, and in later years, was a presenter on BBC Radio Cornwall.

She was equally well-known across the channel, in Brittany, where she often appeared - and this 2CD set, released by the Breton label Keltia, compiles material from five albums she recorded between 1971 and 1976 : “Pasties and Cream” (1971) with John the Fish; “Starry Gazey Pie” (1975) and ”No Song To Sing” (1974), with Robert Bartlett; and “Crowdy Crawn” (1973) and “Children Singing” (1976), with Richard Gendall.

Track Listing for The Voice of Cornwall Vol. 2 (2CD)
CD1
1. Opie, Davy, Foots, Trevithick and Bone
2. Onen, Deu, Try
3. John Opie
4. Bring Thy Boat
5. 1497
6. Evening Parayer
7. John Dory
8. Thunder and Lightning
9. Willow Tree Wand
10. Jan's Courtship
11. Jan Tregeagle
12. Three Masts
13. John Polrudden
14. Remember Me
15. The Story of My Country
16. Maggie May
17. The St Genny's Foxhunt
18. The Trees They Are So High
19. The King of Prussia
20. Clegh
21. Farewell Shanty
22. The Old Grey Duck
23. Little Liza
24. Something About a Pasty
25. The Oggy Man
26. Bedbugs
27. Farewell She
28. Cornish Alphabet

CD2
1. Morvah Fair
2. Kemener Ow Ro
3. Hus Gans Mynfel
4. Tekter
5. Pyth Whrama
6. Merrymaidens
7. Bre Cambron
8. Ow Heryades
9. An Hos Los Coth
10. An Jowal
11. Carol an Mysyow
12. Newlyn
13. Mount Misery
14. An Scath
15. Tryphena Trenary
16. Pyth Whrama ?
17. Lul Ha Lay
18. Farwel
19. Soldier and the Maiden
20. Deugh Deugh
21. Djinn Djinn
22. Johnny Groat
23. Black Mountain Blues
24. No Song to Sing
25. Old Joe
26. And the Grasshopper
27. Good to Be Free
28. Port Quinn
29. Forever Young

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The Voice of Cornwall Vol. 2 (2CD)