Kresen Kernow holds a growing collection of recordings of Cornish music. This sound archive complements the books, pamphlets, newspapers, music programmes and leaflets which also offer insight into music in Cornwall. The sound archive includes recordings of brass bands, and Kresen Kernow is home to the John Brush brass band archive which provides a comprehensive record of these bands. The Cornish Music Archive consists of records collected by the Cornish Music Guild, 1987-2015, including original compositions, traditional music, hymns and carols. We also look after a variety of Cornish Christmas carol (or ‘curl’) books including Davies Gilbert’s ‘Some ancient Christmas carols’ which helped revive the tradition of carol singing, and books by Thomas Merritt, who composed many Cornish carols. We hold original manuscripts from some composers, and look after the records of Maria Yelland, a singer from Cornwall known as ‘The Cornish Contralto’. Kresen Kernow also looks after published collections of folk songs, as well as commercial recordings from Cornish artists such as Brenda Wootton.
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