Tros an Treys are preparing to perform at LostFest, Lostwithiel's annual festival of music, craft and entertainment. On Sunday 19 May we will be playing and dancing two 20 minute slots in Monmouth Square at 12.30pm and 1.30pm. In between you will be able to enjoy Lostwithiel Town Band. Visit the LostFest website for the …
Cornish Dance Society’s Day of Dance 2019
Tros an Treys are heading to Perranporth this Saturday (30th March) to attend the Cornish Dance Society's annual 'Day of Dance' to meet up with the many other dancers and musicians keeping Cornwall's traditional music and dance alive and stepping. We've been asked to lead the evening ceilidh this year, with our band on stage …
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Traditional Cornish music and dance at Royal Cornwall Museum
Today we were invited to bring our Cornish traditional music and dance to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro as part of their extended St Piran's Day celebrations. We performed in the main gallery which has great acoustics for unamplified instruments. Here are a few photos from the event.
Beginners’ Cornish dancing I
Beginners with Tros an Treys dancers going through the basics. Yesterday we held our first beginners' workshop of 2019. We had 10 new people join us which exceeded our expectations - and - as was pointed out by our sole male dancer Courtney, men too! The format of the session followed the same lines as …
1, 2, 3, hop!
Yesterday our dancing leader Alex and a couple of our more experienced dancers tried out a beginners’ Cornish dancing workshop on me (fiddler) and Tom (mandolinist). More accustomed to counting in 4s, 6s, 2s and even 5s we were not sure what to expect but we looked forward to trying having never done much dancing …
Beginners Cornish Dancing in Penzance
When? 20 & 27 January 2019, 3-5.30pm Where? Penlee Coach House, Penlee Park, Penzance (near the tennis courts, behind Penlee House Gallery and Museum) Come along to a Cornish dancing taster session for complete beginners, everyone welcome! Great way to keep fit while having funMeet new peopleEnjoy live music from our own Cornish bandJoin in …
Listen to Tros an Treys on SoundCloud
From time to time we make basic recordings of our rehearsals. We've tidied up a few of them and opened a Tros an Treys SoundCloud account so that you can hear some of the tunes that the band play, along with the atmospheric stepping sounds of our dancers. There's not a lot of Cornish traditional …
