Cornish dance group and band from Penzance, Cornwall
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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