Annamaria Murphy of Kneehigh.
Anna is well known as a writer and ‘Word Witch’. She has worked with Kneehigh almost from the beginning. She has written shows including Tristan & Yseult (with Carl Grose), The Red Shoes, Don John, and Midnight’s Pumpkin, and leads the Kneehigh Rambles programme, working with young people and communities. For the past three years, she has been walking the Roads less Travelled in Cornwall, collecting, re-inventing and exaggerating stories heard along the way.
Like her daughter, Liz Harman, “Rene was a true native of Cornwall. She was renowned for her recitations of old local events – gems of native history. ‘The Mount’, recorded in 1970, gives the listener an opportunity to hear ‘real Newlyn’ as it should be spoken.” Sentinel Records.
John Harry of St. Just was a poet, organist, choir master, expert in Cornish dialect and friend to many. He was appointed organist of Paul Church in November, 1984. John passed away in February 2017. This CD is dedicated to his memory.
NEDHORSES HWEDLOW (Spinner of Tales).
Liz, who was born in Newlyn, specialises in dialect verse and prose. Her work has appeared in Scryfa and the Western Morning News, and three collections – Now ’Ark To Me, Now ’Ark Some More and Now ’Ark To Aunt Sarah Anne – are published by Scryfa.
STAVER AN HAL (Walker on the Moor).
Penwith Cornishman, author, playwright, poet, musician, singer and performer. A Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh in recognition of services to West Cornwall,
by creating the Penwith Community Archive which inspired the annual revival and renewal of Penzance’s ancient mid-summer festival of Golowan – Gol Jowan – ‘The Feast of John’ and the many Golowan community projects he directed for 17 years.
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