Please note the dates for the 2019 Kernewek Lowender are the 13th to the 19th May.
Nominations for Dressing the Graves can be sent to Robyn Knight (8825 2017 or 0409 007 054) email
dressingthegraves@adam.com.au, or post to Dressing the Graves, PO Box 280, Moonta SA 5558. The ceremonies will be on Tuesday & Wednesday, 14th & 15th May 2019. The theme for the CASA History Seminar, to be held on Thursday May 16th 2019, will be Cornish Australians who changed our world. Papers will be called for in early August, with Abstracts required by mid November and actual papers by mid February. Put your thinking caps on! This could apply to someone you know of, or someone in your family,
Cornwall in Eurovision song contest?
Lee Trewhela recently reported on Cornwall Live: The Kernow Mafia – whose song J’Adore Mon Chien was produced by the man behind successes for The 1975, Wolf Alice, Jake Bugg and Arctic Monkeys – believed that Cornwall, which many people see as a separate nation, should be represented in the annual Eurovision song competition. However, their radical move was deemed too late to be included in the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon on May 12. Their response? “We’ve got a flag, we’ve got a song, what’s the problem?”
The mysterious band features teenage members from across North Cornwall who go by the names Pirate, Surf Girl, DJ Xero, Bass Boy and Ultra. Manager Chris Turner said: “If Australia can be represented at Eurovision then why can’t Cornwall? We would be the weird one that goes head to head with the
favourite.”
“We need to start a campaign to get Cornwall into Eurovision. No other band is doing anything as radical. Everybody else either wants to be on X Factor or copy Rita Ora. It’s time Cornwall’s culture was legitimised so we can prove to people we’re not just seen as quaint pasty eaters. Why not do that on the huge stage that is Eurovision?”
Their music is described as a “really rather bonkers mix of piano house, pumping stadium dance and dogs barking”.
Man Engine
The UK’s largest ever mechanical puppet was commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Cornish Mining World Heritage listing. The 10 metre high marionette was originally expected to be seen by about 7,000 people – but by the penultimate day of its tour of the World Heritage Site more than 100,000 people had turned out to witness the spectacle (about a fifth of the entire population of Cornwall). There are now plans being prepared for the Man Engine to travel to other parts of the world where the Cousin Jacks took their mining expertise, including to Australia.
The puppet was totally fabricated in Cornwall.
29 May 2016 – Cornish Retain Title
Cornwall captain Kyle Marriott lifts the Bill Beaumont Cup at Twickenham
The big news from this weekend was the win by the Cornwall in the final of the Rugby County Championship. The County Championship is an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties. Since 2007 the top tier of the Championship has been known as the Bill Beaumont Cup.
Cornwall deservedly retained the cup, adding a fifth county title to ‘the pool room’ with a 35-13 win against Cheshire at Twickenham, the home of English rugby.
Details at Trelawny’s Army