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Pioneering Techno artist Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) from Lanner is a contemporary Cornish musician, frequently naming tracks in the Cornish language. Along with friend and collaborator Luke Vibert and business partner Grant Wilson-Claridge , James has crafted a niche of 'Cornish Acid' affectionately identified with his home region.
Luke Vibert, electronic music artist; Veryan Weston, jazz and rock pianist; Keren Woodward, singer-songwriter and composer in female pop band Bananarama; Brenda Wootton (1928–1994), Cornish bard and singer
Music portal; Subcategories. ... Cornish composers (4 P) Pages in category "Musicians from Cornwall" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Dalla was a band specialising in traditional Cornish music who were active from the late 1990s until about 2017. They were known mainly for their festival and concert performances, but until about 2013 also played music for Cornish Nos Lowen dance nights. After this, they used the name 'Skillywidden' when playing as a dance band.
Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh-Cornish [1] [2] musician, known mononymously as Gwenno.She has released three critically acclaimed albums [3] as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner Y Dydd Olaf (2014); [4] Le Kov (2018), her first album in Cornish; and Tresor (2022), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.
The Fisherman's Friends' performances combine traditional songs of the sea with more contemporary folk music and a large dash of humour. The current members are Jeremy Brown, John Lethbridge (Lefty), Jason Nicholas, Toby Lobb, John McDonnell (Johnny Mac), Jon Cleave (Cleavie) and Bill Hawkins.
Brenda became active on the Cornish music scene in the early 1960s, taking over the recently formed Count House Folk Music Club at Botallack near St Just in 1967, to found her own Pipers Folk Club, at St Buryan, Cornwall. She was later able to move Pipers back to the Count House, and subsequently into Penzance at the Western Hotel.
Rootjoose were a funk rock band from Cornwall.They purveyed a lively style of music reminiscent of surf rock bands such as contemporaries Reef, their live performances gained them some popularity in the South West of Britain during the late 1990s.