Hoffwn i ddweud DIOLCH YN FAWR i'r rhestr am y pethau Cernywig! It has been very timely. Last year, the Cornish-American society contacted my because they had heard thay my little singing group "Gwlad Aur" in Sacramento (California) has sung in Cornish. They asked if we would provide their after-dinner musical entertainment at a banquet (part of the 7th biennial Cornish American gathering (held in Sacramento this past week-end). We gladly obliged. They also asked if we would give a one-hour workshop on the Cornish Language. We had the resources, so we obliged them there as well. (with warnings that our Cornish was heavily Welsh-accented). During the workshop (25 attended) we talked about the history of British languages, we passed out a freeform MAPPA POW KERNOW with placenames identified in Kernewek, gave them a nice copy of the Agan Tas-ny us yn nef, and we went over the words to Jenner's rendition of BRO GOTH AGAN TASOW (Hen Wlad fy Nhadau). The attendees were interested (some very interested), but no one seemed ready to go out and become fluent in Cornish yet. For the musical program we sang folksongs and hymns in English and Cornish: 1. An Vowes a Newlyn. 2. Tewlder an nos war an chy-ma. (A Breton folksong done into Cornish) 3. Map ker Dew (These two are ) 4. Carol Sans Day (Christmas songs ) 5. Down by the river Tay 6. Chapel Carn Brea 7. The Cornish pasty (a humorous song) 8. Bro goth agan Tasow 9. A Celtic Benediction (a relatively new composition by Kennear) So interest in Cornish is still alive in California, at some level. The peace of the running wave... -John Ward jdward@ucdavis.edu IC | XC ---|--- NI | KA