Old & New Cornish Christmas Carols
Cornish Carols - A Tradition For The World
Grass Valley
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Sugar Pine Motor Lodge, Grass Valley.
Probably one of the best loved carols in the pubs of West Cornwall "The Prince of Life" is also sung in the old mining towns of Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United States. It is featured every year at Grass Valley, California, where a Cornish Carol service is held. In 1945 the Grass Valley Cornish choir made a radio broadcast which was heard right across America. People gathered at the Sugar Pine Lodge on Christmas morning to listen with their families and friends.
You have just been listening to a small clip of a broadcast recorded in 1945. Each year the local Grass Valley radio station broadcasts the recording at 9-0pm P.S.T. and it is available on the internet. Last year members of the "Cornish list" an internet genealogy group of Cornish descendents from around the world came together on line to listen. So why not join us this year to hear the full programme.
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"The Prince of Life" Carol 1.Come,
let us lift our hearts and voice, |
Thanks to Hymns and Carols for making the midis scores available to use.
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Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
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