From Bodmin Moor to The Minack, along clifftops and beaches, beside orchards and riverbanks, Sing Along Cornwall is a feast of Cornishness celebrated through shanties and shout groups, choirs and choruses, folk songs and singers.
A joyous song fest and sing along as the sun goes down in some of Cornwalls best-loved locations.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the much loved Sing Along The River sing-ups, which began in Lostwithiel, we are touring this glorious vocal event to the North and South Coast of Cornwall, with a few inland stops along the way.
"It was an honour to be part of such a great Cornish event showcasing such amazing talent. It certainly bodes well for Cornwall's songs and singers " Harry Glasson - writer and composer of Cornwall My Home.
To book visit ticketsource by clicking here
Saturday 15th June - Seaforts, Maker Heights, Near Torpoint:
Choirs include The Derryairs, Men Are Singing, Rodeohead, The Keayside Singers , Jamie Crowe and Saltash Brass Band.
To book Sing Along the Clifftops at Rame visit the Really Lovely Projects Box Office HERE
Saturday 6th July - The Orchard, Newquay:
Choirs include Liskeard Community Choir, Wadebridge Male Voice Choir, The Orchard Voices, Kesson Tu, Cornish Connections Choir, The Keayside Singers, Rodeohead and St Austell Brass Band.
To book Sing Along The Orchard in Newquay, visit the Really Lovely Projects box office HERE
Saturday 14th September - Carlyon Bay:
Performing choirs will include Mevagissey Ladies Choir, Notability, Carclaze Singers, Keayside Singers, Rodeohead, St Mewan Community Choir and Acappella Sound.
Tickets will go on Sale in June at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/really-lovely-projects
Saturday 21st September - Sterts, nr Minions
Performances from Levow Kesson, Liskeard Community Choir, Champagne Cornwall, Sterts Singers, Wadebridge Male Voice Choir.
To book visit https://tickets.sterts.co.uk/sales
Saturday 12th October - The Minack Theatre
Daytime choirs, included in the day visitor ticket, will include Kescana, Keltique, Raise the Ruth and Barbed Choir.
The evening ticketed performance will include performances from Men Are Singing, The Ministry of Song, Sing Truro and Falmouth.
TO BOOK VISIT - https://www.minack.com/whats-on/sing-along-minack
Jaclarabag
Lostwithiel Church Rooms
Saturday 8th June 2024
Doors from 7.30pm, tickets £15 on the door or £12 if pre-booked at at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/really-lovely-projects
There will be two 45 minute performances with an interval.
Refreshments and licensed bar available.
Jaclarabag are a unique trio of multi-instrumentalists - Jim Carey, Giles King and Claire Ingelheart. Together they have created a brand new collaboration Jaclarabag, which brings you heartfelt, eclectic folk songs and tunes from across the world with a good dose of original material too!
Check out their promo on YouTube
Performed by seasoned theatre musicians and composers (Kneehigh, Wildworks, Miracle, Horse and Bamboo, Braga Tanga, Femmes de la Mer and more!), Carey, King and Ingleheart come wielding a large palette of instruments and invite you into an exciting world of plaintive airs, brass band mischief and Balkan delights.
Men Are Singing: Will Make You Feel Better
Men Are Singing, the "beloved"* Cornish alternative male voice choir, are undertaking a farewell tour.
The acclaimed social art project/brain child of artist and composer Seamas Carey (Help! I Think I'm A Nationalist, Oliver Twist) began life six years ago, as an enquiry into why younger men weren’t joining choirs?
They have since developed into a 50-man-strong chorus, headlining festivals and inventing new traditions, with a surprising mix of barnstorming covers and heart-warming original compositions.
Their touring live show is a theatrical, spirit raising and deeply moving exploration of what it means to be a man. Featuring bucket loads of vulnerability, self-aware humour and positive masculinity - the men will share their love of singing, invite you to join in, and hopefully, make you feel better.
*The Guardian
Be part of a great big St Piran’s day sing up and join the Trelawny Shout - check out the website and facebook pages below for participating venues and groups - or start one of your own.
So, on Tuesday 5th March in Lostwithiel, there will be a shout at the Social Club from 7.30pm - lyrics and song booklets will be provided
In St Austell, with the Keayside Singers we will be singing from 7.30pm at the Hewaswater Inn in Sticker - lyrics and song booklets will be provided.
All participating groups and venues across Cornwall will be singing Trelawny at 9pm that evening.
To find out more and get involved visit:
www.trelawnyshout.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/trelawnyshout
Lostwithiel Lights Up this Winter on Monday 23rd December 2024 with our winter lights lantern parade followed by a candlelit community carol service around the Christmas tree.
Candles and song sheets are provided
The parade will start at 6.30pm outside the Kings Arms at the top of Fore Street ( the road will be closed ). We will parade with the town samba band to the Parade Gardens where the community singing will commence from 7pm.
Everyone is welcome and there will be a bar selling mulled wine, cider and apple juice.
The event is free but we always welcome donations towards the costs of printing the song books and promoting the event an workshops. There will be a bar and if it’s a dry night local choirs and musicians will be performing Christmas music and traditional Cornish carols.
Join Vicky Abbott and Emma Mansfield for a monthly sing-up of old skool dance choons and funky floor fillers - newcomers and beginners welcome - email lovelypublications@gmail.com to find out more.
Sat 2nd March - 12-3.30pm - Old Bakery Studios - TR1 1QH
Sat 6th April - The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 4th May - The Moresk Building, 1.30 -4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 1st June - The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 6th July - The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 3rd August - The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 7th September - The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 5th October The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
Sat 2nd & 30th Nov The Moresk Building, 1.30-4.30pm TR1 1EF
£25.00 per session / sliding scale & concessions available
As part of our preparations for Lostwithiel’s much loved Winter Lights Lantern Parade and Candlelit carol services - we will be holding some printing and lantern making workshops. The workshops will be held in either Lostwithiel Church Rooms or Lostwithiel Community Centre:
Sunday 24th November 11am to 3pm
Saturday 7th December, 11am to 3pm
Saturday 21st December 11am to 3pm
We are asking for a donation of £5 person as a contribution to room hires, heating and the cost of materials and workshop leaders time running the sessions and setting up and clearing away!
To book email lovelypublications@gmail.com
For the delight and edification of the WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF LOSTWITHIEL we present, by popular demand, the far famed MRS JARLEYS WAXWORKS. The genuine and only Jarley, as patronised by Royalty. Children and servants admitted half price.
133 years after their sell out appearance at the Grand Opening of the Lostwithiel Working Mens Club in November 1890, we are celebrating the anniversary of the club by recreating the extraordinary events on offer inside that day.
Over the weekend of the 18th and 19th of November 2023 there will be daily showings of the stupendous MRS JARLEY WAXWORKS, showing remarkable characters from Cornish history, mythology and modern times.
Prepare to be amazed at their EXTRAORDINARY REALISM! The excellent Mrs Jarley will preside.
In the next room we recreate the Victorian EXHIBITION OF CURIOSITIES. Drawn from the dark cupboards of the Lostwithiel Museum who will lend, for this exhibition only, items not normally on show to the public.
This local absorbiana will be augmented by other wondrous inventions and oddnesses with guaranteed EXCITEMENT AND INTEREST FOR ALL.
If you are a ploughman or general maid looking for employment the notice board will be of great value.
There are also competitions, games and a grand CREAM TEA of delicacy and sustenance.
Tickets will be available via Ticketsource
St Bartholomew’s Church, Saturday 9th December 2023 5pm
Truro Cathedral, Sunday 15th December from 7pm
With rehearsals in Truro, Falmouth and Lostwithiel, this fabulous singing project funded by FEAST and the Arts Council see its return this winter. If you would like to take part please email Emma at lovelypublications@gmail.com
We have the opportunity to hold our own unique service on Lostwithiel on 9th December from 4pm with songs, spoken word, poetry and prayers. We have then been invited to perform at Truro Cathedrals choir festival on Friday 15th December from 7pm
Rodeohead is a brand new ladies country choir and band collaboration funded by FEAST, Cornwall Council and The Arts Council. We practise in Lostwithiel on Sunday afternoons and perform with local musicians. We had our debut performance at Sing Along the River on 31st August to a packed audience and rapturous applause.
If you would like to join us please contact Emma Mansfield on lovelypublication@gmail.com / 07803 176416
Our next performance is on 9th December at St Barts Church, Lostwithiel, where we will be performing alongside Lost in Song.
Tickets will be available on Ticketsource. I
This is new community choir for St Austell, supported by Cornwall College and the Keay Theatre, PL25 4DH - free parking.
The choir is led by Emma Mansfield, Lost in Song, Diaspora Carols, Riots and Lobsters, Rodeohead and Sing Along the River and many other community music events, workshops and projects.
Emma found singing when she moved to Cornwall in 2002. Inspired by Vicky Abbott and her participation in the Eden Choir, she found it a fabulous way to develop mental wellbeing and balance through meeting new people, expressing her voice and enjoying group singing.
There are no auditions, or need to be able to read music. If you like singing, would like to learn more about your voice and would like to sing uplifting popular songs from all genres - get involved.
Singing has so many benefits for our sense of self expression, feelings of connection, breathing, mood, energy and sense of empowerment and belonging, which we all need.
Singing, humming and resonating with others can help us to release the negative experiences of stress and shock and help us work through old and stuck survival energies, which get held in the body, causing all kinds of distress. In over 15 years of leading singing groups, I have never met one person who does not leave a session feeling grounded, calmer and more joyful about life. That is how being a part of a choir made me feel and that is why I lead the groups I do.
As well as being a singing leader I am a yoga teacher and somatics education and all of my skills and understanding of voicing, posture, muscle releasing and breathing are part of what I share.
We will have a lot of fun and joy and laugher are guarenteed.
Starting on Tuesday 19th September, 7.15pm to 8.30pm - first session free - which ever Tuesday you take a try out.
To book in email me at lovelypublications@gmail.com
Sing Along The River 2023 will be held on Lostwithiel on Thursday 10th and 31st from 5pm to 10pm. The event is free but we welcome donations and invite everyone to join in on some sing-along opportunities with the choirs. Great Western Rail have agreed to put on some extra trains so let the train take the strain and come for the day - there is lots to see….Click here for train times on the 10th August
The years line up includes:
10th AUGUST
5pm – SLIDE BELLY
6.15pm - LISKEARD COMMUNITY CHOIR
7.00pm - LOST IN SONG
7.45pm - CHAMPAGNE CORNWALL CHORUS
8.30pm - SING FALMOUTH AND TRURO
9.30pm - RUM AND SHRUB SHANTYMEN
31st AUGUST
5pm - SLIDE BELLY
6.15pm - CORNWALL CONNECTION BARBER SHOP
7pm - RODEOHEAD COUNTRY CHOIR AND BAND
7.45pm - LOST IN SONG
8.30pm - KELTIQUE
9.15pm - LOVENNY MALE VOICE CHOIR
This celebrated and much-loved outdoor event in Lostwithiel showcases the best of Cornwall's community singing and choral groups, shanty men and Male Voice Choirs.
Nestled under the trees on Lostwithiel's Parade Gardens, alongside the banks of the Fowey, singers gather from all over Cornwall to perform on a beautiful stage under bunting and festoon lights.
The event also features Lostwithiel Town Band and there are lots of opportunities for the audience to join in and sing along. The event has a licensed bar and local caterers provide delicious food including pizza, nachos and burritos and big pan paella.
Really Lovely Projects is supporting a team of artists from Port Isaac who are linked to a community in Pristina, Kosovo.
Embodying the Cornish motto, One and All, this project is about two communities connecting through creating shared artworks.
A group of professional Cornish artists, who are experienced in community work and have delivered projects from the Isles of Scilly to Italy, have been invited to create a piece of art work which expresses the threads of connection, strands and layers that weave these places together.
Using the resist-method of patterning, which is a global textile technique that builds pattern and colour into fabric, using local materials. The subsequent layering of this process, using local peoples stories and imagery, creates a rich, multi-faceted and visually stimulating end product.
The work planned in both communities will focus on designing signs and symbols which can be printed and applied to canvas and express something we can share about the place where we all live. These non-verbal, easy to understand shapes and marks will be taken and worked up into one collaborative piece.
Throughout this project the team will be carefully documenting, photographing and filming the process, to show how the work has impacted each area.
Limited edition of prints will be created, which will be given to local schools and community buildings.
In a time of immense NHS stress and GP shortages, Lostwithiel Medical Practice asked Really Lovely Projects for a creative solution to their recruitment challenge. With a senior GP partner retiring in the Spring of 2023, Dr Hendriksz, the remaining partner, asked the team to attract outstanding doctors to the surgery.
Emma and Michelle created a package for the surgery that aimed to attract excellent GPs who would appreciate the great community in Lostwithiel. A pop video was created in under two weeks, with Emma’s brilliant lyrics sung by Lost in Song and recorded by expert sound engineer Simon Fraser.
James Stuart of Lightbox Film Co quickly came on board and a hectic filming schedule was complete across the town, with schools, community groups, services and businesses involved. The final shot was created on Richard Ede’s cherry picker - usually used for tree surgery!. Over 200 people turned out to take part and plead for a new GP.
To support the video, a website (www.lostwithielneedsadoctor.org) was created with interviews and information to entice the new GP. TV, radio and print media were engaged, even during the making of the film. We look forward to meeting our new doctors!
Really Lovely Projects galvanised the community to create a stunning lantern parade and Candlelit Carols around the town’s Christmas tree.
Emma and Michelle led five making workshops that led to over 60 lanterns being created by children and their families. There were some wonderful, unique designs, with star wands, a dragon and even a frog!
Emma also brought together children from local primary schools to sing ‘Away in a Manger’ alongside Lost in Song, the town’s community choir.
The parade assembled on Fore Street, accompanied by the Cornish medieval musicians ‘A Merrie Noise’ and the especially reconstituted Lostwithiel Samba Band with Revd Sheila.
Brilliantly, the whole event was recorded by BBC South West for their regional news programme, including a live broadcast from the Christmas tree.
With a bar serving mulled wine, cider and apple juice, the atmosphere on The Parade was electric. Candles lit song sheets and voices were hearty! Over 1,000 people attended in person, with a much wider audience on BBC One.
Really Lovely projects were commissioned as part of the Arts Lab programme to work with young people at Callington Community College to create a series of films about the impacts of social media.
As part of the Arts Lab programme Really Lovely Projects worked with Louise (Red) Peters to create a skate park installation with Tintagel Youth Club. Through a series of painting, mark making and printing activities, Red created art forms from the young people’s work which became banners and flags to animate their newly painted skateboard area.
Really Lovely Project was commissioned by FEAST Arts Lab project to work with young people at Indian Queens Primary school to create a series of arts activities and installations for their outdoor play area. We collaborated with ceramic artist Jane Marks and textile artist and designer Rosie Wiscombe. This project was a trauma informed initiative to support young people post-Covid.
Really Lovely Projects was commissioned by Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum to create an exhibition that shared and demonstrated the uses of china clay in every day life. We worked with Revival Design and Parc Signs to create the graphics and final installation.
GLAM are hosting a fabulous spoken word open mic nights on Saturday 2nd April.
Everyone is welcome, this is a free event at Lostwithiel Social Club but if numbers swell we have other venues close by - ie the Church or the Church Rooms!
Please email lovelypublications@gmail.com if you'd like to take part and share your voice
If you just want to be in the audience, click the link below to reserve a space, we need to know numbers
Bar and pasties available.
The Guild of Lostwithiel Artists and Makers launch their new arts and events programme with a fundraising dance night with DJ Cat from Bar Silo.
The GLAM weekender dance night will be held at Lostwithiel Social Club. We have hired the venue and are selling tickets to raise funds for the towns summer events.
Tickets are £7.50 - capacity is limited - doors 7pm to 11pm
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glamevents/dj-cat-at-bar-social/2022-04-01/19:00/t-gnqpjl
Come together. Write Now!
It's THE POETRY PICNIC in St Bartholomews Church Yard (or the Church if wet) from 3pm on Saturday 2nd April 2022
Numbers are limited and tickets are £10 per family so we can cover the costs of the performers.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glamevents/t-gnqmny
Bring a blanket, a picnic and your friends and get ready for a snack heavy celebration of music and poetry, with poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko...
In the boys' words: "We’ll play fun (and quite silly) games to get to know each other and build your confidence and skill with words, then help you pen a poem with the power to send your picnic blanket skywards.
And we’ll play some Beatles meets the Beastie Boys style bangers of our own.
BYOB - please note, this event is Bring Your Own Biscuits."
Event Start: 3pm
Running time: Approx 75mins
Recommended Age: 6+
Created by Simon Mole, Gecko & Peader Kirk
Performed by Simon Mole & Gecko
Activity Pack Design & Illustration by Anna Bruder
Produced by Rua Arts
Funded by Arts Council England
Supported by the Albany, and Apples and Snakes
The Carn to Cove programme returns to Lostwithiel with thanks to St Barts Church for hosting this wonderful afternoon of classical music.
Saturday 9th April, from 3pm, tickets £8 to £10
For tickets visit Carn to Cove at Ticketsource by clicking here.
Krysia Osostowicz (violin) and Daniel Tong (piano) play Beethoven Violin Sonatas op 23, op 24 “the Spring” and op 47 “Kreutzer” plus short pieces inspired by his masterpieces.
Tickets will also be available on the door.
Repertoire:
Beethoven sonata in A min, op 23 plus Neglected Child by Judith Bingham
Beethoven sonata in F, op 24 (“Spring”) plus Spring by Huw Watkins
Interval
Beethoven Sonata in A, op 47 (“Kreutzer”) plus Tarantella Furiosa by Matthew Taylor
Beethoven Plus is an exciting project, the creation of which led directly from Krysia Osostowicz and Daniel Tong’s knowledge and experience of working together on Beethoven’s ten sonatas for violin and piano.
Krysia and Daniel had the idea as a celebration of last year’s 250th anniversary of giving this Beethoven cycle a new dimension by inviting ten composers to write a short companion piece – each about 5 minutes long – inspired by one of Beethoven’s sonatas.
Three of these new pieces heard together with three of the great original sonatas, create conversations between living composers and Beethoven, and shed new light on what Beethoven’s music means to us today.
‘Kerbside Carols’ invites people to sing in their streets through a live Facebook feed broadcast from Lostwithiel, Cornwall. BBC Radio Cornwall, will also be sharing our link.
Here are the links to each event where we will be broadcasting each week:
3rd December - Kerbside Carols live out of lock down
10th December - Kerbside Carols 2 - Ding Dong we are on!
17th December - Kerbside Carols 3 - In the Bleak mid-winter
24th December - Kerbside Carols - Christmas Eve Special
The singing sessions will go live at 8pm every Thursday in December until Christmas Eve.
Each evening we will lead three carols with live accompaniment, followed by a short reading or poem to celebrate the season. We want everyone to adorn their doorsteps, gardens, balconies or living rooms with light and amplification and sing along with us.
Our dream is that streets, towns and villages will ring with the sound of Christmas music and local voices.
If you want to join our live singalong rehearsals we will be leading sessions on Friday afternoons at 2pm and Sunday afternoons at 4pm.
These will be live posts from our Kerbside Carols page. A zoom link will be available from Facebook.
Join and follow Kerbside Carols on Facebook by clicking here
Download set lists, scores and lyrics by clicking here
Online singalong videos for Thursday 3rd December are available by clicking here
Join us via our FACEBOOK event and like our page - click below:
Cornwall Sings for the NHS event link - please join
We have a rehearsal on Wednesday 1st April at 7.30pm GMT via FB live within the event page
We will start singing via FB in Lostwithiel at 8pm GMT on Thursday 2nd April
The dress code is blue, adorn your windows, doors and singing settees with blue if you can.
Here are the lyrics and the tune is to the la’s at the end of that fabulous song by The Beatles, Hey Jude!
La, La, La, La, La, La, La - we’re singing for you
La, La, La, La, La, La, La - reaching out to you
La, La, La, La, La, La, La - we’re thinking of you
La, La, La, La, La, La, La - we’re thanking you
Blow the Vocal is a new motown choir project.
We will be singing five well known motown hits accompanied by a really tight especially commissioned band. Rehearsals start in March and take place in Truro and Lostwithiel.
Our first performance will take place at Sing Along the River on Thursday 29th August at 9pm
Truro Rehearsals:
Saturdays 1pm to 3pm at Malpas Community Hall
28th March
2nd May
6th June
11th July
Lostwithiel Rehearsals:
Sundays 3pm to 5pm at Lostwithiel Community Centre, Oasis Room
29th March
3rd May
7th June
12th July
Sunday 23rd August - Group rehearsal in Lostwithiel - venue tbc
Lyrics, CDs and recordings on soundcloud will be available before rehearsals begin.
£20 participation fee towards time and venue hire.
To take part email Emma Mansfield: lovelypublications@gmail.com
This special Christmas service is free but we are asking people to reserve a place via ticket source so we know numbers.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/really-lovely-projects
Saturday 7th December, St Barts Church, Lostwithiel, 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Sunday 15th December, Camborne Centenary Church, Camborne 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Saturday 21st December, St Just Miners Chapel, St Just, Penzance, 7.30pm to 8.30mp
Over 100 voices will share a breath-taking selection of carols, which Cornish people took with them as they departed Cornwall in search of work during the mid nineteenth century. The service, led by Canon John Halkes and local ministers will be an hour of worship, laughter and remembrances. As well as hearing these much treasured carols, new writing, poetry and readings have been commissioned. Simon Parker, Pol Hodge, Amanda Harris and Bert Biscoe will be amongst the contibutors.
There will be retiring collection proceeds from which will support this project and the upkeep of the tour venues.
A bar and hot and cold refreshments will be available afterwards.
Come and see what an amazing band of community champions can do with a stage, a stretch tent, bunting and fairy lights. It’s been one hell of a journey but we think we’ve arrived.
Here’s this Thursday’s line up, the weather looks good and we’d love to see you.
Thursday 1stAugust
5.30pm Tots Rock - a family sing along
6.30pm Celtic Voices
7pm Lostwithiel Town Band
7.30pm Lost in Song
8pm The Riverside Singers & Barbed Choir
9.00pm The Ricketty Bones
This project would not have happened without funding from The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, Cultivator Investment Grants, Arts Council England, FEAST, The Jack Moon and Lors Trust, Lostwithiel Business Group, Lost in Song, The Jazz Cafe, Lostfest, Lostwithiel Town Council, Lostwithiel Town Forum, Lost in Song and Lostwithiel Coop.
Sing Along the River 2019 Programme Line Up
Thursday 15th August
5.30pm Tots Rock
6.30pm Kescana
7.00pm Untrained Melody
7.30pm Lostwithiel Town Band
8.00pm Jambawolly Picnic
8.30pm Lost in Song
9.15pm Rum and Shrub Shantymen
Thursday 22nd August
5.30pm Tots Rock – a family singalong
6.30pm The Frayed - Emma Mansfield & Tony Taylor
7pm Lost in Song
7.30pm Lostwithiel Town Band
8pm The Songbirds
8.30pm Sing Falmouth and Sing Truro
9.30pm The Woodcarts
Thursday 29th August
5.30pm Tots Rock
6.30pm Levow Kesson
7pm Polperro Wreckers
7.30pm The Daylight Choir
8.00pm Lost in Song
8.30pm Lobsters & Riots choir & Lostwithiel Town Band
9pm The Gumbo Flyers
Untrained Melody is a group of adults and children who get together every week on a Friday lunch times to sing while children play together.
We are single parents, grandparents, LGBT parents, guardians and carers who have joined the group because we love singing.
The sessions begin at 1pm until 2.30pm and we sing a wide range of songs. We have a designated childminder available throughout the sessions who facilitates play and other creative activities for children who don’t want to sing.
We always welcome new members and there are no auditions.
If you can sing happy birthday - you can sing with us.
Contact Emma Mansfield - lovelypublications@gmail.com or 07803 176416 for more information.
Riots and Lobsters is a fabulous vocal opportunity to perform, with a live band, the wonderful work of Jim Carey and Nick Darke.
The large ensemble of singers and musicians will perform in Bodmin, St Just and at AMATA, Falmouth. The choirs will be ccompanied by either Lostwithiel or St Keverne Brass Band.
Vicky Abbott and Emma Mansfield are creating two large choirs who will learn five songs: The Lobster Song, The Mighty Ocean, Chamber to the Grave, All Praise to the Dozer and Behold.
The performance dates and venues are:
Thursday 30th May 2019
St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin with Lostwithiel Town Band
Friday 7th June 2019
The Miner’s Chapel, St Just, Penzance with St Keverne Town Band
Monday 10th June 2019
AMATA, Academy of Music and Theatre Arts,
Tremough Campus, Penryn, Falmouth.
Thursday 29th August 2019
Sing Along the River,
Lostwithiel Parade Gardens, Lostwithiel.
We are asking participants to pay a £15.00 contribution to the costs of the musical scores, recordings, CDs, rehearsal time and rehearsal venue hire.
We ask that singers learn the parts in their own time and attend at least two rehearsals and a dress rehearsal.
REHEARSALS IN TRURO
Venue: Truro Community Rooms, Truro Library, Truro
Date and Time: Saturdays 1.30 pm to 4pm
Saturday 13th and 27th April
Saturday 11th and 25th May
Saturday 1st June - FULL DRESS REHEARSAL - venue to be confirmed
REHEARSALS IN LOSTWITHIEL
Venue: Lostwithiel Community Centre
Sundays in APRIL only 5pm to 7pm
Sundays 7th, 14th and 28th April
In May rehearsals will move to Lostwithiel Church Rooms 3.30pm to 5pm.
Sundays 12th and 26th May (DRESS REHEARSAL with TOWN BAND)
Recordings, scores and lyric sheets are now available so to confirm your place and receive all the learning materials drop me a line: lovelypublications@gmail.com
Singers from all over Cornwall performed in Truro Cathedral creating an evening of carols, poetry and prose to celebrate the history of the Cornish diaspora.
Funded by Arts Council England and FEAST, this 12 month project galvanised over 180 voices from all over Cornwall to learn the carols and Christmas music that travelled with the Cornish to the new world mines during the 1800s.
The three different choirs led by Hilary Coleman, Emma Mansfield and Matt Thomason, shared songs still sung in South Australia, California and Cornwall today. The service also included new writing by Bert Biscoe and Mercedes Kemp with readings from Simon Parker and Mary Woodvine.
We would like to thank the Very Reverend Roger Bush and his team for help us create such a memorable moment in Cornish history.
In partnership with Fowey Harbour Commissioners and Revival Design, Emma Mansfield was commissioned to create a book about the Fowey River Estuary.
The book was created to celebrated the 150th anniversary of the create of Fowey Harbour Commissioners. Using breath-taking images, fast-facts and quirky stories, the colourful little book is a gripping and fascinating introduction to a much-loved part of Cornwall.
In the same spirit as Sing Along the River, Sing Along Christmas brings to you a joyous and informal fundraising evening of candlelit carols with Lost in Song and community singing alongside Lostwithiel Brass Band.
The free-flowing programme also includes The Woodcarts and the evening will draw to a close with an uplifting set of country carols with Lost in Song followed by upbeat folk rockers Sue White and Tony Taylor. Not to be missed.
We’re ticketing the event at £10 per adult because space is limited. All proceeds will help to fund Sing Along the River, keeping it the free and wonderful success our supporters and town love.
Tickets are available at Watts Trading in Fore Street Lostwithiel or online at:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/really-lovely-projects
All proceeds from the choir’s formidable Lost in Cakes stall, who will be selling homemade mince pies, warm sausage rolls and raffle tickets, will raise funds for St Bart’s Church, Cornwall Hospice Care and Little Harbour.
This is not a formal concert where we expect you to sit and be silent throughout (we can’t even get the band or choir to do that!). We know that you know when to listen and enjoy the music. We know that you love the opportunity to join in and sing so there will be song sheets on the pews. Most importantly we really do know how much you love our Sing Along events because they offer you a hearty way to chat and reconnect with chums keeping the bonds of our lovely community alive.
Come and join us. There will be soup to warm your soul, mulled wine, cider and apple juice to heat your hearts and a choice selection of wine, beer and soft drinks to wax your vocal chords.
And just like Sing Along the River, every penny you spend, every note you sing, and every connection you make at our event helps to keep our fabulous community vibrant and wonderful.
If you’re feeling super generous we will be selling our unique Lostwithiel prints and merchandise and there will be collection buckets as you leave.
We thank you enormously in advance for supporting us and make what we do another Really Lovely Project.
Join the chorus for Truro Cathedral’s Diaspora Carol service, which takes place at Truro Cathedral on Thursday 20th December from 7.30pm.
Singers from all over Cornwall are welcome to take part but you must be able to attend at least three of the rehearsals. The Truro group will learn three carols and the Lostwithiel group will learn a different three.
Rehearsals in Truro begin on Saturday 24th November at the Old Cathedral School, just behind the cathedral, 2pm to 4pm every Saturday until the concert. (Arrive from 1.30pm on the first session to register, £10 one off joining fee for sheet music, CDs and recordings available via Dropbox and Soundcloud).
Rehearsals in Lostwithiel begin on Sunday 25th November at the Church Rooms from 2pm to 4pm every Sunday until the service. (Arrive from 1.30pm on the first session to register, £10 one off joining fee for sheet music, CDs and recordings available via Dropbox and Soundcloud).
To sign up email Emma Mansfield at lovelypublications@gmail.com
The service at Truro Cathedral is free and seats are available on a first come first serve basis but there is plenty of room.
What’s special about this selection of yule-tide songs is that they have travelled the globe. They left our homeland during the 1800s as Cornish miners and their families headed off to the mines of New World and are still sung in California and South Australia today.
We would like to thank Truro Cathedral, FEAST, Arts Council England for funding and supporting this project.
In collaboration with Cornwall’s Regimental Museum and James Stuart of Lightbox Films, Really Lovely Projects worked to research a series of short films that captured to stories and memories of ex-servicemen from the Light Infantry.
The films, which are on show at the museum at Bodmin Keep, were produced, filmed and edited by James Stuart and feature a range of themes including Northern Ireland, The Berlin Wall and The Gulf.
We would like to thank Mary Godwin for commissioning us to create this work and all the ex-servicemen and their wives, who shared precious memories and meaningful moments
Every Thursday night in August we adorn Lostwithiel’s parade gardens with fairy lights, bunting, Cornish community choirs, Lostwithiel Town Band and a range of top notch head line acts.
Bring chairs, blankets, friends and family.
Great ‘grab and go’ food available, bar, ice creams and homemade cakes.
If it’s raining we head into St Bartholomew’s Church. Just head for the spire!
This is a community event programmed and coordinated by Really Lovely Projects. Every penny you spend with our caters, at our bar or in the donation buckets, helps to keep this and other events in Lostwithiel FREE. Feel free to give generously!
Here’s this year’s programme.
Thursday 2nd August
6.00 The Woodcarts
6.30 Lost in Song
7.00 Lovenny Male Voice Choir
7.30 Lostwithiel Town Band
8.00 The Man Engine Choir and Lostwithiel Town Band
8.15 The Red River Singers
9.15 The Grenaways until 10.30pm
Thursday 9th August
6.00 The Ryan Moorcroft duo
6.30 Lost in Song Sing Along
7.30 NoteAbility & The Carclaze Voices
9.00 Lost in Space until 10.30pm
Thursday 16th August
6.00 The Songbirds
6.30 Levow Kesson
7.00 The Suitcase Singers
7.30 Lost in Song Sing Along
8.15 The Blazing Heart Chorus
9.15 The Rickety Bones until 10.30pm
Thursday 23rd August
6.00 Daya Red
6.30 Lost in Song Sing Along
7.30 Lostwithiel Town Band
8.15 Sing Truro and Sing Falmouth
9.15 The No Goes & Little Miss Mojo until 10.30pm
Thursday 30th August
6.00 The Playful Chorus
6.30 Canoryon Lowen
7.00 Fowey River Singers
7.30 Champagne Cornwall Chorus
8.00 Lostwithiel Town Band
8.30 The Daylight Choir
9.00 Lost in Song Sing Along
9.30 3 Daft Monkeys until 10.30pm
Bligh Spirit is visual and vocal spectacle that brings together the voices of Lost in Song and the Daylight Choir, with spoken word wonderment by Mc Mc Spoken and breath-taking aerial acrobatics.
Inspired by struggles at sea, oceanic adventures, love, loss and return; shanties and songs, live beats and spoken word poetry accompany a high-roped hiatus of wall-running and aerial dance.
Bligh Spirit has been created to be performed on the harbour wall at St Mawes and on the Observation Tower at The National Maritime Museum Cornwall as part of the Fal River Festival.
Bligh Spirit is a free performance, standing only and lasts approximately 25 minutes.
Viewing and audience spaces are limited so at both locations, please arrive early and we will do our best to accommodate you. Look out for our crew members and stewards who will be there to assist you.
Bligh Spirit performance details
Mon 29th May, 3.30pm (low tide) on the harbour wall in St Mawes
(Audience will be invited to gather on the beach)
Fri 2nd June & Sat 3rd June at 3pm and 5pm on the observation tower at National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
(Limited close up viewing available at the seaward facing front of the museum. Long distance viewing will be best in front of Zizzi, from the Pizza Express balcony (so book your tables) and to the left (port) of Discovery Quay).
This project was created by www.yskynna.co.uk & www.reallylovelyprojects.org.uk
Funders and partners
FEAST
Arts Council England
Fall River Festival
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Lost in Song
Day Light Choir
Yskynna
Awenek Lev, which means creative voice in Cornish, is a new vocal and musical adventure for singers and musicians of all ages and abilities in Cornwall.
Singing and music making are at the heart of Cornish culture but many people find it hard to make a weekly commitment to a choir or band. Awenek Lev offers a monthly opportunity for singers and music makers to get together with the longer-term aim of building a performance choir and concert band that can perform at events, festivals and as part of other creative productions.
Funded by FEAST and led by Emma Mansfield, the free monthly singing sessions will be held at various central venues throughout Cornwall. It will not be necessary to turn up to all of the rehearsals because sound recordings and CDs of the repertoire will be available on line or by post.
Awenek Lev is also looking for young musicians between the ages of 16 and 25 who would like to become part of a concert band.
For more information email Emma Mansfield on lovelypublications@gmail.com
Lovely Little Books began in June 2007 with the publication of The Little Book of Cornwall.
Within ten weeks of going on sale, the Little Book of Cornwall had topped the local book charts. Today it remains the most popular and best-selling book about this much loved county.
Since the first publication, Lovely Little Books has released a number of publications focusing on the South West region and much-loved pleasures and pastimes.
Proceeds from all of these publications have been ploughed back into the creative community projects designed and delivered by Really Lovely Projects. The Little Book of Surfing as donated £1 per copy sold to the work that the RNLI beach lifeguards do in Cornwall every summer. So far we've contributed over £3000!
The new edition of The Little Book of Cornwall will be launched next spring, it's a girt big'un so watch this space.
In November 2016, the switching on of Bodmin's Christmas Tree Lights took on a whole new meaning with dance, illuminated bikes and beautiful singing.
As part of the 2016 celebrations, nine schools worked with Really Lovely Projects to write their own song, an anthem for the evening, which they performed in front of a crowd of thousands.
Over 150 Lanterns were designed and made in schools and the community, illuminating a truly magical evening for everyone who came and took part.
Funders
Bodmin Town Council and Christmas Lights Committee
Cymaz Music
Cornwall Music Education Hub
Lostwithiel Business Group
Lovely Little Books
Port Isaac Iluminations
SUSTRANS
The Doc Martin Fund
July 2016
In 2016, Lost in Song and the Lostwithiel Business Group were proud to be part of the landmark Man Engine tour that took Cornwall by storm during July and August.
Celebrating 10 years, the Tinth Anniversary, of Cornwall’s post-mining landscape becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a giant Cornish Tin Miner, over 10 metres high toured significant landmarks and towns in Cornwall’s mining history.
From the moment the behemoth Man Engine was unveiled in Tavistock, Devon, to the very end of the tour at Geevor Tin Mine, West Penwith; the ambitious and breath-taking performance captivated the world’s media.
With support from Arts Council England, Lostwithiel was day three on the two week tour schedule and members from Lost in Song, LostFest and Lostwithiel’s Business Group worked alongside the Man Engine events management team to create a momentous occasion for the town, the audience and all those involved.
At 6pm on Wednesday 29th July, on King George V playing field and with a TV crew from BBC’s The One Show, over 7000 people sang and celebrated Cornwall’s mining achievements and drew breath as the gigantic Cornish miner, took to his feet.
Directed by Emma Mansfield, Lost in Song and The Daylight Choir were at the heart of the Lostwithiel event, having promoted and been part of the community singing rehearsals, led by Will Coleman, Creator of the Man Engine Project. Emma Mansfield continued to support the Man Engine team at the Heartlands and Geevor events, with singers from Lost in Song and the Daylight choir contributing their voices throughout the tour.
It was a momentous occasion for Lostwithiel and propelled the town into the August Sing Along the River Season.
Team
Business Lostwithiel Group
Lost Fest Events Management team
The Lovely Foundation CIC / Lovely Projects CIO
Lost in Song
The Day Light Choir
Funders
Bodmin College
Arts Council England
Lostwithiel Business Group
The 2015 Christmas lights celebrations were themed around Bodmin College's production of The Lion King.
With funding from Arts Council England, this magical procession of characters from the Lion King show, culminated in an amassed chorale of community and primary school singers, who topped the evening with the song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight".
During this project we worked with students from Bodmin College, St Marys and St Petrocs Primary schools. The final show, which was performed in March 2016, was a sell out production.
Funders
Bodmin Town Council
Arts Council England
Lostwithiel Business Group
February 2017
Working with Royal Cornwall Museum, Cornwall Music Education Hub, Cornwall Museums Partnership, Emma Mansfield and Roger Luxton ran a series of lyric writing, composition and music making workshops with children from Bugle and Treloweth primary schools.
Inspired by the iconic landscape of Cornwall and its enormous history and heritage, children and class mates with English as an Additional Language created a brand new anthem “Walk Your Way Through Cornwall”.
Accompanied by Lost in Song and Zena Walker, the song was performed as part of a concert at Royal Cornwall Museum on February 9th 2017.
Team
Emma Mansfield
Roger Luxton
Zena Walker
St Austell Town Band
Lost in Song
Funders
Royal Cornwall Museum
KEAP
Cornwall Music Education Hub
Cornwall Museums Partnership
October to December 2017
In collaboration with visual artist and designer Caroline Cleave, and artists Clare Summerson, Reg Payn and Pete Cole from the ARTiculate collective, Really Lovely Projects produced a series of creative community events and a 'Switch On' celebration for the rural fishing village of Port Isaac.
Emma Mansfield and Roger Luxton ran composition and singing workshops with Wadebridge and Port Isaac Primary schools and The Gulls and Port Isaac Chorale adult choirs.
Pete Cole and Clare Summerson created an Angel inspired animation sequence with local school children and all of the community were invited to get together in a free workshop to make angel lanterns.
On Friday 1st December, the entire village was illuminated with a parade of angels and giant angel lantern, which processed from Port Isaac Community Primary school to the Platt on the harbour.
Joined by St Minver Town Band, the community choirs and children sang together their very own Angel anthem and the whole village vocalised the Christmas Lights count down.
This was the first large-scale winter event the community had experienced and plans are afoot to continue the community engagement activities and procession in 2017.
Team
Chris Lanyon
Caroline Cleave
Emma Mansfield
Reg Payn
Clare Summerson
Pete Cole
Roger Luxton
Funders
FEAST
Port Isaac Illuminations
September to November 2014
Articulate and Lovely Projects were commissioned by Bodmin Christmas Lights Committee to create a community event, involvinglocal primary schools and Bodmin College students, that celebrated the switch on of the Christmas Lights.
As a collective of artists and music leaders, we devised a schools programme of lantern making and singing as well as cellophane, stained glass window activities to animate 128 window panes at Bodmin Shire Hall. Art students from Bodmin College created three giant star lanterns and we offered a community lantern making day at Bodmin’s BCA rooms.
The project culminated in a community procession, finale song and carol service with Lost in Song, members of Bodmin Community Choir, Bodmin Brass Band and Bodmin College Jazz Band. Over 200 young people took part performing to an audience of over 800 people.
The lanterns and community song 'Wonder' by Emilie Sante, then featured in Lostwithiel as part of the town’s Dickensian Night celebrations.
Team
Ben Vincent
Reg Payn
Caroline Cleave
Clare Summerson
Emma Mansfield
Funders
Bodmin College
Bodmin Town Council
FEAST
Proper Cornish
The Property Shop
Lostwithiel Business Group
Lovely Little Books
Photo Credits
Rob May
Frustrated by inadequate amplification, stages and performance spaces at local festivals and events, Lost in Song set about creating a new platform for community music makers - its name is Sing Along the River and the festival is now in it's fourth year.
What began with enormous contributions in kind from Bodmin College, SPS Audio and volunteer sound engineer, Jon Middleton, brought to life the parade gardens in Lostwithiel with community choirs, brass bands and local folk groups.
Local food and drink purveyors including the Globe Inn, Big Pan Parties, Siam Kitchen and Harding and Scoots, provided catering and refreshments with Lost in Song cake bakers, filling the cake stall. We would also like to thank The Globe Inn, St Austell Brewery, Skinners and the Cornish Cider Festival for their ongoing support.
The first small-scale festival developed in 2014 was a huge success. Four years on and with funds raised each year, we have been able to attract arts and festival funding from FEAST and Arts Council England to develop the programme.
Today Sing along the River continues to showcase the best of community music in East and North Cornwall. To find out more visit www.lostinsong.org.uk
Team
Emma Mansfield
Michelle Nineham
Marion May
Funders
FEAST
Bodmin College
Cornwall Community Fund
Arts Council England
Commissioned by the Eden Project and inspired by the Little Book of Clay Country, we were asked to create three short films that showcased the delights of exploring Cornwall's clay trails.
By bike, on foot or on horse back, these accessible and well-signed routes take you deep into the heart of Cornwall's clay mining landscape.
The inspiration for Really Lovely Projects and The Little Book of Cornwall, came from Emma Mansfield's time at the Eden Project.
Between 2002 and 2006 and under the artistic direction of Sue Hill (associate director of Wildworks and former Kneehigh performer) Emma Mansfield developed and managed the arts and creative department. A fantastically creative and committed team that produced some of Eden's finest moments during that time.
As Eden's first Creative Producer, Emma Mansfield and the Eden Live Team devised and delivered Eden's Time of Gifts Season, The Opening of the Core, Colour Explosion, The Eden Sessions, Africa Calling. We also created and delivered the on-going site wide visitor engagement programme, which included Bulb Mania and Adventures in Chocolate.
The creative team at Eden worked with artists, designer-makers, performers, singers, choirs and concert bands from all over Cornwall and cued over 163 lantern processions and firework finales!
Lovely Yoga began in 2011 when Emma Mansfield embarked upon a two-year teacher training course with internationally renowned yoga teacher Simon Low.
Training as a yoga teacher has added a new discipline, insights, awareness and spirituality to Emma's fitness leadership and singing teaching skills. She has a keen interest in anatomy and physiology and is passionate about therapeutic power of yoga and somatics.
To find out more visit www.lovelyyogacornwall.com
The Day Light choir began in 2015 with the help of Arts Council England as a part of The Day Light Group's Around The Clock event.
The town used to have a tradition of choirs and the community are delighted to have re-established a chorus of singers within the village, which has been a significant legacy of the Around the Clock project.
The choir, led by Emma Mansfield, meets on Sundays at 5pm at the Star Inn, Vogue, St Day and we sing a variety of songs from all kinds of genres.
Since the Day Light choir began, we have had an exciting programme of events which include working with Tim Ashton and Athene Roberts (3 Daft Monkeys) on The St. Day Clock Tower Song and performing it at a variety of events including Sing Along The River, Lostwithiel, and Carn Marth Amphitheatre. We also joined the Man Engine Choir at Heartlands and the finale at Geevor and singing to audiences of thousands and are part of Awenek Lev, the Bligh Spirit choir and If You Go Down to the Woods.
If you would like to join the choir Contact Us and look at our Events page for sessions.
www.thedaylightgroup.wixsite.com
Funders
FEAST
ACE
Cornwall Community Foundation
Heritage Lottery
St Day Parish Council
Emma Mansfield founded Lost In Song in February 2007. Inspired by the work of Vicky Abbot at The Eden Project and her Acorn Choir (now Fifty Degrees) based in Penzance, Emma wanted to set up a similar group in Lostwithiel. The choir began with just 20 members and is now a 50-strong group of singers.
Emma is a music professional and performer who arranges all of the pieces for Lost in Song. As a former member of the Eden choir and KV2, she has a love of creating wonderful harmonies and has developed an extensive acappella repertoire.
Lost in Song are often accompanied by other musicians including Martha Woods on guitar, Tony Taylor on banjo and Zena Walker on drums. We are in the process of collaborating with Lostwithiel Town Band for this year’s Sing Along the River festival.
Anyone is welcome to join Lost in Song, all we ask is that you’re open to learning new things and being part of a lovely team.
Contact Emma Mansfield lovelypublications@gmail.com or Marion May on marionmay24@gmail.com. You can also visit Lost in Song’s website www.lostinsong.org and check out our Facebook page.
Funders
Lostwithiel Business Group
FEAST
ACE
Cornwall Community Foundation
Rudling Voices was a young peoples singing project led by Emma Mansfield, Hugh Nankivel, Jamie Crowe and Wendy Taylor.
Devised and delivered by CYMAZ Music, the project was funded by the fundraising efforts of former Youth Music colleagues of Gilly Rudling.
Gilly Rudling was the former executive for Youth Music who lived in Cornwall, who sadly died of cancer but in her life, she was known through the South West as a massive advocate for musical inclusion and young people's music making.
As part of the project, disadvantaged young people from Cornwall, Devon and Bristol, composed and performed three new pieces of music at The Watershed as part of Bristol's Harbourside Festival.
Team
Hugh Nankivel
Jamie Crowe
Wendy Taylor
Emma Mansfield
Laura Isley
Beth Fourace
Nadine Gingell
Funder
Youth Music
Cymaz Music
With funding from FEAST, The Eden Project, IMERYS and support in kind from Wheal Martyn, Emma Mansfield and Tom Barnecut-Watson set about capturing the stories, spirit and history of Cornwall’s Clay Country and its communities in a captivating book and exhibition.
Inspired by the success of The Little Book of Cornwall, and with enormous contributions from local community groups, primary schools, the IMERYS History Society, retired clay workers and local historians, the book and exhibition was launched at Wheal Martyn
As well as capturing tales and anecdotes from individuals and local community groups, Emma and Tom organised a tour of workshops, clay play days and a local schools programme, which created poetry and original writing about the area.
The clay play days, inspired by the Terracotta Army, visited St Austell town centre, Wheal Martyn Museum and Country Park, Bugle Band Festival and St Dennis Feast week celebrations.
Working with photographer James Ram and volunteer contributions from local photographers and artists, we were able to put together a powerful exhibition at Wheal Martyn, which brought to life the colour, community spirit and creativity of Cornwall’s Clay Country.
To find out more about The Little Book of Clay Country, visit www.thelittlebooksof.com
Team
Emma Mansfield
Tom Barnecutt
Paul Colledge, Revival Design
Michelle Nineham
Vicky Rowledge
Terry and Mike Mansfield
Funders
FEAST
The Eden Project
IMERYS
Over the course of 12 months we devised and delivered a series of arts-led community activities as part of the Eden Café’s funding remit for White River Place, St Austell.
This included a programme of life-drawing and visual arts workshops at the Eden Café, 'Tots Rocks' music sessions for the under fives, led by Roger Luxton, St Austell Torch Light Carnival and Feast Week celebrations with the No Fit State Circus and Dhol Foundation Drummers.
Team
Emma Mansfield, Eden Project
Emma Hogg, Eden Project
Helen Nicholson, Cornwall Council
Funders
Eden Project
Local Area Group Funding
