Traditional Welsh dance tune. Arranged for five string banjo by Jon Mills. Played on my Tokay 5-string banjo.

Meillionen (Traditional Welsh tune arranged for banjo by Jon Mills)

Tansys Golowan (Words and Music ©℗ Jon Mills 1995. All rights reserved).
From the cassette album "Forth a'n Syns: Music from an Ancient Cornish Trackway). Recorded by Pyba: Jon Mills and Merv Davey.
Vocals: Jon Mills
Crowd: Jon Mills
Cornish bagpipe: Merv Davey
This tune has been recorded by several other bands: notably Dalla, on their CD album, 'Rooz', https://myspace.com/dallamusicuk/music/song/tansys-golowan-midsummer-bonfire-74086727-81744064 .

Tansys Golowan (Words and Music ©℗ Jon Mills 1995. All rights reserved)

Chestnuts Roasting

Tinners' Fancy: a traditional Cornish hornpipe.
Banjo: Jon Mills.
Spoons: Phili Mills.

Tinners Fancy (Trad. arr. Mills)

Atholl Highlanders: 6/8 March.
Banjo: Jon Mills.
Crowdy Crowan: Phili Mills.

Atholl Highlanders (Trad. arr. Mills)

Tune: traditional Cornish.
Cornish words by Jon Mills.
Vocals: Jon Mills.
Crowdy Crowan: Phili Mills.

Calish luck ew ol adro

Played on a nylon strung Windsor Premier (rebranded as King Lud, Pidoux, Birmingham).

This tune started life as Mozart's 'German Dance' no.2 (Trio) KV 536 no.2, 1788. Michael Turner (1796-1885) , fiddler of Warnham, Sussex,  included it without a name in his MS book. It is possible that Turner heard it at the local Assembly Rooms or some such, and subsequently wrote it out from memory.

Michael Turner's Waltz (Trad. arr. Mills)

Traditional hornpipe played on my 5-string King Lud banjo.

The Cliff Hornpipe

A traditional clog hornpipe from West Cornwall.

Played on a five string nylon strung Windsor Premier (rebranded as King Lud, Pidoux, Birmingham).



Culyek Lanust (Trad. arr. Mills)

A traditional jig from Cornwall.
Played on a five string nylon strung Windsor Premier (rebranded as King Lud, Pidoux, Birmingham).


Hern Wydn (Trad. arr. Mills)

Composed by Albert J. Weidt (1866-1945).
Played on a five string nylon strung King Lud, Pidoux banjo.

Pink Lemonade (Weidt)

Composed by Jon Mills.
Performed by Jon Mills on Custom made,Tokai metal strung 5-string archtop banjo.
The Cornish word "kerens" refers not only to friends but also relations and family.

Kerens Estrigys / Absent Friends and Family

Turkey In The Straw & The Mason's Apron

Written by the British banjo player Joe Morley (1867-1937). I play this on my nylon strung King Lud, Pidoux 5-string banjo.

Radio Jig (Morley)

Traditional arranged Jon Mills.
Played on my nylon strung Pidoux King Lud 5-string banjo.
Accompanied on Crowdy Crawn by Phili Mills.

Derry Air - Tripping Upstairs - Wind that Shakes the Barley (trad. arr. Mills)

Played on my nylon-strung Pidoux King Lud banjo.

Valse Op 69 No 1 (Frederic Chopin)

Sung by Phili and Jon Mills. This traditional song was collected by Sabine Baring Gold from James Olver of Launceston, Kernow. Cornish words and additional verses are by Merv Davey.

Cusk En Ta, Cusk

Traditional Cornish jig played on my nylon-strung 5-string Pidoux King Lud banjo.

Porthlystry (Trad. arr. Mills)

Traditional Irish folk tune. Arranged Jon Mills.
Played on my metal strung Custom made Tokai 5-string banjo.

The South Wind (O'Carolan, arr. Mills)

Si Bheag Si Mhor (composed O'Carolan, arranged for banjo Jon Mills)
Played on my metal-strung Tokai five-string banjo.

Si Bheag Si Mhor (composed O'Carolan, arranged for banjo Jon Mills)

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Jon Mills currently plays banjo with the Old Lone Gin Band in the Dover area. Bands that he has previously played with include Rainmaker (bluegrass band), Travel by Steam (ceilidh band), Five Bar Gate (ceilidh band), Tony Joe Marshall & Crowbait (country music band), and the Marshall-Mills Duo. He is also recorded on albums of Cornish music with Merv Davey (Pyba, and Forth an Syns), and on an album with Cornish songwriter, Graham Sandercock (Pol Pri).

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