traditional Breton song "Suite Sudarmoricaine", sung in Cornish as "Breten Vyghan Soth" by Matt Blewett, with all other instruments performed by Matthi Clarke.
Translated from the original Breton by Pol Hodge, recorded by Matthi Clarke.


Suite sudarmoricaine / Breten Vyghan Soth

Orth pardon Spezed devedhys
 Mowes yowynk genev kevys

 ‘berth an park bras y feun koskys
 Brygh vras dogen genev kachys

Dhe’n klavji yth en danvonys
 War an voos vras yth en gorrys

Hag ow lost bras hi yw treghys
 Dre fenester o hi tewlys

Ki-bleydh pur vras yw tremenys
 Hag ow lost bras a veu dybrys

Hag ow lost bras a veu dybrys
 Hag an ki-bleydh y feu merwys

Yn sawsnek:

I went to the pardon at Spezed (a Breton type of pilgrimage)
 Where I met a young lady

we slept in a big field
 I caught the great pox

I went to the hospital
 They lay me on the big table

And they cut off my big "tail"
 Threw it through the window

A big wolf-dog rose up
 And it ate my big tail

And it ate my big tail
 And the wolf dog died.


Breten - Vyghan - Soth

Puirt de buil, performed by the Exeter World Music Choir (dat I was in), 2009

05 Puirt De Buil

Soe So Losa performed by the University of Exeter World Music Choir (dat I was in) in 2009

15 Soe So Losa

An Vledhyn Gernewek / The Cornish Year 

Calan gwaf lowen		Bledhyn noweth da 
Nadelik lowen		Re bo dhywgh whi oll 
Gool Krewen lowen 	Trevas vras re bo 
Gool Peran lowen	        Kernow bys vycken 
Gool pask lowen		An skovornek a lamm 
Kala me lowen		Kyjya ha kyjya 
Gool Jowan lowen	        Gra enowi tansys 
Gool lugern lowen	        Gwari wheg yw gwari teg 
Guldize lowen		Ow kuntel an drevas

Tune – Mra Valjamier (Georgian folksong welcoming the new year) Cornish words; Matt Blewett & Pol Hodge
The Celtic new year starts with Samhain / Halloween 31st October/1st November which is Calan gwaf in Cornwall.
Christmas was celebrated in Cornwall even when it fell out of fashion elsewhere (http://www.cornishculture.co.uk/nad.htm). The Cornish reads “May you all have” as in “May you all have a happy yule”
St Crewenna (Krewen in Cornish) has her feast on the 1st Feb and is the one out of the many feasts in this season that falls on Imbolc (https://pyhiinvaeltaja.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/st-crewenna-of-cornwall/)
‘big crop may there be’
St Piran’s day on the 5th March is becoming more popular throughout Cornwall and no seasonal song could ignore it (http://www.cornishculture.co.uk/piran.htm)
The Cornish reads “The hare leaps” the hare being a traditional emblem of Easter
 “Unite and unite” is the opening of the Padstow May song. The Cornish here is a double entendre as it also means copulation, which is a strong tradition of May time.
The Cornish reads “Light the bonfire” and midsummer bonfires remain a major part of the Cornish midsummer (http://www.cornishculture.co.uk/golowan.htm)
Lugnasa was accompanied by sports, so the traditional motto of Cornish wrestling is used here.
The Cornish reads “gathering the harvest”

MattyB