{"id":16991,"date":"2018-11-02T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:24:01","slug":"lowender-peren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16991","title":{"rendered":"Lowender Peren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m in Newquay in Cornwall for the Lowender Peren festival of Celtic music and dance. This is the first time I&#8217;ve been to this particular festival, but I have been to pan-Celtic festivals in the Isle of Man before. There are performers and visitors here from all the Celtic lands &#8211; Cornwall, Brittany, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. I know quite a few of the people from the Isle of Man who are here, and a few from Scotland. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/31810531248\/in\/album-72157673008174007\/\" title=\"Lowender Peren\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4825\/31810531248_e8d0c3b8b0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Lowender Peren\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The name Lowender Peren means &#8216;Perran&#8217;s Mirth&#8217; in Cornish. The word <strong>perran<\/strong> features in some Cornish places names, including Perranporth (<em>Porthperan<\/em> in Cornish), Perranzabuloe (<em>Pyran yn Treth<\/em> in Cornish) and Perranarworthal (<em>Peran ar Wodhel<\/em> in Cornish). It comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Piran\">Saint Piran<\/a> (Peran in Cornish), a 5th century Cornish abbot who became the patron saint of tin miners, and is regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p>The festival was offical opened last night with a speech in Cornish, and English, by a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gorsedhkernow.org.uk\">Gorsedh Kernow<\/a>, the Gorsedh of the Bards of Cornwall, possibly the Grand Bard herself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/browse?field_word_value=gorsedh\">Gorsedh<\/a> is &#8216;a meeting of bards&#8217;. She sounded fairly fluent, and I could actually understand some of the Cornish. I haven&#8217;t found anyone else here who speaks Cornish, apart from a few phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Last night there was dancing to a local band, and then a trio of singers, members of the Lorho-Pasco family from Brittany, sang for us in Breton, and we improvised some dances. It was the first time I&#8217;d heard that style of Breton music. It works well for dancing, though I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;d want to listen to it for too long on its own.<\/p>\n<p>I also spoke a bit of Manx with people I know from the Isle of Man, and some Scottish Gaelic with <a href=\"http:\/\/joydunlop.com\/\">Joy Dunlop<\/a>, a dancer and singer from Scotland who I know from Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/45682953371\/in\/album-72157673008174007\/\" title=\"Newquay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4857\/45682953371_0f1e452edf_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Newquay\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This morning there was an interesting talk about the history of Newquay. Then I went for a wander around the town. This afternoon we went for a guided walk around Newquay seeing some of the things that were mentioned in the talk.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a lot more music, singing and dancing over the next few days. There was even a music session going on in the hotel where the festival is taking place when I went past not long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m in Newquay in Cornwall for the Lowender Peren festival of Celtic music and dance. This is the first time I&#8217;ve been to this particular festival, but I have been to pan-Celtic festivals in the Isle of Man before. There are performers and visitors here from all the Celtic lands &#8211; Cornwall, Brittany, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,10,23,29,56,62,73],"tags":[134,135,136,137,139,140,142],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-language","category-manx","category-music","category-scottish-gaelic","category-songs","category-travel","tag-cernyw","tag-cornwall","tag-dance","tag-kernow","tag-lowender-peren","tag-music","tag-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}