High let us swell our tuneful notes! Cornish carolling returns

Once you couldn’t move for carol singers in Cornwall, before its miners sailed overseas. Now the diaspora’s lost songs have been tracked down – and performed by choirs again this ChristmasWhen the Cornish started emigrating to Australia in the mid-1800s, their mining skills were highly sought after. Their singing skills, however, were not always as valued. “Carolling was so popular that it was almost a nuisance,” says Cornwall-born ethnomusicologist Kate Neale. &ldq