The Rainbow Basking Shark of Penzance

by Martha Woods

A slip jig written to perform at Golowan festival in Penzance, named after a withy structure made by local school children that was featured in one of the parades at the festival.

Martha Woods is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Cornwall. Having grown up playing and dancing with traditional Cornish dance team, Tan Ha Dowr, and writing songs for her band, The Woodcarts, she went on to study on the Folk and Traditional Music degree at Newcastle University (including a year at the University of Limerick). She enjoys writing tunes and songs for a range of different settings and combining elements of folk and traditional music with more contemporary genres.