1000-strong whirly tube orchestra sends 'save our seas' message to G7 leaders

They have been on the beach at Hayle - just across the bay from the summit

Author: Sarah YeomanPublished 12th Jun 2021
Last updated 12th Jun 2021

A 1000-strong whirly tube orchestra has taken to the Cornish coast to deliver an important message to the G7 summit.

The group gathered on Hayle beach to perform a ‘Save our Seas’ message to the world leaders, directly opposite where they are holding talks at Carbis Bay.

‘Song of the Sea/Kan an Mor' is a mass musical meditation on the welfare of the sea, asking those in power to consider how to cherish our environment.

The socially distanced whirly tube orchestra started with just one instrument, then became a huge tutti of all one thousand before dwindling back down to silence.

All the whirly tubes have been sustainably-sourced.

"It's my dream that the world leaders come out and say I wonder what that is, I wonder how they beach was formed, I wonder what lives in the sea, I wonder what that noise in, I wonder what that plastic is.

"All those questions are going lead them hopefully to constructive solutions.

"Please learn a lesson from Cornwall and start dealing properly with plastic pollution."

Bill Bankes-Jones, organiser

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