Looe folk band The Changing Room are teaming up with comedian, writer and TV game show regular Rory McGrath to showcase a song he has composed at an inter-Celtic festival next month.

Sam Kelly and Tanya Brittain, the leading light of Looe Music Festival, won all three categories of the International Pan-Celtic Song Contest in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 2015 with The Changing Room.

They will be headlining at the Lowender Peran festival at Newquay’s Atlantic Hotel on Sunday, November 6.

Lowender Peran aims to celebrate ‘the very best of music, dance and culture from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany and the Isle of Man’, as well as Cornwall, and to promote the use of the participating nations’ Celtic languages of Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Breton and Manx.

Rory McGrath, who is from Redruth, will join the band on stage to showcase his song Summer City Riot.

Rory’s participation will be recorded for a documentary on BBC Radio 4. He then intends to enter the song in the Suns Europe: Minority Language Song Festival due to take place on Saturday, December 3, at Udine in Italy.

For more about the Lowender Peran festival, see lowenderperan.co.uk