Two weeks prior to this gig, Gwenno was one of the nominees for the 2022 Mercury Prize, which was cancelled with only hours’ notice due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The ceremony is yet to be rescheduled, and if any of the judges happened to be in attendance at her Village Underground gig on Tuesday night, they might just have been provided with an extra nudge to hand it her way.
The half-Welsh, half-Cornish artist was nominated for third album Tresor, which saw her sing almost entirely in the Cornish language and tell stories old and new from her homeland with reverence and passion. The record followed 2014 debut Y Dydd Olaf (sung mainly in Welsh) and 2018 follow up Le Kov, both of which presented an artist deeply passionate about her two homes and their histories.
