Gwenno

Salford's festival of new music & art • 4 May 2025

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Gwenno Mererid Saunders is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known as Gwenno. She has released three critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner Y Dydd Olaf; Le Kov, her first album in Cornish; and Tresor, which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.

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"A serious, single-minded artist who has toiled at the coalface of the electronic fringes (the hard work) evolving from a conventional songwriter basking in the synth sunlight to a searching ambient artist (the dedication to vision) all the while delivering lyrics in Welsh and Cornish (the angle). "
Gary Raymond, Wales Arts Review