Gwenno played the Norwich Arts Centre earlier this year. She is a musician from Cornwall and her Cornish identity is at the heart of her music.
Kernow is the Cornish name for the county and there are a number of artists who now perform in the language or other Gaelic and Welsh languages.
Here's her debut on Later with Jools Holland.
There are lots of locations around the world where singing in a particular language has historically been an act of defiance or protest as well as claiming an identity.
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