‘The language is part of my life’: Gwenno shares songs in Cornish to inspire new generation

With only 500 or so fluent speakers, the singer is hoping Cornish will be taught in schools to preserve local culture

The Mercury prize-nominated Cornish/Welsh singer Gwenno Saunders has said that Cornish should be more widely taught to children in the far south-west of Britain to protect the language and preserve local culture.

Gwenno spoke after visiting a school in the fishing village of Mevagissey on the south coast of Cornwall before a performance at the nearby Lost Gardens of Heligan.

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