Esme Francis – Ylyades
Esme Francis was made a Cornish Bard in 1978 taking the name Ylyades – Songwriter. She served as harpist for Gorsedh Kernow for over 40 years and received the Awen Award for services to Cornish music in 2016. She is a music teacher, composer and arranger specialising in the traditional music of Cornwall and songs inspired by its landscape and culture:
“Of mystery, legend, fishing, and mining, smuggling and shipwreck and the way of life in the fishing, farming and mining areas, towns and villages, harbours, coves and creeks of Celtic Cornwall. Written by the Gorsedh Harpist and teacher, Esme Francis, travelling and playing around Cornwall, who comes from a long line of 17th and 18th century boatbuilders. Song, verse and music, immersed in the moors, cliffs and cairns, the islands and shores, washed by the Celtic Sea, all that is the spirit of Cornwall”
(Seny: Cornish Celtic song, 2005)
Bibliography / Discography
| Kan: Cornish Celtic song. | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just 1998. | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish arts |
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| Rakka: Cornish Celtic song. | Publisher: Cape Books [1999] St Just | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish arts |
| Keltek: Cornish music | Publisher: Cape Books, St Just [2001] | Shelf number: 780.14237 |
| Seny: Cornish Celtic song : for Cap'n John | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just [2005] | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish reference |
| Southwest by southwest. | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just [2007] | Shelf number: 823.92 FRA FRANCIS, ESME |
| Rialobran: a play, Rialobran, chieftain son of Cunoval, celtic Cornish ruler | Publisher: Cape Books, St Just, Cornwall 2015 | Shelf number: 822.92 FRA FRANCIS, ESME Small pamphlets |
| Seny: Cornish Celtic song : for Cap'n John | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just [2005] | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish reference |
| Where seagulls cry: six classical songs for soprano. | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just [2008] | Shelf number: 780.14237 Standard pamphlets |
| Where the lark rises: six classical songs for tenor. | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just, Cornwall, 2009. | Shelf number: 780.14237 Standard pamphlets |
| Keltek kan: Cornish Celtic song | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just [2013] | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish arts |
| Land's End suite for the harp | Publisher: Cape Books, St Just, Cornwall 2017. | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish reference |
| Trelawny: Celtic Cornwall in song | Publisher: Cape Books, St. Just 2010. | Shelf number: 780.14237 Cornish arts |
| Trewarveneth: Six classical songs for baritone and bass | Publisher: Cape Books, St Just 2013. | Shelf number: 780.14237 Standard pamphlets |
| Kernow: Cornish Song- CD | Cape Books 2004 CN2004 | |
| Keltek | Cape Books |
Notes
CD and books are available at Trevada Music 9 Chapel Street Camborne Cornwall TR14 8EF sales@trevadamusic.co.uk Tel: 01209 714353