Evans-Williams had been invited to give the performance of the National Eisteddfod's traditional chairing song at the 1917 event held in Birkenhead, but she sang I Blas Gogerddan when it was announced the winner of the chair, Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn), had been killed in battle. Evans-Williams had already lost her beloved brother, Stanley at Ypres in 1916 and would lose her elder brother, Hugh George at Peronne in 1918."A Sad Moment at the Eisteddfod" Vancouver Daily World (26 October 1917): 6. via Newspapers.com She sang the chairing song when the Eisteddfod moved to Wrexham sixteen years later, and received an encore.
