L’Oranger brings early Occitan music from France and Spain into a programme of courtly tunes and folk traditions. Mezzo-soprano Ariane Le Fourmis performs alongside Zuzanna Dubiszewska on traverso and Layal Ramadan on viola da gamba. Pierre Baptiste Brioude-Dhénain completes the ensemble on theorbo and baroque guitar, giving the concert its combination of voice, flute and string instruments.
Tag: folk-music
Breton Music Session in Saint-Brieuc
Telenn and SKV Sonerien Ha Kanerien Vreizh shape this recurring Saint-Brieuc session around gavotte, an dro and plinn repertoire. Musicians work from shared themes, then the room opens into Breton tunes carried by players, singers and dancers. Ti ar Vro gives the gathering a language-house setting, linking practice, transmission and fest-noz dance culture.
Presqu’île Breizh at La Trinité-sur-Mer
Presqu’île Breizh reaches La Trinité-sur-Mer with two performances from the festival’s eleventh edition. Bagad Locoal-Mendon brings Breton bagad music to the harbour esplanade in a stationary presentation shaped around the ensemble’s sound. A second appearance turns toward Scotland with Hundred Percent Collective, an all-female pipe band, moving in procession from the Voulien roundabout to Town Hall Square. Together, the appearances connect the waterfront and town centre through two different formats: a focused harbour performance and a street parade. The programme has a clear local identity within the wider peninsula festival, combining Breton instrumental tradition with Scottish pipe-band energy. Admission is free, and Cours des Quais provides the practical anchor for the La Trinité-sur-Mer dates.
Bombarde and Épinette Concert
Concert pour bombarde et épinette brings Vincent Marin and Wenceslas Hervieux into the church at Les Fougerêts under the ACLPF heritage banner. Their duo places bombarde and épinette beside Baroque invention, finding kinship between older composed forms and traditional song. The program suits European Heritage Days because music becomes a way to hear local memory, instrument craft and Launay-Fougerêts heritage together.
Mémé K7 at Arth Mael
Mémé K7 brings the Kreiz Breizh Akademi into a concert built around the voices of women from Lower Brittany. Under violinist Pierre Droual, ten musicians work with collected songs, timbres and shifting moods, giving older material a sharper stage language. Breton song meets Basque and eastern colors in a performance where archive, memory and future-facing orchestration hold the same pulse.
Presqu’île Breizh Across Quiberon Bay
Presqu’île Breizh brings Breton music and dance together across Quiberon Bay in a celebration shared around the peninsula. The Breton invitation Daet Da Zañzal—enter the dance—places collective participation at the centre of the festival. The dates cover three days, and admission is free, while the detailed programme has yet to be announced. The gathering spans the bay through regional musical traditions, social dance and cultural links between peninsula communities. Its identity comes from movement, sound and participation across several days. Participating venues and performers remain forthcoming, so practical plans can be checked against the organiser’s programme closer to the festival. Presqu’île Breizh is rooted in Breton dance culture and the communal energy of the peninsula, leaving room for later announcements while keeping the regional theme clear.
Les Maîtres Sonneurs
The Kraken Consort brings Celtic songs and instrumental tunes to Les Maîtres Sonneurs at Besançon’s music festival. Flutes, bagpipes, cittern and theorbo weave around the singers, drawing on traditions from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany. The eight musicians connect oral repertoires with written music in a programme named after George Sand’s novel.
Concerts chez Cathy
Breton and Irish music shape the Concerts chez Cathy programme in Saint-Guénolé. Les Grosses Tons draws on French, Irish and Breton folk repertoire, while Ronan Bléjean plays an Irish session with friends. Ifig and Nanda Troadec join J-Pierre Hélias and other musicians for the Breton session; seating is limited and reservations are required.
14th Plouguer Music Season
La saison musicale de Plouguer uses the church acoustic as a meeting place for early music, traditional melody and new instrumental color. Wenceslas Hervieux and Vincent Marin connect bombarde and épinette with Baroque invention, while La Harpaille extends the program through harp quartet textures. The season’s identity rests on dialogue between learned repertoire, Breton-rooted sound and a wider chamber-music imagination.
Radio Tutti and Kodac at La Mutante
Radio Tutti reshapes southern Italian tarantellas and Galician traditional music with trance-driven arrangements and lyrics drawing on Mediterranean lingua franca. The ensemble keeps dance at the centre, treating inherited songs and rhythms as living popular music. Breton DJ Kodac follows with an eclectic mix of techno, pop and electro, giving the La Mutante program a deliberate passage from acoustic roots to electronic club energy.