Pao Bran performs a Breton music programme in Matignon, and the concert plays under the town’s Halles. Music’Halles is the series it belongs to, and the Halles give it the room. Breton music fills the programme, which the bill announces as a Breton evening. Food and drinks are available on site, alongside the concert itself.
Tag: folk-music
Fest-Noz in Plestin-les-Grèves: Breton Beats
Fest-Noz in Plestin-les-Grèves brings Sonerien Du and Gregailh to La Grange Vadrouille. Sonerien Du, active since the early seventies, carries bombarde, biniou, accordion, guitar, bass, drums and Breton vocals into dance rhythms such as andro, hanter-dro and gavotte. Gregailh adds an experimental layer by blending electronics with traditional sound.
Organ and Bombard Concerts in Pont-l’Abbé: Summer Series
Les vendredis musicaux de l’été brings two concerts to Pont-l’Abbé. Claude Nadeau and Rémy Kergozien pair organ and bombarde in one programme. Guillaume Gionta and François Castang take part in a narrated concert version of Carnival of the Animals in the other. Les Amis de l’orgue organises the series, with free participation.
Apéro-concerts at Maison Yves Rocher in La Gacilly: Summer V
The Maison Yves Rocher apéro-concerts give La Gacilly a relaxed summer music series shaped by terrace culture and varied live styles. The programme moves across pop, folk, soul, country, blues and a Breton Celtic set, linking contemporary leisure with a well-known local venue. The result is an easygoing cultural rendezvous where live music, garden-town identity and convivial food share the same terrace.
Les Mardis de Portez in Locmaria-Plouzané: Summer Nights
Les Mardis de Portez brings open-air concerts to Plage de Portez in Locmaria-Plouzané. The programme moves across traditional Breton sounds, French chanson and international music, giving each evening a different musical colour. The beach setting and public dance atmosphere make the series a recurring summer meeting point where local leisure and live performance overlap.
Fest Noz de Lochrist in Le Conquet: Breton Celebration
Fest Noz de Lochrist brings traditional Breton dancing to the coastal town of Le Conquet. Alphonse Raguénès and Logann Vince, Skipailh Hirwazh and Faltazy provide the music for the gathering. The programme centres on dancing together to live accompaniment, with the named groups sharing the fest-noz bill.
Les Escales Musicales in Perros-Guirec: Kerloi Duo
Etienne Kerbaul’s clarinet and Julian Loiseau’s diatonic accordion form a tightly woven Breton dance duo. Their long collaboration across Côtes-d’Armor lets melody and pulse move as one, building the lift and repetition that guide dancers through a set. The Escales Musicales appearance keeps that regional practice in the open air, centred on instrumental dialogue, collective movement and living fest-noz technique.
Celtic Nights in La Forêt-Fouesnant: Traditional Music
Celtic Nights in La Forêt-Fouesnant centres on traditional Breton music and dance. Cercle Celtique Ar Bleuniou Kignez from La Forêt-Fouesnant and Korollerien Benoded from Bénodet bring staged dance and local repertoire into the same evening. Crêpes and refreshments keep the gathering informal, while the circles place costume, choreography and regional music at the front of the programme.
Festival Plinn du Danouët in Bourbriac: Folk Culture
Festival Plinn du Danouët centres on the musical and dance tradition associated with the Bourbriac area. Ringers and singers meet beneath the stone hall as dance competitions test both repertoire and ensemble precision. Boules contests and stews cooked for the gathering add the communal rhythm of a country festival, keeping performance close to food, play and local participation.
Fest Noz in Kerhostin: Breton Night Celebration
The Kerhostin fest-noz brings Breton music and dance to Place Maufra in a free public gathering. Dancers meet around the repeated steps and paired rhythms that define the fest-noz tradition, with folk repertoire shaping the evening. Its modest scale is part of the appeal: a neighbourhood square, live music and shared dance make Breton culture visible without staging it as a museum piece.