O’Tridal celebrates a decade of concerts and festoù-noz with artists who have shared the trio’s musical journey. The guest bill includes Denez, Startijenn, Blue Glaz and Plantec, alongside Talec & Noguet, Tymen & Kerveillant and Toupin & Nollet. Breton music rooted in the region and open to wider influences shapes the gathering in La Forêt-Fouesnant.
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Dremmwel and Guests: Breton Music Concert
Dremmwel revisits a repertoire shaped by Breton dance music and original arrangements. Bagad Cap Caval, Ismael Ledesma, Hervé Lesvenan and Sylvain Jamault join the band as guests, widening the instrumental line-up. Storyteller Patrik Ewen recounts the group’s history, from fest-noz gatherings and pubs to concert and theatre stages.
MEMES TRA ! Fest-Noz in Pluneret
Festerion Ar Brug marks its fiftieth anniversary in Pluneret over two days. The first gives the stage to the FAB children’s, teen and adult groups (L.A.B), the Klam collective and Penn Gwenn. The second brings an outdoor palets tournament for amateurs, capped at thirty pairs at ten euros a team, a pre-concert gathering with Festerion Ar Brug and the Bagad d’Elven, and a fest-noz featuring Modkozmik, Heson, Enneade, Hamon-Martin and Le Baron-Jégo.
Le Camber Traditional Music Concert in Sérent
A bombarde and three saxophones share the ensemble at Le Camber’s traditional music concert in Sérent. Guitar, bass and drums complete the line-up, bringing contrasting instrumental colours to the performance. The group comes from the Questembert School of Traditional Music and plays as part of Sérent’s Journées Européennes du Patrimoine programme.
Danakil Live at Le Roudour
Danakil arrives at Le Roudour with the roots reggae sound that has carried the French collective from small clubs to major festival stages. The set draws on Demain peut-être and its expanded Reload edition, pairing weighty rhythms with socially conscious writing. The band’s independent Baco Music story and long connection with audiences give the Saint-Martin-des-Champs concert a clear place in today’s French reggae circuit.
La Grange aux Pianos Festival
La Grange aux Pianos hosts Musique en Berry within the artist’s house of pianist Cyril Huvé in Chassignolles. The setting gives the festival an unusually direct relationship between performers, instruments and listeners, far from the distance of a large conventional hall. Its guiding ideas of music in freedom and at natural scale emphasise concentration, presence and the character of the place itself. Situated in George Sand’s country, the house also belongs to a wider landscape shaped by literary and musical exchange. The festival’s identity therefore rests as much on how music is encountered as on repertoire: close listening, an artist-led venue and a rural Berry environment brought into the same experience.
Lisztomanias: Franz and George
Under Jean-Yves Clément’s artistic direction, Lisztomanias explores Franz Liszt as a Romantic musician, performer and cultural phenomenon. Recitals, lectures, literary concerts, café-concerts and discovery performances for young virtuosos reveal his work from several angles. Masterclasses in interpretation and improvisation add a transmission strand, connecting established artists with developing musicians. The festival’s dialogue with George Sand is especially resonant in Châteauroux: Liszt was her friend and visited Nohant twice with Marie d’Agoult before carrying his piano career across Europe. Bringing their histories together allows music and literature to illuminate a shared artistic world while rooting an international composer in the cultural landscape of Berry for audiences across Châteauroux’s varied city-centre venues.
l’Humanité du Cher
The Fête de l’Humanité du Cher brings civic gathering, food and popular music into the grounds of Château de Saint-Florent-sur-Cher. A convivial meal and republican banquet make the shared table central, while various booths create space for participating groups to meet the public. Senator Ian Brossat joins the gathering, giving its political identity a visible presence alongside the social program. Music takes over through a tribute concert devoted to Renaud, whose repertoire adds a familiar voice of protest and everyday life. The mix of conversation, dining and song reflects the festival’s emphasis on collective participation, keeping politics and pleasure in the same public space. Set against the château grounds, the event connects a national political tradition with the associations, audiences and musical culture of the Cher.
Concert Hors les Murs du Nohant Festival
The Nohant Festival Chopin travels beyond its usual walls with a recital designed to bring emerging musicians before new audiences. Young artists share the work developed through the festival’s masterclasses, performances and inclusive outreach. In the rural market hall, the architecture becomes part of the listening experience, placing formal musical training in an open, communal setting. The project extends the festival’s reach without losing the concentration of a recital, allowing talent and repertoire to remain at the center. It also reflects a commitment to audiences who do not ordinarily enter established concert venues, including people with disabilities. By carrying the Nohant name into a village gathering place, the program connects a major Berry music institution with the everyday cultural geography around it.
Touraine Jazz Festival Concert
This Touraine Jazz Festival evening carries live jazz into the village hall at Francueil. The concert format keeps attention on ensemble playing, rhythmic exchange and the distinctive relationship between musicians and a nearby audience. As part of a regional festival, the stop gives a smaller commune a place within Touraine’s wider musical circuit, showing that jazz does not belong only to large urban stages. Listeners experience the music in a social setting where detail, improvisation and collective energy can register at close range. The event’s identity comes from that meeting of an international musical language with local cultural infrastructure. It is a focused festival occasion: one community, one stage and a shared listening experience shaped by the circulation of jazz across the Loire valley.