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.
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Edentia Bal Trad at La Coconnerie
Tao Dumur and Matthieu Meyer bring contrasting musical approaches to Edentia’s bal trad in Aurel. Dumur’s dynamic playing meets Meyer’s more restrained style, a partnership that began on the dance floor. Accordion music accompanies Scottish dance, Bourrée, waltz and Circassian circle, bringing these different forms of shared dance together in the Drôme Valley.
Airs et Songes de la Traversière
Gabrielle Rubio brings the baroque transverse flute to Airs et Songes de la Traversière at Beaune’s Hôtel-Dieu. Hiéryne Lassale joins her on viola da gamba, Thibaut Roussel on theorbo and baroque guitar, and Cécile Chartrain on harpsichord. Rubio’s dual practice as flautist and guitarist reflects her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Concerts chez Cathy
Malo Carvou and his musician friends hold the Irish session, while the Breton one gathers Ifig and Nanda Troadec, J-Pierre Hélías, Bernez Breton, Brigitte Le Corre, Marie-Laurence Fustec and Katie Le Moigne-Thomas. Nico carries Brassens, Ferrat and Italian songs across one of the sittings, and Les Voix Expresses take another. Seating is limited, reservation is required, and donations are welcome. More dates are promised for the series, which plays on rue Lucien Le Lay in Penmarch.
Fest-noz in Saint-Gilles
The Saint-Gilles-les-Bois fest-noz gathers several Breton dance-music groups under the Bougez à St-Gilles association. Kled, Stourm, Trioji, Le Bras/Nicolas and Du ô Vents shape the evening through paired musicianship and circle-dance rhythms. A gourmet walk before the music broadens the gathering into village sociability, linking movement, food and fest-noz practice.
Brasserie Philomenn anniversary
Les 20 ans de la Brasserie Philomenn places a Tréguier craft brewery at the center of a local music and food gathering. Bagad Tréguier, Bagad Brieg, La Rive and Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs give the programme Breton, fest-noz and Celtic punk colors. Beer making, food trucks and outdoor concerts make the anniversary a portrait of contemporary terroir culture in the Trégor.
Saint-Loup Festival Concert and Fest-Noz
The Saint-Loup Festival fills Guingamp’s Place du Vally with an unusually broad meeting of Breton movement, music and popular tradition. Workshops introduce dances from the Tregor area and the Derobee de Guingamp, while gouren, strength games and Sonerion’s young musicians bring other living practices into the square. A concert and fest-noz then place Annie Ebrel and a substantial roster of groups on the dance floor, carrying the celebration from demonstration into shared participation.
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.
Trevarn Producers’ Markets and Concerts
The courtyard of Trevarn Brewery becomes a monthly meeting place for local producers, makers and musicians. Farm beer, bread, seasonal vegetables and cheese sit alongside honey, chocolate, herbal teas, soap, coffee and other goods made in the surrounding area. Each market extends into an open-air concert, giving regional food and craft a social setting where Breton song can meet wider maritime, folk, blues and world-music traditions.
Heritage Days at Fort Cezon
Fort Cezon welcomes the public onto its tidal island to see the restoration work carried out by the association and meet the people sustaining the site. The visit reveals a defensive monument whose character is inseparable from the sea, the tides and the Aber Wrac’h landscape. A concert by La Bricole brings working-port songs into that setting, extending the day from built heritage to the voices of sailors, fishers and dockside communities.