Fishermen’s songs in French and Breton recount working lives at sea and changing fishing practices. Chansons en pêche follows an orally transmitted repertoire concerned with whales, cod, sardines, tuna and lobster. Anecdotes and images accompany the sung poetry, bringing the words of fishing communities into a concert in Douarnenez.
Tag: oral-traditions
Le mobilier breton en fête in Baud
Le mobilier breton en fête brings Breton furniture into a programme of film, storytelling and reuse in Baud. A screening and a storytelling walk sit alongside a tour and a sale of furniture at modest prices. Upcycling is also on the programme, with food and refreshments available during the gathering.
Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger: Culture
Poetry punctuates a conversation between Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger about artistic freedom and cultural policy. Their exchange takes its cue from kan ha diskan, the Breton call-and-response tradition. Censorship, cuts to cultural budgets and the work of artists and volunteers give the discussion its concrete concerns.
Sonneurs Noceurs with Roland Becker
Musician and researcher Roland Becker traces the history of Brittany’s sonneurs through sound and visual archives. His lecture follows the developments that shaped Breton traditional music and the lives of its instrumentalists. Becker also serves on the scientific committee for Musée du Faouët’s exhibition on sonneurs as portrayed by artists.
Balade Contée Dans Les Marais de Bourges
A storytelling walk through the Marais des Prébendes reveals the Bourges marshes as both an ecological site and a landscape of imagination. Tales and legends from Berry and farther afield accompany the route, with George Sand and her contemporaries providing a particular literary thread. Spoken narrative changes the pace of observation, drawing attention to water, vegetation and the cultivated character of this emblematic environment. The experience joins natural heritage with the oral art of carrying stories from one place to another. By setting literature outdoors, the walk gives Sand’s sensitivity to landscape a tangible local frame and lets the marshes become more than scenery: they act as a living partner to the words.
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.
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.
Hatiao Club
Hatiao Club begins with Azou, a Breton grandmother whose hidden gathering place draws her grandchildren into a final investigation. Music, song, drawers, bread with butter and domestic clues turn grief into a playful search through family memory. The piece gives contemporary theatre a regional texture through Breton kinship, food detail and oral mystery.
Sardinières Strike Centenary at Île-Tudy
Île-Tudy marks the Sardinières strike through a public walk rooted in work songs, oral memory and harbour-side civic places. Historical accounts by Serge Duigou, collected testimonies and the choir Les sardines à l’île connect the procession with the women whose labour shaped Brittany’s sardine ports. The closing bal traditionnel and exhibition carry that social history into music, dance and community memory.
SpaceBus Astronomy Stop in Anglet
SpaceBus Astronomy Stop in Anglet centers on Every %E9t%E9, SpaceBus France and its volunteer astronomy professionals (researchers, doctoral students, engineers) travel through a different region of France, stoppingEFrom town to town, in public squares, to meet vacationers and locals and. In Anglet, the spoken or sung word carries regional memory, turning the gathering into an act of transmission and shared attention. Its importance lies in keeping language, story and community voice active in public.