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.
Region: Brittany
Secrets of Saint-Michel Chapel
Les Amis de Carnac focus on the Saint-Michel chapel, a landmark above the town’s ancient burial mound. Cyrille Chaigneau traces the building’s past, the stories attached to the hill and the details usually kept behind closed doors. The visit also highlights a mural by Breton artist Alice Pasco, turning a familiar silhouette into a more precise piece of Carnac memory.
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.
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.
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.
Mégalithes en fête
Mégalithes en fête uses Carnac’s standing-stone landscape as the center of a broad public celebration. The Quête des Mégalithes gathers teams from the territory, while oyster shucking, Bagad and Breton dance add craft and musical anchors. The event links prehistoric heritage with contemporary community life across the Auray, Carnac and Erdeven area.
Pardon N.D. des douleurs
The Pardon N.D. des douleurs et Fest Deiz centres on the Plas-Kaër chapel and its fountain, keeping the pardon tradition tied to sacred place. Procession, mass, country-fair games and a meal give the day a rural parish rhythm. An’Dibru brings fest-deiz music into the gathering, joining Breton dance culture with the chapel-preservation work behind the celebration.
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.
Fête d’Automne at Argol
Fête d’Automne turns the Musée vivant des vieux métiers in Argol into a working catalogue of rural know-how. Demonstrations range from blacksmithing, woodturning and basketry to linen, hemp, embroidery, butter making, apple pressing and bread baked over fire. Breton dance and domestic scenes in Ty Coz keep the crafts tied to everyday memory on the Crozon peninsula.
Pardon de Kergroix
Breton banners and costumes accompany the religious celebration and procession at Pardon de Kergroix. The village’s old bread oven is brought into use for the roast served at the communal meal. An’Dibru then provides the music for a fest-deiz, adding Breton dancing to the programme of this Carnac pardon.