Category: events

Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs bring their punk force to La Loco in Quimperlé, linking electric riffs with Breton musical identity. The band is known for a loud, cross-generational audience and for carrying traditional elements into a contemporary punk frame. The concert gives Quimperlé a direct encounter with one of Brittany’s most recognisable fusion acts, where local sound and political stage energy meet.

Jean-Paul Mathelier recounts a photographic campaign aboard a Concarneau trawler within a lecture on the great fisheries. Images from voyages to southern Ireland and later work on a live-bait tuna boat record Breton sailors through labour, routine and quieter moments at sea. His testimony connects those photographs with routes reaching from northern waters to Mauritania and with the port memory preserved by the Musée de la Pêche.

Les Attrape-Rêves anchors the Ploemel club’s anniversary programme, alongside a parade and music from Songria. A fest-noz follows with Arvest and Iskis. Arvest combines guitars, electronic programming and kan ha diskan, while Iskis draws on a broad traditional dance repertoire shaped by the four musicians’ own influences.

Roscoff opens its maritime heritage through the historic sailing boat Le Mondara Mad and exhibitions about the port. Notre-Dame de Croaz Batz and the lighthouse are among the buildings to explore, alongside drawings of historic houses. Craft demonstrations, games with C’hoarioù Kilhou and a performance by Korollerien Montroulez bring Breton skills and dance into the wider programme.

This European Heritage Days tour explores Saint-Malo’s Cité Corsaire with a guide. The route follows the ramparts and explains how Garangeau, working under Vauban, shaped the fortified port around its rocky maritime site. Privateers, major voyages and the city’s independent Malouin identity give the architecture a vivid place within Brittany’s coastal history.

Award-winning pastry chef and chocolatier Marine opens her working laboratory for a small-group lesson devoted to Kouign-Amann. Participants make a sharing-size version of Brittany’s emblematic cake while following the handling, folding and baking decisions that shape its texture. Close guidance and a limited group keep the emphasis on practical technique, from managing the butter-rich dough to achieving the characteristic caramelised finish.

Breizh Bal Guinguette brings dance and music to Goudelin in a public ball format. Dance initiations open the evening before performers including Gabriel Chiapello, Milena Leclerc and Jérémie Congrega lead the main gathering. The event connects tourist-office programming with village sociability, live musicians and accessible Breton dance practice.

Saint-Enogat’s fest-noz brings live Breton music and social dance to Place du Calvaire in Dinard. Konoz leads the repertoire, giving dancers the pulse and repeated forms needed to move together in the open air. Free admission keeps the square accessible to residents and newcomers, while the neighbourhood setting places a living regional tradition within everyday town space.

Saint-Renan’s Mardis de l’été concludes on Place du Vieux Marché with Breton music, dance and a semi-nocturnal market. Bagad Sonerien An Tevenn performs with dancers from Sonerien Plougonvelin before Nag A Drouz and Dansal e Gwital continue the programme. Food stalls and open-air trading give the final gathering the character of a town celebration grounded in local performers.

Concert Envoûté avec Garenne brings the musicians of Garenne together with visual artists from Minoterie 21, the contemporary art centre in Peillac. Clémence Cognet and Noëlle Nioulou shape a repertoire where Baroque dance melodies meet laments and folk material from the Massif Central. Baroque instruments and artist-built huts give the performance a chamber scale rooted in craft, sound and place.