Category: events

Fest-Noz in Plestin-les-Grèves brings Sonerien Du and Gregailh to La Grange Vadrouille. Sonerien Du, active since the early seventies, carries bombarde, biniou, accordion, guitar, bass, drums and Breton vocals into dance rhythms such as andro, hanter-dro and gavotte. Gregailh adds an experimental layer by blending electronics with traditional sound.

Les vendredis musicaux de l’été brings two concerts to Pont-l’Abbé. Claude Nadeau and Rémy Kergozien pair organ and bombarde in one programme. Guillaume Gionta and François Castang take part in a narrated concert version of Carnival of the Animals in the other. Les Amis de l’orgue organises the series, with free participation.

Duo Sirona appears at Eglise Saint-Trémeur as part of Central Brittany’s circuit devoted to six contrasting church organs. Opera singer Erato Strongylou and organist Estelle Walter shape The Wheel of the Year from classical music and popular Celtic repertoire. A presentation of the instrument places its sound, period and construction beside the vocal programme in Carhaix-Plouguer.

Fête du lac is built around shared use of the lakeside: walking, water activities, games, music and open-air dance. The programme mixes beach volleyball, paddleboarding, family workshops and a fest-noz, so the place becomes both playground and village square. Leisure, landscape and Breton dance music converge in a celebration that makes the lakeside feel like a temporary village square.

Fete du Maerl brings back the Plougastel peninsula’s motto, Var zouar ha var vor, through a celebration of farming and seafaring memory. Maerl, goemon, old boats, dredging gestures and strawberry-growing history explain how the seabed helped enrich the fields. The festival is a rare public lesson in coastal economy, told through food, games, craft and dance.

In the Forest of Carnoët, La maison des korriganed follows Breton legends that imagine dolmens as homes built by the region’s elusive little folk. Families walk to the Toulfoën dolmen, learn a korriganed song and construct a small house, joining oral tradition to the woodland setting. Parts of the guided walk use Breton, including a traditional rhyme, while remaining accessible to non-Breton speakers. Designed for children aged three and older, the route requires advance registration and is unsuitable for visitors with reduced mobility or walking difficulties.

This guided tour opens Saint-Samson Cathedral in Dol-de-Bretagne through its granite architecture, hidden details and great organ. The cathedral is one of the historic anchors of the town, and the visit gives attention to both structure and sacred interior. The limited-group format supports close observation of a major Breton religious monument.

The Maison Yves Rocher apéro-concerts give La Gacilly a relaxed summer music series shaped by terrace culture and varied live styles. The programme moves across pop, folk, soul, country, blues and a Breton Celtic set, linking contemporary leisure with a well-known local venue. The result is an easygoing cultural rendezvous where live music, garden-town identity and convivial food share the same terrace.

ALGAE’s heritage walk follows the Penn Enez dune at Koréjou to read the traces of Brittany’s seaweed industry. Harvesting tools, stone ovens and goémonier boats explain how marine plants moved from the shore into agricultural and industrial use. The coastal route places working knowledge beside the landscape that produced it, with suitable footwear needed for the dune terrain.

Fragments Bretons in Lanvallay presents paintings by Emmanuelle Courty shaped by regional interiors, landscapes and memory. Quiet domestic scenes meet glimpses of shore and riverbank, with changing light connecting inside and outside. The works turn familiar materials and spaces into intimate studies of how Brittany is experienced through everyday detail.