The Musée Sérusier in Châteauneuf-du-Faou houses several pieces made by Marguerite Sérusier. From the same town, the association Broderies Traditionnelles / Broerezhiou Gizh Koz ar Vro invites participants to recreate the artist’s designs in embroidery, and each takes home their own creation. The one skill asked beforehand is knowing how to hold and thread a needle. Twelve places are open, from fifteen years upwards, and reservation is required.
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Chantons avec nos jeunes enfants, in French and Breton
The École de Musique Danse Théâtre du Kreiz Breizh sings with parents and children under three at the library of Plouguernével. Songs, comptines and finger games run in French and in Breton, as Kanomp gant hor bugale vihan. Nobody has to sing well: parents hand their own top-50 rhymes round. It is one of twenty-four free meetings the Communauté de communes du Kreiz Breizh spreads over twelve communes, run here with the association RAOK.
Concert de Noël de l’Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
The Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde sings its Christmas concert in the parish church of Saint-Michel at Lesneven. The ensemble states that its first vocation is to promote the Breton language, and it carries the Breton name Laz-kanañ Penn ar Bed. It gathers more than eighty choristers and a dozen musicians under the direction of Gwenn An Dreo. The programme sets original compositions beside arrangements of Breton, Welsh and Celtic songs.
Rock-sur-Meu: an all-Breton bill in Montfort
Four Breton rock acts share the bill at the Salle du Confluent in Montfort-sur-Meu. Sons O’Flaherty play Celtic rock, Apes O’Clock brass rock, Xarpi grunge and Sinbad a French strain of alternative rock. Food, drink and vendor booths run alongside the sets, with entertainment through the evening. The festival returns to the same hall after a previous bill that drew more than four hundred people, and its line-up is Breton from end to end.
Benoît Stichelbaut, the coast of Brittany in photographs
The media library gives its walls to Benoît Stichelbaut, who has photographed the sea for thirty years from his base in Concarneau. The prints follow the coast he knows best: the lighthouses of the Iroise Sea, the islands of the Ponant, small hidden harbours and the yards where boats are built. His racing work runs alongside them, from the great transatlantic starts to the skippers he has followed. The series is Brittany read from the water.
Trio Ladmirault at the Église Saint Winoc, Plouhinec
Florence Ladmirault founded the trio for her great-grandfather, the Nantes composer Paul Ladmirault, and plays beside her flautist daughter and her oboist brother. The programme is drawn from his works, transcribed by the family for their three instruments. Ladmirault studied under Gabriel Fauré, was admired by Debussy and argued for Celtic folklore. The committee restoring Plouhinec’s religious buildings brings them into the Église Saint Winoc.
Fest-noz à Taupont with Les Beurbis Gallèzes
Taupont, inland Morbihan, gives its salle Lenivel over to a fest-noz, the Breton dance evening where the music is played for the dancers. Three bands follow one another on the bill: Les Beurbis Gallèzes, Harold Kotri and Ferzae. The programme is the traditional repertoire that carries Breton dances, sung as well as played. The organisers put the invitation plainly: come and dance, sing and share a moment of conviviality.
B.R.E.T.O.N.S, Breton Music in Trad-Rock
B.R.E.T.O.N.S gathers fourteen artists around one aim: keeping Breton music alive by playing it with contemporary energy. The set threads traditional tunes of Brittany, Ireland and Scotland through the standards of Celtic music, arranged with trad-rock leanings. Bombards, bagpipes, violin, guitars, percussion and voices share the stage. The players come out of Kervegans, Digresk, EV and Soldat Louis, beside the singer Jessica Delot.
Les églises Beaumanoir, une épopée en Trégor
A mantle of churches and chapels rose over the western bishopric of Tréguier and the eastern fringe of Léon at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Tradition credits their features to the Beaumanoir workshop in Morlaix, and this travelling exhibition makes the case on 15 panels. The Saint Nicolas chapel in Plufur and the parish enclosure in Trédrez carry it. The Pays d’art et d’histoire du Trégor built it with Morlaix Communauté.
Pardon de Saint Winoc at Plouhinec
The Cap Sizun parish keeps a pardon for each of its churches, and this one belongs to the Église Saint-Vinoc at Plouhinec. Saint Winoc was born in Armorica, near Dol, and left for Flanders, founding the monastery at Wormhoud, under Mont-Saint-Winoc. The church has carried his patronage since the fourteenth century and holds a fragment of his relics from Bergues. The CRER, the committee for restoring religious buildings, keeps it standing.