Music of Brittany

Since the early 1970s, Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music. Along with flourishing traditional forms such as the bombard-biniou pair and fest-noz ensembles incorporating other additional instruments, it has also branched out into numerous subgenres.

Jean-Michel Alhaits

(guitar, voice)

Dan Ar Braz

(voice)

Andrea Ar Gouilh

(voice)

Anne Auffret

(bombard)

Stéven Bodénès

Jorj Botuha

François Budet

Jonathyne Briggs, Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music in France, 1958-1980, , 2015, Chapter 4 "Sounds Regional: The World in Breton Folk Music" ISBN 9780199377091

Oxford University Press

Winick, Stephen D. "Brittany". 2001. In Mathieson, Kenny (Ed.), Celtic music, pp. 110–139. Backbeat Books. 0-87930-623-8

ISBN

Ronan Gorgiard "L'étonnante scène musicale bretonne", Palantines (Ed.), collection : Culture et patrimoine, 2008, 255 pages. 978-2-911434-98-3

ISBN

Of Pipers and Wrens (1997). Produced and directed by Gei Zantzinger, in collaboration with Dastum. Lois V. Kuter, ethnomusicological consultant. Devault, Pennsylvania: Constant Spring Productions.