BigoudèneW
Bigoudène

In Breton tradition, a coiffe bigoudène is a women's coif worn with traditional Breton costumes. By extension, the women wearing the coif and the costume associated with it are also called bigoudènes. The coif is about 30 cm high, and up to 40 cm in Penmarc'h.

Dan Ar BrazW
Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a soloist and with innovative Celtic harp player Alan Stivell. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.

Cécile CorbelW
Cécile Corbel

Cécile Corbel is a French and Breton singer, harpist, and composer. She has released five albums of original music and worked for Studio Ghibli as a composer for its 2010 film, The Borrower Arrietty. Corbel sings in many languages including French, Italian, Breton, and English and has done songs in German, Spanish, Irish, Turkish, and Japanese. Her lifelong partner is songwriter Simon Caby, who is also her co-composer.

Louise EbrelW
Louise Ebrel

Louise Ebrel was a Breton singer whose parents Eugénie Goadec and Job Ebrel were themselves singers. Her repertoire was composed of traditional Breton songs, either for dancing or for listening (gwerz).

GlenmorW
Glenmor

Glenmor was the stage name of Emile Le Scanf (1931–1996), a Breton protest singer who sought to preserve the Breton language and adapt local traditions of folk singing to the radical culture of the 1960s and 70s. He is also known by the Breton name Milig Ar Skañv.

The Goadec SistersW
The Goadec Sisters

The Goadec Sisters usually known as Les sœurs Goadec in French, were a Breton vocal group originating from Treffrin. The trio embody the traditional music of Brittany, singing a cappella. The three sisters were Maryvonne (1900-1983), Eugenie (1909-2003) and Anastasie Goadec (1913-1998). They began to perform at fest-noz in 1956, among the pipers and bombard players. Accompanied until 1964 by their two sisters, Louise (1903-1964) and Ernestine (1911-1964), their repertoire consisted mainly of laments. As a trio, they attempted to adapt their singing to dance and developed a new form of call and response singing.

Youenn GwernigW
Youenn Gwernig

Youenn Gwernig was a Breton-American poet, writer and singer. He was a painter, sculptor and a TV presenter on the French channel France 3.

Yann-Fañch KemenerW
Yann-Fañch Kemener

Yann-Fañch Kemener was a traditional singer from Brittany, born in Sainte-Tréphine (Côtes-d'Armor), France.

Nolwenn KorbellW
Nolwenn Korbell

Nolwenn Korbell, is a French Breton singer-songwriter and actress. Best known for her songs in Breton, with her musicians or in a duet with guitarist Soïg Sibéril, she released four albums, regularly performs in concerts, and also keeps acting in plays and films.

Pascal LamourW
Pascal Lamour

Pascal Lamour is a French Breton musician. After a long career as an herbalist, he devoted himself entirely to music since 2000. He has produced thirteen albums under his own label, BNC, since 1994, but has actually made known in the music business since 2005-2006. He has played throughout Europe, and in Quebec, the United States, Brazil, Vietnam and other countries.

Nolwenn LeroyW
Nolwenn Leroy

Nolwenn Le Magueresse, known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy, is a French singer-songwriter, musician and voice actress.

Erik MarchandW
Erik Marchand

Érik Marchand is a Breton traditional singer and player of the treujenn-gaol. Although born in Paris, his family was of Breton origin, hailing from Quelneuc, Brittany.

Frères MorvanW
Frères Morvan

The Frères Morvan, François (1923–2012), Henri and Yvon, are three brothers native of the village of Botcol, in the municipality of Saint-Nicodème (Côtes-d'Armor) and who founded a group of traditional singers in 1958, with the arrival of the first sound system.

Les Ramoneurs de menhirsW
Les Ramoneurs de menhirs

Les Ramoneurs de menhirs is a Breton Celtic punk group formed in 2006. Its members include Éric Gorce on the bombardon, Richard Bévillon on the bagpipes, the traditional vannetais singer Gwenaël Kere and Loran, guitarist from the group Bérurier Noir. They play concerts at fest noz as well as normal rock concerts. Most of their songs are sung in the Breton language.

Gilles ServatW
Gilles Servat

Gilles Servat is a French singer, born in Tarbes in southern France in 1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of Brittany.

Sonerien DuW
Sonerien Du

Sonerien Du is a group of Breton music adapted for the dances in Fest Noz. The group was born in 1972, in Alan Stivell's trail, harpist of the Celtic Revival. Driving force of the Breton culture, the group crossed periods of concerts and festoù-noz, with a traditional and modern music at the same time, always respecting dance. It recorded 20 albums over 40 years.

Alan StivellW
Alan Stivell

Alan Stivell is a Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic harp and Celtic music as part of world music. As a bagpiper and bombard player, he modernized traditional Breton music and singing in the Breton language. A precursor of Celtic rock, he is inspired by the union of the Celtic cultures and is a keeper of the Breton culture.

Tri YannW
Tri Yann

Tri Yann is a Breton band from Nantes who play folk rock music drawing on traditional Breton folk ballads.