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Film : Breizh on the Road...Again!

12/11/2016

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Film retraçant la tournée des 7 villes américaines de la Breizh Amerika Collective

La tournée "BREIZH ON THE ROAD ... AGAIN" a présenté des spectacles à Detroit, à St Louis, à Chicago, à La Nouvelle-Orléans, à Lafayette, à Scott et à Arnaudville, ​en s'engageant et créant des liens avec des organisations et des acteurs locaux afin de développer de nouveaux réseaux et de nouvelles relations pour sensibiliser le public autour de la question la culture et de la langue bretonne qui sont sévèrement en danger, et pour promouvoir la Fête de la Bretagne à travers les USA.
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L'initiative «BREIZH AMERIKA COLLECTIVE» réunit des musiciens innovants de Bretagne et des États-Unis, sensibles aux traditions menacées, pour collaborer sur la création et à la production de nouvelle musique, tout en développant des liens transatlantiques durables de coopération et de compréhension.
​Breizh-Amerika en breton signifie Bretagne-Amérique (l'UNESCO énumère la langue bretonne comme gravement en danger).


​Film retracing the 7 city USA tour of the Breizh Amerika Collective 
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​The "BREIZH ON THE ROAD...AGAIN" tour performed shows in Detroit, St Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, Lafayette, Scott and Arnaudville engaging and partnering with local community organizations and actors to foster new networks and relations while growing awareness for endangered Breton culture and language, and promoting the Fête de la Bretagne across the USA.  ​

The "BREIZH AMERIKA COLLECTIVE" initiative brings together innovative musicians from Brittany, France and the United States of America to collaboratively work to create and produce original music, bring awareness to endangered traditions, while developing durable Transatlantic links of cooperation and understanding. 
​Breizh-Amerika in Breton language means Brittany-America (UNESCO lists Breton language as severely endangered).
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Soirée de Solidarité Bretagne - Louisiane

9/6/2016

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Des inondations sans précédent ont frappé la Louisiane au mois d'août...!

La catastrophe naturelle dans cet état du sud des Etats-Unis a provoqué des scènes surréalistes. Près d'un mètre de précipitation en quelques jours a noyé des villes entières voyant hommes, femmes et enfants ayant tout perdu se faire évacuer.
Les inondations "sans précédent" après des pluies torrentielles ont atteint un pic d'intensité pour les secours en Louisiane : 60,000 maison endommagé, 30 000 évacués, 14 000 hébergés dans des centres d'accueil, et au moins treize morts.

80% des maisons détruites n'étaient pas assurées pour ce type d'innodations rares pour la Louisiane. Les familles sont dans le désarroi le plus complet!

Le 15 septembre, Breizh Amerika organisera une SOIREE DE SOLIDARITE à Kendalc'h à Auray (1 rue de Suède - Porte Océane - 56400 Auray) de 19h à 21h30. Entree 10 euros.

La soirée se composera d'un cocktail ainsi que du visionnage du film "Breizh On The Road...Again". La totalité des recettes de la soirée iront a l' oeuvre de charité louisianaise, United Way of Acadiana, pour aider les familles et la reconstruction. (http://unitedwayofacadiana.org)
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Breizh Amerika Brings Breton Music Back to New France on Midamerican Tour

5/9/2016

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They came from the edge of the Old World to the New. Their culture shaped America’s, in a quiet, unsung way, centuries ago. Just as most of us have forgotten the lost world of New France, we’ve forgotten that many of first European Americans were from Brittany, and had their own culture and ways.


Now Brittany’s sounds, the Celtic language and the unique musical traditions of France’s northwestern reaches, are returning to the US as part of the second Breizh Amerika tour. This time, Breton artists will retrace the old river byways of trappers, traders, and adventurers, performing in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and other American markets this May.

“We think about Celtic music from Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, or we think about European folk traditions. Breton music is both,” explains Breizh Amerika’s instigator, American-raised, Breton-speaking Charles Kergaravat. “Brittany is a Celtic nation, but it also has influence from traditional music from across Europe. We’re a seagoing nation, so the music has been shaped by sailors from places like Ireland, Flanders and Spain.”

Americans owe more to Brittany than a nod to some of the continent’s earliest European settlers. We can thank the coastal region of Brittany in Northeastern France for crêpes, as well as seafood magic, Pate Henaff, cider, Lancelot beer, butter, the breton striped shirt, the Interceltic Festival of Lorient (where thousands of musicians entertain hundreds of thousands of fans), and a distinctly Breton music tradition called Kan Ha Diskan (literally, “to sing and unsing”).

This call-and-response animates Breton dance parties (fest noz) and makes for lively interactions on stage between musicians. Breizh Amerika is bringing a duo lauded at home for their close connection, Thomas Moisson (a young accordion idol who has played worldwide) and Lors Landat (an in-demand traditional singer who spent years learning from elder musicians).

“The singer tell a story and it’s important to illustrate this story,” notes Moisson. “With Lors, the meeting is natural, and we don’t even need to look at each other to know that the other is going to do next. When we play, we test each other, we put ourselves in jeopardy. It’s the key to our music, to create an unique moment with a living music at each concert, a real sharing moment with the audience.”

Part of this sharing moment will be respected bassist Julian Le Mentec (who has played with Goran Bregovich, Frigg, and Carlos Nunez) and American jazz trombonist and composer Alex Asher, who played on several of Beyonce’s Grammy-winning recordings, as well as with a slew groundbreaking bands. He and Moisson have been exploring the intersection of American jazz and Breton repertoire for years, a closer connection than one might think at first glance.

Though big at weddings since the late 19th century, the accordion gained a foothold in 20th-century Breton music thanks in part to jazz. Brought back by economic migrants from cities like Paris in the 1930s, the chromatic accordion and its jazz manouche sounds became popular, and “it was the start of Breton swing,” says Moisson. Moisson has continued the untraditional tradition of his instrument, finding a hybrid accordion that combines the benefits of earlier diatonic and more recent chromatic instruments.

It all pushes tradition in new directions, giving new dimension to sounds that many American listeners will find intriguingly familiar. Adding jazz to the mix means Breton artists can continue to keep tradition alive by innovating.

“There’s a liberty to jazz, you have to step out of the regimented dancer-oriented folk music,” muses Kergaravat. “That’s going to be one of the most intriguing parts of the project, for the musicians and for the audience.”

​More info - 
http://www.breizh-amerika.com/usa-tour-2016.html
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