Scott and Plœmeur Make Their Twinning Official: The Result of Ten Years of Connections Built by Breizh Amerika

Twinning Scott and Ploemeur

​It all started more than ten years ago with Breizh Amerika's work to bring Brittany and Louisiana closer together.
Long before anyone was talking about a twinning agreement, the organization was already creating connections between musicians, cultural organizations, community leaders and people on both sides of the Atlantic. Personal relationships gradually developed, first in Louisiana and later in Plœmeur.

On September 29, 2026, that story will reach a new milestone with the official signing of the twinning agreement between Scott, Louisiana and Plœmeur, Brittany.

For Breizh Amerika, the signing represents much more than an agreement between two municipalities. It is the result of ten years of meetings, projects and friendships that gradually created the conditions for these two communities to find one another.

For Bryan Theriot, Vice President of Breizh Amerika, who was born in Scott and has worked for years to strengthen connections between Louisiana and Brittany, the occasion has a particular significance:

“I was born in Scott, so seeing my hometown create an official connection with Plœmeur is something very special. For ten years, we have worked through Breizh Amerika to bring Louisiana and Brittany closer together by creating meetings, exchanges and, above all, friendships. Seeing all that work result in a twinning today is something we can be very proud of.”
Bryan Theriot, Vice President of Breizh Amerika

The Scott–Plœmeur twinning did not happen by chance. Without the work carried out by Breizh Amerika over all these years, these two communities would not have met and this twinning would not have happened.

From Scott to Plœmeur: ten years of building a relationship

The story begins in Louisiana. Over the years, the connections created by Breizh Amerika crossed the Atlantic, took root in Plœmeur and eventually brought the two communities together.
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• 2016 – Breizh Amerika's first connections in Scott. As part of the Breizh on the Road… Again tour, the Breizh Amerika Collective crossed the United States with an explicit goal of working with local communities to foster new networks and lasting transatlantic relationships. On May 21, the tour stopped in Scott, where Gallery Acadie hosted a Breton language and music workshop. Scott thus became one of the focal points of Breizh Amerika's work in Louisiana. 
  Source: Breizh Amerika – The Collective 2016

 

• 2017 – Fête de la Bretagne in Scott. Breizh Amerika returned the following year. On May 20, 2017, Scott hosted a full day dedicated to Brittany as part of the Fête de la Bretagne. This second year helped deepen relationships with the local community. Bryan Theriot was among those in Scott who would continue working over the years to develop connections between his hometown and Brittany. 
  Source: Breizh Amerika – USA Tour 2017

 

• 2018 – Copains comme Cajuns tells the Brittany–Louisiana story. The relationships developed through Breizh Amerika's work in Louisiana led to another project: Copains comme Cajuns. The 52-minute documentary, produced in Breton, French and English, explores the cultural, linguistic and musical connections between Brittany and Louisiana and the people keeping those connections alive today.
  Source: Breizh Amerika – Exploring the strong links between Louisiana and Brittany

 

• 2020 – Louisiana comes to Plœmeur. Copains comme Cajuns was screened in Plœmeur, introducing local audiences to both the historic connections between Brittany and Louisiana and the contemporary efforts to bring the two regions closer together. Three years before the first official meeting between Scott and Plœmeur, Breizh Amerika was therefore already bringing the Louisiana story directly into the Plœmeur community.
  Source: Le Télégramme – Copains comme Cajuns screening in Plœmeur

 

• May 2023 – From New Orleans to Kerroc’h. Breizh Amerika and the Ker Rock Café organized “De New Orleans à Kerroc’h” in Plœmeur. Breton musicians Thomas Moisson and Roland Conq shared their experiences in Louisiana and their collaborations with Cajun musicians. Breizh Amerika explicitly described these collaborations as a way of creating lasting cultural partnerships between Louisiana and Brittany. 
  Source: Breizh Amerika – De New Orleans à Kerroc’h

 

• August 2023 – Breizh Amerika brings Scott and Plœmeur together. This was the decisive moment. Representatives of Scott's twinning committee were in Brittany looking to develop a lasting relationship with a Breton community. Breizh Amerika facilitated their meeting with Plœmeur. Plœmeur Mayor Ronan Loas later publicly described the meeting at City Hall as taking place “on the initiative of Charles Kergaravat of Breizh Amerika.” Scott twinning committee representative Wanda Romero Gerard and Breizh Amerika Vice President Bryan Theriot were among those taking part.​

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• October 2023 – The work continues in Scott. Just a few months after the Plœmeur meeting, Breizh Amerika returned to Scott and met with Mayor Jan-Scott Richard and the city's twinning committee to continue developing the relationship with Brittany. Copains comme Cajuns was also screened for Scott officials. The relationship begun in Brittany was now being actively nurtured on both sides of the Atlantic. 
  Source: Breizh Amerika – Cultivating Ties: Breizh Amerika Meets Scott's Mayor and Twinning Committee​

• March 2024 – Breton musicians welcomed at Scott City Hall. During another Breizh Amerika project in Louisiana, Pierre-Jacques Autret and Tanguy Soubigou performed in Scott, including a performance at City Hall for Mayor Jan-Scott Richard. The visit gave a very concrete cultural dimension to the relationship begun the previous year between Scott and Plœmeur: beyond institutional discussions, Breizh Amerika was bringing Breton culture directly into the Scott community and to its elected officials. The duo also took part in the Celtic Bayou Festival and a Breton music masterclass at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
  Source: Breizh Amerika – Celtic Bayou Festival / Breton presence in Louisiana

 

• November 2024 – Zachary Richard in Plœmeur. The cultural relationship continued to grow. On November 7, 2024, Louisiana singer-songwriter and prominent advocate for Cajun culture and the French language Zachary Richard came to Salle Océanis in Plœmeur for a conference on the history of Louisiana's Acadians. The event was organized in partnership with Breizh Amerika with the stated aim of reinforcing cultural ties between Brittany and Louisiana's Francophone communities. 
  Source: Breizh Amerika – Zachary Richard in Plœmeur

 

• 2025 – From Guémené Andouille to Scott Boudin. Breizh Amerika continued creating very tangible exchanges between Brittany and Louisiana. Benoît Rivalan of the Maison de l’Andouille in Guémené-sur-Scorff travelled to Louisiana to meet local food producers and share his expertise. Connected with Bryan Theriot, Breizh Amerika Vice President and Scott native, he stayed with Bryan's family and visited Best Stop Market in Scott, one of the city's best-known Cajun boudin producers. Beyond food, the trip was another example of Breizh Amerika turning the Brittany–Louisiana relationship into direct exchanges between people, traditions and communities. 


• August 2026 – Breizh Amerika Summer Party in Plœmeur. Just weeks before the twinning ceremony, Breizh Amerika held its Summer Party at the KerRock Café in Plœmeur on August 21. The evening featured Duo Autret–Soubigou, musicians already involved in Breizh Amerika projects in Louisiana, alongside the Breizh Amerika Session IPA created with Brasserie Lancelot. The duo had represented Brittany at Louisiana's Celtic Bayou Festival in 2024, performed at the mayor's office of Scott, and taken part in a Breton music masterclass at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The event showed that, ten years after Breizh Amerika's first Louisiana initiatives, the association was still actively bringing the Brittany–Louisiana relationship to life in Plœmeur. 

 

• Sept 2026 – The twinning becomes official. Ten years after Breizh Amerika's first activities in Scott, six years after Copains comme Cajuns was screened in Plœmeur and three years after the first meeting between representatives of the two communities, Scott and Plœmeur make their relationship official.

Scott, in the heart of Acadiana

Its development was closely tied to the railroad and its location along the routes crossing southern Louisiana. Today, however, Scott is perhaps best known for one of Cajun cuisine's most iconic foods: boudin.

In 2012, Scott was officially designated the “Boudin Capital of the World.” The following year, the city held its first Scott Boudin Festival, which continues to celebrate local food, music and culture. 
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That strong sense of local identity, attachment to culture, french language, and desire to pass it on are also part of what allowed the connection with Brittany to take root so naturally in Scott.
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Plœmeur, a Breton town between land and sea

Across the Atlantic, Plœmeur — Plañvour in Breton — has around 19,000 residents and is the fourth-largest municipality in the Morbihan department.

Its identity is deeply connected to the sea. The municipality stretches for approximately 11 miles, or 18 kilometers, along the Atlantic, with beaches, coves, small harbors and coastal communities such as Kerroc’h, Lomener and Fort-Bloqué. Sailing, surfing, diving and fishing are all part of local life. 

Plœmeur also has a long tradition of international exchange. The municipality already maintains twinning relationships with several communities abroad, including Diksmuide in Belgium, Fermoy in Ireland and Ehmej in Lebanon. 

​Like Scott, Plœmeur is a community deeply attached to its territory and identity while also wanting to share that culture and build relationships beyond its borders.
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Two communities, two strong identities, the same desire to connect

​Scott and Plœmeur are separated by thousands of miles and each has its own distinct history.

Yet through years of exchanges, common ground quickly emerged: a strong sense of local identity, living cultures, an important place for music and community, and a shared desire not simply to preserve heritage but to pass it on and share it with others.
It was on this human and cultural foundation that Breizh Amerika was able to build the relationship between the two communities.

Through the twinning, residents, schools, associations, artists, tourism organizations and businesses in Scott and Plœmeur can now develop new exchanges and write the next part of this story.
Ten years ago, Breizh Amerika began building a bridge between Louisiana and Brittany.
On September 29, one more brick is added to that bridge.