Some Breton Folk-Songs. By Theodore Bacon. November 1892 Issue. Share. Save. A SIMPLE, kindly, honest people are the Breton folk.

The massive music collection in Donnie Campbell’s Sydney River home covers a vast array of Celtic, folk and bluegrass — from ...

Wilson notes the importance of the washerwoman as a supernatural being in Breton folklore, closely related to the bean nighe in the Scottish tradition, and the bean sí in Ireland. The story ...

Breton Costumes & Traditional Music at Quimper Folk Festival. Posted: March 7, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025. The narrator shares their enchanting journey in Brittany, highlighting their ...

The former island home of two dedicated Gaelic scholars is welcoming visitors again following a nine-year repair and restoration programme. The National Trust for Scotland is celebrating the reopening ...

Miss Louise Lleyellyn, assisted by Miss Corrine Harmon, will give a recital of Bohemian and Breton Folk-Songs, in national costume, at 8.15 o'clock this evening in the John Knowles Paine Concert ...

The comparative reconstruction of the basic concepts of the pre-Christian mytho-poetical tradition is in most cases based on the Old Irish text. Nevertheless, Breton folklore texts (often neglected ...

Into this she has sewn together patches of psych-rock, indie, chamber pop and Breton folk. Born Gwenno Saunders, the 41-year-old was raised bilingual by her father, ...

While the Breton music revival has a powerful and eclectic resurgence, little, he says, has changed in Paris’s regard for Breton culture since the 1970s, when his folk-rock cultural clarion call ...

A professor of folklore at Cape Breton University has been successful in his search for songs written about the life of steelworkers in Cape Breton. Richard MacKinnon, founding director of the the ...

Enter a mysterious, enchanting world where a handsome prince steps out of the belly of a cat; where a black horse blocks the night traveller’s way at every turn; where a vintage bottle of wine is ...