Sorry, folks, I’m definitely no specialist.
All I know is Breton music is alive and well.
That “celtic” music was largely bred in Bretagne at the end of the flowers age, with Alan Stivell and his followers. Btw, he plays good tin-whistle in “Pardon speied” and other tunes.
That “rock celtique” is more often played in our areas than mainstream rock’n roll, and that it’s teen-age crowd not us all farts who make the bulk of the audience. I don’t relate very often to the sound, but I like the trend.
That J-M Veillon plays such flute that I decided I’ll never take up this instrument… Martha Argerich did the same for me and the piano…
Also, that SylvainBarou from the Flute Forum (exit to the corridor, first door to the left), well he could talk of Breton music, and plays great flute, too. And biniou-kozh–don’t diss the weeny-whiny thing before you heard it played live in a bombarde-biniou duel!
That in our local honky-tonks, aka fest-noz, you’ll see circles (merry go-rounds) of 500 people stomping, and ALL in measure.
That Breton music is not parlor, but street music. Just try and blow the bombarde indoors–yikes!
Finally, that one should start learning celtic trad musics from Breton, because it rocks, because it does this lot often with less than one octave. Then work one’s way up to the more complex, technically more demanding ITM.
PS: Aaron digs it all right, and says it well!
