Fête plin du Danouët

 

FETE PLIN DU DANOUËT BOURBRIAC 15 AOUT 1993

PLIN FESTIVAL OF DANOUËT BOURBRIAC 15th of August 1993

Dastum, 1993, DAS-120

Dastum was launched in 1972 as an association to preserve and promote Breton culture through workshops, lectures,  collecting and publishing. In Breton ''dastum'' means ''to collect, to put together''. Here we have a good example of the vitality of the revival in Brittany with the annual competition held at the Danouët, Bourbriac in the Cotes d'Armor department (there are ''countries'' in Brittany like Bro Plin in the Center of Brittany). There are in fact several contests : for dancers, for sonneurs (bombarde and biniou players as well as clarinet-treujenn gaol players), for singers. The dance called ''plin'' or ''dañs tro fañch'' comes from old forms of ''branles'' which were in practice in France during the Middle Ages and after. It is made of 3 parts : first dance, break called ''bal'' and second dance. Marches and melodies are also part of the competition. We can listen to big names in Breton modern music like singers Yann-Fañch Kemener who died in 2019 and  Erik Marchand or sonneurs like Le Féon and Lehart. The repertoire is completely traditional. 

You should visit Dastum site on https://www.dastum.bzh/  although it's all in French.

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